feat(onboarding): activation checklist, instant verify, second-project flow

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Why

Getting a new project to its first event quickly is the strongest activation lever an analytics tool has. Today the verify page polls every 2.5s, a second project skips install instructions entirely (toast + close), there's no checklist, and the activation funnel is unmeasurable (zero onboarding events, no identify()).

Stacked on #452.

What

• Project.firstEventAt: set exactly once by the worker on the project's first event (cached project read makes it a no-op afterwards; conditional updateMany keeps concurrent workers idempotent).
• Instant verifier: the onboarding verify page subscribes to the existing /live/events/:projectId websocket and refetches the moment an event arrives; the poll drops to a 10s fallback.
• Second-project flow: the add-project modal now offers "Set up tracking" into the same connect → verify steps as onboarding.
• Activation checklist card on the project overview — first event / first report / invite teammate — derived from a new project.activationStatus tRPC endpoint (per-handler getProjectAccess, matching the router's pattern). No new state machine; dismissible per project; disappears when complete.
• Telemetry: op.identify() for signed-in users + funnel events (onboarding_project_created, onboarding_verify_viewed, onboarding_first_event_verified, checklist interactions).
• Email fixes: trial emails get the onboarding unsubscribe category (they bypassed suppression and had no List-Unsubscribe header); the dataHealth no-data notice skips orgs still in the onboarding drip, whose day-2/6 emails already carry the stuck-install nudge.

Tests

Typecheck + full suite green (804).

https://claude.ai/code/session_017resSrRFv7wxsc9ifsALAh

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added a project activation checklist covering first event, report creation, and teammate invitations.
  • Added options to close the project-created dialog or continue directly to tracking setup.
  • Added clearer first-event progress tracking during onboarding.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved event verification reliability with automatic polling when live updates are unavailable.
  • No-data alerts are now suppressed during onboarding.

• Improvements

  • Improved onboarding email categorization and project activity tracking.

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The change adds project activation tracking, a protected activation-status query, an onboarding checklist, first-event persistence, onboarding alert filtering, and telemetry for project creation and verification.

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Activation onboarding

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Persist activation state packages/db/prisma/migrations/..., packages/db/prisma/schema.prisma, apps/worker/src/jobs/events.incoming-event.ts, apps/worker/src/jobs/cron.data-health.ts	Projects store the first event timestamp. Incoming events set it once. No-data alerts exclude organizations still in onboarding.
Expose activation status packages/trpc/src/routers/project.ts	The protected activationStatus query returns first-event, report, and teammate status for an accessible project.
Render onboarding actions apps/start/src/components/onboarding/activation-checklist.tsx, apps/start/src/routes/_app.$organizationId.$projectId.index.tsx, apps/start/src/modals/add-project.tsx, apps/start/src/routes/_steps.onboarding.project.tsx, packages/email/src/emails/index.tsx	The dashboard renders a dismissible project checklist. Project setup actions and creation telemetry are updated. Trial emails receive the onboarding category.
Track onboarding verification apps/start/src/routes/__root.tsx, apps/start/src/routes/_steps.onboarding.$projectId.verify.tsx	Authenticated users are identified with OpenPanel. Verification uses WebSocket invalidation, a 10-second polling fallback, and onboarding telemetry.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 604ad

When switching projects, the verification page may refresh the previous project's event state instead of the active project's state, so the new project's first event can take up to the fallback polling interval to appear. The PR is mergeable with owner awareness and a follow-up to update the WebSocket callback on project changes.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant Dashboard
  participant ActivationChecklist
  participant ProjectAPI
  participant Database
  User->>Dashboard: open project dashboard
  Dashboard->>ActivationChecklist: render checklist
  ActivationChecklist->>ProjectAPI: request activationStatus
  ProjectAPI->>Database: read project, reports, and members
  Database-->>ProjectAPI: return activation data
  ProjectAPI-->>ActivationChecklist: return checklist status
  ActivationChecklist-->>User: show completed steps and setup actions

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• apps/start/src/components/onboarding/activation-checklist.tsx
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• apps/worker/src/jobs/cron.data-health.ts
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Consolidated into #455 for easier testing — same commits, all review feedback from this PR already addressed there.