Weekly meeting 2026-10-19¶
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Weekly meeting, 2026-10-19¶
Numbers: 140 listings, 94 views (+39 in 7d), 2 favorites, 0 sales, $0 revenue. 24 listings are new this week, so traffic is still too early to judge.
What's moving (7d views): Calavera sugar skull 11, sonar radar 7, coqui frog 6, cuatro guitar 5 (1 favorite), menorah 4. Most of this is seasonal, and Muertos (Nov 1) and Puerto Rico (Nov 19) are too close to build new designs for (plan rule 2).
Team health: - Pixel: 18 done, 72 failed (20% success), XP -180. This is the weak spot. Rejections are mostly clipped edges, leftover background and low contrast. - Q: backlog 115, up 21, oldest item 20 days. This is the bottleneck for going live. - Fixer: backlog 49, up 20, oldest item 19 days. - Merch: backlog 20, overloaded two weeks running. Success rate improved to 81%. - Scout, Numbers and Buzz are fine. Buzz is quiet (4 jobs).
Money: OpenRouter credits are at -$0.05, with 12 designs queued for Monday. Last-week spend was $0.80, almost all on Gemini for design work.
Plan this week (Christmas x4 pets/family, Thanksgiving x1): keep to the approved season plan. Do not move to 10 designs a week (week 44) while Pixel fails 80% of jobs and Q has a 115-item backlog. More output would only deepen the queue.
Priorities for next week: 1. Clear Q's and Fixer's backlogs before adding volume. 2. More variants of designs that earn views and fit the calendar: sonar radar (humour, evergreen), cuatro guitar (Christmas heritage, has a favorite), alligator (humour). 3. Rewrite titles on 5 old listings with zero views. 4. Pixel: fix the repeat failures (edge clipping, background removal, contrast) before the next batch.
Pending for the board: the credit top-up, the Merch split, and change #3 (the pom-pom cat title rewrite, listing 4590308823; I did not queue another rewrite on it). Event 1761 also needs review because the automatic repair failed.
Decisions (guardrails applied)¶
- More variants of: humour-a-vintage-sonar-radar-display-showing-a-lone-blip-agg, countries-a-wooden-cuatro-guitar-and-carved-guiro-resting-am, humour-a-cheerful-green-cartoon-alligator-sporting-bright-ra
- Rewrite titles of: 4583695993, 4583696529, 4583707806, 4583696237, 4583696955
- Questions for the owner: 3
Performance scoreboard¶
| Role | Level / XP | Done / failed | Success | Busy hours | Cost | Backlog | Queue growth | Oldest open days | XP trend | Titles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scout | 4 / 450 | 48 / 6 | 89% | 1.71 | $0.04 | 2 | +0 | — | -75 | |
| Pixel | -2 / -180 | 18 / 72 | 20% | 2.53 | $0.71 | 4 | +0 | — | -160 | busiest |
| Q | 3 / 310 | 31 / 0 | 100% | 0.38 | $0.00 | 115 | +21 | 20.4 | -120 | |
| Merch | 18 / 1860 | 210 / 48 | 81% | 1.15 | $0.00 | 20 | +9 | 6.9 | +40 | most improved |
| Buzz | 0 / 40 | 4 / 0 | 100% | 0.00 | $0.00 | 2 | +1 | — | -100 | |
| Numbers | 0 / 70 | 7 / 0 | 100% | 0.02 | $0.00 | 2 | +0 | — | +0 | |
| Boss | 0 / 90 | 9 / 0 | 100% | 0.02 | $0.00 | 6 | +2 | 21.7 | -40 | |
| Forge | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | — | 0.00 | $0.00 | 7 | +1 | — | +0 | |
| Coach | 0 / 30 | 6 / 6 | 50% | 0.04 | $0.01 | 1 | +0 | 17.0 | -30 | |
| Fixer | 4 / 400 | 40 / 0 | 100% | 1.06 | $0.00 | 49 | +20 | 19.4 | +0 |
Position proposal¶
Proposal: split Merch — new position Merch Support: share Publishes listings: copy, sections, links, production partner, because backlog 11 → 20, queue growth +9, oldest open item 6.9 days; overloaded in both weeks 2026-10-12 and 2026-10-19
Costs last week: {"analyst": 0.0, "coach": 0.01, "designer": 0.87, "fixer": 0.0, "gm": 0.0, "marketing": 0.0, "merchandiser": 0.0, "quality": 0.0, "scout": 0.04}; OpenRouter: Today: $0.0000 of $2.00 daily budget
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