Changelog

Site & Index Changelog

Site changes and Index changes in one list. The Index-only view is at the Index changelog.

2026-11-04 · site: Category Intelligence Brief becomes the lead offer. A $147 founding pilot, requested by form and invoiced by hand, at /category-intelligence-brief/. The Audit, Sprint and Retainer stay available as custom services. Index measurement and the publication policy are unchanged.
2026-11-03 · site: Agent legibility guide published at /agent-legibility/. The old address, redirected to the AI search optimization pillar since the September rebuild, now carries a methodology guide on what browser agents from Google, Anthropic, Perplexity and Microsoft read and do on a vendor site, from their documentation read on 2026-11-03. The 301 is removed.
2026-11-03 · site: WebMCP and agentic commerce guides published. /webmcp/ and /agentic-commerce/, both 410 since the September rebuild, now carry methodology guides written for property-ops software vendors, from documentation read on 2026-11-03. The agent legibility guide gained sections on AI browser agents and the agentic web.
2026-10-31 · index: 2026-10 edition; ChatGPT answers from the app and the OpenAI API. 500 runs, one per prompt across 20 categories, Prompt Set v1.0. 248 answers were captured from the ChatGPT app between 27 and 30 October 2026 (gpt-6-thinking). The app kept signing the capture session out, so 252 were answered through the OpenAI Responses API with web search on 30 October (232 gpt-6-luna at medium reasoning effort, 10 gpt-6-luna at high effort, 10 gpt-6.1-terra). Each run records which way it was collected. API answers keep only the links shown in the answer, as app captures do. On the same prompts the API answers named 3.8 database vendors per answer against 4.5 for September's app captures, so rates in API-heavy categories read lower partly because of the instrument. Engine status now lists every model that answered.
2026-10-31 · index: Ten vendors added after the 2026-10 review. Each was named in at least two October prompts as a vendor of its category and checked against its own site; PMS modules and services-only compliance firms were not added (same bar as September). Docuverus and Two Dots (tenant screening), Parkva and Laneo (parking), Reliance Utility Services and Studebaker Submetering (utility management), Pro Specialty (renters insurance), Caliper Air (HVAC filter delivery), SuiteSpot (maintenance) and Concierge Plus (resident experience).
2026-10-31 · site: Live tables point to the current edition. Fifty-five guide, comparison and alternatives pages said their live Index tables carried 2026-09 figures. The tables follow the current edition, so those sentences now say so; figures quoted in the text stay labeled as September 2026.
2026-10-31 · index: Claude added as an engine from the 2026-10 edition. 500 Claude answers, one per prompt, through the Anthropic Messages API with the web search tool (approximate US location), Claude Haiku 5.5 at medium effort, captured 31 October 2026 and stored as engine `claude`, collection `anthropic_messages_api`. Runs keep the links shown in the answer. A vendor's rate in the 2026-10 edition is the mean of its ChatGPT and Claude rates, so every October rate and rank changed from the ChatGPT-only figures first published that day. The protocol now lists five engines; the API is not the claude.ai app, and the methodology says so.
2026-10-31 · index: Thirty-one vendors added after reviewing Claude's answers. Same bar as the earlier October review (named in at least two prompts as a vendor of its category, checked against its own site; PMS products, local or regional service firms and general-purpose tools not added). LeaseGuard (renters insurance, also deposit alternatives), Deposit Choice, URBI (community engagement and resident experience), Haven AI, Tenant Turner, Realty AI, Leasey.AI, Nurture Boss, PLACA.AI, ClearNow, Paymentus, Billee, Utility Ranger, UB West, American Submetering, Move Concierge, MeterNet, Hocutt, Epic Charging, GoPower, REVS, ChargeLab, HOA Express, Effortless HOA, Filter-Smart, National Tenant Network, Checkr, Igloohome, IBM Maximo, Planon and Asset Essentials.
2026-10-31 · index: 2026-09 edition marked published. The September edition had stayed labeled "preview" after its last data change on 2026-10-03 (500 ChatGPT runs, 20 categories). It is now published with that date and frozen; its notes no longer call it a preview, and no figure changed.
2026-10-13 · site: Postal Solutions description corrected; claimed rows marked. Postal Solutions is described as managing mail and package programs, not staffing and running them, after a correction from the vendor. Its row carries its first vendor-supplied section (claim verified 2026-10-09), and a claimed row now shows its claim in place of the claim form. No measurement changed.
2026-10-07 · site: One company, one Index. The services are now sold under the WebPossible name (AI Visibility Audit, Sprint and Retainer) instead of "Shortlist", which read as the AI Shortlist Index. WebPossible Media is no longer mentioned. New primary menu (AI Shortlist Index, Compare Software, For Vendors, Guides, About), a homepage that says what WebPossible does, and the edition date shown on Index pages only. No Index numbers changed.
2026-10-07 · site: Stale Index statements corrected. Seventeen pages still described the resident benefits category as unrun, or quoted the retired first test run as the current edition. They now point to the live Index tables, which update every edition, or state the September 2026 figures from the export. Word floors are now 800 words for guides, comparisons, blog posts and profiles.
2026-10-05 · site: Profiles for the 87 vendors added from the review queue. 85 vendor profiles published at /vendors/<id>/, each researched from the vendor's own pages and fact-checked against the raw source text by a second pass; RIS has none yet because its site could not be reached. About 100 vendor records gained or corrected sourced pricing and integration facts, and guides, alternatives, comparison and segment pages were reconciled with them. Eleven comparisons previously refused for thin facts were written; Orkin Commercial vs Terminix Commercial is still refused. Comparison titles now lead with the vendor pair and name what the page covers.
2026-10-05 · index: Funnel alias trimmed. The alias "LeaseHawk ACE" was removed from Funnel because no source ties that product to the April 2025 asset purchase; "LeaseHawk" stays, supported by Funnel's release. Matching is unchanged for the 2026-09 runs, since "LeaseHawk" already covers the same mentions.
2026-10-05 · site: Claim callouts where vendors have not published facts. Vendor profiles, comparisons and alternatives pages now say which vendors have not published pricing, property management system integrations or the property types they serve, and invite each vendor to claim its profile and fill the gap as a labeled vendor-supplied section. Missing facts no longer stop a comparison from being written; the gaps become buyer questions. The RIS profile and the Orkin Commercial vs Terminix Commercial comparison were published on that basis.
2026-10-03 · index: Run 1 of the seventeen added categories captured; 87 vendors added after review. 425 ChatGPT web-app answers captured on 2 and 3 October 2026 (temporary chats set to Unpersonalized; model recorded from the conversation record, gpt-5-6-thinking on every answer), bringing the 2026-09 edition to 500 runs across 20 categories. Unknown names from all 20 categories were reviewed against each company's own site; Ryan approved the promotions, and data/vendors.yaml grew from 154 to 241 vendors, including new vendors in the three launch categories (NetVendor, AppWork, Wayline, VendorPM, DoorlineOps; Aiphone, ProdataKey, 2N, Akuvox, Verkada, Kastle, LiftMaster myQ Community; Boom, Esusu, RentPlus, Stake, RIS, Updater, Resident-Link), which adds rows to their September tables without changing their top rankings. Property management systems, local service providers and lock hardware brands are not ranked.
2026-10-03 · methodology: Extraction changes for app captures. Unknown names are now also read from table rows (app captures carry tables as tab-separated text). Common-word vendor names match only with their exact capitalization (Flex, Funnel, Leap, Stake, Orange, Guardian and others). A name followed by a hyphen and a lowercase word counts ("Terminix-type"); a name glued to a preceding word does not ("mid-rise"). A vendor record can list words that cancel a match ("Pronto Pest" is not Pronto Housing). Generic aliases that matched ordinary phrases were removed (Anyone Home "AI Leasing Assistant", LeaseLock "Zero Deposit", Frontdesk "AI Front Desk"). Six labels in the hand-labeled accuracy set were corrected because the vendors those samples name had just joined the database. A hand spot check of 50 October answers scored precision 99.6% and recall 99.1% before the last three fixes.
2026-10-02 · index: Ten more categories added to the Index; all twenty measured. package_management, resident_experience, pest_control_programs, renters_insurance_programs, tenant_screening, ai_leasing_assistants, rent_payments, security_deposit_alternatives, hvac_filter_delivery, smart_home registered in categories.yaml with their Prompt Set v1.0 drafts approved as written by Ryan. These ten hold 5 to 9 sourced vendors each, below the ten-vendor test in spec §4.2; Ryan waived the test for them, and vendors the engine names that are not in the database go to the review queue. The cost hold on the seven categories added 2026-09-06 is lifted. Run 1 for all seventeen is captured from the ChatGPT web app.
2026-09-20 · index: The 2026-09 ChatGPT API run is retired; all three categories collected from the app. The single ChatGPT run collected on 2026-09-03 from the Responses API (prompt mvn-best-01, gpt-5.5-2026-04-23) is moved out of the edition to index-engine/archive/retired-runs/, where it is kept unedited and auditable but is not loaded by the engine. The other 24 prompts in that category were never run against the API, so leaving it in place would have put one API run inside a prompt set of 25 app captures with nothing in the export to show the set was collected two ways. Every figure published from that run — 124 consulted URLs against 6 inline citations, and the source breakdown behind them — stays true and stays published, labeled as the API capture of 2026-09-03; it cannot be refreshed, because the app does not disclose the consulted list. In its place, run 1 of all three categories is now 75 web-app captures collected on 19 and 20 September — access_control 263 citations, maintenance_vendor_networks 184, resident_benefits 215. Collection cost was zero. The importer now refuses to write into a run slot already holding a differently-collected run. The resident_benefits set was re-captured after account memory was turned off, and the three-prompt canary that had leaked the operator's own occupation and an unprompted location came back clean.
2026-09-19 · index: First edition measures three categories; ChatGPT search context set to low. The seven categories registered on 2026-09-06 stay registered, with their prompts public, but are held out of the run schedule (measure false in categories.yaml) until the first edition's results and costs are reviewed. resident_benefits, access_control and maintenance_vendor_networks run as planned. The ChatGPT adapter's search_context_size moves from medium to low, which reduces how much page content the model reads per search. The one preview run collected on 2026-09-03 used medium and is kept as recorded.
2026-09-19 · index: ChatGPT is now captured from the web app, not the API. ChatGPT answers are collected from the consumer app at chatgpt.com, one temporary chat per prompt, driven by browser capture on an account kept for the Index with memory, custom instructions and chat-history search off. The OpenAI API path is retired and the engine refuses to run through it, so the search_context_size change logged above no longer applies to anything collected from 2026-09-19. Three consequences that can move a number. A capture carries no model id, so a ChatGPT row can move because OpenAI changed the default model with nothing in the run file to show it. A capture holds only the links in the answer, so the consulted-sources list the API exposed is gone for ChatGPT and the Source Map counts fewer URLs per run for that engine. ChatGPT's three runs per prompt are captured by hand on three days at least two days apart rather than by the scheduler. Runs collected before this date came from the API and stay as recorded, labeled by their own collection field. A capture that shows the operator's own business or a location no prompt supplied is discarded and re-run; the first resident_benefits capture of this edition was discarded on those grounds.
2026-09-06 · index: Prompt Set v1.0 drafts for the seventeen unmeasured categories. 425 draft prompts (25 per category, six types) written to data/prompts/<category_id>.yaml for the 17 Property Management Software categories the Index does not yet measure. Drafts are not in categories.yaml, are not run, and are not published; each awaits Ryan's approval (spec §4.3) and the category-addition test (spec §4.2, ≥10 viable vendors). The validator checks drafts to the same rules as live sets.
2026-09-06 · index: Seven categories added to the Index. utility_management, parking_management, ev_charging, community_engagement, hoa_management, facilities_management_cre, affordable_housing_compliance registered in categories.yaml. Each has at least ten sourced vendors in the database (spec §4.2) and an approved 25-prompt set (Prompt Set v1.0; approval delegated by Ryan on 2026-09-06). The Index now measures ten categories. The other ten categories stay guides with draft prompt sets until they reach ten vendors.
2026-09-03 · index: 2026-09 preview edition. One ChatGPT run (gpt-5.5, web search) for prompt mvn-best-01. Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews not yet run. Engine list prices recorded in config/engines.yaml for cost logging.
2026-09-03 · site: Site rebuilt around the Index. webpossible.com replaced. Off-brand pages returned 410; renamed pages 301. The full disposition list lives in the site's redirects.yaml and gone.yaml. Old sitemap replaced by a segmented sitemap index; markdown twins regenerated for surviving pages only.
2026-09-02 · index: Prompt Set v1.0 approved. 75 prompts across three categories (25 each, six types) approved by Ryan York. Frozen for the 2026-09 edition.
2026-09-02 · index: Categories at launch. resident_benefits, access_control, maintenance_vendor_networks. Vendor database seeded with 29 sourced records.
2026-09-02 · index: Google AI Overviews capture provider set to Apify. SE Ranking's data API has no on-demand SERP endpoint; AI Overview text and sources are captured through the Apify Google Search Results Scraper (US, desktop, non-personalized). No first-party UI automation.

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