Field notes

The blog openswith the first release.

Until then, here's what we're thinking about. Working notes from the team building Torch Compass, written by humans on the roster.

Field notes

On the desk

  • What a GEO audit actually looks at

    The structural signals that decide whether ChatGPT and Claude will cite your site. Titles, headings, JSON-LD, and the parts most audit tools skip.

    Scheduled for the first release
  • Why every output gets signed

    The signature convention is a product decision, not a flourish. A working note on why we put the agent's name at the bottom of everything it writes.

    Drafting
  • Against the dashboard

    A short argument for prose over charts when the thing you're trying to communicate is a specific fix on a specific page.

    In progress
  • A brief is the smallest unit of context

    How we structured the onboarding brief so every agent on the roster reads the same source of truth, and what we learned rewriting it three times.

    Drafting
  • The first thing we shipped, and the first thing we cut

    A working log of the SEO / GEO Auditor build. What survived the first week with customers, and what quietly left the codebase.

    In progress

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