diff --git a/app/static/index.html b/app/static/index.html
index 285f2fc..7b6609c 100644
--- a/app/static/index.html
+++ b/app/static/index.html
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
   <meta charset="UTF-8" />
   <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, viewport-fit=cover" />
   <title>CodeLens | AI-Powered GitHub PR Reviews</title>
+  <meta name="author" content="Spraha Singh" />
   <meta name="description" content="CodeLens is an AI-powered GitHub pull request review assistant that uses Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and historical review comments to generate context-aware, actionable code review feedback." />
   <link rel="canonical" href="https://13-51-158-45.sslip.io/" />
   <meta property="og:title" content="CodeLens | AI-Powered GitHub PR Reviews" />
@@ -573,6 +574,22 @@
       color: var(--text-3);
       font-family: var(--mono);
     }
+    .footer-copy a {
+      color: inherit;
+      text-decoration: underline;
+      text-decoration-color: transparent;
+      text-underline-offset: 3px;
+      transition: color 0.15s, text-decoration-color 0.15s;
+    }
+    .footer-copy a:hover {
+      color: var(--text);
+      text-decoration-color: currentColor;
+    }
+    .footer-copy a:focus-visible {
+      outline: 2px solid var(--accent);
+      outline-offset: 3px;
+      border-radius: 2px;
+    }
     .footer-links {
       display: flex;
       gap: 20px;
@@ -851,7 +868,7 @@ <h2>Tested against real maintainers</h2>
 <footer>
   <div class="container">
     <div class="footer-inner">
-      <span class="footer-copy">CodeLens · Built with Voyage AI, pgvector, Groq</span>
+      <span class="footer-copy">© 2026 CodeLens. Built by <a href="https://github.com/sprahasingh" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Spraha Singh</a>.</span>
       <ul class="footer-links">
         <li><a href="https://github.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GitHub</a></li>
         <li><a href="/health">Status</a></li>
diff --git a/tests/test_social_metadata.py b/tests/test_social_metadata.py
index df2f8c6..d85dc3f 100644
--- a/tests/test_social_metadata.py
+++ b/tests/test_social_metadata.py
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 from html.parser import HTMLParser
 from pathlib import Path
 
-
 ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
 
 
@@ -59,6 +58,29 @@ def handle_endtag(self, tag: str) -> None:
         if tag == "head":
             self.in_head = False
 
+
+class FooterParser(HTMLParser):
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        self.in_footer_copy = False
+        self.copy_text: list[str] = []
+        self.author_link: dict[str, str | None] | None = None
+
+    def handle_starttag(self, tag: str, attrs: list[tuple[str, str | None]]) -> None:
+        attributes = dict(attrs)
+        if tag == "span" and "footer-copy" in (attributes.get("class") or "").split():
+            self.in_footer_copy = True
+        elif tag == "a" and self.in_footer_copy and attributes.get("href") == "https://github.com/sprahasingh":
+            self.author_link = attributes
+
+    def handle_data(self, data: str) -> None:
+        if self.in_footer_copy:
+            self.copy_text.append(data)
+
+    def handle_endtag(self, tag: str) -> None:
+        if tag == "span" and self.in_footer_copy:
+            self.in_footer_copy = False
+
 def test_initial_html_has_fixed_social_metadata() -> None:
     html = HTML_PATH.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
     parser = HeadMetadataParser()
@@ -66,6 +88,7 @@ def test_initial_html_has_fixed_social_metadata() -> None:
     metadata = parser.metadata
 
     assert f"<title>{TITLE}</title>" in html
+    assert metadata[("name", "author")] == ["Spraha Singh"]
     assert metadata[("name", "description")] == [DESCRIPTION]
     assert metadata[("property", "og:title")] == [TITLE]
     assert metadata[("property", "og:description")] == [DESCRIPTION]
@@ -83,6 +106,32 @@ def test_initial_html_has_fixed_social_metadata() -> None:
     assert "similar past patterns matched" not in html.split("</head>", 1)[0]
 
 
+def test_homepage_response_includes_metadata_and_footer_at_initial_load() -> None:
+    from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
+
+    from app.main import app
+
+    response = TestClient(app).get("/")
+    assert response.status_code == 200
+
+    metadata_parser = HeadMetadataParser()
+    metadata_parser.feed(response.text)
+    assert metadata_parser.metadata[("name", "author")] == ["Spraha Singh"]
+    assert metadata_parser.metadata[("property", "og:type")] == ["website"]
+    assert metadata_parser.metadata[("property", "og:title")] == [TITLE]
+    assert metadata_parser.metadata[("property", "og:description")] == [DESCRIPTION]
+    assert metadata_parser.metadata[("property", "og:image")] == [IMAGE_URL]
+    assert metadata_parser.canonical_urls == [PRODUCTION_URL]
+
+    footer_parser = FooterParser()
+    footer_parser.feed(response.text)
+    assert "".join(footer_parser.copy_text) == "© 2026 CodeLens. Built by Spraha Singh."
+    assert footer_parser.author_link is not None
+    assert footer_parser.author_link.get("target") == "_blank"
+    assert set((footer_parser.author_link.get("rel") or "").split()) == {"noopener", "noreferrer"}
+    assert "CodeLens · Built with Voyage AI, pgvector, Groq" not in response.text
+
+
 def test_social_preview_is_a_1200_by_630_png() -> None:
     image = IMAGE_PATH.read_bytes()
     assert image.startswith(b"\x89PNG\r\n\x1a\n")