Iteration 25 ship log

2026-05-10 · continued autonomous /loop

Date: 2026-05-10 (continued autonomous /loop)

What shipped

This iteration was high-leverage: caught and fixed 4 cross-cutting bugs affecting hundreds of pages, plus shipped per-audience outreach copy + a /random/ exploration page.

Bugs fixed (impact: hundreds of pages)

Bug	Pages affected	Fix
Tagline double-period ("Your books, done by morning.. Below...")	151 unlock pages	Added _strip_trailing_period() helper + tagline_clean local in regen-unlock-pages.py
Unlock-page nav missing /for/, /faq/, /changelog/	185 unlock pages	Updated nav anchor in generator
Unlock-page footer missing FAQ + Changelog links	185 unlock pages	Updated footer anchor in generator
Em/en dashes from upstream fermi_summary/gtm_motion text	185 unlock pages	Render-time .replace(" - ", " - ") after html.escape

All 4 fixed at the generator source level - every future regen of the unlock pages keeps the fixes. Plus running the regen now propagated to all 185 existing pages.

New: per-audience outreach copy

Each /factory/for/<audience>/ page (6 audiences) now includes a "Share with your network" section near the bottom with:

• A LinkedIn post (~280 chars), tailored to that audience
• An email body (~150 words), tailored to that audience
• Subject line for the email
• Copy-to-clipboard buttons on both
• Plain-text disclosure: "Paste-ready copy if you want to share this catalog with peers in this audience. Nothing auto-sends."

Audiences with copy:

• agencies: white-label/retainer angle
• solo-founders: 30-90 day MVP angle
• sales-teams: not-yet-crowded niche angle
• b2b-saas-operators: adjacent-product angle
• consultants: productization angle
• vertical-saas-operators: better-economics-than-horizontal angle

This makes the audience pages directly useful for Wes's outreach push, not just SEO landings. When he's ready to push traffic to a specific audience, he opens the page, clicks Copy, and pastes into LinkedIn or Gmail.

New: /factory/random/

Tiny but real exploration page. Loads /factory/adoptability.json, picks a random product, redirects to that product's landing page. Adds a "Surprise me" pill to the catalog header for quick exploration. noindex so it doesn't pollute the sitemap.

Em-dash audit

Final audit on this-iteration pages: zero em-dashes shipped. Includes the previously-discovered upstream content (fermi summaries) which is now stripped at render time.

Files changed inventory

Modified (durable, source-level changes)

• /home/ubuntu/factory/director/regen-unlock-pages.py - 4 patches (helper, tagline_clean, nav, footer, dash-strip)
• /home/ubuntu/factory/director/regen-audience-pages.py - 6 audience entries + outreach render block

Modified (one-off content edits)

• /srv/sites/factory/catalog/index.html - added "Surprise me" pill

Re-rendered

• 185 /factory/unlock/<slug>/index.html (all bug fixes propagated)
• 6 /factory/for/<audience>/index.html (new outreach blocks)
• /srv/sites/factory/for/index.html (audience index)

New

• /srv/sites/factory/random/index.html

All .bak backups preserved.

Why this matters

Three of these are direct conversion-rate improvements:

1. Removing the "morning.." double-period on 151 unlock pages eliminated an obvious AI-tell artifact buyers would notice on the most-trafficked page in the funnel.
2. Per-audience outreach copy means Wes can push traffic to 6 different audiences without writing copy each time - paste, send, watch.
3. Em/en dash strip on 185 unlock pages - same reason as the double-period.

The /random/ page is more cosmetic but adds a fun exploration affordance.

Status snapshot

• 185 products in catalog (up 2 since iter 24)
• 60+ buyer-facing pages
• Sitemap: 1259 URLs
• ~100 cron entries
• Director watchdog alive
• Em-dashes shipped this session: 0

What still needs work

Same Wes-side as iter 24:

1. Stripe wiring (30 min)
2. Email-send for auto-fulfill
3. First real traffic push

The factory's surface quality is significantly tighter than it was 60 minutes ago.

Next 5 recommended autonomous tasks

1. Per-product objection handler - embedded inline on /unlock/<slug>/ before the CTA. Top 3 objections from the dossier with 1-line responses. Increases conversion at the moment of decision.
2. Hero-polish second pass - rerun Claude CLI on the 50 lowest-Adoptability landing pages to lift their copy quality (the highest-Adoptability ones already polished).
3. Factory health page robustness - current health check is 34 endpoints; add a sample of /unlock/<slug>/, /adopt/<slug>/, /builds/<slug>/ pages to catch regressions like the double-period bug earlier.
4. More audience pages - "AI ideas under $5k to launch", "AI ideas you can launch in 30 days", "AI for ecommerce store operators".
5. Per-product outreach.html - reads existing outreach packs (where available) and renders a paste-ready page. Currently outreach copy exists per-product but isn't surfaced as a page.

Cumulative iter 1-25

60+ buyer-facing pages, 185 products, hundreds of regenerated sub-pages, all em-dashes/typos that I introduced or surfaced are now zero. Next iteration can keep finding cross-cutting bugs or move into the conversion-handler layer.