# Wishdeal Factory buyer-path - iteration 92 ship log

**Date:** 2026-05-14 (push mode, 45 min cadence, content iter: 12th essay + cross-link)

## What shipped (2 substantive ships)

This iter delivered the queue's #1 long-pending item: a 12th playbook essay on the operator-tactical topic. Plus cross-linked it from /quality-report/ so buyers landing on the audit dashboard see the buyer-tactical companion piece.

## Ship 1: 12th playbook essay - "The 30-minute marketplace audit for buyers"

Live at https://wishdeal.com/factory/playbooks/buyer-audit/. ~18.8 KB, 1727 words, ~11 min read.

**Topic:** A buyer-tactical checklist for verifying any AI marketplace before spending money. Ten checks. Each takes 2-3 minutes. Total audit fits in 30 minutes. Works on us, works on competitors.

**Structure:**
- Opener: most marketplaces dressed up, here is how to tell
- Check 1: self-published audit results (we link to /quality-report/)
- Check 2: cron-status / freshness page (we link to /cron-status/)
- Check 3: honest "what is NOT promised" page (we link to /honest/)
- Check 4: cross-reference customer claims (named verifiable customers)
- Check 5: team page authenticity (one-operator-pretending vs honest)
- Check 6: sample the free tier hard (teaser depth = paid depth)
- Check 7: refund / unlock window (visible 30-day money-back?)
- Check 8: changelog or version history (live receipts?)
- Check 9: search for red-flag phrases (SOC 2, trained on, customer counts)
- Check 10: verify API contract or public data
- Scoring rubric: 8-10 = real / 5-7 = mixed / 3-4 = marketing-first / 0-2 = brochure
- Caveat: vendor-risk filter, not product-fit filter

**Why this topic now:** The catalog has 11 essays focused on operator-side concerns (budget, distribution, partnerships, scoring). Zero focused on the BUYER's evaluation process. This essay closes that gap and bridges the catalog to its own audit infrastructure. A buyer reading it can audit Wishdeal Factory AND any competitor marketplace.

**Quality bar:** 1727 words is shorter than the longest essay (loop-lessons at 2055) but appropriately so for a tactical checklist. Every check names a specific surface on our site (so the essay also doubles as a tour of the transparency infrastructure).

**Wire-up:**
- Playbooks index card inserted (newest-first, above loop-lessons)
- OG: playbook-buyer-audit.png generated (22 total OG cards)
- Sitemap: /factory/playbooks/buyer-audit/ at priority 0.9 monthly (2320 URLs)
- Health-check: 77/77 passing (was 76)
- Article JSON-LD injected (schema.org Article via inject-article-jsonld.py cron)
- Read-next section injected (links to seventy-fabrications + reading-adoptability)
- Playbooks CollectionPage JSON-LD now lists 12 essays (was 11)

## Ship 2: Cross-link buyer-audit from /quality-report/

The buyer-audit essay references /quality-report/ in its Check 1 ("self-published audit results"). The reverse link did not exist. Added a callout in regen-quality-report.py:

> **Want to audit any marketplace, including this one?** /factory/playbooks/buyer-audit/ is a 10-check, 30-minute tactical audit. The checks above (fake-proof, em-dash, health) are the live results of running that audit on ourselves.

Source-fixed in regen-quality-report.py, durable across the 30-min regen cycle.

**Why this matters:** A buyer landing on /quality-report/ to verify our audit claims now has a one-click path to the operator-honest essay that frames how to read the dashboard. The audit dashboard becomes self-explanatory.

## Health hygiene (Op rule 5)

- **Em-dash sweep**: 4 files / 17 dashes stripped (regen scripts pulled some in)
- **audit-fakeproof**: 0 hard / 0 soft (CLEAN, holds since iter 88)
- **Health-check**: 77/77 passing, avg 15ms
- **All structured-data**: maintained (Article JSON-LD on essay, Read-next on essay, CollectionPage on playbooks index updated to 12 essays)

## Status snapshot

- 244 products, 0 broken pages, 0 fake-proof findings (clean since iter 88)
- **12 essays** (~22,000 words total) + Read-next + JSON-LD Article on each
- /factory/playbooks/ with CollectionPage updated to 12 (iter 92)
- 8 high-trust pages with appropriate JSON-LD (iter 90, durable through regen)
- /factory/catalog/ with CollectionPage + 244-item ItemList (iter 91)
- 244 /builds/ product pages with Product schema (existing from iter 8)
- 22 OG images
- 5 transparency surfaces + 91 styled ship-log detail pages
- 26 hand-polished products
- audit-fakeproof.py Fermi-context aware + JSON snapshot
- factory-api Node service: 12 live application endpoints
- 77/77 health endpoints, 2320 sitemap URLs
- 131+ cron jobs running
- 45 min cadence active

## Iter 92 throughput note

2 substantive ships at 45-min cadence. The 12th essay was a meaningful new asset (closes the buyer-evaluation gap in the essay library). The cross-link from /quality-report/ was a high-value, low-effort wire that closed the audit-bridges-back-to-essay loop.

## The essay library at iter 92

| # | Iter | Title | Words | Shape |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 46 | $5k budget | 1800 | Tactical |
| 2 | 47 | Vertical AI 2026 | 1800 | Market thesis |
| 3 | 48 | Operator-partnership math | 1850 | Tier math |
| 4 | 49 | Agency productization | 1900 | Segment |
| 5 | 50 | Distribution channels 2026 | 1950 | Distribution |
| 6 | 51 | Counsel anatomy | 1700 | Case study |
| 7 | 52 | Five patterns | 2050 | Editorial |
| 8 | 69 | Skip these dossiers | 1700 | Anti-recommendation |
| 9 | 71 | Seventy fabrications | 1800 | Studio honesty |
| 10 | 82 | Reading adoptability | 1800 | Scoring rubric |
| 11 | 86 | Loop lessons | 2055 | Meta-honest |
| 12 | 92 | **Buyer audit** | **1727** | **Buyer tactical** |

12 essays, 12 distinct angles. Total ~22,000 words. The library now teaches every angle: how to budget (1), what to target (2), what tiers cost (3), how to productize (4), how to find buyers (5), how a graduation happened (6), what patterns the catalog teaches (7), what to skip (8), what we cleaned up (9), how to read the primary score (10), how we run the loop (11), and how to audit any marketplace before spending (12).

## Running queue (top 5 for iter 93)

1. **Cadence step to 60 min** - iter 89/90/91/92 each 2 ships. Marginal-value-per-iter stable. Could step.
2. **Adoptability score drift check** on the 244 product JSON-LD entries (verify Product schema value matches adoptability.json values)
3. **13th playbook essay** - might be overinvestment; queue is depleting candidates
4. **OG image upgrade**: product pages use .svg, could be .png for better social-card rendering
5. **Newsletter CTA refinement on /factory/fresh/** (low-converting per ops inbox)

## Cumulative iter 1-92

- **Catalog**: 244 products, 0 broken, 0 fabrications, 26 hand-polished
- **Content library**: **12 essays** (~22,000 words) + Read-next + 22 OG cards + 91 styled ship-log pages
- **High-trust pages**: 8 foundational + 5 transparency surfaces with structured-data
- **Source durability**: 20+ generators + audit-fakeproof JSON + factory-api.service + 6 regen scripts auto-call injectors
- **Structured-data**: 265+ pages with appropriate schema.org markup, durable through regen
- **Content invariants**: 10 defended + JSON-LD presence + Read-next coverage + Fermi-context aware audit

The buyer-side essay closes the catalog's most-meaningful content gap. With 12 essays, the library now teaches both sides of the buyer-seller equation. The catalog can also be used as a teaching resource for evaluating ANY marketplace, not just this one.