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     <title>Veilid Architecture Guide</title>
     <meta name="description" content="a guide to the architecture of Veilid">
-    <meta name="author" content="beka">
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+    <div style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 3em; font-weight: bold; background-color: red; color: white; padding: 0.5em;">
+      early α docs<br/>
+      please don't share publicly
+    </div>
+
     <h1>Veilid Architecture Guide</h1>
 
     <hr/>
