Engineering 2026-05-26
Three Layers of Pillar Design (Structure / Vocabulary / Prose Density)
How to diagnose pillar quality across three layers—structure, vocabulary, and prose density—and when to reclassify a cluster.
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#Quality Control
13 articles
Engineering 2026-05-26
Constraints for Maintaining Pillar Prose Density — Banning Code Fragments and Foregrounding Business Decision Vocabulary
No inline code and business-decision subjects: two must_avoid constraints that preserve prose density in business-cluster pillars.
Engineering 2026-05-25
Separating Cluster and Persona — Designing the Outer and Inner Axes
Cluster owns distribution/KPI; persona owns narrative and terminology. Separate both in SSOT and run through the pipeline.
Business 2026-05-25
Designing Quality Gates to Fail on Missing Personas
Prevent writing without defining personas using blog-gate G11. Learn how machine detection ensures strategic quality assurance.
Engineering 2026-05-25
Narrowing audience.primary Clarifies Sister Pillar and Spoke Design
Narrowing a pillar's audience.primary to one reveals excluded personas as cluster design gaps, clarifying sister pillar and spoke roles.
Engineering 2026-05-24
Automating Brand Rule Checks — Context-Aware Detection of Self-Reference vs. External Reference
Prevent referring to Yakumo as a "company" with a context-aware gate. Learn to combine proximity analysis, allow-lists, and regex.
Business 2026-05-24
Expanding blog-gate into a Strategic Gate — Moving from Cosmetic Detection to G-Rule Structuring
A pattern for extending blog-gate G-rules to structurally detect missing SEO, audience, and cluster information. This article outlines how to design systems that allow machines to catch architectural failures, such as missing pillar strategy layers, before content production begins.
Business 2026-05-24
Corporate Vocabulary Proximity Detection: Solo Practitioner Brand Consistency
A hybrid design for detecting corporate terms using forbiddenWords and proximity rules to protect the solo practitioner narrative.
Engineering 2026-05-23
Advancing Pre-publish Gates: From Plain Grep to Proximity Analysis
Fix false positives in quality gates using stripCodeContexts and proximity analysis to resolve self-contradictions.
Business 2026-05-23
Allow-list-driven Brand Check — SSOT Design for External Org Exceptions
How to centralize brand rule exception management in an SSOT. Defines allow-lists and reference patterns in brand.ts, with gate scripts referencing them.
Business 2026-05-23
Pre-publish Gate Design: Balancing False Positives and False Negatives
Learn how to design quality gates that balance strictness and flexibility using 3-level analysis and a two-stage fail/warn system.
Engineering 2026-05-21
Structural Design of mcluhan, an Owned Media Operations Engine — State Machine, Gate, SSOT, Retro Accumulation
Full disclosure of mcluhan's design: a 4-state machine, 10-item pre-publish Gate, and SSOT-backed rules that mechanically stop AI content quality failures before human review. Built from the wreckage of 11 failures in Phase 0.
Business 2026-05-21
How We Pulled an AI-Generated Blog in 5 Days — A Full Timeline of Detection, Diagnosis, and Emergency Response
We published 48 articles in 5 days, then pulled them all. 11 failures, HUMAN_INPUT markers exposed, 76 internal links dead. Here is the complete record—from detecting the problem before Google indexed us, to rebuilding the pipeline.