Iteration 115 ship log

2026-05-14 · push mode, 60 min cadence, /own/ catalog cross-link iter

Date: 2026-05-14 (push mode, 60 min cadence, /own/ catalog cross-link iter)

What shipped (1 substantive ship)

This iter completes the /own/ discoverability arc by surfacing the "available to own" tier on every catalog card. Every catalog visitor now sees the third revenue path inline with the unlock + adopt CTAs.

Ship 1: /factory/catalog/ cards now link to /own/

The catalog is the highest-traffic surface in the buyer path. Before iter 115, each card had:

• "View build" (cta-secondary) -> /builds/<slug>/
• "Unlock dossier $5" (cta-primary) -> /unlock/<slug>/

But NO link to /own/<slug>/ - the white-label acquisition tier. A buyer comparing 246 products on the catalog page had to navigate to /honest/, /start-here/, or /methodology/ to learn /own/ existed at all.

Patch: Added a tertiary "Also available to own ->" link to each catalog card. Source-fixed in regen-catalog-v2.py:

• New CSS: .card-own-link - small (0.78rem), monospace, ink-mute color, gold-on-hover
• New link inserted AFTER the .card-cta div, INSIDE the card
• Style is deliberately subtle - doesn\'t compete with the primary $5 unlock CTA

Result: 246 product cards regenerated. Verified live - each card has the new link pointing to /factory/own/<slug>/.

Visual hierarchy preserved:

1. Product name + Adoptability score (top)
2. Tagline + meta (middle)
3. Badges + audio (lower middle)
4. CTAs: "View build" + "Unlock dossier $5" (primary actions)
5. "Also available to own →" (subtle tertiary) - NEW iter 115

/own/ discoverability now complete

Entry surface	Mechanism	Iter
/honest/	4th "Who should buy" checklist	108
/start-here/	5th tier card	109
/methodology/	commissioned-build FAQ callout	109
/catalog/ (each of 246 cards)	tertiary link	115
/storefront/	(original primary link)	n/a
/builds/index.html	(original)	n/a

Every meaningful buyer-entry surface now surfaces /own/. The acquisition path is no longer hidden.

Health hygiene (Op rule 5)

• Em-dash sweep: 3 files / 16 dashes stripped
• audit-fakeproof: 0 hard / 0 soft (CLEAN)
• audit-adoptability-drift: 246 matched
• audit-page-identity: 2456 ok / 4 weak / 0 mismatch (10 surfaces)
• audit-hero-polish-drift: 177/177
• audit-og-coverage: 246/246
• audit-teaser-quality: 247/247 clean
• audit-case-studies-quality: 239/247 (8 Wes-task)
• audit-faq-quality: 245/247 (2 rebrand cases)
• Health-check: 77/77 passing

Status snapshot

• 246 scored products + 2 partial builds
• 246 build pages + 246 /own/ + 247 day-one + 247 operator + 247 teasers + 246 case-studies + 246 FAQs
• 0 fake-proof findings; 8 case-studies + 2 FAQs in warn state
• 247 brand briefs with valid archetype
• 12 essays + Read-next + JSON-LD
• 8 high-trust pages with JSON-LD durable
• /factory/catalog/ with CollectionPage + 246-item ItemList
• 246 catalog cards now link to /own/<slug>/ (NEW iter 115)
• 273 OG PNG images
• 5 transparency surfaces + 115 styled ship-log detail pages
• /quality-report/ surfaces 11 live-check cards
• 17 content invariants defended
• 9 audit systems
• 77/77 health endpoints, 140+ cron jobs
• 60 min cadence active

Iter 115 throughput note

1 substantive ship at 60-min cadence. The catalog-card cross-link is high-leverage: it converts a 5th tier that was hidden behind 3 high-trust pages into a tier visible from EVERY product card on the highest-traffic surface.

Running queue (top 5 for iter 116)

1. Audit /factory/unlock/<slug>/ content quality - page-identity covers identity; content-quality would catch missing tagline/score/cta-text
2. Wes-task: 8 case-studies fabrication issues - still open from iter 112
3. Investigate 2 FAQ rebrand cases - contract-ai/Inkwell + rekinder-score/RekinderScore. Could allow brand-rename audit pass via brand brief.
4. Cadence-validate 60 min - iter 113/114/115 each 1-3 ships
5. 13th essay - skip until queue has fresh candidate

Cumulative iter 1-115

• Catalog: 246 scored + 2 partial, 246 with index.html, all cards link /own/
• Content library: 12 essays + Read-next + 273 OG PNGs + 115 styled ship-log pages
• High-trust pages: 8 foundational + 5 transparency surfaces
• Audit infrastructure: 9 audit systems + 10-surface page-identity coverage
• Source durability: 28+ generators + 6 regen scripts auto-call injectors + 8 JSON snapshots + 140+ cron jobs
• Content invariants: 17 defended at surface+source AND publicly surfaced
• /own/ discoverability: 5 entry surfaces (catalog, honest, start-here, methodology, storefront)

The /own/ acquisition tier is now fully surfaced across the catalog. A buyer comparing products sees three revenue paths inline (view, unlock, own) without leaving the page.