yoloforever cycle 18: wb_043 +13 contact-LinkedIn (1287/4297, 29%) - cool tail

254315e9eea3ba4a0e39de9fb77cbbecd6fd0af6 · 2026-08-24 09:44:43 -0700 · Steve Abrams

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Author: Steve Abrams <steve@designerwallcoverings.com>
Date:   Mon Aug 24 09:44:43 2026 -0700

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 - **Empirical test (read-back):** live sheet 1274/4297 = exactly +21 matched, cells_written 22 (21 LI + 1 email). Verified.
 - **FINAL DTD:** SHIP. Reversible/ADD-only/internal; gates intact.
 - **Seed → Cycle 18:** wb_043. Yield 70% (still strong); the wb_045 cool-tail watch is near — monitor next 2 cycles.
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+## Cycle 18 — wb_043 (2026-08-24)
+- **Increment:** +13 contact-LinkedIn (13 live: 12 live_title / 1 live_snippet, 0 inferred), 0 emails. Coverage 1274 → **1287/4297 (29%)**, missing 3010. Yield 13/30 = **43%** (down from 70% — COOL TAIL now hitting).
+- **Cool-tail transition observed:** the warmth-sorted list crossed from major-brokerage CRE names (rows 1-17: CBRE/Newmark/M&M/Transwestern — yielded 11/17 = 65%) into the tail of non-brokerage firms (rows 18-30: Gensler/Capital One/Chase/JRK/Capilano/Passco/etc — yielded 2/13 = 15%). The tail is banks, architects, property-mgmt, one-off firms with low LinkedIn findability + several garbage rows ("West Brett", "At Hoyt", "Bankwest Steve").
+- **17 left blank (blank-beats-wrong):** Trevor Hardy/M&M, Tyler Moore/CBRE (common name + City-of-Scottsdale title vs CBRE record), Wil Hogue (ARID not Greystar), William Zurek (only congrats-post, no /in/ slug), Zachary O'Callaghan, + the whole cool tail (Akira Nakano/Gensler, Alena Pilichowski/Capital One [Sightly not CapOne], Alysha Agnani, Amy Blanco [JE Dunn not JRK], Anand Kannan [WNC not CPP], Andrea Carpinello, Anna Heglin, Austin Payne, Belden Brown) + 3 garbage rows.
+- **Cody gate:** clean — 0 inferred rejected. Recent-employer / group-brand judgment calls all real: Tripp Anderson (CB Richard Ellis = CBRE's old name), Voltaire→VOLT Migrino (unique name), Zack House (Net Lease Advisory Group = M&M's group), Ashley Rebal (post-slug + Mill Creek snippet). No must-fix.
+- **Empirical test (read-back):** live sheet 1287/4297 = exactly +13 matched, cells_written 13. Verified.
+- **FINAL DTD:** SHIP. Reversible/ADD-only/internal; gates intact.
+- **Seed → Cycle 19:** wb_044. ⚠️ COOL-TAIL WATCH ACTIVE: yield 77→70→43% over 3 cycles. If wb_044 also <35%, that's the 2nd sub-threshold cycle → flag Steve for a diminishing-returns decision (continue the long tail vs pause). The remaining ~3000 missing skew toward the low-yield non-brokerage tail.

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