Kafka consumer dead-letter queue

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Background

Identified during OSS audit v2 of startupintel.

Problem Statement

Poison messages block.

Proposed Solution

DLQ topic + retry.

Acceptance Criteria

• Implementation complete
• Tests pass
• Documented in README or docs/

Files / Modules Affected

startupintel/events/consumer.py

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Suggested labels: priority:medium, difficulty:advanced, category:feature
Milestone: v2.0-features
OSS Audit: Master Backlog v2