Rolling Out
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- 📖 Published — Made in His Image (James Drake · Genesis 1:26–2:25), Week 2 of the eleven-week Foundations series, EN + ES
- 📝 Two blogs, both bilingual: James Drake's sermon blog Monday and Jeff Reed's Feeling Alone? Wednesday (scheduled, 5 AM)
- 🎬 4 Shorts → YouTube + IG Stories, Mon–Thu 4:30 PM ET, and in the app's Moments feed
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- 📱 Mon–Fri 9 AM — devotionals Day 1–5, EN and ES
- 🌐 A website-feature card daily at noon; a sermon pull-quote at 3 PM; a Spanish card at 7 PM
- 🎧 Episode live in all four podcast feeds (EN audio 54, EN video 54, ES audio 47, ES video 47)
- 🏠 Homepage hero now plays this week's 10-minute condensed cut
Blogs This Week
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Last Week's Pulse
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"Made in His Image - Genesis 1:26–2:25" is in the homepage hero now; the numbers below are last week's. First-party counters, not GA4 — aggregate only, nothing traceable to a person.
Watch depth: 6 → 5 → 4 → 1 reached 25/50/75/100%, so 1.2% of plays ran to the end. Captions on 1 times; listened without the picture 0.
Each bar is one Sunday’s total across every channel — the number above the bar — with the segments showing which channel contributed. YouTube = views; homepage hero = plays of the condensed cut; podcast = deduped downloads. These are lifetime totals, so older sermons have had longer to accumulate. Read the mix and the recent trend, not a strict week-to-week ranking — the newest bar is hatched because it has had days rather than weeks.
† Sep 20 = hatched: still accruing, fewer days than the bars beside it.
Where the numbers live
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The numbers that used to sit here now update every day:
- Website, YouTube, Google listing, Instagram, app usage → Impact
- Search performance, queries, rankings → Search
- AI assistants — who is asking, who is crawling, who cites us → AI visibility
This page is the week in one glance: what shipped, what worked, and the note from Jeff.
What Worked / What to Watch
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The content quality is there. Both blogs were written fresh in the named author's voice, all five devotionals pass the completion test, the Spanish dub went through the API path cleanly, and the four Shorts are inside the 60-second cap with good clip selection.
Checkpoint 3 is doing its job. Sermon page cards register there automatically rather than clogging Checkpoint 2, so the approval window at Checkpoint 2 held only proofable content.
The hero video stats tool ran cleanly. 81 of 108 returning visitors played the It All Begins with God condensed cut (75% play rate), 28 kept it playing while browsing, 4 tapped play on mobile. Unmutes: 0 — the hero autoplays silent and nobody chose to listen this week (vs 11 for Greater Than Your Religion at its peak). Worth watching as the series finds its audience.
$72 to produce one week is the number that matters. Two prior weeks ran at $37 and $43. The podcast step alone cost $18 — it ran for 67 minutes across three attempts because the completion test was reading a stale 404. If the same pattern holds next week, the fix is a deploy-settle delay before the test runs, not a retry loop.
app_ready went to four attempts and two escalations for the second week running. The step landed; the overhead is growing. The root cause this week was a missing player poster (og_image_url/hero) — the session found it eventually, but the escalation path from sonnet to opus doubled the cost. A pre-check that confirms the poster exists before starting the app session would cut this to one attempt most weeks.
Five steps needed a hand. schedule_social and shorts_playlist completed their own tests cleanly before being touched — both were likely set done by Jeff confirming they'd run, not by hand edits. CHECKPOINT_0 (artwork picks) is Jeff's by design. app_ready and verify are the two that genuinely needed intervention.
Open Items
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- YouTube weekly views (Sep 13–19) — PENDING Supermetrics pull; Monday job updates before Tuesday send
- Instagram insights — PENDING; API access still being set up
- app_ready: the recap audio (James's voice, correct) is live on media but listen.ts only serves Luna/Arcas voices — Jeff's fix after the run
- Chaplain America — not in this week's run (pending)
- Saturday previews for Sep 26 — built Friday by design; the Sep 20 verify check was premature (Jeff accepted the failure)