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Batch 2 produced 10 articles in under 2 weeks. Mid-month audit found fabricated metrics in 4 of them. Every round-number statistic was invented. We rewrote all 14 published articles before any new content shipped. Velocity without editorial gates is marketing theater, not content infrastructure.
Read full entry10 SEO articles published and rewritten to brand standards. 1 Google indexing crisis identified and fixed — root cause: await headers() in root layout cascading dynamic rendering to every page. Cache-Control went from private no-store to public for 100+ pages.
Read full entryawait headers() in the root layout forced every page into dynamic rendering. Next.js responded with Cache-Control: private, no-store. Google read private as personalized content and stopped indexing. 100+ pages crawlable, 1 indexed.
Read full entryBuilt a full video-to-social content engine: n8n orchestration, Remotion rendering, edge-tts narration, DigitalOcean deployment. 6 scenes rendered in 6.7 seconds. 4 platforms publishing daily. Lessons from 3 failed TTS engines.
Read full entryF5-TTS took 7+ minutes for 4 seconds of speech on our production droplet. edge-tts delivered the same output in 6.7 seconds across 6 scenes. The constraint was never quality — it was compute profile vs. deployment target.
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Deployed Social Studio v3 with Brand System Pack (14 visual styles), AI-governed caption generation, 3-layer guardrails, and cross-platform publishing to Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and LinkedIn. 7 commits, ~1,800 LOC.
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Replaced the static pod pricing table with a 4-step guided configurator. Users select a business outcome, configure specialist roles, and get a tailored team composition with transparent pricing. 3 new Supabase tables, 2 API routes, 6 outcomes seeded.
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Extended Gate 3c from single-table to 6-module per-module runtime verification. Each module independently proves database connectivity with a real SELECT query. Shell wrapper emits parseable GATE_3C_RESULT=PASS for automated governance.
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Shipped the complete design specification — 10 new components, 5 public pages, 4 admin CMS pages, full token system. Design Refiner scored 4.0/5.0 (GOOD) after 4 critical remediations.
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Completed the technical architecture specification with full system decomposition, 5 ADRs, and schema deviation logging. Architecture Refiner scored 3.67/5.0 — conditional pass with 4 remediation items tracked.
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Full backend integrity audit scored 4/10. Applied schema reconciliation: created 3 missing tables, fixed ghost column references, normalized RLS policies across all CMS tables, and seeded production data into empty Phase 2 tables.
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Rewrote the entire product requirements document from a simple website brief to a Platform Ecosystem PRD. Defined 7 revenue streams, 3 growth loops, and passed Gate 1 with a perfect 11/11 compound business score.
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