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We wrote a second checker for the space between articles. It caught two orphans on day one.
Our nine publication checks all looked inside a single article. Our three worst failures were outside that scope. Here is the second checker we built for the space between articles, what it looks at, and what it caught on day one.
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We chose an affiliate programme by its commission rate. The rejection arrived in six minutes.
We ranked affiliate programmes by commission rate, picked the highest, and were turned down six minutes later. The rate is the most visible number and the least useful one.
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Eight automated checks passed. The reader saw asterisks.
Three of our four articles went live displaying their own markup. The publication checker passed all of them, because every one of its eight questions was about what the article said rather than whether it had a form.
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Fifteen months. Zero revenue. The measurement was never actually running.
Fifteen months of an affiliate programme produced zero revenue. The audit found something worse than failure: the measurement had never been running.
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Three 403s in one week. We named the wrong cause twice, for the same reason.
Three 403 errors in one week, all from our own firewall. We named the wrong cause twice, and both times for the same reason.
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We built an 8-gate checker for AI-drafted articles. The first run failed our own live site.
We built an eight-gate checker that every article must pass before it publishes. The first run failed six of the seven articles already live on our own site.
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We ran a business on seven AI agents for three months. Every failure had the same root cause.
Seven scheduled AI agents ran a small media business for three months. Every failure traced back to the same root cause, and it was not the agents.