yoloforever: cycle 4 ledger — SHIP-AND-PAUSE; public-channel saturation reached, FDIC lever disproven, loop paused pending a Steve-gated next-lever

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Author: Steve Abrams <steve@designerwallcoverings.com>
Date:   Thu Jul 30 21:09:39 2026 -0700

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 - **FINAL DTD:** SHIP — 3/3 local, $0 panel cost.
 - **Pending-approval queue:** empty.
 - **Next-cycle candidates:** second headless pass on the ~116 still-uncovered orgs (bank sites often need deeper link ranking); press-contact extractor rerun over newly-verified bank press pages; review-queue triage; gated refresh-scheduler memo.
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+## Cycle 4 — 2026-07-30 ~21:40 PT (local-models mode) — SHIP-AND-PAUSE
+- **DTD (increment):** C (3/3 local) — upgrade headless extractor + rerun press-contacts. Mid-cycle Steve directive: "add their industry orgs."
+- **Landed:** single-line "Name, Title" parsing + bank-path probes + two-hop about crawl (headless pass 2 → +44/15 orgs); 28 industry/trade associations added + verified (CBA, CMBA, ALTA, AIA CA, CAA, NAIOP, ULI, ICSC, SIOR, CREW, Nareit, CCIM, etc.); Cody-c4 fixes all shipped+verified.
+- **Cody gate:** FIX FIRST → all fixed: person.rejected audit logging (50 logged, sampled 100% genuine junk, ZERO real people wrongly rejected — data-loss concern closed), company-suffix HARD words, 343 senior-title people reclassified other→leadership (fixed the "invisible to gate" gap). His FDIC-officer-CSV pivot: **VERIFIED PHANTOM** — FDIC publishes no officer/CEO names (only bank name+website), so not built (verify-before-acting caught it).
+- **KEY FINDING — public-channel saturation:** headless yields decayed 235→44→0 over three passes. Remaining ~120 uncovered high-priority orgs are dominated by small community banks with no public PR/comms staff or roster. The 70% CA gate is blocked by public-data AVAILABILITY, not crawler capability.
+- **FINAL DTD:** SHIP-AND-PAUSE (3/3 local, $0).
+- **Final prod state:** 487 orgs · 1,566 people (132 comms/mktg/agency/bd) · 1,842 sources · CA gate NOT passed (coverage 53%, comms-only 24%) · coverage-gap report: 179 empty metro×category cells · spend unchanged 500/1000 queries (~$2.50 total; all cycle-4 discovery $0 local).
+- **Pending-approval queue:** empty (no gated actions this run).
+- **LOOP PAUSED** per the STOP rule: public channels saturating + only gated/licensed work remains. Real next-levers (all Steve-gated): (1) a licensed data provider integration (the only way to reach non-public bank comms staff), (2) manual research on the top uncovered orgs via the admin UI, (3) accept the community-bank cap and measure coverage against publicly-reachable orgs only. Resume by approving one of these or adding work.

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