METHODOLOGY · COMING SOON
What 78,181 scanned followers told us about Web3 community
The first production scan and what the numbers actually meant. Bot-Kill rates, archetype mix, and why "5,806 real community members" is the metric that matters.
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Field notes from inside the engine.
Methodology write-ups, position pieces, and operator notes. The post list below is the planned cornerstone set; each ships when it is actually written.
POSITION · COMING SOON
Why KOL budgets always disappoint
The math of rented reach versus owned activation. Why one $50,000 KOL post will always lose to a $5,000 community activation spend on the same audience.
METHODOLOGY · COMING SOON
Deterministic scoring beats LLM scoring, and here is why
Reproducibility, audit trails, cost structure. The case for rules-based archetype classification in a category that has decided language models are the answer to everything.
DESIGN · COMING SOON
Champion, Amplifier, Builder, Early Adopter — and why four is the right number
Three is too few to differentiate; five collapses into noise. The full reasoning behind the archetype set, including the candidates we considered and rejected.
ENGINE · COMING SOON
Bot-Kill teardown — the four signals that catch farms
Activity floor, follower-to-following imbalance, posting-burst patterns, and linguistic uniformity. The four signals that explain how 90.96 percent of the Mintlayer follower list got filtered.
PRODUCT · COMING SOON
Proof Review — why verification is the difference between a report and a story
What gets verified, what does not, and how the verified-only ledger compounds into reporting your client's CFO will actually trust.
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