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Thanks for assigning this issue to me. I'm starting to work on it and will keep this PR's description up to date as I form a plan and make progress.

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<issue_title>💼 Create SWOT.md - Strategic Analysis & Positioning</issue_title>
<issue_description>## 📋 Issue Type
Documentation / Architecture / Strategy

🎯 Objective

Create comprehensive SWOT.md analyzing riksdagsmonitor's strategic position, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in the political transparency and open-source intelligence market.

📊 Current State

  • ❌ SWOT.md does not exist
  • ⚠️ Strategic analysis undocumented
  • ⚠️ Competitive positioning unclear
  • ⚠️ Market opportunities not formalized
  • ⚠️ Risk factors not systematically assessed

Existing Related Docs:

  • ✅ README.md (project overview, features)
  • ✅ ARCHITECTURE.md (technical capabilities)
  • ✅ THREAT_MODEL.md (security threats)
  • ✅ FUTURE_SECURITY_ARCHITECTURE.md (future plans)

🚀 Desired State

Comprehensive SWOT.md including:

1. Strengths (Internal Positive Factors)

Technical Capabilities:

  • 50+ years historical data (1971-2026) - Unmatched depth
  • 14-language support - Global accessibility (EN, SV, DA, NO, FI, DE, FR, ES, NL, AR, HE, JA, KO, ZH)
  • 19 CIA data products - Comprehensive intelligence dashboards
  • Agentic news generation - Automated journalism with Claude Opus 4.6
  • Static site architecture - Zero server costs, 99.998% availability
  • Multi-region deployment - AWS CloudFront (600+ edge locations) + GitHub Pages DR
  • ISMS compliance - ISO 27001, NIST CSF, CIS Controls aligned
  • Open-source - Transparent, auditable, community-driven

Data Advantages:

  • 3.5M+ voting records - Complete parliamentary history
  • 109,000+ documents - Full legislative archive
  • 349 current MPs + 2,494 historical - Comprehensive politician database
  • 45 risk rules - Systematic transparency assessment
  • riksdag-regering-mcp - 32 specialized Swedish political data tools
  • Daily updates - Fresh data (03:00 CET automated pipeline)

Security & Trust:

  • Defense-in-depth architecture - Layered security controls
  • Public ISMS - Transparent security practices
  • GitHub Advanced Security - CodeQL, Dependabot, Secret Scanning
  • GPG commit signing - Code integrity verification
  • GDPR compliant - Lawful public interest data processing

User Experience:

  • WCAG 2.1 AA accessible - Inclusive design
  • Responsive design - Mobile-first (320px-1440px+)
  • Core Web Vitals optimized - Fast performance
  • Interactive dashboards - Chart.js + D3.js visualizations

2. Weaknesses (Internal Negative Factors)

Technical Limitations:

  • ⚠️ Static site constraints - No real-time updates, no user accounts
  • ⚠️ Limited interactivity - Client-side only, no server-side processing
  • ⚠️ Translation quality - AI translation may have accuracy issues
  • ⚠️ Single-country focus - Sweden only, not globally scalable
  • ⚠️ Manual curation gaps - Automated systems may miss nuance
  • ⚠️ No mobile app - Web-only access

Organizational Constraints:

  • ⚠️ Single developer - James Pether Sörling (founder dependency)
  • ⚠️ Limited marketing - Low brand awareness outside Sweden
  • ⚠️ No monetization - Free platform, sustainability uncertain
  • ⚠️ Small contributor base - Open-source but limited community involvement

Data Gaps:

  • ⚠️ No sentiment analysis - Political rhetoric not analyzed
  • ⚠️ Limited social media - No Twitter/Facebook integration
  • ⚠️ No predictive models - Descriptive only, not prescriptive
  • ⚠️ Delayed data - 24-hour update cycle, not real-time

3. Opportunities (External Positive Factors)

Market Trends:

  • 🌟 EU transparency mandates - Increasing demand for political accountability
  • 🌟 AI journalism growth - Automated news generation market expanding
  • 🌟 Open data movements - Government data APIs proliferating
  • 🌟 Civic tech funding - EU Horizon grants, democratic innovation funding
  • 🌟 Disinformation concerns - Trust in fact-based journalism rising
  • 🌟 Climate activism - Political transparency for climate policy tracking

Technical Opportunities:

  • 🌟 LLM advancements - Better translation, deeper analysis, predictive models
  • 🌟 Semantic web - Linked open data standards (RDF, SPARQL)
  • 🌟 Edge computing - Faster CDN performance
  • 🌟 WebAssembly - Client-side data processing at scale
  • 🌟 PWA capabilities - Mobile app-like experience without app stores

Expansion Opportunities:

  • 🌟 Nordic expansion - Denmark, Norway, Finland parliaments
  • 🌟 EU Parliament - EU-wide political transparency
  • 🌟 API monetization - Paid enterprise API access
  • 🌟 B2G partnerships - Government procurement for transparency tools
  • 🌟 Academic collaborations - Research partnerships, data licensing
  • 🌟 Journalist subscriptions - Premium features for media professionals

Community Opportunities:

  • 🌟...

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  • 🗳️ Content: news, dashboard, visualization, intelligence
  • 💻 Technology: html-css, javascript, workflow, security
  • 📊 Data: cia-data, riksdag-data, data-pipeline, schema
  • 🌍 I18n: i18n, translation, rtl
  • 🔒 ISMS: isms, iso-27001, nist-csf, cis-controls
  • 🏗️ Infrastructure: ci-cd, deployment, performance, monitoring
  • 🔄 Quality: testing, accessibility, documentation, refactor
  • 🤖 AI: agent, skill, agentic-workflow

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🔍 Lighthouse Performance Audit

Category Score Status
Performance 85/100 🟡
Accessibility 95/100 🟢
Best Practices 90/100 🟢
SEO 95/100 🟢

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Budget Compliance: Performance budgets enforced via budget.json

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