Marketing department — 2026-08-23

Runs every morning. Fixes what it can, publishes what is ready, and says what it could not do. It never spends money, never posts to anyone else's property, and never touches the payment path. · monitor · huddle

MARKETING DEPARTMENT — 2026-08-23 06:20


── THE AUDITOR — reads every access log and works out where the people actually are
     10,396 real human page views yesterday across 253 sites
     aiwayback.com                       562
     aiaustintexas.com                   552
     colinfirth.org                      418
     austinspring.com                    388
     firth.com                           335
     wholetech.com                       334

── THE REVENUE DESK — finds links that earn nothing and ad slots that never fill
        austen.live                      unit inserted before </main>
        ryanholidayfans.com              unit inserted before <footer
        fixed 2 sites
     
     LEAK 2 — unreplaced __AMZ_TAG__ placeholder
        fixed 0 links across 0 files -> tag=colinfirthfan-20

── THE FRONT DESK — makes sure a visitor who wants to talk to us can
     private-site                  89 views, no capture
     paulsfriends.com                     48 views, no capture
     allow-list: added 2
       private-site      nginx=patched      page=/enquire/
       paulsfriends.com         nginx=patched      page=/enquire/
     
     nginx test: OK
     nginx reloaded, wt-leads restarted

── THE EDITOR — repairs what it can, publishes what passes, refuses the rest
       atxtechtrends.com      truncated mid-word by the legacy 62-char Predicting tomorrow's tech with today's lead
       austen.com             brand name repeated          Jane Austen.com | Austen.com
       austen.com             brand name repeated          Jane Austen.com — Austen.com. What to know, 
       austintechnews.live    truncated mid-word by the legacy 62-char Austin’s startup ecosystem, in motion. | Aus
       c.deptmatic.com        truncated mid-word by the legacy 62-char Built for magnets. Run by the department. in
       changeaustin.com       truncated mid-word by the legacy 62-char The city is changing fast. Make sure the cha
     attempting now         : 0
     
     
     SHIPPED 0 items across 0 sites
     
     failed: 0

── THE REGISTRAR — keeps the ledger matching what is actually live
     sites with unrecorded published pages : 1
     pages to record                       : 1
     
        paulsfriends.com                1

── THE DISTRIBUTOR — tells the search engines what changed
     aiwayback.com                218 urls  robots=False  indexnow=HTTP 200
     aiaustintexas.com            135 urls  robots=False  indexnow=HTTP 200
     colinfirth.org               23 urls  robots=False  indexnow=HTTP 200
     austinspring.com             4339 urls  robots=False  indexnow=HTTP 200
     firth.com                    850 urls  robots=False  indexnow=HTTP 200
     wholetech.com                691 urls  robots=False  indexnow=HTTP 200
     texascoworking.com           978 urls  robots=False  indexnow=HTTP 200
     austen.com                   138 urls  robots=False  indexnow=HTTP 200
     dev.wholetech.com            1 urls  robots=True  indexnow=HTTP 202
     tvreviewer.com               756 urls  robots=False  indexnow=HTTP 200
     tvawardshows.com             1187 urls  robots=False  indexnow=HTTP 200
     invoices.austinspring.com    3225 urls  robots=False  indexnow=HTTP 403
     refreshed 12 sitemaps

── THE ANALYST — rebuilds every number so none of them can go stale
     rebuilt 7 dashboards

── THE REPORTER — carries up what the others could not do, and writes it down
     ↑ NEEDS A PERSON — 229 sites carry the AdSense script; only approved sites serve ads. Approving them in the AdSense console is the biggest single revenue lever and only Paul can do it.
     ↑ NEEDS A PERSON — 220 real products are catalogued and the live Stripe checkout still sells only the hardcoded demos. Wiring them together needs a yes, because it means editing a service holding live keys.

     2 thing(s) waiting on a person:
       - [Revenue Desk] 229 sites carry the AdSense script; only approved sites serve ads. Approving them in the AdSense console is the biggest single revenue lever and only Paul can do it.
       - [Revenue Desk] 220 real products are catalogued and the live Stripe checkout still sells only the hardcoded demos. Wiring them together needs a yes, because it means editing a service holding live keys.
     huddle updated

     briefings written (NOT sent - a person sends them):
       Paul      daily              1254 chars
       a team member      daily               950 chars
       Tim       daily              4605 chars
       Melissa   once daily, short   528 chars
       Robbie    daily               839 chars
       Beau      daily              1293 chars
     https://wholereach.com/daily/briefings/