fix(content-studio): stop the attribution scrub from deleting bare 'per'/'via' — they mangled common CRE prepositions in generated copy ('$928k per unit'→'$928k unit', '6% per annum'→'annum', 'via a JV'→'a JV'). Real 'per <outlet>' attribution already neutralized by the outlet-name strip above

95adcfbfbd0326ad59227e19ffb8e1b8e3f1a156 · 2026-08-06 10:53:08 -0700 · Steve

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commit 95adcfbfbd0326ad59227e19ffb8e1b8e3f1a156
Author: Steve <steve@designerwallcoverings.com>
Date:   Thu Aug 6 10:53:08 2026 -0700

    fix(content-studio): stop the attribution scrub from deleting bare 'per'/'via' — they mangled common CRE prepositions in generated copy ('$928k per unit'→'$928k unit', '6% per annum'→'annum', 'via a JV'→'a JV'). Real 'per <outlet>' attribution already neutralized by the outlet-name strip above
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 server.js | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/server.js b/server.js
index 87712500..9e11508e 100644
--- a/server.js
+++ b/server.js
@@ -932,8 +932,11 @@ ${body || '(no body available — work from the title)'}`;
     let t = String(s == null ? '' : s);
     for (const nm of names) t = t.replace(new RegExp('\\b' + nm.replace(/[.*+?^${}()|[\]\\]/g, '\\$&') + '\\b', 'gi'), '');
     t = t.replace(/https?:\/\/\S+/g, '');
-    // strip attribution lead-ins the model may paraphrase (the outlet name itself is already gone above)
-    t = t.replace(/\b(according to|as (?:first )?reported by|first reported by|as (?:the )?(?:outlet|publication|report|paper)s? (?:noted|reported)|per|via|reported by|reports? that|was covered by|covered by|sources? (?:told|said))\b[\s,:]*/gi, '');
+    // strip attribution lead-ins the model may paraphrase (the outlet name itself is already gone above).
+    // Do NOT add bare "per"/"via" here — they're common CRE prepositions ("$928k per unit", "$153 per sf",
+    // "6% per annum", "financed via a joint venture") and stripping them mangles the copy; a "per <outlet>"
+    // attribution is already neutralized because the outlet name was removed in the step above.
+    t = t.replace(/\b(according to|as (?:first )?reported by|first reported by|as (?:the )?(?:outlet|publication|report|paper)s? (?:noted|reported)|reported by|reports? that|was covered by|covered by|sources? (?:told|said))\b[\s,:]*/gi, '');
     return t.replace(/\(\s*\)/g, '').replace(/\s{2,}/g, ' ').replace(/\s+([.,;:])/g, '$1').replace(/^[\s,;:.\-]+/, '').trim();
   };
   const started = Date.now();

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