Counts (verified from git log --diff-filter=A): 318 insight cards, 117 operator profiles, 24 synthesis patterns, 9 contradictions, 23 methodology playbooks. Plus 286 card modifications from the launch-ready scrub.
The orphan list was the cards that had been written without operator profiles, plus operators mentioned in raw sources but never carried forward. Pass C closed that gap.
Pass C ingestion (6 batches)
- Batch 1 — 22 insights from 12 orphan operators (Aaron Ross, Adrienne Barnes, Alex Hormozi, Andrew Faris, Andy Crestodina, Ann Handley, Arvid Kahl, Ben Tossell, Bernadette Jiwa, Bernard Huang, Blair Enns, Brian Dean).
- Batch 2 — 13 insights from 10 operators (Munger, Do, Voss, Walker, Janz, Suellentrop, Sanchez, Schafer, Crayon, Shepard).
- Batch 3 — 21 insights from 20 operators (Ariely, Kahneman, Gerhardt, Harland, Aaker, D.C.Baker, Skok, Millman, Yohn, Reed, Miller, Holt, Shleyner, Gil, vd Berg, Kramer, DiNardi, Laudi, Isenberg, Simon).
- Batch 4 — 20 insights from 20 operators (Shah, vd Kooij, Clear, Fried, Lemkin, Acunzo, Konrath, Hamilton, Daly, Pulizzi, Klettke, Barrows, Stark, Braun, Shapiro, Sakas, Keenan, Tharin, Rachitsky, Ramanujam).
- Batch 5 — 20 insights from 20 operators (Petitpas through Jarvis).
- Batch 6 — 33 insights from 33 final orphan operators (Laja through Jordan).
The Pass C batches plus 24 synthesis patterns + 9 contradictions + 23 playbooks (built once the corpus was dense enough for cross-operator convergences to read clean) made up the day's 318-card total.
Curiosity backfill — external links
Curiosity (the personal KB) had operator URLs that hadn't been propagated into ab-codex profiles. Eight backfill batches ran across the day, adding external links (LinkedIn, blog, newsletter, website) for roughly 200 operator profiles. Each batch was 22-25 operators.
Launch-ready scrub
A separate audit pass closed the gaps that orphan ingestion was likely to introduce:
- 8 stubs removed (cards that hadn't reached substance bar).
- 30 URLs validated (some had drifted; replacements found where possible).
- 73 cards repaired (frontmatter fixes, missing fields filled, attribution corrections).
Plus targeted scrubs: removing personal annotations from raw source files, pruning personal-network operators, scrubbing private raw frontmatter, splitting joint Hamel/Shreya attribution, removing legacy-batch directory.
Architecture moves
- Hero updated to "learn from the best" with lazy-loading via
content-visibility. - Stat numbers on the home page made clickable.
/playbookslist view added.- Playbooks gained full-page view + nav routing; about renamed to "a builder's codex"; map view fits viewport.
- Pass B3 ran the same day: 110 insights from 226 filtered LinkedIn reactions (86 new operators).
A messy, productive day that turned the corpus from "early" to "launch-ready."