Provisions the control-plane instance and its owner, records the admin_instances row, issues and injects a Free licence, and emails the customer where it is and when it expires. Licence issuance and email cannot fail the request. The instance exists and the customer can sign in; rolling back something they can already see would be worse than shipping it unlicensed for staff to fix. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>