On 9 August every claim on this page was checked against the live site and the repository, one by one.
110 items checked: 12 done, 8 overtaken by later work, 63 not done, and 27 that cannot be settled from this machine. Plus 23 statements on the page that are now wrong.
The rest sits with you: the inboxes, the directory dashboards and the DNS records are things only you can see, so 27 items stay open until you look.
Every row below now says what is true and what to do, in two lines. The commands, dates and page counts behind each one are still there, one click away under Show the proof.
Nine things that are blocking or time-sensitive. They are in the order they should be done, not the order they are easiest. Two of them cannot be recovered if they slip: the AI citation baseline stops being honest the moment Google indexes the new pages, and the invented physician profiles become a real problem the moment anyone from the press or a directory looks at the site.Now: Only five of the nine are still open. The GitHub push, GA4 and the physician profiles are closed, and the AI baseline is no longer a now or never job. Four of the nine are done or void: the GitHub token/push blocker (repo pushed over SSH), the GA4 property (live as G-ZX4LWWWLJL), the physician personas (removed), and the time-critical framing of the AI baseline (indexation already happened). Presenting nine open blockers in priority order, with the two 'unrecoverable' ones at the top, sends the founder at the wrong things first. Per-item evidence above. Still genuinely open, verified: no DNS-AID TXT record (Why this changed
dig +short TXT _agent.astrarad.com and _aid.astrarad.com both empty, while the domain's other TXT records return normally), and no sameAs anywhere in the live homepage JSON-LD (grep -c sameAs -> 0), which is positive evidence that no social or directory profile has been linked to the site yet.
Superseded. The work this was meant to unblock already reached GitHub another way, so the missing token only matters if you want automation later.
Nothing to do now, grant the token in GitHub only if you later want it running pull requests and releases for you.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. The token blocker is still real but no longer load-bearing. gh api repos/deploystaff/astrarad still returns {"message":"Not Found",...,"status":"404"} — the fine-grained PAT was never given access. But the repo is reachable and current over SSH: git ls-remote origin (remote git@github.com:deploystaff/astrarad.git) returns 27e3a30dd8b3116dc5ebdd7bfe9ef041b69bed80 refs/heads/main plus refs/heads/feature/sales-kit-and-crm, feature/sales-sheets-eight, seo-audit-2026-08-09.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. The item says the repo exists but the push is blocked. The push is not blocked and has completed; only the gh CLI path is still broken.
The push this item was meant to unblock already ran over SSH, so granting the token is no longer a prerequisite for anything on this page. It is still worth doing if you ever want gh-based automation (PRs, releases, Actions), which remains 404 today.
The original 31 July instruction, kept for the record
The repo now exists at github.com/deploystaff/astrarad, so the first half of this is finished. The remaining blocker is token scope. The gh token in this environment is a fine-grained personal access token allowlisted to exactly two repositories, morichal-assessment-backend and morichalai-designs, and astrarad is not one of them, so every call returns 404. Fine-grained tokens answer 404 rather than 403 for repos outside their scope, on purpose, so that a token cannot be used to probe whether a private repo exists. Creating a repo does not add it to an existing token. Open the token, and under Repository access either switch to All repositories or add astrarad to the selected list, then set Contents to Read and write. Nothing else needs to change.Now: The GitHub access problem is fixed. The connection was switched to a key based one on 9 August and pushing works, so nobody needs to go and edit a GitHub token. The token-scope blocker is gone and was never the real cause of the stale-ref problem. The Why this changed
origin remote was switched from the dead-credential HTTPS URL to SSH on 2026-08-09, fetch and push both work, and the whole tree is pushed. Asking the founder to go edit a GitHub PAT is now wasted work.git remote -v -> origin git@github.com:deploystaff/astrarad.git (fetch)/(push). git ls-remote --heads origin returns four refs including refs/heads/main. wiki/log.md 2026-08-09 [FIX]: "the origin remote was still https://github.com/deploystaff/astrarad.git while the HTTPS credentials on this box are dead ... Origin now uses the SSH URL and fetch works."
Done. Main is on GitHub with the proposals, scripts and SEO work, and the live site is served from it, but 16 newer local changes have not gone up yet.
NextAsk an engineer to push the 16 pending changes, they include site edits no visitor can see yet.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. The original evidence was insufficient on its own: git rev-parse origin/main reads a LOCAL cached remote-tracking ref and proves nothing about GitHub. I re-verified against the real remote. git ls-remote origin (network call to git@github.com:deploystaff/astrarad.git) returns: 27e3a30dd8b3116dc5ebdd7bfe9ef041b69bed80 refs/heads/main and the same SHA for HEAD, matching local git rev-parse HEAD = 27e3a30. So main genuinely exists on GitHub and carries the work. The item's specific asks are in the pushed tree: git ls-tree -r --name-only 27e3a30 lists frontend/private/proposals/*.pdf, frontend/private/proposals/*.html, frontend/scripts/render-proposals.mjs and 30+ files under seo/ (972 tracked files total). And the pipeline is proven end to end: curl https://astrarad.com/robots.txt -> HTTP 200, and that body is byte-identical to git show 27e3a30:frontend/public/robots.txt (diff returns nothing), so production is served from pushed main, not from this machine. All 55 sitemap URLs return HTTP 200. Also confirmed the 8 days of post-tracker work are on main, not stranded on a side branch: git merge-base --is-ancestor 8865898 27e3a30 succeeds and git log 27e3a30..8865898 is empty.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. The item's premise is stale twice over. It says "There is no main branch locally: the only branch is feature/sales-kit-and-crm" — main is now the checked-out local branch and the remote default. It also says "46 MB of git history for 571 tracked files"; the repo is now 89M in .git for 972 tracked files.
Real caveat, with proof rather than assertion: the working tree is ahead of GitHub again, and it is user-facing. diff of the live robots.txt against the local frontend/public/robots.txt shows 3 lines present locally and absent in production (the llms.txt pointer and the per-page markdown-twin note). 16 files are modified or staged, including frontend/src/index.html, netlify.toml, frontend/src/styles.css and home.component.ts. None of that can reach a user until it is committed and pushed.
The original 31 July instruction, kept for the record
Once the token can see the repo, three things need deciding before anything is pushed, because the local state is not a clean single branch. There is no main branch locally: the only branch is feature/sales-kit-and-crm, carrying two commits. The working tree also has uncommitted changes, including the five research files in seo/research/, the sales kit proposal pages and PDFs, and the proposal render script. And the repository is 46 MB of git history for 571 tracked files, which is worth a glance before it becomes permanent on GitHub. Tell me whether to push the feature branch as is or rename it to main, whether the uncommitted work should be committed first, and I will stage it and show you the diff before anything leaves this machine. No commit and no push happens without you saying so.Now: Out of date. Main is now the working branch and everything is pushed, the repository is roughly twice the size described, and the sales kit was moved behind a login on 9 August. Every fact in this sentence is now false. Why this changed
main exists locally and on the remote at the same commit; the repo is roughly double the size it describes; and the sales kit was deliberately moved out of the public publish directory on 2026-08-09 because it was serving the rate card to anyone. Acting on this item as written would mean re-deciding a branch strategy that was settled a week ago.git ls-remote --heads origin -> 27e3a30dd8b3116dc5ebdd7bfe9ef041b69bed80 refs/heads/main; git log --oneline -1 -> 27e3a30 (same). git ls-files | wc -l -> 975. du -sh .git -> 89M. wiki/log.md 2026-08-09 [SECURITY] entry: "34 files moved frontend/public/kit to frontend/private/kit".
This has to happen BEFORE Google indexes the new pages. Once the 35 new pages are indexed and start influencing answers, the honest before measurement is gone forever and cannot be reconstructed. There is no second chance at a baseline. Everything else on this list can slip a week. This cannot.
Not done. Nobody has asked the AI assistants the 15 questions yet and no answers are written down anywhere.
NextAsk Claude to run all 15 prompts and save the answers, it now measures how often you get named, not whether Google found you.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. All 15 prompt rows in DOCS/action-center.html still carry data-owner="rafael" data-done="0" (verified for prompt-01 through prompt-15; the checkbox ids are astrarad-ac-v1:baseline:prompt-01..15). No recorded answers exist anywhere: ls seo/research/ shows only research/synthesis JSON and markdown from 2026-07-31 and 2026-08-01, with no engine-response or citation-result file, and no file in seo/ or DOCS/ records a per-prompt result.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. The TIME-CRITICAL framing has expired. wiki/features/seo-session-state.md:306 records "The site is indexed and ranks first for its own name, so this is a share-of-answer baseline, not an indexation check." The "35 new pages" count is also stale: the live sitemap now carries 55 URLs (curl https://astrarad.com/sitemap.xml -> HTTP 200, 55 <loc> entries).
Still worth doing, but it is now a different measurement than the one described. The item is written as a strictly-before-indexing baseline; that window has closed.
The sitemap has been submitted and Search Console shows Couldn't fetch. That is almost certainly the pending state rather than a rejection: Last read is empty, Type is Unknown, and it was submitted the same day, which is what a file that has not been processed yet looks like. The sitemap itself was tested from outside and is clean, HTTP 200 with content-type application/xml, valid XML, 34 URLs, all HTTPS, no duplicates, all 34 returning 200 to Googlebot, allowed by robots.txt, and no noindex anywhere on the site. Do not keep resubmitting, it does not move the queue. Instead run URL Inspection on the sitemap URL and click Test live URL, which fetches on demand and answers straight away. One thing worth confirming while you are there: the add-sitemap box shows a fixed prefix including the scheme, which is how a URL-prefix property looks, and a domain property shows the bare domain instead. A URL-prefix property will index this sitemap perfectly well, so this is tidiness rather than urgency, but a domain property is what covers www, non-www, HTTP and HTTPS in one place.Now: The sitemap now lists 55 pages, not 34, all secure and with no duplicates, and nothing on the site is blocked from search engines. The sitemap has grown from 34 to 55 URLs. Anyone opening Search Console and comparing against '34' will think the sitemap is truncated or that indexing is failing.Why this changed
curl -s https://astrarad.com/sitemap.xml | grep -c "<loc>" -> 55; /sitemap.xml and /robots.txt both HTTP 200. Cross-check: DOCS/audit-2026-08-09.html measured 51 sitemap URLs on the morning of 08-09; two ships that day took it to 55.
Can't tell from here. Your domain ownership record is live at the registrar, but only you can see inside Search Console how the property and sitemap are set up.
NextOpen Search Console, check the property is the bare domain and that the sitemap was read and lists 55 pages.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. I cannot see inside the Search Console UI, so property type and sitemap fetch status are not observable from here. One positive signal exists: dig +short TXT astrarad.com @ns15.domaincontrol.com (authoritative GoDaddy nameserver) returns "google-site-verification=6XJWVOqHL_73fhFXhzp_nkOeOYf6K-6FqJAFsKwUlw0" alongside the SPF record. DNS TXT is the verification method a domain property requires, and no google-site-verification meta tag exists in the live homepage HTML (grep over the fetched https://astrarad.com/ body found none among the 7 meta name= tags). WHAT WOULD SETTLE IT: a screenshot of the Search Console property picker showing either astrarad.com bare (domain property) or https://astrarad.com/ (URL-prefix), plus the Sitemaps page showing Last read and Type for /sitemap.xml.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. The item states the sitemap contains 34 URLs. It now contains 55 (curl https://astrarad.com/sitemap.xml -> HTTP 200, 55 <loc> entries), so any re-check should expect 55.
The DNS TXT is consistent with a domain property having been verified after this item was written, but it does not prove the URL-prefix property was replaced or that the sitemap warning cleared.
Done. GA4 is live on all 55 pages as G-ZX4LWWWLJL and Google confirms it is a real configured property, not a mistyped placeholder, but no traffic has been seen landing yet.
NextOpen GA4 and check real visits are showing, the tag is proven live but nobody has confirmed the reports are filling up.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. Confirmed live and site-wide, not just on the homepage. I curled all 55 URLs in live-urls.txt: every one returned HTTP 200 and every one contains G-ZX4LWWWLJL twice (script src plus gtag config). The original evidence leaned on a wiki line and a local file, which prove nothing; the load-bearing question is whether the id is a real GA4 property or a placeholder someone typed in. I control-tested that: curl https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-ZX4LWWWLJL returns HTTP 200, 498,097 bytes, and its container payload carries property-specific configuration — "tags":[{"function":"__ogt_auto_events","vtp_enableOutboundClick":true,"vtp_enableScroll":true,"vtp_enableDownload":true,"vtp_enableForm":true,"vtp_enableVideo":true,...}] plus __ogt_1p_data_v2. The same request for a fabricated id (G-ZZ9QQ1XK2P) returns 419,239 bytes with only the generic fallback "tags":[{"function":"__ccd_ga_first"...},{"function":"__gct"...}] and no enhanced-measurement config. Google is serving a real, configured property for this id. The founder half of the item (create the property, hand over the id) therefore has a positive signal, and the Claude half (wire it in, redeploy) is observable in production on all 55 pages.
What remains genuinely unverifiable from here: whether the property's data stream is bound to astrarad.com and whether the founder can see traffic in the GA4 UI. That would need a screenshot of the GA4 Realtime report or Admin > Data Streams. The container-config test proves the id is real and configured, not that reports are populating. Also note the pushed version (frontend/src/index.html:97 at 27e3a30) loads gtag.js eagerly with async; the local uncommitted edit defers it to after window load and has not shipped.
The original 31 July instruction, kept for the record
Create the GA4 property for astrarad.com and send the measurement id (it looks like G-XXXXXXX). Claude wires it into the Angular app and redeploys. Without it there is no traffic data at all, so every later performance claim is unfalsifiable.Now: Already done. GA4 is live on every page as G-ZX4LWWWLJL. What is left on measurement is submitting the sitemap in Search Console and getting API access set up. GA4 is already installed and live in production. The measurement id G-ZX4LWWWLJL is served on the homepage via googletagmanager. The claim 'there is no traffic data at all' is false, and it is repeated as the excuse for the on-page score gap in the section 7 callout.Why this changed
curl -s https://astrarad.com/ | grep -o "G-[A-Z0-9]\{8,\}" -> G-ZX4LWWWLJL (2 occurrences), plus one googletagmanager and four gtag references. wiki/features/seo-session-state.md: "GA4 is installed (G-ZX4LWWWLJL, committed)."
Do not do this. DNS-AID was declined on 15 August 2026 after the spec was actually read. It is not a blocked chore, it is a closed decision, and the score it would buy is on one vendor's scanner.Now: Nothing to do at GoDaddy. The site is Level 5 Agent-Native at 13 of 14, and DNS-AID is the one deliberate non-pass. The instruction rested on the framing in wiki/features/seo-session-state.md:164 and :308, both of which called this "blocked on GoDaddy records", a chore awaiting the domain owner. Reading the actual draft shows it is not worth doing at all, so both wiki lines were rewritten and the open-list bullet removed on 15 August. Four reasons, each verified: Also corrected here: the denominator. The scan scores Why this changed
draft-mozleywilliams-dnsop-dnsaid is an individual submission, not adopted by dnsop, expiring 28 Nov 2026. None of its SvcParamKeys (cap, bap, well-known) nor either ALPN ID (mcp, a2a) are IANA-registered, so any record must use private-use keyNNNNN numbering that another implementation may number differently. Draft -02 deleted the _a2a._agents and _mcp._agents names the scanner still probes, so publishing the currently correct shape may not clear the check while publishing what clears it means shipping a deprecated shape. And SVCB carries host and port only, so /mcp is not expressible in a record at all.passed / (checks - neutral) and that is 14, not 15, because webBotAuth is neutral rather than failing. The site is 13 of 14, not 14 of 15.
Void. Declined on 15 August 2026, not pending. No DNS change is wanted, and the ten-minute job it describes would publish a deprecated record shape using unregistered parameters.
NextNothing. Reopen only if the dnsop working group adopts the draft, the record shape stabilises at -03 or later, or a customer or partner actually asks for DNS-based discovery. Do not reopen on a scanner score alone.
What was checked on 15 August 2026. The DNS state is unchanged and still empty, which is now the intended state: _index._agents, _a2a._agents and _mcp._agents under astrarad.com all return NXDOMAIN for SVCB (type 64), HTTPS (type 65) and TXT (type 16). The zone carries no DS record at .com, so it is unsigned, which also no longer matters: draft -02 downgraded DNSSEC from a requirement to a SHOULD and states DNS-AID is deployable without it.
The old evidence block cited wiki lines :164 and :308 as corroboration that this was open. Both were rewritten on 15 August and the :308 bullet was deleted, so that citation no longer supports the instruction. The earlier note that "the exact record values are not written down anywhere" is also resolved rather than outstanding: the correct draft -02 records were worked out and are recorded in DOCS/agent-readiness-scan-2026-08-15.html, deliberately as documentation of what was declined rather than as a task to execute.
Full reasoning and the false-negative forensics that prompted the review: agent-readiness-scan-2026-08-15.html.
A test record from the MCP integration check is sitting in the live leads table. It is harmless but it will pollute the first real conversion numbers and it looks careless if anyone else opens the admin.
Can't tell from here. The test lead sits in the live database behind a login I do not have, and the project notes still list it as open.
NextOpen the admin leads page and delete the AstraRad Internal MCP Test lead if it is still sitting there.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. The lead lives in the production Railway database behind authentication I do not hold. The endpoint is api/sales/leads/ (backend/config/urls.py:49, router.register("sales/leads", LeadViewSet, basename="sales-leads")) and curl https://astrarad-api-production.up.railway.app/api/sales/leads/ returns HTTP 401 with {"detail":"Authentication credentials were not provided."} — the viewset is gated by permission_classes = [IsAuthenticated, IsSalesOrAdmin] (backend/crm/api.py:18). No local copy exists to check against: find for *.sql / *.dump across the repo returns nothing, and psql lists no readable database. The string "AstraRad Internal MCP Test" appears in the repo only in documentation (DOCS/action-center.html, DOCS/archive/seo-strategy-2026-07-31.html, wiki/features/seo-session-state.md) — never in a fixture or seed. WHAT WOULD SETTLE IT: an authenticated GET /api/sales/leads/?search=MCP against the Railway API, or a screenshot of astrarad.com/admin/leads.
wiki/features/seo-session-state.md:309 still lists this as open as of today's update, which leans toward not done, but the wiki is a written record and not proof of a database state.
These eight pages make legally adjacent claims about state medical licensure, the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, CMS billing rules, telehealth registrations, HIPAA safeguards and BAAs. They were written from primary sources and carry last-verified stamps, but no human with domain knowledge has read them. They are the pages most likely to cause real damage if a fact is stale or a nuance is wrong, and they are also the pages a sophisticated buyer will read most closely. Read all eight, or route them to counsel.Now: The legal review is much bigger than eight pages now. There are 50 state licensing pages, 6 live and 44 queued, plus 40 city pages, all citing real statutes and all publishing on schedule. The scope is now badly understated. On 2026-08-09 a 90-page geo family was authored: 50 state licensing pages (6 live, 44 queued) and 40 metro pages, every one carrying cited statutory anchors. They will auto-publish on the Mon/Wed/Fri cron through 2027-02-17 whether or not anyone has read them. Reviewing eight pages while 84 more legally-adjacent pages queue up behind them is the wrong instruction.Why this changed
ls frontend/src/content/pages/licensing | wc -l -> 50; ls frontend/src/content/pages/locations | wc -l -> 40. content-inventory.json: licensing 50 (6 with publishDate <= today, range 2026-07-31 to 2027-02-17); locations 40 (1 live). frontend/src/content/pages/licensing/new-jersey.md lines 11-15 quote N.J.S.A. 45:1-62, N.J.A.C. 13:35-6B, N.J.S.A. 45:9-19.17. wiki/log.md 2026-08-09 [BUILD] geo-tier entry.
Can't tell from here. The eight licensing and compliance pages are live and unchanged, but nothing records a doctor or a lawyer ever having read them.
NextSend the eight licensing and compliance pages to a radiologist and a healthcare lawyer, and keep their dated sign off.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. Whether a human with domain knowledge read these pages leaves no trace I can observe. What I can confirm is that the scope is unchanged and all eight pages are live: curl returned HTTP 200 for /licensing, /licensing/texas, /licensing/florida, /licensing/california, /licensing/new-york, /licensing/colorado, /licensing/ohio and /compliance. All eight are in the live sitemap, and the licensing family did not grow during the geo expansion — the 90 new state/metro pages went to /locations, not /licensing. Grep for "legal review|counsel|attorney|clinical review" across wiki/log.md, wiki/features/seo-session-state.md, DOCS/audit-2026-08-09.html and DOCS/onpage-content-seo-2026-08-09.html surfaces no record of a review having happened. WHAT WOULD SETTLE IT: a dated sign-off from the reviewer, or per-page reviewed-by stamps in the markdown frontmatter.
wiki/features/seo-session-state.md:310 still lists this as open ("AI-written and never read by a human with domain knowledge"), which is a signal but not proof. The item's page list and count remain accurate, so it can be actioned exactly as written.
Done. The four invented radiologist names are gone from every page, including the files AI tools read, and the cards now describe roles, not people.
Nothing to do, unless you want the role bios rewritten since they still reuse wording from the deleted profiles.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. Verified live and site-wide rather than on one page. The four invented personas were, per git show 4476187:frontend/src/app/pages/our-radiologists.component.ts lines 250-280: Dr. Sofia Reyes, Dr. Alistair Finch, Dr. Amara Okonkwo, Dr. Daniel Weiss. I curled all 55 production URLs and grepped each response for those four names, for "S. Reyes", and for the generic pattern "Dr. <First> <Last>": zero hits on all 55, every one HTTP 200. I extended the sweep to the LLM-facing surfaces, since the item's stated risk is press and directory editors reading the site: https://astrarad.com/llms.txt (200, 15,766 bytes), https://astrarad.com/llms-full.txt (200, 766,340 bytes, the whole corpus) and https://astrarad.com/our-radiologists.md (200, 14,316 bytes) — zero hits in all three. On https://astrarad.com/our-radiologists (200) the section now reads "Individual radiologists are named on the report they sign and in the credential file we supply during procurement, not in our marketing", the four cards are roles keyed CT/NR/BR/NM, and there is no "@type":"Person" JSON-LD (grep count 0 for both spacing variants). Option two was taken and it is live.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. The original claim's attribution is wrong. The four card names were already gone by commit c11bb3f (2026-07-31 17:22, the same day the tracker was written) — a regex sweep of every commit touching our-radiologists.component.ts shows 4 name matches at 4476187 (2026-07-12) and 0 from c11bb3f onward. Commit 4407e02 (2026-08-08) removed a different fabricated person: the homepage specimen report signed "S. Reyes, MD · Thoracic", now "Reading subspecialist · Thoracic".
The four role cards still carry individual-sounding tenure bios ("Fifteen years in high-volume chest CT", "A decade of stroke and neuro-oncology reporting") inherited verbatim from the deleted Reyes and Finch personas, and each still shows an MD credential line. No name is attached, so the fabricated-physician risk this item was raised against is closed, but the prose was recycled rather than rewritten.
The original 31 July instruction, kept for the record
The radiologists page currently shows four physicians who do not exist. That was fine for a demo build. It is not fine the moment anyone from the trade press, a directory editor or a prospective client looks at the site, and several tasks on this list actively point editors and journalists at it. Two honest options: replace them with real named physicians who have consented, or remove the individual profiles and describe the roster in aggregate. Either is fine. Leaving invented physicians live while pitching editors is not.Now: The invented physician profiles are gone. The radiologists page now describes four reading roles with no names, though the cards are still shaped like people, which hints names are coming. This is false against production and it is the single most alarming-sounding item on the page, so it will pull attention that belongs elsewhere. The invented physicians were removed; /our-radiologists now describes four *reading roles* by initials (CT, NR, BR, NM) with no names, and states in the page copy that individual radiologists are named on the report and in the procurement credential file, not in marketing. Option two of the two 'honest options' this item offers was already taken.Why this changed
curl -s https://astrarad.com/our-radiologists -> HTTP 200; zero matches for Dr. , , MD name patterns; JSON-LD @types on the page are WebPage, BreadcrumbList, FAQPage, Question, Answer, ListItem — no Physician node. Live copy: "Reading roles across the panel, not individual physician profiles. Your account team supplies the full credential file, with names, board certifications and state licenses, during procurement." Commit 4407e02 "copy: remove every trace of prototype language, and stop naming a physician who does not exist".
Rows hidden by the current filter are still counted in the totals above.
Deep research finished overnight: 79 free targets across directories, expert-quote platforms, company profiles, press, communities and listicle outreach, each with the exact URL, what to submit, steps and turnaround, plus copy-paste company descriptions and pitch templates. Three reversals worth knowing: raddoctor.net turned out to be competitor-owned, do not pitch it; the CB Insights Analyst Briefing is verified free and worth doing; the Innovate Healthcare press release form costs $295, so use the free editorial pitch to Marty Stempniak instead. The rows below remain valid; the guide is the superset with the newest verification.
Every row below points at a URL that appears in the verification research, and nothing else. Each carries a link state: LIVE means the page was loaded and its title confirmed. BOT-WALLED means the site refuses automation but the page is fine in a normal browser, so open it yourself. UNVERIFIED means it was not machine-checked. No link in this document was found to be dead. Below the active list there is a skipped block explaining what was deliberately left out and why, and a short note on what is still unproven.
Imaging and radiology trade directories. Highest relevance per unit of effort, and the two best ones have no submission form at all, so they are email tasks rather than form tasks.
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| HIGHNO URLRafaelONLY YOU CAN CHECK | auntminnie.com/page/contact-us (verified live contact page) Teleradiology Subspecialty Interpretation category | Basic entries appear free in practice, but no free tier is publicly documented | There is no public create-a-company URL anywhere on the site. Do not guess one. Email support@auntminnie.com first, because adding a directory record is an operations task and going through sales routes you straight into a five-figure media pitch. Escalate to liz.carey@scienceandmedicinegroup.com only if support does not own it. You need a verified business email on your own domain.
The $1,495 per year Connected Plus price is stale. It appears nowhere on the 2026 media kit rate card, which lists no company-listing product at all. Do not quote that price and do not accept it if quoted without checking. The category holds 18 companies, most rendering as plain name and address with no logo, which is what a free basic entry looks like.
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Can't tell from here, AuntMinnie blocks us, so we cannot see whether AstraRad sits in their teleradiology vendor directory. NextOpen the AuntMinnie vendor directory in your browser and search the teleradiology category, or show their reply to your email. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. auntminnie.com is Cloudflare-walled from this machine: Bot wall, not an answer. Needs one human browser check. | |||||
| MEDLIVERafaelSTILL OPEN | itnonline.com/chart/teleradiology-services Media kit request form, the only live vendor-facing route ITN contact page | Not stated anywhere. ITN publishes no vendor-side cost policy either way | No vendor submission form exists. The two Submit buttons on the chart are the reader-side comparison workflow, not an intake. Use the media kit request form and pick Public Relations, Product Release or Editorial Submission, which is the correct non-advertising channel. Laura Dowden, laura.dowden@wainscotmedia.com, is the verified managing director contact.
CORRECTION to the earlier research. There is no annual December refresh and no questionnaire cycle to catch. The chart's article modified time went 2021-12-03, then 2023-08-11, then 2025-12-30, and the 21-company roster is byte for byte identical across all four captures. Even the December 2025 timestamp bump added nobody. Waiting for a December window is wasted time, so treat this as a normal-priority ask, not a deadline.
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Not done. AstraRad is missing from the Imaging Technology News teleradiology chart, which does carry StatRad, USARAD, ONRAD and vRad. NextEmail their media kit contact and ask to be added to the teleradiology services chart. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. The chart itself is the proof of outcome; whether the media-kit email was sent is off-machine and unverifiable, but nothing has landed. | |||||
| MEDBOT-WALLEDRafaelONLY YOU CAN CHECK | dotmed.com/users/services/addnew.html (the add-new URL) Free registration | Free, confirmed in three places on their own site | Register free, then, and this is the step people miss, go to My DOTmed, then My Services, and add yourself to the Services Directory. Their own help page says it plainly: you are not automatically listed, you must list yourself. The first 50 categories are free. The listing description is capped at 256 characters, so write it before you start.
Relevance is weak. DOTmed is dominated by used-equipment trading, so treat this as a cheap free link rather than a lead source.
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Can't tell from here, DOTmed blocks us, so we cannot see whether AstraRad appears in their services directory. NextSign in to My DOTmed in your browser and look at My Services, or just search their services directory for AstraRad. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. dotmed.com refuses automation from here: Cloudflare-walled. The tracker already labels this row BOT-WALLED. | |||||
| LOWLIVERafaelONLY YOU CAN CHECK | radiologytoday.net/product-directories | Unknown. Assume paid until they say otherwise | Inclusion runs through an email to Salesrt@gvpub.com with the subject Buyers Guide Listing Inquiry. Nothing on the page says inclusion is free, and the contact is a sales address at the publisher, which is a strong hint. Cheap enough to ask alongside the AuntMinnie and ITN emails, but do not budget it as free. | 5 min to ask | |
Can't tell from here. There is no AstraRad entry in the Radiology Today buyers guide, but the 2026 edition has not been published yet, so nothing could show. NextSend the listing inquiry to their buyers guide sales contact if you have not, then wait for the 2026 guide to come out. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. No 2026 Buyers' Guide has been published yet, so there is nothing to be listed in even if the ask was sent. | |||||
B2B review directories. These fit a human-delivered service only if you enter through the services path, never the software path. High domain authority and heavily scraped into AI answers.
| Target | Link | Free or paid | What it takes | Effort | |
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| HIGHLIVERafaelONLY YOU CAN CHECK | clutch.co/get-listed | Free basic tier, stated on the page as Basic, Set Up Company Profile, Free. Clutch Verified is about $499 per year | Company details, a service-line breakdown and an hourly-rate band. The profile itself is easy. The hard part is reviews: Clutch collects them by phone-interviewing named clients, which needs consent from a hospital or imaging-center customer. Start the profile now and treat reviews as a separate, slower campaign.
Do this one before any other review site. Completing Clutch also gets you The Manifest for free, automatically, with no second form.
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Can't tell from here, Clutch blocks us, so we cannot see whether an AstraRad profile exists. NextOpen Clutch in your browser and search for AstraRad, or check the Clutch vendor dashboard if you already set a profile up. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. clutch.co blocks both of my clients: Bot wall. Note that the site's empty sameAs is no longer strong proof of absence here, see the LinkedIn row. | |||||
| MEDLIVERafaelONLY YOU CAN CHECK | themanifest.com/get-listed | Free, and fed automatically from Clutch | Nothing separate to submit. Their get-listed page states that if your company already has a Clutch profile, it is automatically featured on The Manifest. After Clutch goes live, check placement from the Clutch vendor dashboard. One task, two indexed high-authority citations. | 0 extra, verify after Clutch | |
Can't tell from here, The Manifest blocks us too, and it sits downstream of Clutch, so it only resolves once Clutch resolves. NextNothing separate, settle Clutch first and then check The Manifest placement from the Clutch dashboard. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. No separate action exists for this row; it resolves when Clutch resolves. | |||||
| HIGHBOT-WALLEDRafaelONLY YOU CAN CHECK | g2.com/products/new Seller profile creation | Free tier confirmed | Enter as a service provider, not as software. G2 defines a service as any business offering with majority human intervention, which is exactly what AstraRad is. Their research team verifies the category and states claim approval in 1 to 3 business days. The Users Love Us badge unlocks at 20 reviews and a 4.0 average. The teleradiology services category is essentially empty, which is the opportunity.
If you enter through the software path you will be rejected the same way Capterra would reject you. Path selection is the whole game here.
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Can't tell from here, G2 blocks us, so we cannot see whether an AstraRad seller profile exists. NextSearch G2 for AstraRad in your browser, or show the claim approval email from your G2 seller account. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. g2.com blocks automation: Bot wall. | |||||
| MEDLIVERafaelSTILL OPEN | goodfirms.co/get-listed Register | Free forever, no card required, stated on their own page | Standard company profile plus service lines. They publish a 23 percent acceptance rate on free listings, so write the profile properly rather than dashing it off. They market schema.org markup and AI distribution, which is the actual reason to bother.
Their directory skews heavily to development and IT agencies, so a clinical service is an unusual fit. Expect a real chance of rejection.
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Not done. GoodFirms' own search for AstraRad returns only two unrelated companies, Astracodelab and Astramar Liepaja, so there is no listing. NextCreate the AstraRad company profile on GoodFirms yourself in a browser. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. GoodFirms' own site search is reachable and answered: headless Chromium GET https://www.goodfirms.co/search?query=astrarad -> HTTP 200, page text reads "Your Search: astrarad returned 2 results | Companies (2)" and the two results are "Astracodelab" (web solutions) and "ASTRAMAR LIEPAJA" (shipping agency). Neither is AstraRad. (The ?q= form of the URL returns an empty query and is not a valid test; ?query= is the working parameter.) Positive absence signal from GoodFirms' own index, not an inference. | |||||
| LOWLIVERafaelONLY YOU CAN CHECK | solutions.trustradius.com/claim-your-profile | Free profile tier confirmed | Claim a profile if one exists. Low effort, low return.
Almost entirely enterprise software, with no natural teleradiology category. Do it only after everything above is done.
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Can't tell from here, TrustRadius blocks us, so we cannot see whether an AstraRad product page exists. NextSearch TrustRadius for AstraRad in your browser, or show the confirmation from claiming the profile. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. Bot wall. Lowest-value row in this group per the tracker's own note. | |||||
| LOWLIVERafaelONLY YOU CAN CHECK | business.thomasnet.com/get-listed-on-thomasnet | Free tier is real: profile content, team members, analytics, classification in limited core categories | Registration is reviewed by their supplier content team to confirm you are a legitimate North American B2B supplier.
Fit is poor and this should be the last item in this group. Thomasnet buyers are procurement engineers sourcing parts and industrial services, not imaging directors. The realistic outcome is either rejection at review or a listing nobody relevant sees. Take it only for the free domain-authority link.
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Can't tell from here, Thomasnet blocks us, so we cannot see whether AstraRad has a supplier record. NextRun the Thomasnet supplier search for AstraRad in your browser, or show the outcome email from their supplier content team. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. headless Chromium GET https://www.thomasnet.com/suppliers/?what=astrarad -> HTTP 403, <title>thomasnet.com</title>, 1,502-byte block page. No supplier record could be observed. WHAT WOULD SETTLE IT: run the Thomasnet supplier search in a normal browser, or show the supplier-content-team review outcome email. Bot wall. | |||||
The machine-readable entity records that AI engines and firmographic aggregators actually read. Boring, unglamorous, and disproportionately effective for answer-engine visibility.
| Target | Link | Free or paid | What it takes | Effort | |
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| HIGHBOT-WALLEDRafaelDONE | linkedin.com/company/setup/new | Free | You need a personal LinkedIn account at least 7 days old with a verified email, and a company-domain email address. Gmail is rejected. Logo must be at least 300 by 300. No approval delay.
Do this one first in this group. It is the single most reliable machine-readable company entity on the internet and it feeds Bing and Copilot directly. The link shows as bot-walled only because LinkedIn returns 999 to all automation by design. It works perfectly in a browser.
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Already done. The AstraRad LLC LinkedIn company page is live with a real logo and description, and it has been up since 8 July, before this tracker was written. NextAsk an engineer to link the site back to the LinkedIn page, and fix the headcount shown on LinkedIn. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. Independently confirmed live, not taken on trust. LinkedIn returns HTTP 999 to automation intermittently, so I looped 16 requests with a Chrome UA: What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. The row's link cell points at https://www.linkedin.com/company/setup/new and badges the row BOT-WALLED; the page now exists at https://www.linkedin.com/company/astrarad and the link should point there. Two repo statements are confirmed stale: DOCS/seo-external-reports-remediation-2026-08-09.html:103 says 'No LinkedIn or other company profile exists yet', and wiki/features/seo-session-state.md:88-89 still lists 'Create the LinkedIn company page' as a pending founder step. Steps 1 and 2 of that sequence (regenerate logo, create page) are done off-machine; only step 3, wiring sameAs, remains. The reverse link is still missing, and I have positive proof rather than inference: curl https://astrarad.com/ -> 200, and its Organization JSON-LD node has keys @id, @type, areaServed, contactPoint, description, hasOfferCatalog, knowsAbout, logo, medicalSpecialty, name, publishingPrinciples, telephone, url, with no sameAs at all, and the string 'linkedin' appears 0 times in the live homepage HTML. One correction to the original auditor's note: LinkedIn's 'STAT reports are covered under 1 hour' does not contradict the site, which still publishes STAT under 1 hour (frontend/src/content/pages/licensing/ohio.md:51); what was dropped was the 30-minute claim. The only genuine mismatch is headcount, 501-1,000 employees on LinkedIn versus a 240-subspecialist panel on the site. | |||||
| HIGHBOT-WALLEDRafaelONLY YOU CAN CHECK | crunchbase.com/add-new | Free for registered users | Logo, description, headquarters, founded date, founders, website, categories. No funding data required. Frame AstraRad as health-tech or telehealth rather than as a medical practice, because Crunchbase asks that content stay in the tech ecosystem. | 30 min | |
Can't tell from here, Crunchbase blocks us, and it answers the same way for real and made up companies, so silence proves nothing either way. NextOpen the Crunchbase page for AstraRad in your browser and see whether it exists. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. crunchbase.com blocks both clients: Bot wall. Do not read the 403 as a 404. | |||||
| MEDBOT-WALLEDRafaelONLY YOU CAN CHECK | privacyrequest.zoominfo.com/company/verify | Free. This is the Trust Center self-serve route, not a sales product | A work email on the astrarad.com domain.
ZoomInfo pages rank persistently for company overview and company competitors queries and are a recurring firmographic source for AI answers, which is the only reason this is worth 20 minutes.
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Can't tell from here, ZoomInfo blocks us, and its company pages use an ID number we have no way to guess. NextSearch ZoomInfo for AstraRad in your browser, or show the confirmation from their company verify page. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. Bot wall plus unguessable URL shape. | |||||
| MEDLIVERafaelSTILL OPEN | cbinsights.com/what-we-offer/technology-vendors Vendor FAQ, confirms cost | Free. Their FAQ states briefing analysts is 100 percent free with no cost to be highlighted in research | Submit your email, they send a survey link that autosaves and can be shared with colleagues. It asks for products and services, revenue growth, investors and funding, headcount, plus optional demos, decks and case studies.
CORRECTION to the earlier research, which said likely none. A free route does exist. But it is analyst-mediated, not a claim-and-edit flow: you submit information and their analysts update the profile. There is no login where you edit your own page.
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Not done. CB Insights holds no record of AstraRad at all, while a competitor like StatRad has a full profile there. NextSubmit the company briefing to CB Insights, one of their analysts then builds the profile, so expect a wait. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. headless Chromium GET https://www.cbinsights.com/company/astrarad -> HTTP 404 with the genuine CB Insights 404 body ("Whoops! Looks like that page doesn't exist ... info@cbinsights.com"). Control on the same URL pattern: https://www.cbinsights.com/company/statrad -> HTTP 200 rendering a full profile ("StatRad | Unclaimed | statrad.com | Founded Year 1995 | Total Raised $15.13M"). So CB Insights holds no record for AstraRad at all. Caveat worth keeping: the briefing is analyst-mediated, so a submission made in the last few days could exist without a profile yet. The absence of any record makes that unlikely. | |||||
| LOWLIVERafaelONLY YOU CAN CHECK | corp.owler.com/owler-community | Free | Wiki-style community profile. Find the existing page or create one, then use Update this Profile. | 15 min | |
Can't tell from here, Owler blocks us, so we cannot see whether an AstraRad company profile exists. NextSearch Owler for AstraRad in your browser. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. owler.com is unreachable for automation from here: Bot wall. | |||||
| MEDLIVERafaelONLY YOU CAN CHECK | dnb.com get-a-duns D-U-N-S Manager | Free to issue. Expedited processing is the paid version | Standard business registration details.
Near-zero SEO value, but hospital procurement portals ask for it constantly, and the standard turnaround is up to 30 business days. Start the clock early for commercial reasons, then forget about it.
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Can't tell from here. D&B has no public lookup at all, and a D-U-N-S number can take up to 30 business days to come through anyway. NextCheck your D-U-N-S Manager account or your inbox for the number, and file the request if it was never sent. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. D&B publishes no open lookup API, and its D-U-N-S lookup form is not reachable from this machine; there is no public registry query that returns a D-U-N-S number by company name without an authenticated D&B session. The item is also a filing with a stated turnaround of up to 30 business days, so even a correct filing on 2026-07-31 would not necessarily have issued a number by today (2026-08-09). No positive or negative signal exists on this machine. WHAT WOULD SETTLE IT: the D&B confirmation email or the issued 9-digit number in the founder's D-U-N-S Manager account. Purely a founder action with no public read path. Start-the-clock value is commercial, not SEO. | |||||
| MEDLIVERafaelSTILL OPEN | nppes.cms.hhs.gov NPI registry lookup, check what exists first | Free, government | An organizational NPI, distinct from each radiologist's individual Type 1. If AstraRad bills, this very likely already exists. Look it up first, then verify the legal name, address and taxonomy code are right.
This is an authoritative federal record with an open API, and it is ingested by every healthcare data aggregator in existence. Nobody had flagged it before this research.
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Not done. AstraRad has no organization NPI number in the federal registry, so there is nothing to look up, it has to be applied for. NextApply for an organization NPI as AstraRad LLC on the federal registry site, it is a one off form and it is free. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. NPPES public API v2.1, run today: The item's first sub-step, 'look it up first', is now answered: nothing exists, so this is an application rather than a verification. The legal name is now known to be 'AstraRad LLC' (from the live LinkedIn page) and NPPES has no NPI-2 under it either. | |||||
| LOWBOT-WALLEDRafaelSTILL OPEN | wikidata.org Special:NewItem | Free | Wikidata policy admits any clearly identifiable entity described using serious and publicly available references, which is a far lower bar than Wikipedia. Paid or conflict-of-interest editing must be disclosed under their disclosure policy.
Do this AFTER Crunchbase, LinkedIn and the AuntMinnie entry exist, so there are real references to cite. Deletion is community-decided, so a thin item created too early just gets removed.
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Not done. There is no Wikidata entry for AstraRad, and nothing exists yet to build one from since the outside profiles it would cite are missing. NextLeave it alone for now, an entry made today would be deleted as too thin. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. No Wikidata item exists as far as any check available here can show. The item is gated on prerequisites that do not exist yet (Crunchbase, LinkedIn, AuntMinnie records), so it is not actionable regardless; a thin item created now gets community-deleted. A wbsearchentities query for "AstraRad" run from any non-Contabo network settles it in ten seconds. | |||||
The genuinely new finds from this round of research. Three of these are healthcare-specific, free in writing, and better targeted than any generic B2B directory.
| Target | Link | Free or paid | What it takes | Effort | |
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| HIGHLIVERafaelSTILL OPEN | telemedicine.arizona.edu/servicedirectory | Free, stated in writing: there is no fee to apply for listing, or to list, a company in the SPD | Self-serve Qualtrics form titled Telemedicine and Telehealth Service Provider Directory Listing Request Survey. There is no category literally named teleradiology, so select Radiology, which is listed separately from radiation oncology. Expect editorial review before publication.
Best new item on this entire list. A .edu-hosted, editorially maintained provider directory is a far stronger citation signal than any generic business directory, and there is no gatekeeper email to get past.
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Not done. AstraRad is not in the Arizona Telemedicine Program provider directory, which is free and still open, though it fell off the newer 79 target list. NextFill in the Arizona Telemedicine service directory form, it is free and takes minutes. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. Definitive negative against the live directory. Still the best free item in this group and still live, but note a gap: the newer 2026-08-01/08-02 research pass never re-verified it. grep -i over seo/research/backlinks-2026-08-01.md and DOCS/backlinks-guide.html returns zero hits for "arizona" — the 79-target guide is not a superset of the 07-31 list, and this target (plus AVIA, CTRC, Elion, HealthTrust) fell out of it. | |||||
| HIGHLIVERafaelSTILL OPEN | marketplace.aviahealth.com vendor sign-in | Free product profile, listed first on their vendor sign-up feature list | Self-serve with a work email, or Google, LinkedIn or Microsoft SSO. Take the free profile and decline every upsell (Buyer Intelligence, AVIA Showcase video, newsletter promotion, co-authored category resource, sponsored placement).
Eligibility is proven, not assumed: AVIA already hosts teleradiology service companies, not just software. ONRAD, Maxwell MRI and Deep Radiology all have product pages there. Audience is health-system decision makers, which is exactly the buyer.
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Not done. AstraRad has no profile on the AVIA health marketplace, and no sign of one turns up anywhere in search. NextOpen the AVIA marketplace in your own browser, this server is blocked from it, then sign up as a vendor if you are not listed. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. No public AVIA vendor profile exists. The tracker URL https://marketplace.aviahealth.com/auth/vendor/signin returns HTTP 429 to this host (bot wall) on three attempts with a normal browser UA, and https://marketplace.aviahealth.com/ likewise 429 — so the marketplace could not be searched directly. Indirect but positive: WebSearch for "AstraRad" teleradiology surfaces only astrarad.com; live Organization JSON-LD on https://astrarad.com/ (HTTP 200) carries no sameAs; wiki/log.md:98 records sameAs/social as founder-blocked and unchanged as of 2026-08-09. AVIA product pages are public and indexed (the 07-31 research cites ONRAD, Maxwell MRI and Deep Radiology pages there), so a published profile would show in search; it does not. What would settle it beyond doubt: loading marketplace.aviahealth.com from a residential browser and searching the vendor list. Also dropped from the 08-01 guide (zero hits for "avia" in seo/research/backlinks-2026-08-01.md). | |||||
| HIGHLIVERafaelSTILL OPEN | caltrc.org/telehealth-specialty-provider-sign-up | Free. No fee mentioned anywhere on either page | Short form: organization name, website, city, state, email, specialty offered, and whether you offer direct-to-patient services. Five minutes.
It already carries four direct AstraRad peers: Argus Radiology, CompuMed, Direct Radiology and Teleradiology Specialists. CTRC states plainly that the list is unvetted and they remain unbiased, so treat it as a discovery and citation listing, never as an endorsement you can quote.
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Not done. AstraRad is missing from the California Telehealth Resource Center provider list, where three rival teleradiology firms already appear. NextFill in the California Telehealth Resource Center sign up form, five minutes, free, the easiest win in this group. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. Definitive negative against the live list. Five-minute form, still free, still the cheapest win in this group. Note the tracker's list URL is not given; the live list lives at https://caltrc.org/featured/telehealth-specialty-provider-list/ (the bare /telehealth-specialty-provider-list/ path 404s). Like Arizona SPD, it was dropped from the 08-01 research pass (zero hits for "caltrc"/"CTRC"). | |||||
| MEDLIVERafaelSTILL OPEN | elion.health/categories | Free vendor profile claim, plus an add-my-product request path | Every product page carries a claim-your-free-vendor-profile modal, and companies not yet in the database use the Product not listed link to submit a request. Elion states 2,552 products across 172 categories and use by over 60 percent of US health systems.
Acceptance is uncertain and you should treat it that way. Every Elion imaging category is a product or software category (AI Imaging, Imaging IT, Imaging Interpretation Support, AI Imaging Clinical Decision Support) and there is no teleradiology-services category. Profiles are curated by their experts. Also: elion.health/vendors is a 404, and the For Vendors nav item is just an on-page anchor, so do not go hunting for a vendor landing page.
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Not done. AstraRad has no Elion profile, and Elion only covers imaging software rather than reading services, so it may not accept us at all. NextLow value, park it. If you still want to try, check Elion in your own browser since this server is blocked from it. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. No Elion vendor profile exists in public. https://elion.health/categories -> HTTP 429 and https://elion.health/search?q=astrarad -> HTTP 429 from this host, so the database could not be queried directly. Indirect positive evidence: WebSearch for "AstraRad" returns only astrarad.com; the live Organization JSON-LD at https://astrarad.com/ (HTTP 200) has no sameAs; DOCS/seo-external-reports-remediation-2026-08-09.html reports Majestic sees 9 backlinks from 9 domains, 6 of them link-vendor placements, i.e. no directory-earned links at all. Lowest-value item of the five registries even if done: the 07-31 research already recorded that every Elion imaging category is a product/software category with no teleradiology-services category, profiles are curated by their experts, and elion.health/vendors is a 404. It was also dropped from the 08-01 guide. A logged-in check of the Elion claim modal from a residential browser would settle send-status. | |||||
| LOWLIVERafaelONLY YOU CAN CHECK | healthtrustpg.com/suppliers | Free supplier form | Company information, Tax ID and category interests. HealthTrust then reviews it against the selected category to decide whether you are considered for a bid process. Navigate from the suppliers page rather than typing the deep supplier-form link, which returns 403.
This produces no public indexable profile, so its SEO and AI-citation value is exactly zero. It belongs on this list as sales-pipeline plumbing next to D-U-N-S, not as a listing. Do it only if hospital GPO channels matter commercially.
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Can't tell from here, HealthTrust supplier registration leaves nothing public to look at, and it would do nothing for search or AI citations anyway. NextCheck your inbox for a HealthTrust confirmation, but really this can wait until a hospital client asks you to register. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. This action produces no public artifact, so it cannot be verified from outside. https://healthtrustpg.com/suppliers/ is live (HTTP 200) but there is no supplier directory to search, and the tracker's own text says the registration "produces no public indexable profile, so its SEO and AI-citation value is exactly zero". Nothing on this machine records it either: What would settle it: a HealthTrust supplier-portal account confirmation or their acknowledgement email in the founder's inbox. Judgement call for the tracker: this is sales-pipeline plumbing, not a listing; the 08-01 pass dropped it entirely (zero hits for "healthtrust") and put comparable GPO/vendor-credentialing routes on the skip list as "only when a client hospital requires it". | |||||
| LOWLIVERafaelSUPERSEDED | mordorintelligence.com teleradiology companies | No route in at any price that helps you | Confirmed negative, upgraded from the earlier likely-none note. There is no submission form, no get-listed link, no claim flow, no vendor portal and no published inclusion criteria. Inclusion is analyst-determined. Read it once for competitive intelligence, tick this, and move on.
TRAP. Their Comprehensive Company Profiling page looks like an inclusion mechanism and is not. It is a paid custom-research service sold to clients who want profiles of other companies built for them. Buying it does not get AstraRad listed. The profiled vendors are Agfa-Gevaert, Everlight, RamSoft, Nanox, GE HealthCare and similar, which sets the size bar realistically out of reach today.
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Superseded. Mordor has no way to add your company at any price, so the old advice to tick and move on is now a free, low odds email to their analysts. NextOptional. Send a one page company fact sheet to Mordor's info and media addresses asking to be included, and do not buy their report. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. The 2026-08-02 verification pass replaced the tracker's "no route in at any price, tick and move on" with a narrower verdict: seo/research/backlinks-2026-08-01.md line 98 -- "RESOLVED NEGATIVE for self-serve: no submission mechanism exists; free email pitch only, no guarantee. Do not buy the report", giving info@mordorintelligence.com and media@mordorintelligence.com, LOW priority. Confirmed live today: the tracker's URL https://www.mordorintelligence.com/industry-reports/global-teleradiology-market/companies -> HTTP 200, title "Teleradiology Companies - Top Players' List", zero occurrences of "get listed" / "submit your company" / "add your company", and zero occurrences of "astrarad". Current verdict: no listing mechanism at any price; the only remaining route is a free, low-odds analyst-relations email with a one-page fact sheet, subject "Company profile information for your Teleradiology Market report". The "Comprehensive Company Profiling" page remains a trap (paid custom research about other companies, it does not list you). | |||||
One earned trade story is worth more than every directory on this page combined for AI-answer purposes. The free-release wire services are volume filler, useful only when there is something real to announce.
| Target | Link | Free or paid | What it takes | Effort | |
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| HIGHLIVERafaelONLY YOU CAN CHECK | innovatehealthcare.com/editorial (verified editor list) Radiology Business press releases | An editorial pitch is free. The self-serve press release form is not, see the note | Pitch Marty Stempniak, mstempniak@innovatehealthcare.com, Digital Editor at Radiology Business. Backups: Hannah Murphy hmurphy@innovatehealthcare.com, Michael Walter mwalter@innovatehealthcare.com, newsroom managing_editor@innovatehealthcare.com. Template is in section 5.
Do NOT confuse this with the trimedcms press release form, which is verified paid at $295 per release per site, covering one of Radiology Business, Cardiovascular Business or HealthExec, with the three boost options as further upsells. That belongs in a budgeted plan.
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Can't tell from here, only your sent mail shows whether you pitched the Innovate Healthcare editor, and no story about AstraRad has run. NextCheck your sent folder, and if it never went out, email editor Marty Stempniak a short story pitch, it is the free route. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. Whether the founder emailed Marty Stempniak is an off-machine action with no public artifact until a story runs, and no story has run: WebSearch for "AstraRad" press release / "AstraRad" teleradiology returns only astrarad.com pages. No outreach record exists in the repo ( NOT superseded -- this item is the replacement. The 2026-08-02 pass verified that the trimedcms press-release form costs $295 per release (seo/research/backlinks-2026-08-01.md:213, and the skip list at line 213), which confirms the tracker's own warning and makes this free editorial pitch the only correct route. What would settle send-status: the founder's sent mail to mstempniak@innovatehealthcare.com (backups hmurphy@, mwalter@, managing_editor@). | |||||
| MEDLIVERafaelSTILL OPEN | openpr.com | One free release per 30 days, editorially reviewed | Wait until there is a real announcement. Indexed and RSS distributed, with better editorial signal than PRLog but a slower turnaround. | 30 min per release | |
Not done. No AstraRad press release exists on openPR or any other wire, and there is no real announcement to make yet. NextNothing until you have genuine news, then post it free on openPR, one release every 30 days. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. No AstraRad release exists on any wire. WebSearch for "AstraRad" press release announcement returns nothing about this company (only Astrada, Astra Space, A*STAR), and WebSearch for "AstraRad" teleradiology returns only astrarad.com pages -- a published, indexed openPR release would appear. Site search could not be used: https://www.openpr.com/search.html?q=astrarad -> HTTP 403 behind a bunny.net JS challenge (openpr.com homepage itself is HTTP 200). No draft release exists in the repo either (seo/ contains no press-release or outreach artifact). Verdict unchanged and upgraded to VERIFIED by the 08-02 pass (seo/research/backlinks-2026-08-01.md:96): one free release per 30 days, editorially reviewed, indexed. It is gated on there being a genuine announcement, which there is not yet -- treat as blocked, not overdue. | |||||
| MEDLIVERafaelSTILL OPEN | prlog.org | Free and unlimited. The $29 upgrade is optional | Publishes in minutes and gets indexed. Low authority, but a legitimate free citation that costs nothing. | 20 min per release | |
Not done. Nothing has been published on PRLog, which is free and unlimited and goes live within minutes once there is something to say. NextNothing until there is a real announcement, then post the same release free on PRLog. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. No PRLog release exists. WebSearch for "AstraRad" press release announcement and for "AstraRad" teleradiology returns nothing beyond astrarad.com; PRLog pages are indexed within minutes, so a published release would show. PRLog's own search is useless as evidence and I am not resting on it: https://www.prlog.org/search/?q=astrarad and .../?q=teleradiology both return HTTP 200 with byte-identical 3,166-character bodies (the query is ignored), and https://www.prlog.org/news/ind/<anything>/ 302s to /news/ for a known publisher too, so neither probe discriminates. Verdict unchanged (seo/research/backlinks-2026-08-01.md:97): VERIFIED free and unlimited, $29 upgrade optional, publishes in minutes. Same gate as openPR -- it needs a real announcement, and none has been made. | |||||
| LOWLIVERafaelSUPERSEDED | einpresswire.com free-press-release-distribution | Not really free. One introductory release, then roughly $66.60 and up per release | Framed as risk-free rather than free. Skip unless the paid tier earns its place later. | 30 min | |
Superseded. EIN Presswire is not actually free, it is one intro release then about $66 each, so it moved to the skip list. NextDrop this row. Use openPR and PRLog for free releases instead. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. The 2026-08-02 pass moved EIN Presswire to the formal skip list: seo/research/backlinks-2026-08-01.md:212 -- "EIN Presswire: framed risk-free, not free (one intro release then ~$66.60+ each)" -- and it appears nowhere in the guide's action tables, only in the skip list (rendered at DOCS/backlinks-guide.html). The apply URL in the tracker is still live (https://www.einpresswire.com/free-press-release-distribution -> HTTP 200) but that is beside the point. Nothing has been published: WebSearch for "AstraRad" press release finds no release on any wire. Current verdict: do not use it. Free-release coverage is openPR (one per 30 days, editorially reviewed) plus PRLog (free unlimited); EIN belongs only in a budgeted paid plan alongside the $295 Innovate Healthcare form and BusinessWire/GlobeNewswire. This row should stop being a checkbox. | |||||
Every radiology association route is effectively paid. Included here so nobody re-researches them, and because two are worth pricing rather than dismissing.
| Target | Link | Free or paid | What it takes | Effort | |
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| MEDLIVERafaelONLY YOU CAN CHECK | rbma.org corporate partner benefits | Paid. Dues are not published | Email and ask for a dues sheet. That is the whole task at this stage.
Best association fit by a distance, because RBMA members are radiology business administrators, who are the actual buyer. Worth knowing the number even if you decline it.
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Can't tell from here, asking RBMA for their corporate partner dues is a private email, and their page still publishes no prices. NextCheck your inbox for RBMA's rate card, and if it never arrived, email them for it, it is a spending decision for later. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. The entire task is one private email asking for a dues sheet, and it leaves no public trace. The tracker's URL is live -- https://www.rbma.org/RBMAMembers/RBMAMembers/Membership/Corporate_Partner_Benefits.aspx -> HTTP 200 -- but dues are still not published on it (zero price strings), so nothing about the page reveals whether the ask was made. No outreach record exists on this machine: no outreach/pitch files in the repo, and no RBMA mention in wiki/log.md or wiki/features/seo-session-state.md. Verdict unchanged by the newer pass (seo/research/backlinks-2026-08-01.md:148): paid, dues not public, best association fit because RBMA members are the actual buyer, so request the dues sheet for a future budgeted decision -- nothing free today. What would settle it: RBMA's reply with the rate card in the founder's inbox. | |||||
| LOWLIVERafaelSUPERSEDED | ahra.org exhibitor resources | Paid. Exhibitor fee $725 to $825 plus booth costs | Cheapest conference route to imaging-center administrators. Decide yes or no once, then stop thinking about it. | 10 min to review | |
Superseded. AHRA is paid exhibiting only, roughly $725 to $825 plus booth costs, and there is no free vendor directory to join. Nothing to do. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. The 2026-08-02 pass answered the question this item asks and then closed it. seo/research/backlinks-2026-08-01.md:152 groups AHRA with RSNA and SIIM: "Paid exhibiting only ($725+ / $630+ / $13k+). Skip for a free plan", and line 214 puts it on the skip list: "SIIM / RSNA / AHRA exhibiting: paid booth economics, no free vendor directory." The price the item wanted was already in the tracker's own row ($725 to $825 plus booth costs), and the exhibitor page is still live (https://www.ahra.org/education-events/upcoming-events/annual-meeting/exhibitor-resources -> HTTP 200). Nothing is left to do: it is priced and the decision is skip while the plan is free-only. If a conference budget ever exists, AHRA is the cheapest route to imaging-center administrators, but it belongs in a budgeted plan, not in this tracker. | |||||
Cold pitches to the listicles that already rank for best teleradiology queries. No submission forms, so these are all emails or messages. Never pitch a listicle owned by a competitor.
| Target | Link | Free or paid | What it takes | Effort | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIGHLIVERafaelONLY YOU CAN CHECK | medicai.io/contact The listicle itself | Free, an editorial ask | Contact form on medicai.io. Template is in section 5.
Best odds of any aggregator on this list. Medicai sells PACS, not reads, so adding AstraRad costs them nothing competitively.
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Can't tell from here, a contact form pitch leaves no trace, but AstraRad is in none of Medicai's teleradiology roundups or any other indexed list. NextCheck your inbox for a Medicai reply, and if there is none, send the pitch through their contact form, it has the best odds here. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. A contact-form pitch leaves no public trace, and the placement has not landed either way. The listicle could not be read from here (https://blog.medicai.io/en/teleradiology-companies/ -> HTTP 403 with a browser UA), but the global check is clean: WebSearch for "AstraRad" teleradiology returns only astrarad.com, so AstraRad is not in any indexed teleradiology listicle. The contact route is live (https://www.medicai.io/contact -> HTTP 200). No outreach log exists in the repo and wiki/log.md records no pitch. Still the best-odds aggregator and re-verified HIGH on 2026-08-02 (seo/research/backlinks-2026-08-01.md:133: Medicai sells PACS, not reads, so AstraRad is non-competitive for them). Duplicate: the same task is also tracked as astrarad-ac-v1:outreach:medicai-pitch, so one tick should drive both. What would settle it: the contact-form confirmation or reply in the founder's inbox. | |||||
| MEDLIVERafaelONLY YOU CAN CHECK | gitnux.org/contact-us (email info@gitnux.org) The listicle, with the Apply for a Listing button | Free to ask. They do not state what an editorial entry costs, so ask directly | They publish an explicit invitation on the listicle itself, headed FOR SOFTWARE VENDORS: not on this list, let's fix that, followed by an Apply for a Listing button that is a mailto to info@gitnux.org. Stated response time is 1 to 2 business days, and they ask you to include your website URL, industry and what you want to achieve. Masthead for addressing the pitch: author Margot Villeneuve, editor Julian Richter.
The page is titled best teleradiology software and the invitation says FOR SOFTWARE VENDORS. AstraRad is a human-delivered reading service, which is the same eligibility problem that rules out Capterra. Lead the email with that distinction rather than hiding it, and let them decide.
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Can't tell from here, emailing Gitnux leaves no trace, and their teleradiology top ten still lists only software products, with AstraRad absent. NextLow priority. If you email them, use their contact us page and say up front that AstraRad is a reading service, not software. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. Sending info@gitnux.org an email is off-machine and unverifiable; the outcome demonstrably has not happened. https://gitnux.org/best/teleradiology-software/ -> HTTP 200, 546 KB, titled "Top 10 Best Teleradiology Software of 2026", stamped "Updated 11 days ago / Last verified Jul 29, 2026", still carrying the "FOR SOFTWARE VENDORS" apply invitation, and containing zero occurrences of "astrarad". The tracker's contact URL https://gitnux.org/contact-us/ is live (HTTP 200). Two things worth carrying: the 08-01 guide's claim that gitnux has no contact page is half wrong -- /contact/ does 404 but /contact-us/ returns 200 today, so the tracker's link is the good one. And the eligibility problem is real and unchanged: it is a software ranking (Visage Ease, IntelePACS, RamSoft PowerServer at 1-2-3) and AstraRad is a human reading service, so lead the email with that distinction. Priority was cut to LOW on 08-02 ("low-authority content mill"). | |||||
| LOWLIVERafaelSUPERSEDED | WhatsApp +91 9382-794306 (the only working route) The listicle | Free to ask | No email address exists anywhere on mediog.com, blog.mediog.com or their terms of service. Every contact path is phone or WhatsApp. Backup numbers: +91 9382-794306 and +91 7596-964790 (listed as Help Line in the blog footer). Mediog Labs Private Limited is based in Kolkata, India.
Confirmed dead ends, do not waste time on them: mediog.com/contact-us, mediog.com/contact, blog.mediog.com/contact-us, blog.mediog.com/about and blog.mediog.com/write-for-us all return 404, and the footer anchor to mediog.com/#contact-us-section does not exist in the served HTML. A gmail address surfaced from Indian corporate-registry aggregators but is unverified, so do not use it as the primary route.
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Superseded. Mediog runs that ranking and puts itself at number one, so it is a competitor's blog and pitching it is close to pointless. NextSkip it, or one WhatsApp message at most, and never chase a listicle run by someone selling to the same buyers. Show the proofWhat was checked on 9 August 2026. The 2026-08-02 pass downgraded this to a borderline skip on competitor grounds: seo/research/backlinks-2026-08-01.md:142 -- "Mediog Labs (Kolkata PACS vendor) ranks ITSELF #1, semi-competitor protecting its slot ... Borderline skip; 5 min ceiling", priority "LOW (borderline skip)" -- under the same standing rule that reversed raddoctor.net to SKIP (line 229, and line 230: never pitch competitor-owned listicles). The page is live and AstraRad is not on it: https://blog.mediog.com/top-11-teleradiology-software-platforms-ranked-2026-edition/ -> HTTP 200, zero occurrences of "astrarad". The only contact route remains WhatsApp +91 9382-794306 (https://wa.me/919382794306). Current verdict: do not spend real effort here. One WhatsApp message asking who edits the blog, five-minute ceiling, one follow-up max, then drop -- and expect the owner to protect its own #1 slot. If the tracker needs a single rule for this row and raddoctor.net together, it is: never pitch a listicle whose publisher sells into the same buyer. | |||||
These are not oversights and they are not checkboxes. Each one was looked at and ruled out for a stated reason. Read this before anyone suggests adding one of them back.
AstraRad is fully remote with no staffed office. Google Business Profile requires a location customers can visit or in-person contact at the customer's location, and PO boxes and virtual offices are explicitly disallowed. Listing a fabricated address risks suspension, and this is the listing Google actively polices.
Same eligibility problem, and it depends on the same name, address and phone data as Google Business Profile.
The page loads, but multiple current owner reports describe Apple rejecting businesses without a storefront. No official Apple policy page for service-area businesses was found, so this is an unverified negative rather than a confirmed one. Either way, the no-office problem is the same.
Listing guidelines require a packaged, off-the-shelf software product. AstraRad sells human-delivered interpretations, so expect rejection. Note that G2 acquired all three from Gartner in early 2026, and they now trade as G2 Digital Markets. G2 itself remains viable, but only through the services path.
Fails WP:NCORP, which needs multiple instances of significant independent secondary coverage. Press releases and directory entries do not count. A self-created article would be speedy-deleted and would create a permanent conflict-of-interest record against the company. Revisit only after sustained independent trade coverage exists.
Paid, roughly $500 to $1,500 per release, with no free tier. Belongs in a budgeted plan, and only for a genuinely newsworthy milestone.
Verified paid at $295 per release for ONE site (Radiology Business, Cardiovascular Business or HealthExec), with newsletter, social and content-module boosts as further upsells. Editorial reviews each post and reserves the right to remove it without refund. The free alternative for the same publication is the editorial pitch, which is already on the active list.
$13,000 for members, $24,000 for non-members, plus roughly $33 to $35 per square foot of space. Informatics-focused. Skip.
$630 to $2,425 plus space, and there is no free vendor directory attached to it.
The product profile really is free for vendors with at least one product listed, but every Peer Insights market is enterprise IT. There is almost certainly no teleradiology market to be listed in. Check once if curious, then drop it.
Firmly paid with published pricing: Bronze $2,500, Silver $5,000, Gold $7,500, plus add-ons, and applicants must complete a structured review. The audience is also wrong: it serves interventional radiologists looking for practice-support vendors, not hospitals buying diagnostic interpretation capacity. Skip it ahead of RSNA and AHRA.
There is no free HIMSS vendor listing. The old product-and-service directory URL is a 404, and the two surviving directories are membership rosters that hard-block crawlers. Corporate membership is sales-led with no published price on the page. A four-to-five-figure association play, not a listing.
Free and genuinely machine-readable, but there is nothing to submit. Their data comes exclusively from official primary sources across 140-plus jurisdictions including all 50 US states, and there is no add-a-company or claim-a-profile flow. If AstraRad is incorporated, the record already exists. Search for it once, confirm the legal name and status are right, and move on.
Resolved as a confirmed negative. The ACR has no corporate, vendor, industry, institutional or organizational tier at all. The 2026 dues chart enumerates the complete member list and every single category is a natural person. AstraRad as an entity cannot join. What ACR sells to companies is display advertising only.
No self-serve registration exists and there is no public Vizient supplier directory. The public page offers only a bid calendar, a dashboard for already-contracted suppliers and a contact-our-team CTA. Note the domain moved: vizientinc.com now redirects to vizient.com.
DO NOT PITCH. RadDoctor is itself a US teleradiology service provider, so this is a competitor-owned buyer's guide. Same business, same buyers. Their contacts exist but must not be used for a listing pitch. Same rule applies to ALM Teleradiology, Excalibur, Experity, RAD365 and Natoe. Replicate the format with AstraRad's own honest buyer's guide instead, which is exactly what week 1 of the content schedule does.
A paid analytics subscription, not a directory. There is no free claim flow.
Only covers ONC-certified health IT modules. A human reading service is not certifiable, so there is nothing to list.
DesignRush's get-listed path returns a 404 and no alternate URL was confirmed, so it was not recommended rather than guessed at. UpCity and Sortlist serve marketing, design, development and IT agencies, which would be rejected the same way Capterra would. Clutch plus GoodFirms plus The Manifest is the correct ceiling for this tier.
A procurement registration, not a marketing profile. Records sit behind a JavaScript search app and carry effectively no organic search or AI-citation weight. Its real value would be bidding on VA and DoD teleradiology work, which is a business-development decision. Moved out of the listings plan entirely, alongside D-U-N-S and the GPO registries.
All three returned 403 to every verification attempt, so nothing about them was confirmed. MedicalExpo is also an equipment and instrument marketplace, which is the wrong shelf for a human interpretation service. Treat all three as unexplored rather than as recommendations.
Four questions were chased and could not be closed. They are listed here rather than quietly assumed, so that nothing on this page gets treated as more certain than it is.
Whether a named, currently-sold free listing tier exists cannot be confirmed. The only source for the phrase courtesy listing is a legacy FAQ page that now 301-redirects to an unrelated 2011 article, with no Wayback capture to date it. What is observable is that free-looking basic entries exist in practice. Ask by email rather than assuming.
ITN publishes no vendor-side cost policy for chart inclusion, and no primary source states it either way. The one governance statement on the charts index is editorial-compilation framing with no fee language. Ask the question explicitly in the first email.
Nothing on the page says inclusion is free, and the contact is a sales address at the publisher. Assume paid until they confirm otherwise.
Neither the entity-registration page nor the About This Site page carries a statement that registration is free. Multiple secondary sources assert it, and the primary GSA post now redirects to nothing usable. Not asserted as verified, and moot anyway since it has been moved out of this plan.
Rows hidden by the current filter are still counted in the totals above.
Fifteen prompts a real buyer would type. Run every one through ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot, four engines, sixty runs, and record what comes back. For each run, note three things: whether AstraRad is mentioned at all, at what position in the answer or list, and which sources the engine cites. The sources column is the one that actually pays off later, because it tells you which pages and directories these engines trust for this category, which is the whole target list for the next six months.
The 35 new pages are live but not yet indexed and cited. Once they are, a baseline can no longer be taken: any measurement after indexing is already contaminated by the work, and there is no way to reconstruct the before state retroactively. If this slips past indexing, every later claim about improvement becomes an assertion rather than a measurement. It is roughly an hour of dull copy and paste and it is the highest-leverage hour on this entire page.Now: There are 55 live pages, not 35, and the site has been indexed for over a week, so this is no longer a race. The 15 question baseline is still worth running, just not urgent. The count is wrong by 20 and the premise has expired. There are 55 URLs in the live sitemap today, not 35, and the site has been indexed for over a week — a brand search returns the homepage and /about in the top two. This is no longer a pre-indexation baseline that is about to be lost; it is a share-of-answer baseline, which is still worth running but is not time-critical in the way this callout insists, and the TIME-CRITICAL flag on the section 1 twin of this item (line 367) inherits the same error.Why this changed
curl -s https://astrarad.com/sitemap.xml | grep -c "<loc>" -> 55 (sitemap itself HTTP 200). wiki/features/seo-session-state.md, "Not founder-blocked, but still open": "The site is indexed and ranks first for its own name, so this is a share-of-answer baseline, not an indexation check." Also wiki/log.md 2026-08-08 [MEASURE].
Practical notes: use a signed-out or fresh session per engine so personalisation does not skew results, paste the prompt verbatim with no extra context, and record the date. Position means where AstraRad appears if it appears at all, for example third in a list of six. If it is not mentioned, write not mentioned rather than leaving the cell blank, so you can tell a zero from a run you skipped.
Not done. This is the headline one, best teleradiology companies for imaging centers in 2026, and nobody has ever asked an assistant it, though our page is live.
NextAsk it in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google, then note whether AstraRad appears and which sites get cited.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. No baseline was ever run, for any prompt. Positive evidence, not absence: (1) seo/context/ai-citation-targets.md:152 still reads "Baseline audit not yet run." and :167 still reads "Last updated: 2026-07-31" — the file was never revised across the eight days of work. (2) :154 mandates the results be stored in ../research/; ls /home/claude/projects/astrarad/seo/research/ | grep -i 'citation|baseline|prompt' returns nothing (13 files, none of them a citation result). (3) grep -rln "not mentioned" --include=*.json --include=*.md seo/ wiki/ DOCS/ returns zero hits — "not mentioned" is the exact token the tracker instructs the runner to write for a zero (DOCS/action-center.html:1021). (4) The recording table in DOCS/action-center.html has 180 editable cells (grep -c 'contenteditable="true" data-cell="astrarad-ac-v1:baseline:rec-' = 180) and every one is class="blank" and empty (grep -o 'data-cell="astrarad-ac-v1:baseline:rec-[^"]*">[^<]\+</td>' = 0 hits). (5) wiki/features/seo-session-state.md:306, written 2026-08-09, still lists "AI citation baseline for the 15 prompts" under "Not founder-blocked, but still open". P1's answering page is live — curl https://astrarad.com/resources/best-teleradiology-companies-2026 → 200, and it is in the live sitemap — so the prompt itself is sound and still worth running.
Do not credit this to the 2026-08-08 audit. That audit (wiki/log.md:44) measured 13 buyer queries across 2 retrieval stacks (Perplexity Sonar Pro, OpenAI/Exa) and found astrarad.com cited once. It is not 15 prompts x 4 engines, and no per-prompt record of it survives anywhere in the repo.
Not done. This tests our core pitch, a subspecialist signing the final read, which the site backs everywhere, so a blank result is purely about visibility.
NextRun it in the four assistants and write down whether we get named at all.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. Same repo-wide proof the baseline was never run: seo/context/ai-citation-targets.md:152 "Baseline audit not yet run", never revised (:167 last updated 2026-07-31); the mandated results directory seo/research/ contains no citation/baseline/prompt file; all 180 recording-table cells in DOCS/action-center.html are empty class="blank". Premise checked and sound: the subspecialist-final-read positioning is live and consistent — curl https://astrarad.com/llms.txt line 10 reads "Panel: 240 board-certified, fellowship-trained radiologists" and its "Every report is signed by a named, board-certified subspecialist" key fact is generated from frontend/scripts/site.mjs:305. curl https://astrarad.com/resources/how-to-choose-teleradiology-company → 200. Nothing about this prompt has been superseded.
P2 is one of the prompts whose premise the site can fully back, so a zero result here is a pure share-of-answer signal rather than a content gap.
Not done. The critical access hospital question. The answering page is written but still scheduled, not live, and the recommended pull forward to 10 August never happened.
NextRun it anyway as a baseline, note the date, and ask for the page publish date to be pulled forward to 10 August.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. Baseline never run (see the shared proof: seo/context/ai-citation-targets.md:152; no results file in seo/research/; 180/180 recording cells blank in DOCS/action-center.html). Premise is still the right question, but note the answering page is still not live: curl -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' https://astrarad.com/use-cases/rural-hospital-overnight-radiology → 404, and it is absent from the 55-URL live sitemap. DOCS/audit-2026-08-09.html:272 flagged it as "written, scheduled 08-14, safe to pull to 08-10" — the pull-forward did not happen.
Running P3 today measures the state before its answering page exists. That is fine for a baseline, but record the date so the later comparison is not misread as an effect of content that was not yet live.
Not done. The head to head, vRad against StatRad against ONRAD. The list of sites the assistants quote back is the most useful thing this whole run produces.
NextRun it and copy down every source cited, that list is your outreach target.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. Baseline never run (seo/context/ai-citation-targets.md:152 "Baseline audit not yet run", untouched since 2026-07-31 per :167; seo/research/ holds no citation results; all 180 astrarad-ac-v1:baseline:rec-* cells in DOCS/action-center.html are empty). Premise verified against production: curl https://astrarad.com/resources/vrad-alternatives → 200 and curl https://astrarad.com/resources/best-teleradiology-companies-2026 → 200, both in the live sitemap. The three named competitors are unchanged by any later decision.
P4 is the prompt the ai-citation-targets strategy calls the displacement play (seo/context/ai-citation-targets.md, "The owned asset that matters most"), so its source column is the highest-value output of the whole baseline.
Not done. Cost per read and turnaround compared side by side. Our pages are live, but the turnaround wording was mid cleanup, so check that finished first.
NextConfirm the turnaround wording is settled, then run the question in all four assistants.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. Baseline never run (shared proof: seo/context/ai-citation-targets.md:152; empty seo/research/; 180 blank recording cells in DOCS/action-center.html; wiki/features/seo-session-state.md:306 still lists it open as of 2026-08-09). Both halves of the premise are live and now internally consistent: curl https://astrarad.com/resources/teleradiology-cost → 200, curl https://astrarad.com/sla → 200, and the turnaround line is generated from a single source, frontend/scripts/site.mjs:310 — "Turnaround tiers: STAT under 1 hour, Urgent under 4 hours, Routine under 24 hours. Median STAT turnaround 28 minutes" — which I confirmed served verbatim at https://astrarad.com/llms.txt line 14.
DOCS/audit-2026-08-09.html:275 marked P5 "Covered, defect" because the SLA clock was defined four ways. Check that finding is closed before running, or the turnaround half of the answer is measured against copy that was about to change.
Not done. Asks who does subspecialty final reads by study type, neuro, MSK, body, pediatric. An older note called this a gap, that is stale, the page shipped early.
NextRun it as written, nothing to prepare.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. Baseline never run (seo/context/ai-citation-targets.md:152; no citation results in seo/research/; every one of the 180 astrarad-ac-v1:baseline:rec-* cells in DOCS/action-center.html is empty class="blank"). Premise verified live: curl https://astrarad.com/resources/subspecialty-radiology-reads-by-study-type → 200, and the URL is present in the 55-entry live sitemap.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. DOCS/audit-2026-08-09.html:277 rates P6 a "Gap" on the grounds that subspecialty-radiology-reads-by-study-type does not publish until 2026-08-21. That is now stale: the page is live and sitemapped today.
P6 is the one prompt whose coverage verdict in the 08-09 audit has already been overtaken by a publish. Its answering page shipped early.
Superseded. It asks for STAT reads under 30 minutes, a promise the company deliberately stopped making on 9 August. The offer now is STAT under an hour.
NextReword it to under an hour, or to who publishes a measured median STAT time, then run the new version.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. Two separate facts. First, like the other fourteen, it was never run: seo/context/ai-citation-targets.md:152 "Baseline audit not yet run", never revised; no results file in seo/research/; 180/180 recording cells blank in DOCS/action-center.html. Second, and the reason the status is SUPERSEDED rather than NOT_DONE, the prompt fishes for a claim the company has formally refused to make. git log -1 --format=%B 2d44ae1 (2026-08-09): "/use-cases/stat-reads-under-30-minutes asserted a 30-minute contract in its URL, against a standing in-repo rule and against the real under-1-hour SLA. Renamed with the site's second-ever 301." I confirmed the 301 in production: curl -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code} -> %{redirect_url}' https://astrarad.com/use-cases/stat-reads-under-30-minutes → 301 -> https://astrarad.com/use-cases/stat-radiology-reads, and the new URL → 200 with <title>STAT Radiology Reads: 28-Min Median, 99.4% SLA (2026 Data)</title>. The standing rule is in code: frontend/scripts/site.mjs:261-264 — "The 28-minute figure is the measured MEDIAN (site-facts medianStat); the commitment is the under-1-hour STAT SLA. Never write 'STAT under 30 minutes' as an offering: it reads as a contract twice as tight as the one that exists." Production now carries only median framing: on https://astrarad.com/use-cases/stat-radiology-reads I counted 12 occurrences of "under 1 hour" and 12 of "28 minutes", and the single surviving "30-minute" is the sentence "A sub-30-minute median is a rostering fact before it is a technology fact" — a median, not an offer. https://astrarad.com/llms.txt line 14 reads "STAT under 1 hour ... Median STAT turnaround 28 minutes".
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. The page behind this prompt moved: /use-cases/stat-reads-under-30-minutes is now a 301 to /use-cases/stat-radiology-reads. Reword the prompt itself to the query a buyer types against the offer that exists, e.g. "Teleradiology service with STAT reads returned in under an hour" or "Which teleradiology providers publish a measured median STAT turnaround?". Keeping the 30-minute wording would baseline AstraRad against a market position it deliberately vacated on 2026-08-09.
DOCS/audit-2026-08-09.html:395 said "keep the slug"; the later URL audit in commit 2d44ae1 overrode that and renamed it. Two decisions the same day, and the rename is the one that shipped.
Not done. The AI pre read question. We have no page answering it, and an open decision on whether we claim AI at all, so this one is a look at the competition.
NextRun it to see which providers get named, and settle the AI claim question before any page is written.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. Baseline never run (seo/context/ai-citation-targets.md:152; seo/research/ has no citation results; 180 blank recording cells in DOCS/action-center.html). I specifically checked whether P8 is superseded the way P7 is, and it is not: the caveat was baked in from the start and no later decision reversed it. seo/context/ai-citation-targets.md "A note on prompt 8" already says "AstraRad content must not claim AI capabilities the production service does not have ... Do not write toward this prompt with claims we cannot support", and DOCS/audit-2026-08-09.html:279 still tracks P8 as a live prompt with a planned answering page. But there is nothing live to be cited: curl -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' https://astrarad.com/resources/ai-in-the-radiology-workflow → 404, and the URL is absent from the 55-URL live sitemap.
P8 sits on an unresolved founder decision (wiki/features/seo-session-state.md, open question 8: src/app/reader/ai-preread-panel.component.ts exists while the AI page states flatly that AstraRad does not use AI to generate reports). If that decision lands on "no AI pre-reads", P8 becomes superseded for the same reason P7 already is. Run it now as a competitor-source scan rather than as a self-citation measure.
Not done. Overnight emergency department cover, the nighthawk question. Our page is live and leads on final signed reports rather than preliminaries.
NextRun it in the four assistants and record the answer and its sources.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. Baseline never run (shared proof: seo/context/ai-citation-targets.md:152 "Baseline audit not yet run", last updated 2026-07-31 at :167; no results file in seo/research/; all 180 astrarad-ac-v1:baseline:rec-* cells empty in DOCS/action-center.html; wiki/features/seo-session-state.md:306 still lists the 15-prompt baseline as open on 2026-08-09). Premise verified in production: curl https://astrarad.com/use-cases/nighthawk-radiology → 200, present in the live sitemap, and https://astrarad.com/llms.txt line 64 describes it as "Overnight radiology coverage with final signed reports, not preliminaries ... STAT under 1 hour, 99.4% inside tier." Nothing superseded.
The nighthawk page's differentiator (final signed reports rather than prelims) is exactly the phrasing the answer layer uses, so the sources column here is worth recording carefully.
Not done. Best service for urgent care centers. One of five prompts whose page is live, unchanged and defect free, so it can run exactly as written.
NextRun it as written, nothing to prepare.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. Baseline never run (seo/context/ai-citation-targets.md:152; empty seo/research/; 180/180 recording cells blank in DOCS/action-center.html). Premise verified live: curl https://astrarad.com/use-cases/urgent-care-radiology-reads → 200, present in the 55-URL live sitemap. DOCS/audit-2026-08-09.html:280 also rates P10 "Covered". No later decision touched this prompt.
One of the five prompts whose answering page is live, unchanged, and defect-free in the 08-09 audit, so it can be run as written.
Not done. Weekend and after hours cover for an outpatient imaging center. The page is live, its opening paragraph is just a little long.
NextRun it as written in all four assistants.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. Baseline never run (seo/context/ai-citation-targets.md:152 "Baseline audit not yet run"; no citation results anywhere in seo/research/; every astrarad-ac-v1:baseline:rec-* cell in DOCS/action-center.html is empty). Premise verified live: curl https://astrarad.com/use-cases/weekend-holiday-coverage → 200, in the live sitemap, and https://astrarad.com/llms.txt line 51 lists "overnight, weekend and holiday, overflow, urgent care" as the coverage-scenarios hub blurb, generated from frontend/scripts/site.mjs:268.
DOCS/audit-2026-08-09.html:281 marks P11 covered but notes its 83-word lede was on the fix list; that is a quality item, not a change to the prompt.
Not done. How much teleradiology costs per read. We deliberately do not publish our own rates, so expect a poor showing and read it as a strategy question.
NextRun it, then decide whether keeping our rates unpublished is worth losing these answers.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. Baseline never run (seo/context/ai-citation-targets.md:152; mandated results location seo/research/ holds no citation file; 180 blank recording cells in DOCS/action-center.html). Premise verified live: curl https://astrarad.com/resources/teleradiology-cost → 200, in the live sitemap, and https://astrarad.com/llms.txt line 97 describes it as "Teleradiology cost per read in 2026 runs $12 to $99 by modality on published rates" — industry ranges, attributed, not AstraRad's own rates.
Worth flagging before the run, not a supersession: seo/context/ai-citation-targets.md names publishing hard dollar figures as the single trait that wins pricing citations (NDX Imaging dominates purely on that), while AstraRad has gated the opposite position into the build (git log: 5dd4080 "pricing: gate the no-published-rates position so it cannot drift"). Expect P12 and P5 to baseline low by design, and read them as a strategy question rather than an execution failure.
Not done. Per report pricing with no minimums or contracts, the question our own pages answer most completely, so a zero here means pure invisibility.
NextRun it in all four assistants, this is one of the three that matter most.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. Baseline never run (seo/context/ai-citation-targets.md:152; no results in seo/research/; all 180 recording cells blank in DOCS/action-center.html; wiki/features/seo-session-state.md:306 still open as of 2026-08-09). Premise fully backed in production, every clause of it: curl https://astrarad.com/pricing → 200 and its FAQPage JSON-LD answers "Does AstraRad require a contract or monthly minimum?" with "No. AstraRad bills per signed report on month-to-month terms: no annual or multi-year contract, no monthly minimum study count, no minimum spend, no platform or software fee, no per-seat charge, and no onboarding or integration fee." The same position is generated into https://astrarad.com/llms.txt from frontend/scripts/site.mjs:307 ("Pricing: one price per signed report. No subscriptions, no minimums, no platform fees").
P13 is one of the three highest-leverage prompts per seo/context/ai-citation-targets.md, and it is the prompt whose premise the site supports most completely, so a zero here is the cleanest possible measure of pure absence from the answer layer.
Not done. Alternatives to vRad, and it already has two live pages behind it, so if we still get no mention the problem sits off our own site.
NextRun it, and if we are absent everywhere, the fix is directory listings rather than more writing.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. Baseline never run (seo/context/ai-citation-targets.md:152 "Baseline audit not yet run", untouched since 2026-07-31; seo/research/ contains no citation results; 180/180 astrarad-ac-v1:baseline:rec-* cells empty in DOCS/action-center.html). Premise verified live: curl https://astrarad.com/resources/vrad-alternatives → 200 and curl https://astrarad.com/resources/best-teleradiology-companies-2026 → 200, both in the 55-URL live sitemap. DOCS/onpage-content-seo-2026-08-09.html:256 confirms "prompt 14 already has two live pages".
One of the three prompts the strategy calls highest-leverage, and the only one of those three with two live answering pages already. If P14 still baselines at zero across all four engines, the bottleneck is off-site entity presence, not content.
Not done. How to switch providers without a gap in cover, the last of the fifteen. Page is live and nothing about this one has changed.
NextRun it in the four assistants and note what gets cited.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. Baseline never run (shared proof: seo/context/ai-citation-targets.md:152 "Baseline audit not yet run" with :167 "Last updated: 2026-07-31"; the results directory the file mandates at :154, seo/research/, holds no citation or prompt file; grep -rln "not mentioned" --include=*.json --include=*.md seo/ wiki/ DOCS/ returns zero hits; every one of the 180 recording cells in DOCS/action-center.html is empty class="blank"). Premise verified live: curl https://astrarad.com/resources/switching-teleradiology-providers → 200, present in the live sitemap. No later decision changed this prompt.
Across the whole slice: nothing was run, and only P7 needs rewording before it is. The prompts themselves are cheap to re-verify; the hour of copy-and-paste is what is missing.
Sixty rows, one per prompt and engine pair. The three right-hand columns are editable in place and are saved in this browser along with the checkboxes, so you can stop halfway and come back. P1 to P15 match the numbering above.
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| P1 | Perplexity | |||
| P1 | Gemini | |||
| P1 | Copilot | |||
| P2 | ChatGPT | |||
| P2 | Perplexity | |||
| P2 | Gemini | |||
| P2 | Copilot | |||
| P3 | ChatGPT | |||
| P3 | Perplexity | |||
| P3 | Gemini | |||
| P3 | Copilot | |||
| P4 | ChatGPT | |||
| P4 | Perplexity | |||
| P4 | Gemini | |||
| P4 | Copilot | |||
| P5 | ChatGPT | |||
| P5 | Perplexity | |||
| P5 | Gemini | |||
| P5 | Copilot | |||
| P6 | ChatGPT | |||
| P6 | Perplexity | |||
| P6 | Gemini | |||
| P6 | Copilot | |||
| P7 | ChatGPT | |||
| P7 | Perplexity | |||
| P7 | Gemini | |||
| P7 | Copilot | |||
| P8 | ChatGPT | |||
| P8 | Perplexity | |||
| P8 | Gemini | |||
| P8 | Copilot | |||
| P9 | ChatGPT | |||
| P9 | Perplexity | |||
| P9 | Gemini | |||
| P9 | Copilot | |||
| P10 | ChatGPT | |||
| P10 | Perplexity | |||
| P10 | Gemini | |||
| P10 | Copilot | |||
| P11 | ChatGPT | |||
| P11 | Perplexity | |||
| P11 | Gemini | |||
| P11 | Copilot | |||
| P12 | ChatGPT | |||
| P12 | Perplexity | |||
| P12 | Gemini | |||
| P12 | Copilot | |||
| P13 | ChatGPT | |||
| P13 | Perplexity | |||
| P13 | Gemini | |||
| P13 | Copilot | |||
| P14 | ChatGPT | |||
| P14 | Perplexity | |||
| P14 | Gemini | |||
| P14 | Copilot | |||
| P15 | ChatGPT | |||
| P15 | Perplexity | |||
| P15 | Gemini | |||
| P15 | Copilot |
Rows hidden by the current filter are still counted in the totals above.
Thirteen weeks, 38 pieces. Each slot below produces a full draft, fact-checked against the research and committed to the repository unpublished, for you to read before it goes live. Nothing publishes without your sign-off, so ticking a box here means the draft is written and waiting, not that it is on the site. Expand any row to see the proposed slug, the answer-first opening, the outline, the FAQ questions, the internal links and the Reddit threads the angle came from.Now: That plan is replaced. It is now 180 written articles, 40 public and 140 queued to 2027-02-17, publishing three a week on their own, so sign off happens before a page is committed, not after. The whole framing of section 4 has been replaced. The calendar is no longer 13 weeks and 38 pieces — it is 180 authored articles on a Mon/Wed/Fri 09:00 cron running to 2027-02-17, and 40 of them are already public. 'Nothing publishes without your sign-off' is now false at the article level: sign-off happens once at commit/push, after which the cron publishes on schedule unattended. Someone trusting this lede would believe nothing in section 4 is on the site; a third of it is. DOCS/content-schedule.html: "Cadence 3/wk Mon, Wed, Fri 09:00 ... Next to publish, 2026-08-10"; "Live now 37 pages on astrarad.com; Queued 143 scheduled". content-inventory.json: 180 files, 40 with publishDate <= 2026-08-09. Live confirmation of published schedule slots: /use-cases/stat-radiology-reads, /resources/best-teleradiology-companies-2026, /resources/pacs-integration-teleradiology all HTTP 200.Why this changed
Switching Teleradiology Vendors Without Downtime (/resources/switching-teleradiology-providers, theme A5), duplicate. It was briefed against the exact same slug as 'Switching Teleradiology Providers Without a Coverage Gap' (theme A2), with a near-identical outline (parallel run, contract exit clauses, backlog inheritance, onboarding timeline). Two pages cannot occupy one URL, and publishing both under different URLs would split the same keyword set ('switching teleradiology providers', 'change teleradiology vendor', 'teleradiology transition plan') across two thin pages. Kept the A2 version because it carries the credentialing and state-licensing critical path plus the cutover-by-tier failure modes, which the A5 brief lacks. The A5 brief's unique contributions were merged into the surviving slot in week 5: parallel routing by study type/hour/site inside the PACS, notice-period and auto-renewal traps, prior report portability, and the /pricing plus /resources/pacs-integration-teleradiology internal links.
Front-loaded by commercial value, not by theme. Weeks 1 to 3 carry the nine pieces a buyer with budget actually searches for, and every one of the five priority pieces lands in that window. The vendor landscape guide goes first because six later pages link up to it, so it should be indexed before its inbound links exist. The PACS integration guide goes in week 1 for a different reason: it faces the lowest competition of anything in the set. Weeks 4 to 7 track a live purchase in sequence, from urgency and access through to contract redlines. Weeks 8 to 9 add the audit instruments and the liability layer, which earn citations from other sites rather than converting directly. Weeks 10 to 12 hold the link-bait and thought-leadership pieces. All three recruiting pieces run late and are flagged, partly because three of them carry pre-publication blockers on compensation, equipment policy and licensing reimbursement that operations has to confirm first.
No week stacks three pieces of one kind, so an ED director, a CFO and a PACS admin each get something every week. Where two briefs were genuinely close they were split across weeks rather than shipped together: the two contract pieces are in weeks 6 and 7, the two transition pieces in weeks 4 and 5, the two verification pieces in weeks 2 and 8, and the two consolidation pieces in weeks 11 and 13 with a required cross-link in each direction so they do not compete for the same query.
Done. The Best Teleradiology Companies 2026 comparison is live on the site and listed on the resources page.
Nothing to do.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. Independently verified, not accepted from the claim. My own run: curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" -L https://astrarad.com/resources/best-teleradiology-companies-2026 -> 200, 89434 bytes. Live H1 Best Teleradiology Companies 2026: An Honest Comparison, 3322 words of rendered body text, self-referencing <link rel="canonical" href="https://astrarad.com/resources/best-teleradiology-companies-2026">, zero noindex occurrences. Linked from the live /resources index (2 occurrences in fetched HTML), so not sitemap-orphaned. Live JSON-LD "dateModified":"2026-08-09" proves production serves today's build. Control test: /resources/this-article-does-not-exist-xyz -> 404, so /resources/* is not a catch-all returning 200.
Survived refutation. Live JSON-LD datePublished is 2026-07-31 (from frontmatter date: line 4), not the 2026-08-03 publish: value the first auditor cited.
Done. The overnight coverage cost article is live, though it shipped as What Overnight Radiology Coverage Costs: 3 Models, without the word Compared.
Nothing to do.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. My own curl -L https://astrarad.com/resources/overnight-radiology-coverage-cost -> 200, 93292 bytes. Live H1 What Overnight Radiology Coverage Costs: 3 Models, 4183 words rendered body, self-canonical, no noindex. Linked from live /resources index. "dateModified":"2026-08-09" in live JSON-LD. Control: sibling scheduled-but-unpublished item /resources/teleradiology-hidden-fees -> 404, confirming 200 here is meaningful.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. Tracker label W1.2 reads 'What Overnight Radiology Coverage Costs: 3 Models Compared'; the live title and H1 both drop 'Compared' — shipped title is 'What Overnight Radiology Coverage Costs: 3 Models'.
Survived refutation; only the trailing word of the planned title changed.
This is the pre-rewrite opener for /resources/pacs-integration-teleradiology, and it is the exact sentence used across the wiki as the marker for old-voice content. The page has been live since 8 August opening with the buyer question instead. A writer using this brief as the spec would revert the voice rewrite on that page.
wiki/features/seo-session-state.md: "https://astrarad.com/resources/pacs-integration-teleradiology now opens with the buyer question 'Do we have to replace our PACS, and how big is the integration project, really?', which is the rewritten opener." curl https://astrarad.com/resources/pacs-integration-teleradiology -> HTTP 200.
Done. The PACS integration article is live, and it also covers the patient ID and accession clashes that were planned as a separate piece.
Nothing to do.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. My own curl -L https://astrarad.com/resources/pacs-integration-teleradiology -> 200, 95373 bytes. Live H1 How Your PACS Connects to a Teleradiology Provider, 4328 words rendered body, self-canonical, no noindex, linked from live /resources index, "dateModified":"2026-08-09". I also tested the claim's side-assertion: the live page contains an H2 Preventing patient ID and accession collisions with 5 'MRN' and 9 'accession' hits in the served HTML.
Survived refutation. Caution on the absorption note: the standalone W5.3 slug /resources/mrn-accession-collisions-teleradiology returns 404, so W5.3 is only covered as a section here, never as its own page.
Not done. How to Verify Teleradiology Vendor Claims is written and waiting, it goes live on 10 August, tomorrow.
Nothing to do, it appears at the next site build on or after 10 August.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. curl -L https://astrarad.com/resources/verify-teleradiology-vendor-claims -> 404. Absent from live-urls.txt. Written and committed: frontend/src/content/pages/resources/verify-teleradiology-vendor-claims.md line 2 title: "How to Verify Teleradiology Vendor Claims", line 5 publish: 2026-08-10. Gate is frontend/scripts/site.mjs line 74-84 (draft false AND publish date arrived).
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. content-inventory.json lists publishDate 2026-07-31 for this slug, which is the frontmatter date: field, not the publish: field the build gates on. The real scheduled date is 2026-08-10, one day after today.
Authored, committed, pushed (local main == origin/main); goes live on the first production build on or after 2026-08-10.
Not done. The Hidden Cost of the Prelim-Plus-Overread Model is written and waiting for 28 August, and it now sits at a shorter web address than planned.
Nothing to do, it appears at the next site build on or after 28 August.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. curl -L https://astrarad.com/resources/preliminary-read-overread-costs -> 404 and curl -L https://astrarad.com/resources/prelim-overread-hidden-cost -> 404. Neither in live-urls.txt. Written: frontend/src/content/pages/resources/prelim-overread-hidden-cost.md line 2 title: "The Hidden Cost of the Prelim-Plus-Overread Model" (exact tracker title), line 5 publish: 2026-08-28.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. Slug changed from the tracker's /resources/preliminary-read-overread-costs to /resources/prelim-overread-hidden-cost.
Scheduled 2026-08-28.
Not done. The rural and critical access hospital page is written and waiting for 14 August. One of our own lists wrongly shows it as already published.
Nothing to do, it appears at the next site build on or after 14 August.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. curl -L https://astrarad.com/use-cases/rural-hospital-overnight-radiology -> 404. Absent from live-urls.txt. Written: frontend/src/content/pages/use-cases/rural-hospital-overnight-radiology.md line 2 title: "Teleradiology for Rural and Critical Access Hospitals", line 5 publish: 2026-08-14.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. content-inventory.json shows publishDate 2026-07-31 for this slug (the frontmatter date:), which reads as already-live. The build-gating publish: date is 2026-08-14.
Slug unchanged. Scheduled 2026-08-14.
Done. The vRad alternatives comparison is live, shipped as vRad Alternatives 2026 with the year added to the title.
Nothing to do.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. My own curl -L https://astrarad.com/resources/vrad-alternatives -> 200, 103532 bytes (largest of the seven). Live H1 vRad Alternatives 2026: Comparing Teleradiology Networks, 4775 words rendered body, self-canonical, no noindex, linked from live /resources index, "dateModified":"2026-08-09".
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. Tracker label W3.1 reads 'vRad Alternatives: Comparing Teleradiology Networks'; the shipped title and H1 insert the year — 'vRad Alternatives 2026: Comparing Teleradiology Networks'.
Survived refutation; slug unchanged, title gained '2026'.
Not done. The report quality scorecard is written and waiting for 4 September, now titled Audit Teleradiology Report Quality: A 12-Point Scorecard.
Nothing to do, it appears at the next site build on or after 4 September.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. curl -L https://astrarad.com/resources/radiology-report-quality-audit -> 404. Absent from live-urls.txt. Written: frontend/src/content/pages/resources/radiology-report-quality-audit.md line 2 title: "Audit Teleradiology Report Quality: A 12-Point Scorecard", line 5 publish: 2026-09-04.
Slug unchanged; title reworded from 'Audit Your Teleradiology Reports'. Scheduled 2026-09-04.
Not done. This became Who Bills the Teleradiology Read, on the professional and technical split, set for 11 January 2027 and still marked as a draft.
NextIf you want it sooner, an engineer has to take it out of draft as well as move the date.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. curl -L https://astrarad.com/resources/who-can-bill-a-final-radiology-read -> 404 and curl -L https://astrarad.com/resources/who-bills-the-teleradiology-read -> 404. Written: frontend/src/content/pages/resources/who-bills-the-teleradiology-read.md line 2 title: "Who Bills the Teleradiology Read? Professional vs Technical", line 5 publish: 2027-01-11, line 7 draft: true.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. Slug changed from /resources/who-can-bill-a-final-radiology-read to /resources/who-bills-the-teleradiology-read; the angle shifted from 'CMS rules on who may bill a final' to the professional/technical component split and modifier 26.
Double-gated: draft: true AND a publish date of 2027-01-11, so clearing the date alone will not ship it.
Done. It shipped as When Your Radiology Group Gives Notice: A 30-Day Plan, but it moved, and the old address now shows a Page Not Found.
NextAsk an engineer to forward the old address to the new one so existing links keep working.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. I verified both halves myself. New location: curl -L https://astrarad.com/resources/radiology-group-gave-notice-30-day-plan -> 200, 78374 bytes, live H1 When Your Radiology Group Gives Notice: A 30-Day Plan (matches tracker label W4.1 exactly), 2423 words rendered body, self-canonical, no noindex, linked from live /resources index, "dateModified":"2026-08-09". Old location: curl -L https://astrarad.com/use-cases/radiology-group-transition-coverage -> 404, served with <title>Page Not Found · AstraRad</title> — a hard 404, not a redirect to the new page.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. Slug AND section both changed: /use-cases/radiology-group-transition-coverage became /resources/radiology-group-gave-notice-30-day-plan. The tracker's URL is stale and 404s. Note there is no 301 from the old path — it is a hard 404, so any external link to the tracker's URL loses its value.
Survived refutation, but flag the missing redirect: the old path returns 404 rather than redirecting.
Not done. Direct radiologist access, a five question buyer's test, is written and waiting for 9 September, so anything quoting that link now hits a dead page.
NextA sales sheet already prints this link. Pull or fix that sheet, and keep the link out of new material until 9 September.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. curl -L https://astrarad.com/resources/direct-radiologist-access -> 404. Absent from live-urls.txt. Written: frontend/src/content/pages/resources/direct-radiologist-access.md line 2 title: "Direct radiologist access: a five question buyer's test", line 5 publish: 2026-09-09.
Slug unchanged. Scheduled 2026-09-09. wiki/log.md line 50 records a sales sheet that printed this URL before its publish date and would have 404'd for a month — the same trap the tracker falls into.
Not done. The per-report versus per-RVU pricing article is written and waiting, it goes live on 12 August, three days out.
Nothing to do, it appears at the next site build on or after 12 August.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. curl -L https://astrarad.com/resources/teleradiology-pricing-models -> 404. Absent from live-urls.txt. Written: frontend/src/content/pages/resources/teleradiology-pricing-models.md line 2 title: "Teleradiology Pricing Models: Per-Report vs Per-RVU" (exact tracker title), line 5 publish: 2026-08-12.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. content-inventory.json shows publishDate 2026-07-31 for this slug (frontmatter date:); the gating publish: is 2026-08-12.
Scheduled 2026-08-12, three days out.
Done. Switching Teleradiology Providers Without a Coverage Gap is live at the planned address with the planned title.
Nothing to do.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. My own curl -L https://astrarad.com/resources/switching-teleradiology-providers -> 200, 80624 bytes. Live H1 Switching Teleradiology Providers Without a Coverage Gap (exact tracker label W5.1), 2707 words rendered body, self-canonical, no noindex, linked from live /resources index, "dateModified":"2026-08-09".
Survived refutation. Shipped at the planned slug with the planned title.
Not done. Hidden Fees in Teleradiology Contracts: 14 Line Items is written and waiting for 21 August.
Nothing to do, it appears at the next site build on or after 21 August.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. curl -L https://astrarad.com/resources/teleradiology-hidden-fees -> 404. Absent from live-urls.txt. Written: frontend/src/content/pages/resources/teleradiology-hidden-fees.md line 2 title: "Hidden Fees in Teleradiology Contracts: 14 Line Items" (exact tracker title), line 6 publish: 2026-08-21.
Slug unchanged. Scheduled 2026-08-21.
Superseded. There is no separate page on patient ID and accession clashes, the topic shipped as a section inside the live PACS integration article.
Nothing to do, and do not re-plan it as its own article.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. No file matching mrn/accession exists under frontend/src/content/pages/ (ls frontend/src/content/pages/resources/ | grep -iE 'mrn|accession' returns nothing), and the slug is absent from the current 180-slug schedule in DOCS/content-schedule.html. Instead the topic shipped inside W1.3: frontend/src/content/pages/resources/pacs-integration-teleradiology.md line 111 ## Preventing patient ID and accession collisions, lines 113-117 covering namespacing, DICOM Issuer of Patient ID (0010,0021), and human reconciliation — i.e. the tracker's own W5.3 outline. Confirmed live: curl -s https://astrarad.com/resources/pacs-integration-teleradiology | grep 'Preventing patient ID and accession collisions' returns the heading, page status 200.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. Replaced by the 'Preventing patient ID and accession collisions' section of https://astrarad.com/resources/pacs-integration-teleradiology (live) rather than a standalone /resources/mrn-accession-collisions-teleradiology page.
The content shipped, the standalone page did not and should not be re-planned as a duplicate.
Not done. Teleradiology Contract Terms: What to Negotiate is written and waiting for 26 August.
Nothing to do, it appears at the next site build on or after 26 August.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. curl -L https://astrarad.com/resources/teleradiology-contract-terms -> 404. Absent from live-urls.txt. Written: frontend/src/content/pages/resources/teleradiology-contract-terms.md line 2 title: "Teleradiology Contract Terms: What to Negotiate" (exact tracker title), line 5 publish: 2026-08-26.
Slug unchanged. Scheduled 2026-08-26.
Not done. The QA program audit piece is written and waiting for 14 October, and it now sits at a different web address than the tracker lists.
Nothing to do, it appears at the next site build on or after 14 October.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. curl -L https://astrarad.com/resources/teleradiology-quality-assurance-audit -> 404 and curl -L https://astrarad.com/resources/teleradiology-qa-methodology -> 404. Written: frontend/src/content/pages/resources/teleradiology-qa-methodology.md line 2 title: "How to Audit a Teleradiology QA Program", line 5 publish: 2026-10-14.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. Slug changed from /resources/teleradiology-quality-assurance-audit to /resources/teleradiology-qa-methodology.
Scheduled 2026-10-14.
Done. Credentialing by Proxy for Teleradiology (CMS 482.22) is live at the planned address with the planned title.
Nothing to do.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. My own curl -L https://astrarad.com/resources/credentialing-by-proxy-teleradiology -> 200, 80762 bytes. Live H1 Credentialing by Proxy for Teleradiology (CMS 482.22) (exact tracker label W6.3), 2466 words rendered body, self-canonical, no noindex, linked from live /resources index, "dateModified":"2026-08-09".
Survived refutation. Shipped at the planned slug with the planned title.
Not done. Turnaround Time SLA Language for Teleradiology Contracts is written and waiting for 16 October, at a shorter address than planned.
Nothing to do, it appears at the next site build on or after 16 October.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. curl -L https://astrarad.com/resources/turnaround-time-sla-contract-language -> 404 and curl -L https://astrarad.com/resources/turnaround-time-sla-language -> 404. Written: frontend/src/content/pages/resources/turnaround-time-sla-language.md line 2 title: "Turnaround Time SLA Language for Teleradiology Contracts", line 5 publish: 2026-10-16.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. Slug changed from /resources/turnaround-time-sla-contract-language to /resources/turnaround-time-sla-language.
Scheduled 2026-10-16.
Not done. The malpractice insurance article was never written and is not on the calendar, the closest piece is the liability one due 11 November.
NextDecide whether you still want it, someone has to write it from scratch.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. curl -L https://astrarad.com/resources/teleradiology-malpractice-insurance -> 404, absent from live-urls.txt. No source file: ls frontend/src/content/pages/resources/ | grep -i malpract returns nothing, and the slug does not appear in the 180-slug list extracted from DOCS/content-schedule.html (grep -iE 'malpractice' sched-slugs.txt -> no match). The only occurrences of the slug string in the repo are inside DOCS/action-center.html itself (lines 1660, 1836, 1844) as a planned internal-link target.
Never authored and not on the current schedule. Nearest scheduled coverage is /resources/outsourced-read-liability (publish 2026-11-11, still 404), and DOCS/action-center.html line 1660 plans an internal link to this page from the radiology-group-transition page, which IS live — so that link would 404 today if it were built as specified.
Not done. The overreads and prior comparisons piece was never written and quietly fell off the calendar, with no recorded decision to drop it.
NextSay drop or reschedule, your own notes already rate this topic thin and secondary; if you keep it, it has to be written from scratch.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. curl -L https://astrarad.com/resources/radiology-overreads-and-prior-comparisons -> 404, absent from live-urls.txt. No source file matches: the only overread-named files under frontend/src/content/pages/resources/ are prelim-overread-hidden-cost.md (W2.2, publish 2026-08-28) and eliminate-preliminary-reads-and-overreads.md (title 'Stop Re-Reading Overnight Studies Every Morning', publish 2026-11-09) — neither is the outside-studies/priors page. The slug is absent from the 180-slug list in DOCS/content-schedule.html.
Never authored and not on the current schedule. The tracker's own gap note at DOCS/action-center.html line 1868 already rated this theme thin and secondary, so dropping it may have been deliberate, but I found no recorded decision in wiki/log.md or wiki/features/seo-session-state.md saying so — hence NOT_DONE rather than SUPERSEDED.
Not done. This was split in two, the measuring turnaround piece is written and due 2 November, the vendor claims one is due 10 August.
Nothing to do.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' https://astrarad.com/resources/how-to-verify-teleradiology-turnaround-times -> 404, and the successor https://astrarad.com/resources/measuring-radiology-turnaround -> 404 (site itself 200, sitemap 55 URLs). Successor written and committed: frontend/src/content/pages/resources/measuring-radiology-turnaround.md:2 title 'Measuring Radiology Turnaround Time Honestly', :5 publish: 2026-11-02; in git HEAD (git cat-file -e HEAD:... succeeds). Queued in seo/content-calendar-2026-08-09.json as '2026-11-02 resources/measuring-radiology-turnaround existing' and in DOCS/content-schedule.html as status 'queued', 2,094 words.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. Slug /resources/how-to-verify-teleradiology-turnaround-times no longer exists anywhere outside the 2026-07-31 planning artifacts. The measurement half shipped as /resources/measuring-radiology-turnaround (publishes 2026-11-02); the vendor-claims half is the separate /resources/verify-teleradiology-vendor-claims (publishes 2026-08-10).
wiki/features/seo-llm-seo.md:108 had flagged this exact slot as a schedule defect overlapping /resources/verify-teleradiology-vendor-claims; the 08-09 rebuild resolved it by splitting the topic in two.
Not done. It was renamed to Named Radiologists vs Read Pool, which is written and waiting to publish on 6 November.
Nothing to do.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. curl https://astrarad.com/resources/radiologist-continuity-and-subspecialty-matching -> 404; successor https://astrarad.com/resources/named-radiologists-vs-read-pool -> 404. File exists and is in git HEAD: frontend/src/content/pages/resources/named-radiologists-vs-read-pool.md:2 title 'Named Radiologists vs Read Pool: Match Rate and Continuity', :5 publish: 2026-11-06. seo/content-calendar-2026-08-09.json: '2026-11-06 resources/named-radiologists-vs-read-pool existing'. DOCS/content-schedule.html row: 2026-11-06, 2,393 words, 7 FAQs, queued.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. Slug is now /resources/named-radiologists-vs-read-pool, not /resources/radiologist-continuity-and-subspecialty-matching.
Not done. The image transfer latency piece was never written, it silently dropped out of the plan and nothing replaced it.
NextSay if you still want it, it has to be commissioned again from scratch.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. curl https://astrarad.com/resources/teleradiology-image-transfer-latency -> 404. No file: ls frontend/src/content/pages/resources/ has no image-transfer-latency entry. Repo-wide grep -rIn 'image transfer latency|image-transfer-latency' (excluding node_modules/.git/dist/out-tsc) returns hits in only four files, all 2026-07-31 planning artifacts: DOCS/action-center.html:1911,1917,1919, seo/research/action-center-research-2026-07-31.json:1152, seo/research/publish-calendar-2026-07-31.json:244, seo/research/schedule-repair-2026-07-31.json:1201. Zero hits in seo/content-calendar-2026-08-09.json, seo/content-briefs.json, seo/existing-inventory.json or DOCS/content-schedule.html.
This slot silently fell out of the plan with no successor article. seo/build-calendar.mjs:17-19 rebuilds the calendar from existing-inventory.json plus content-briefs.json, never from the 07-31 week plan, so any old slot that was never written simply disappeared. If the topic is still wanted it must be re-commissioned; nothing replaced it.
Not done. It was renamed to Who Is Liable When an Outsourced Read Is Wrong, which is written and waiting to publish on 11 November.
Nothing to do.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. curl https://astrarad.com/resources/teleradiology-liability -> 404; successor https://astrarad.com/resources/outsourced-read-liability -> 404. File in git HEAD: frontend/src/content/pages/resources/outsourced-read-liability.md:2 title 'Who Is Liable When an Outsourced Read Is Wrong?', :5 publish: 2026-11-11. seo/content-calendar-2026-08-09.json: '2026-11-11 resources/outsourced-read-liability existing'. DOCS/content-schedule.html row: 2026-11-11, 2,025 words, queued.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. Slug is now /resources/outsourced-read-liability, not /resources/teleradiology-liability.
Not done. The how to check your teleradiologist's licences piece was never written and has no replacement, our own licensing page is not the same thing.
NextSay if you still want it, it needs commissioning and writing from scratch.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. curl https://astrarad.com/resources/verify-teleradiologist-licensure -> 404. No file on disk (not in ls frontend/src/content/pages/resources/). grep -rIln 'verify-teleradiologist-licensure|Verify Your Teleradiologist' returns only DOCS/action-center.html and the three seo/research/*-2026-07-31.json planning files. Absent from seo/content-calendar-2026-08-09.json and DOCS/content-schedule.html (180 rows checked).
Same disappearance mechanism as W8.3: never written, so the 08-09 rebuild-from-disk calendar has no slot for it. The nearest live-ish content, frontend/src/content/pages/licensing.md:46, discusses AstraRad's own licensing cost burden, not a buyer's how-to-verify procedure, so it is not a substitute.
Not done. The night staffing math piece is written and now due 19 October rather than early October, held back so its links point at pages that exist.
Nothing to do.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. curl https://astrarad.com/resources/24-7-radiology-coverage-staffing-math -> 404; successor https://astrarad.com/resources/night-coverage-staffing-math -> 404. File in git HEAD: frontend/src/content/pages/resources/night-coverage-staffing-math.md:2 title '24/7 Radiology Coverage: The Night Staffing Math' (title unchanged from the tracker), :5 publish: 2026-10-19. seo/content-calendar-2026-08-09.json: '2026-10-19 resources/night-coverage-staffing-math existing'. DOCS/content-schedule.html: 2026-10-19, 1,575 words, queued.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. Slug is now /resources/night-coverage-staffing-math. Date moved from the old plan's 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-19.
wiki/log.md:86 records why the date did not move earlier: the article's real outbound links pin it at 2026-10-19 in the topological sort, and the session deliberately refused the audit handoff's request to pull it forward.
Not done. The closed loop critical results piece is written and waiting to publish on 14 September, the first of this batch to go live.
Nothing to do.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. curl https://astrarad.com/resources/critical-results-communication -> 404 (not among the 55 URLs in the live sitemap). Written and in git HEAD: frontend/src/content/pages/resources/critical-results-communication.md:2 title 'Closed-Loop Critical Results Communication in Teleradiology', :5 publish: 2026-09-14. seo/content-calendar-2026-08-09.json: '2026-09-14 resources/critical-results-communication existing'. DOCS/content-schedule.html: 2026-09-14, 3,567 words, 6 FAQs, queued.
Slug survived the rebuild unchanged. This is the earliest-publishing item in the W8-W13 half; it is 36 days out.
Not done. The radiologist shortage piece is written and due 16 November, the web address dropped the year but the title still says 2026.
Nothing to do.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. curl https://astrarad.com/resources/radiologist-shortage-2026 -> 404; successor https://astrarad.com/resources/radiologist-shortage -> 404. File in git HEAD: frontend/src/content/pages/resources/radiologist-shortage.md:2 title 'The Radiologist Shortage in 2026: Hire, Wait, or Outsource' (exactly the tracker's title), :6 publish: 2026-11-16. seo/content-calendar-2026-08-09.json: '2026-11-16 resources/radiologist-shortage existing'. DOCS/content-schedule.html: 2026-11-16, 2,674 words, 8 FAQs, queued.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. Slug dropped the year: /resources/radiologist-shortage, not /resources/radiologist-shortage-2026. The title still carries 2026.
'12 time zones' is a retracted claim that the build now refuses to ship. It is the first entry in the BANNED_PHRASES list in check-site-facts.mjs, added after the same phrase leaked back into the MCP function and two client proposals. This brief (slot W10.4) states it in the answer-first opening and again in the outline at line 2036 — and briefs in this document are what the content agents read, so leaving it here is exactly the mechanism that caused the last regression.
frontend/scripts/check-site-facts.mjs lines 486-491: const BANNED_PHRASES = [{ re: /\b(?:12|twelve)[\s-]+time[\s-]*zones?\b/i, name: 'the retracted "12 time zones" coverage claim', fix: '... Write e.g. "240 subspecialists staffing scheduled US shifts around the clock".' }]. The header comment (lines 460-484) explains the gate now also scans seo/context precisely because "a retracted phrase surviving there means every future article re-learns it".
The careers surface now exists in the repo: three articles are written and /careers is a registered hub route in site.mjs with its own blurb. It is not live yet (first page publishes 2026-11-25), so the correct statement is 'written and queued', not 'zero'. Stated as zero, this reads as unstarted work and invites someone to duplicate it.
frontend/scripts/site.mjs HUB_ROUTES includes { path: '/careers', section: 'careers', title: 'Careers', blurb: 'how remote reading shifts run, workload expectations, and the home reading station' }. Three files in frontend/src/content/pages/careers/. curl https://astrarad.com/careers -> 404 (not yet published).
Not done. The teleradiology jobs piece is written and due 25 November, and the whole careers section stays dark until it goes live.
Nothing to do.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. curl https://astrarad.com/careers/teleradiology-jobs -> 404; successor https://astrarad.com/careers/teleradiology-jobs-how-it-works -> 404; the section hub https://astrarad.com/careers -> 404 as well. File in git HEAD: frontend/src/content/pages/careers/teleradiology-jobs-how-it-works.md:2 title 'Teleradiology Jobs: How Reading for AstraRad Works', :5 publish: 2026-11-25. seo/content-calendar-2026-08-09.json: '2026-11-25 careers/teleradiology-jobs-how-it-works existing'. DOCS/content-schedule.html: 2026-11-25, 1,759 words, queued.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. Slug is now /careers/teleradiology-jobs-how-it-works.
The whole /careers section is still dark; frontend/src/app/app.routes.ts:284 comments that all three careers pages are scheduled, so no careers hub renders until the first one publishes.
Not done. It was renamed to The Cost of a Delayed Read, which is written and waiting to publish on 30 November.
Nothing to do.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. curl https://astrarad.com/resources/cost-of-delayed-radiology-reads -> 404; successor https://astrarad.com/resources/cost-of-a-delayed-read -> 404. File in git HEAD: frontend/src/content/pages/resources/cost-of-a-delayed-read.md:2 title 'The cost of a delayed radiology read, priced line by line', :5 publish: 2026-11-30. seo/content-calendar-2026-08-09.json: '2026-11-30 resources/cost-of-a-delayed-read existing'. DOCS/content-schedule.html: 2026-11-30, 1,888 words, queued.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. Slug is now /resources/cost-of-a-delayed-read, not /resources/cost-of-delayed-radiology-reads.
Not done. It was renamed to STAT Order Discipline, which is written and waiting to publish on 4 December.
Nothing to do.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. curl https://astrarad.com/resources/stat-inflation-radiology-orders -> 404; successor https://astrarad.com/resources/stat-order-discipline -> 404. File in git HEAD: frontend/src/content/pages/resources/stat-order-discipline.md:2 title 'STAT order discipline: when everything is STAT, nothing is', :5 publish: 2026-12-04. seo/content-calendar-2026-08-09.json: '2026-12-04 resources/stat-order-discipline existing'. DOCS/content-schedule.html: 2026-12-04, 2,042 words, queued.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. Slug is now /resources/stat-order-discipline, not /resources/stat-inflation-radiology-orders.
Superseded. This was the same page as the private equity consolidation piece under a second name, so the two were merged into one, due 30 December.
Nothing to do.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. wiki/features/seo-llm-seo.md:108 names it: 'Two schedule defects exist (slots for /resources/radiology-consolidation-buyer-risk vs /resources/private-equity-radiology-consolidation look like one page under two slugs ...)'. The defect was resolved by keeping one article: frontend/src/content/pages/resources/private-equity-radiology-consolidation.md:2 carries this item's title verbatim, "Private Equity in Radiology: A Buyer's Risk Checklist", while the W13.1 slot's own title was 'Private Equity in Radiology: What It Means for Buyers'. The slug /resources/radiology-consolidation-buyer-risk exists in no content file, is absent from seo/content-calendar-2026-08-09.json and DOCS/content-schedule.html, and never had a slot even in seo/research/publish-calendar-2026-07-31.json (grep hits only DOCS/action-center.html, wiki/features/seo-llm-seo.md, and three seo/research/*-2026-07-31.json files). curl https://astrarad.com/resources/radiology-consolidation-buyer-risk -> 404.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. Merged into /resources/private-equity-radiology-consolidation (the W13.1 item), which publishes 2026-12-30. Both tracker slots shared theme code B2 and the keyword 'private equity radiology consolidation'; they were one page.
Do not re-raise this as separate work. seo/research/slot-upgrades-2026-07-31.json had already required the two to cross-link 'so the three do not compete for the same consolidation queries'; consolidating to one page settles it.
Not done. The AI in the radiology workflow buyer's guide is written and due 14 December, the title lost the word Reading.
NextRead it before 14 December so it does not clash with our promise that AI never writes the report.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. curl https://astrarad.com/resources/ai-in-the-radiology-workflow -> 404 (not in the 55-URL live sitemap). Written and in git HEAD: frontend/src/content/pages/resources/ai-in-the-radiology-workflow.md:2 title "AI in the Radiology Workflow: A Buyer's Guide", :5 publish: 2026-12-14. seo/content-calendar-2026-08-09.json: '2026-12-14 resources/ai-in-the-radiology-workflow existing'. DOCS/content-schedule.html: 2026-12-14, 1,767 words, queued.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. Title lost the word 'Reading': shipped as 'AI in the Radiology Workflow: A Buyer's Guide'. Slug unchanged.
Worth a pre-publish check against the site's standing claim that AstraRad does not use AI to generate reports (wiki/log.md:76 flags src/app/reader/ai-preread-panel.component.ts as an unresolved contradiction).
Not done. It was renamed to What Makes a Radiology Report Useful, which is written and waiting to publish on 18 December.
Nothing to do.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. curl https://astrarad.com/resources/what-makes-a-good-radiology-report -> 404; successor https://astrarad.com/resources/what-makes-a-radiology-report-useful -> 404. File in git HEAD: frontend/src/content/pages/resources/what-makes-a-radiology-report-useful.md:2 title 'What Makes a Radiology Report Useful, per Clinicians' (the tracker's title verbatim), :5 publish: 2026-12-18. seo/content-calendar-2026-08-09.json: '2026-12-18 resources/what-makes-a-radiology-report-useful existing'. DOCS/content-schedule.html: 2026-12-18, 1,822 words, queued.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. Slug is now /resources/what-makes-a-radiology-report-useful, not /resources/what-makes-a-good-radiology-report.
Not done. It was renamed to Radiologist Workload Expectations, written and due 23 December, burnout moved to its own piece publishing today.
Nothing to do.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. curl https://astrarad.com/careers/reading-volume-and-workload -> 404; successor https://astrarad.com/careers/radiologist-workload-expectations -> 404; /careers hub also 404. File in git HEAD: frontend/src/content/pages/careers/radiologist-workload-expectations.md:2 title 'Radiologist Workload and Reading Volume Expectations', :5 publish: 2026-12-23. seo/content-calendar-2026-08-09.json: '2026-12-23 careers/radiologist-workload-expectations existing'. DOCS/content-schedule.html: 2026-12-23, 1,599 words, queued.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. Slug is now /careers/radiologist-workload-expectations. The shipped angle also drops 'burnout' from the title; burnout is handled by the separate /resources/reducing-radiologist-burnout (publish 2026-08-09).
Not done. The private equity in radiology piece is written and due 30 December, and it now covers the buyer risk topic too.
Nothing to do.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. curl https://astrarad.com/resources/private-equity-radiology-consolidation -> 404 (not in the live sitemap). Written and in git HEAD: frontend/src/content/pages/resources/private-equity-radiology-consolidation.md:2 title "Private Equity in Radiology: A Buyer's Risk Checklist", :5 publish: 2026-12-30. seo/content-calendar-2026-08-09.json: '2026-12-30 resources/private-equity-radiology-consolidation existing'. DOCS/content-schedule.html: 2026-12-30, 2,179 words, queued.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. Title shipped as W11.3's title, "Private Equity in Radiology: A Buyer's Risk Checklist", not 'What It Means for Buyers'. Slug unchanged.
This one article now covers both W11.3 and W13.1; W11.3 should be closed as merged into this slot.
Not done. The home reading station piece is written but slipped about ten weeks, it now publishes 6 January 2027 and is the last non geo article.
Nothing to do.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. curl https://astrarad.com/careers/home-reading-station-setup -> 404; /careers hub also 404. Written and in git HEAD: frontend/src/content/pages/careers/home-reading-station-setup.md:2 title 'The Home Reading Station: Setup for Remote Radiologists', :5 publish: 2027-01-06. seo/content-calendar-2026-08-09.json: '2027-01-06 careers/home-reading-station-setup existing' (the final slot of that calendar's 2027-01-08 window). DOCS/content-schedule.html: 2027-01-06, 2,106 words, queued.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. Slug unchanged; date moved from the old plan's 2026-10-28 to 2027-01-06, a slip of about ten weeks.
wiki/features/seo-session-state.md:275 records an earlier move of this same page from 2026-10-28 to 2026-11-04; the 08-09 respread moved it again. It is the last non-geo article on the calendar.
Rows hidden by the current filter are still counted in the totals above.
Four emails, ready to send. Every fact in them is an approved AstraRad fact and nothing else: the published turnaround tiers and their measured numbers, the subspecialist count, the annual volume, the pricing model, the modality range and the HIPAA posture. No physician is named in any template, because that question is still open in section 1. Fill in the bracketed contact details and send.
Subject: Adding AstraRad to the Teleradiology Subspecialty Interpretation directory
Hello,
I run AstraRad, a US teleradiology practice, and I would like our company added to the
imaging services vendor directory, specifically the Teleradiology Subspecialty
Interpretation and Teleradiology After Hours categories. We are not currently listed.
Company details for the record:
Company: AstraRad
Website: https://astrarad.com
What we do: Final signed radiology interpretations delivered remotely, 24/7/365,
across 12 study types from X-ray to PET-CT.
Roster: 240 fellowship-trained subspecialists, US board-certified and state
licensed, with subspecialty-matched routing.
Volume: Approximately 600,000 reads per year.
Service: Three published turnaround tiers, STAT under 1 hour, Urgent under
4 hours, Routine under 24 hours, with a 28-minute median STAT
turnaround and 99.4% SLA compliance. Our measurement methodology is
published on the site.
Pricing: Per report, with no monthly minimums and no long-term contracts.
Two questions so I do not waste your time:
1. What is the correct process to create a new company record? I could not find a
create-company form anywhere on the site, only edit paths for existing entries.
2. Is a basic directory entry free, and if there is a paid upgrade, what is the
current product and price?
Happy to supply a logo, a longer description, or anything else the record needs.
Thank you,
[Your name]
[Title], AstraRad
[Phone] | [your name]@astrarad.com
Can't tell from here, only your sent folder shows whether the AuntMinnie directory email went out. The draft is ready and still accurate.
NextCheck your sent mail for support@auntminnie.com, and if nothing is there, send the draft as it stands.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. Founder send action, off this machine. Nothing on disk records an outbound send: no mail log, no sent-copy, no reply thread anywhere under /home/claude/projects/astrarad (grep for 'auntminnie' returns only the template in DOCS/action-center.html and the target list in seo/research/backlinks-2026-08-01.md). The outcome side is also unverifiable from here: AuntMinnie's vendor directory is behind a bot wall. WOULD SETTLE IT: the founder's sent-mail record to support@auntminnie.com, or an AstraRad company record visible in the AuntMinnie Teleradiology Subspecialty Interpretation directory checked from a normal browser.
Template is intact and still sendable; nothing in the last eight days changed the facts it quotes.
Subject: Inclusion in the ITN Teleradiology Services comparison chart
Hi Laura,
I am writing about the Teleradiology Services comparison chart on itnonline.com. We are
a US teleradiology practice that is not currently in the chart, and I would like to
understand how companies get added.
AstraRad, in the format the chart uses:
Company: AstraRad, https://astrarad.com
Coverage: 24/7/365
Report type: Final signed reports at every tier, including overnight
Turnaround tiers: STAT under 1 hour, Urgent under 4 hours, Routine under 24 hours
Measured STAT: 28-minute median, 99.4% SLA compliance, methodology published
Radiologists: 240 fellowship-trained subspecialists, US board-certified,
state licensed, with subspecialty-matched routing
Modalities: 12 study types, X-ray through PET-CT, including MRI,
mammography, PET-CT, SPECT-CT and nuclear medicine
Annual volume: Approximately 600,000 reads
Pricing model: Per report, no monthly minimums, no long-term contracts
Compliance: HIPAA business associate, signed BAAs with every client
Two questions:
1. What is the process for a company to be considered for the chart, and is there a
questionnaire you send out?
2. Is inclusion free, or is there a cost? I could not find that stated anywhere and
I would rather ask than assume.
I am also happy to talk to your editorial team about turnaround-time measurement more
generally. Very few vendors publish how they measure, and it is the single thing your
readers are least able to compare across the chart.
Thank you,
[Your name]
[Title], AstraRad
[Phone] | [your name]@astrarad.com
Can't tell from here, that email sits in your sent folder. Their comparison chart has not changed since 2021, so no deadline is being missed.
NextCheck your sent mail for laura.dowden@wainscotmedia.com, and if nothing is there, send the draft.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. Founder send action. No record of a send on this machine (grep 'wainscot' / 'itnonline' hits only the action-center template and the backlinks research file). I tried the outcome check: curl -sL https://www.itnonline.com/content/teleradiology-services returned 404, so I could not retrieve the comparison chart to look for AstraRad. WOULD SETTLE IT: the founder's sent-mail to laura.dowden@wainscotmedia.com, a reply from ITN editorial, or the live ITN Teleradiology Services chart (correct URL, fetched in a browser) showing an AstraRad row.
The template's own correction still holds: the chart roster has not changed across captures since 2021, so there is no deadline being missed.
Subject: Story pitch: nobody in teleradiology publishes how they measure turnaround time
Hi Marty,
Short pitch, no attachment, no press release.
Every teleradiology vendor advertises turnaround time. Almost none of them publish what
they are actually measuring. The numbers on vendor sites are usually averages with no
stated start event, no compliance rate and no date, which makes them impossible for a
hospital or imaging-center buyer to compare. Some vendors carry different numbers on
different pages of their own site.
That gap is the story. A buyer who wants to compare two vendors on turnaround has
literally nothing comparable to work with, and the SLA language in most contracts does
not fix it, because STAT inflation by ordering providers destroys any tier definition
before it is measured.
I run AstraRad, a US teleradiology practice: 240 fellowship-trained subspecialists,
about 600,000 reads a year, 24/7/365, final signed reports at every tier including
overnight. We publish a 28-minute median STAT turnaround and 99.4% SLA compliance, and,
more to the point, we publish the methodology behind both: median rather than average,
measured from a stated event to signed report, with the tier definitions written down.
What I can offer:
- Our full measurement methodology, on the record, including the definitions other
vendors leave out.
- A plain explanation of median versus mean versus P90 for turnaround reporting, and
why the choice changes the headline number more than performance does.
- The buyer-side version: the questions a facility can ask any vendor that force a
comparable answer.
I am not asking you to write about AstraRad. I am offering the data and the method for a
piece about how this industry reports performance. If it is more useful as a contributed
piece under my byline, or as background for something you write yourself, either works.
Thank you,
[Your name]
[Title], AstraRad
[Phone] | [your name]@astrarad.com
https://astrarad.com
Can't tell from here, only your sent folder shows if the Radiology Business pitch went out. No article has run, which proves nothing either way.
NextCheck your sent mail for mstempniak@innovatehealthcare.com, and expect silence, editorial pitches usually go unanswered.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. Founder send action. No send record on disk. Weak outcome signal only: wiki/log.md (2026-08-08 [MEASURE]) records that a retrieval sweep found exactly one off-site record of AstraRad, a recruiting post, which is where an earned Radiology Business piece would have shown up had one run. That is evidence about placement, not about whether the pitch was sent. WOULD SETTLE IT: the founder's sent-mail to mstempniak@innovatehealthcare.com, or a reply/published piece on radiologybusiness.com.
Do not read the absence of coverage as the pitch not being sent; editorial pitches usually go unanswered.
Subject: Addition to your teleradiology companies comparison Hello Medicai team, Your teleradiology companies comparison at blog.medicai.io is one of the few roundups in this space that is not written by a teleradiology company ranking itself first. That is why I am writing rather than pitching one of the vendor-owned lists. I run AstraRad, a US teleradiology practice, and we are not in the list. We are also not competitive with Medicai: you sell the imaging platform, we deliver the interpretations, so a facility that finds you through that page and needs reads is a facility we would send back to you for the PACS side. Details in whatever format suits the page: AstraRad, https://astrarad.com US teleradiology practice delivering final signed reports, 24/7/365. 240 fellowship-trained subspecialists, US board-certified and state licensed, with subspecialty-matched routing across 12 study types, X-ray through PET-CT. Approximately 600,000 reads per year. Three published turnaround tiers: STAT under 1 hour, Urgent under 4 hours, Routine under 24 hours. Measured 28-minute median STAT, 99.4% SLA compliance, with the measurement methodology published on the site. Per-report pricing with no monthly minimums and no long-term contracts. HIPAA business associate with signed BAAs. Two things that might make the entry more useful to your readers than a standard vendor blurb: we publish our turnaround measurement methodology, which almost nobody in this category does, and we publish state-by-state licensing guidance with primary sources, which is the question your readers most often cannot get answered. Happy to supply a logo, a shorter blurb, or answer anything you want to verify. Thank you, [Your name] [Title], AstraRad [Phone] | [your name]@astrarad.com
Can't tell from here, this one goes through a web form so there is no sent email to look for, and their roundup blocks us from reading it.
NextLook in your inbox for a form confirmation, and if there is none, fill in the Medicai contact form again.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. Founder action, and it goes through a web contact form rather than email, so there is no sent-mail artifact to look for even in principle. Outcome check attempted: curl -sL -A Mozilla https://blog.medicai.io/en/teleradiology-companies returned HTTP 403 (bot wall), zero 'astrarad' matches in the blocked response, so inconclusive. WOULD SETTLE IT: the founder's form-submission confirmation or Medicai's reply, or the Medicai teleradiology-companies roundup opened in a normal browser showing an AstraRad entry.
This exists to stop the brand getting burned. Radiology Reddit has a long memory for astroturfing, and the damage from one badly judged post outlasts anything a post could have earned.
Every angle in the content schedule came out of real threads, and that is the right use of the platform. Posting into it is a different question with a much worse risk profile, and the honest answer is that in most of these subreddits the correct number of promotional posts is zero.
r/medicine bans promotion outright. Their own moderation thread states the no-promotions rule includes no links to personal websites, blogs, video channels, surveys or petitions. Comments there are also gated behind credential verification, so an unverified account cannot participate at all. This is the subreddit with the highest-value purchase-intent threads, and it is the one where posting will do the most damage.
r/PACSAdmin is the most tolerant. Vendor employees self-identify there and it is normal. If there is ever a place to answer a technical question in public, it is that one, and the PACS integration article gives a genuine reason to be useful there.
Only a credential-verified radiologist or clinical lead from AstraRad should ever post, answering on the merits, disclosing the affiliation, with zero links unless someone directly asks. An agency or a marketing account posting in r/medicine or r/emergencymedicine will be identified and it will be remembered. The Reddit-wide 90/10 rule applies on top of all of this: at least nine non-promotional contributions for every one that mentions your own company, and that ratio is a floor, not a target.
One caveat about the research itself, so nobody over-reads it: Reddit was IP-blocked from the research host, so upvote and comment counts could not be retrieved and must never be fabricated. Thread dates are estimates derived from submission-ID sequence and are accurate to within a month or two, though relative ordering is reliable. Every title, URL and quoted snippet in the schedule is real and was actually retrieved.
Rows hidden by the current filter are still counted in the totals above.
The plan for getting AstraRad cited by Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI answers over the next 90 days, adapted from the 14K-citations playbook to what is already built here. Most of the early steps are done: the 15 buyer questions exist (section 3), all 64 pages were rewritten on 1 August with direct answers, quotable section openers, comparison tables and honest limits, and the publishing cron ships two to three pages a week through December. What remains is measurement you own, backlinks (section 2), and a monthly feedback loop against the baseline in section 3. Where the original playbook says Distribb, this stack already covers it: the content pipeline drafts, the cron publishes, the backlinks guide replaces the link exchange, and the baseline table is the citation tracker.Now: The rewrite was written on 1 August but only reached the live site on 8 August, the corpus has tripled to 180 pages, and publishing runs three a week through 17 February 2027. Two wrong facts in one sentence. The rewrite was written on 1 August but only reached production on 8 August, and the calendar no longer stops in December — it runs to 2027-02-17 after the 09 August respread and geo wave. wiki/features/seo-session-state.md "RESOLVED 2026-08-08: the rewrite shipped" (verified against production, not inferred). DOCS/content-schedule.html: "Cadence 3/wk Mon, Wed, Fri 09:00", 180 articles. content-inventory.json max publishDate 2027-02-17.Why this changed
Done, with a gap. All 55 pages are live and linked, the nine main pages read cleanly, the 15 questions are saved, but their recording table has no Date or Country column.
NextAsk me to add Date and Country columns to the recording table, the run of the 15 questions is its own item below.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. I tried to break this and could not. The original evidence sampled one page and cited a local script for the linking gate, so I re-derived both from production. Fetched all 55 sitemap URLs: 55/55 returned 200, none redirected. Built the internal link graph from the fetched HTML with scripts stripped: 0 orphans (every live URL has at least one inbound link from another live URL), and only 6 off-sitemap hrefs, all resolving — /book-a-call 302, /contact/thank-you 200, /for-radiologists/apply/thank-you 200, /login 200, both /assets/fonts/*.woff2 200. So the hub-and-spoke claim is true in production, not just enforced by frontend/scripts/postbuild-seo.mjs. Both directions confirmed: /use-cases links all five spokes, /resources links all four comparison pages, and each spoke's BreadcrumbList points back at a hub that now resolves (BC on /use-cases/stat-radiology-reads = Home -> 'Use cases' https://astrarad.com/use-cases -> 'STAT Radiology Reads'; leaf names are human-readable, not raw title tags, so both 2026-08-08 audit findings are closed live). Across all nine target pages (5 use-case + 4 comparison): exactly 1 <h1> each, a self-referential rel=canonical, a meta description, a rendered 'Updated 9 August 2026', and 34k-52k chars of script-stripped prerendered text. Direct-answer openers and honest-limits sentences verified by reading the prose, not by keyword count — e.g. nighthawk: 'a remote panel cannot perform on-site procedures...'; overflow: 'AstraRad is the wrong tool for that job.' robots.txt 200 with Content-Signal inside the User-agent:* group and app-area Disallows; sitemap.xml 200. The 15 buyer questions are present with a recording table at DOCS/action-center.html:1101 (columns Prompt | Engine | AstraRad mentioned | Position | Sources cited); grep -o 'data-key="astrarad-ac-v1:baseline:prompt-[^"]*"' | sort -u | wc -l = 15.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. Three corrections. (1) The row understates itself: it says 'four use-case pages plus two comparison pages'; production serves five use-case pages plus a /use-cases hub, and four comparison pages. (2) One slug in that set was renamed: https://astrarad.com/use-cases/stat-reads-under-30-minutes now returns 301 -> https://astrarad.com/use-cases/stat-radiology-reads (observed). (3) The Reference block's '34 sitemap URLs' is stale; the live sitemap carries 55.
Keep it ticked, with two caveats the row's prose overstates. 'Carries one comparison table where the topic supports one' has a live counterexample: https://astrarad.com/resources/locum-radiologist-vs-teleradiology serves 0 <table> elements despite being the head-to-head page whose title is 'Locum Radiologist vs Teleradiology: Fixed vs Variable Cost' — it compares in prose only; the other 8 pages carry 1-3 tables each. And 'playbook step 1 is complete' is only half true: the questions are saved, but the baseline has never been run (playbook:baseline-now and first:ai-baseline are both still unticked and flagged TIME-CRITICAL), and the recording table has no Date or Country column even though the row's own text at line 2442 says step 1 requires saving 'the exact wording, date, engine and country'. Also worth knowing: 'a real update date' is a blanket stamp — all 180 content files carry updated: 2026-08-09 and every page renders the same date, so it signals the last bulk touch rather than a per-page revision.
The original 31 July instruction, kept for the record
The playbook's steps 1, 2 (audit half), 4 and 5 are complete: 15 saved buyer questions with exact wording (section 3), titles, descriptions, sitemap, robots, canonicals and prerendering shipped 31 July, four use-case pages plus two comparison pages are live, and every page now opens with a direct answer an engine can quote, carries one comparison table where the topic supports one, an honest-limits sentence, and a real update date. The hub-and-spoke linking (one guide, five to seven supporting pages, linked both ways) is enforced by the build's dangling-link and forward-link gates.
Copilot citations are measured in Bing Webmaster Tools, not Google Search Console. Sign in with a Microsoft account, add astrarad.com (you can import from GSC once that exists), verify by DNS TXT at GoDaddy, submit the sitemap. The AI Performance report inside it shows impressions and citations across Copilot and Bing AI answers. This is the only free instrument that shows the thing this whole playbook optimizes.
Can't tell from here, Bing can be set up by importing from Google and that leaves no trace on the site, so only your Bing dashboard settles it.
NextOpen Bing Webmaster Tools and import the site from Google Search Console, it takes a few minutes.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. Site-side signals are all negative but none is conclusive. https://astrarad.com/BingSiteAuth.xml -> 404. No msvalidate.01 meta in the live homepage HTML (grep -o 'msvalidate[^>]*' on the fetched page: no match). No 'msvalidate' / 'BingSiteAuth' / 'bing webmaster' string anywhere in frontend/src, frontend/scripts or frontend/public. dig +short TXT astrarad.com returns only 'google-site-verification=6XJWVOqHL_73fhFXhzp_nkOeOYf6K-6FqJAFsKwUlw0' and the SPF record, no Bing token. HOWEVER Bing Webmaster Tools can be verified by importing the property from Google Search Console, which leaves no XML file, no meta tag and no DNS record, so absence of all three is not proof. WOULD SETTLE IT: a screenshot of the Bing Webmaster Tools dashboard or the AI Performance report for astrarad.com, or a Bing WMT API key in the founder's hands.
The GSC side is already verified by DNS TXT, so the import route is available and takes minutes.
Playbook step 1 says save the exact wording, date, engine and country of each test, and never change the question between runs. That is exactly the recording table in section 3. Run all 15 prompts in Copilot, ChatGPT and Perplexity, record recommended or not, cited or not, and which exact URL. This was already flagged as unrecoverable if it slips; the 1 August rewrite makes it more urgent, since the new pages will start moving answers once indexed.
Not done. Nobody has asked the 15 buyer questions in ChatGPT, Perplexity or Copilot yet, so we have no starting numbers to improve on.
NextSet aside an hour, ask all 15 questions in each engine, and type the answers into the table on this page.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. No baseline results exist anywhere. grep -rliE 'perplexity|copilot' over seo/, DOCS/ and wiki/ returns only planning and strategy documents (seo/context/ai-citation-targets.md, seo/research/backlinks-2026-08-01.md, DOCS/action-center.html, DOCS/backlinks-guide.html, wiki/features/seo-session-state.md, wiki/log.md) and no results file, table or dated capture. find over the repo for any file matching *baseline* returns only seo/baseline-head.json, seo/build-baseline.mjs and frontend/scripts/content-baseline.json, all of which are the CONTENT gate baseline (title/description lengths keyed to commit 4fb47a3b), not an AI-citation baseline. Positive statement in the project's own current record: wiki/features/seo-session-state.md:306, in the 'Not founder-blocked, but still open' list of the section republished today, still reads 'AI citation baseline for the 15 prompts.'
The 15 baseline checkboxes being unchecked in ac-items.json is NOT evidence either way; the wiki records that localStorage tick state never migrated from the old 401'd origin, so the page starts at 2 of 111 regardless.
The five free profiles with no human gatekeeper, in the order listed in section 2, using the copy-paste assets in the backlinks guide (descriptions, categories, logo specs are all pre-written). These are the machine-readable company records Copilot and Bing lean on for who is this company questions.
Not done. The site links to no company profile at all. That half is provable; whether the profiles exist is not, and the LinkedIn company page has been verified live.
NextSend me the LinkedIn page link plus any other profiles you made, then ask an engineer to wire the site to them.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. Positive site-side evidence that none of the five entity records has been wired up: the live MedicalOrganization JSON-LD on https://astrarad.com/ (200) has no sameAs key at all (parsed the @graph: MedicalOrganization sameAs = null, WebSite sameAs = null), and 'sameAs' does not appear anywhere in frontend/src (grep -rn 'sameAs' frontend/src --include=*.ts returns nothing). The project's own current sequence confirms the profiles themselves do not exist yet: wiki/features/seo-session-state.md:88 still lists 'Create the LinkedIn company page' as step 2 of the founder sequence, gated behind step 1 (regenerate the two logo files, both wrongly opaque), with step 3 'Wire sameAs to it. Pointing at nothing is worse than empty, which is why it is empty.' Direct profile probes are bot-blocked and gave nothing: linkedin.com/company/astrarad returns HTTP 999 with an authwall body and zero 'astrarad' matches; crunchbase.com, clutch.co and goodfirms.co all return 403 to curl.
Only the site-to-profile half is provable from here. If the founder has quietly created a profile, it is not linked from the site, which is most of the value for Copilot and Bing entity resolution.
The Mon/Wed/Fri publisher cron ships the scheduled calendar through late December with integrity gates and rollback. 28 Wave 3 drafts still need writing before their dates arrive (section 4); ranks 3, 5 and 8 first, since their regulatory hooks expire.Now: There are no unwritten drafts left. All 180 pages exist with real text, 140 of them dated ahead to 2027-02-17. The live risk is now pages going public before anyone has read them. There are no outstanding drafts. The 09 August content session wrote 30 new articles and revised all 66 existing ones, then the geo session added 90 more; every one of the 140 future-dated pages exists on disk with a body. The backlog this warns about was cleared, and the 'regulatory hooks expire' urgency no longer applies to anything unwritten. content-inventory.json: 180 entries, all carrying slug/title/publishDate; 140 with publishDate > 2026-08-09. DOCS/content-schedule.html: "Queued 143 scheduled, not yet public. Total words 377k across 180 articles." wiki/log.md 2026-08-09 [BUILD]: "30 new articles written, all 66 existing pages revised, and the entire library respread"; and the geo entry: "50 US states and 40 metros written, 90 pages, ~158,000 words".Why this changed
Not done, and this was ticked by mistake. The automatic publisher last ran on 7 August, failed and undid itself, everything live since went up by hand.
NextAn engineer must watch Monday 9am and confirm it publishes, the fix that makes that run safe is not even saved yet.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. The original evidence conflates 'pages that are live' with 'the cron published them'. I checked the cron itself. (1) Its own log ends in failure and has not been written since: tail -3 /var/log/astrarad/publish.log -> '[2026-08-07 09:02:09] ROLLING BACK to 6a72dffdc568ff56b4f7ccfe / rollback done / RESULT rolledback', and stat -c '%y' /var/log/astrarad/publish.log -> 2026-08-07 09:02:12. No entry for 08-09. (2) Production's current content did NOT come from the cron. The cron builds from origin/main and its last two runs both built '@ 8d962c06', emitting sitemaps of 37 and 38 URLs; production right now serves 55 (curl -s https://astrarad.com/sitemap.xml | grep -c '<loc>' = 55, all with lastmod 2026-08-09). Live robots.txt is byte-identical to the committed HEAD (git show HEAD:frontend/public/robots.txt diffs clean against the live fetch), and HEAD is 27e3a30 committed 2026-08-09 18:44:25 — i.e. production was deployed by hand today, hours after a Sunday with no cron slot. (3) The script says so itself, seo/publish-scheduled.sh:145-149: 'on 2026-08-09 the audit closure reached production by hand while origin/main sat 7 commits behind, so the very next scheduled run would have rebuilt the pre-audit surface from origin and quietly regressed every shipped fix.' (4) The cron publishes exactly one page per run — all three log entries read 'publishing 1 new page(s)' — so its ceiling is 3/week, and the actual last week was 2 published + 1 rolled back. (5) The regression guard that makes the next run safe is uncommitted: git status --porcelain -> ' M seo/publish-scheduled.sh', git diff --stat HEAD -> 35 insertions, 11 deletions. It exists only in the working tree; a checkout or reset removes it silently. (6) The log begins 2026-08-03 (directory ctime Aug 3 09:00), so there is no evidence of this cadence running for longer than one week, and that one week ended in a rollback. 'The cron already does this' is not confirmed: the mechanism's most recent action was a failed deploy, and the cadence users actually see was carried by manual deploys.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. Two facts in the row note are stale, and the section lede repeats one of them. 'ships the scheduled calendar through late December' — grep -rh '^publish:' frontend/src/content/pages | sort | tail -1 = 2027-02-17 across 154 scheduled pages. '28 Wave 3 drafts still need writing' — grep -rl '^draft: true' frontend/src/content/pages returns 1 file (frontend/src/content/pages/resources/who-bills-the-teleradiology-read.md). DOCS/action-center.html:2410 also still says 'the publishing cron ships two to three pages a week through December'; the cron ships at most one page per run.
Untick this. The next scheduled run is Mon 2026-08-10 09:00 and it will be the first since the 08-07 rollback; re-tick only after a run logs RESULT published. Separately, today's external-SEO remediation (robots.txt llms.txt pointer, netlify.toml icon cache headers, index.html, home and contact components) is uncommitted and is NOT in production — live robots.txt matches HEAD, not the working tree.
Playbook step 7: when a competitor is recommended through a best-of list, another blog post on your own site does not fix it; getting added to that list does. The backlinks guide carries the expanded target list with a ready three-sentence pitch per page (gap named, sourced blurb offered, no payment). Prioritize any source URL the baseline run shows Copilot actually citing. Never pitch competitor-owned lists.
Can't tell from here, those pitches live in your sent folder. AstraRad appears in none of the roundups that currently answer buyer questions.
NextPitch once the site links to your LinkedIn page, then keep a simple list of who you contacted and when.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. Founder send action, three pitches a week, off this machine. No sent-mail, no reply thread and no outreach tracker exists in the repo; seo/research/backlinks-2026-08-01.md is the target list with no status column filled in. The only signal is about outcomes, not sends: wiki/log.md (2026-08-08 [MEASURE]) records that non-brand buyer queries are answered by third-party listicles (Vesta, StatRad, TopRad, Amradnet, All American Teleradiology, 'Top 7 Teleradiology Companies in the US 2026') 'and AstraRad appears in none of them', and wiki/features/seo-session-state.md still carries 'Directory listings and press outreach, 33 verified targets' in its open list. Pitches can be sent and refused, so that is not proof of no send. WOULD SETTLE IT: the founder's sent-mail folder for the week, or an outreach tracker with dates per target.
The playbook's own sequencing argues against starting this yet: the founder sequence says approach listicle authors only after a company record exists, and sameAs is still empty.
Journalists ask, you answer as the teleradiology operations expert, they link. The backlinks guide covers the free platforms that replaced HARO and the spokesperson positioning (leadership speaks; no physician is ever named). Two thoughtful answers a week beats ten generic ones.
Can't tell from here, only you know whether you signed up for the two expert quote platforms, nothing on this machine records an account.
NextSend me the two profile links if you signed up, otherwise sign up, the spokesperson wording is already agreed.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. Founder account signup, off this machine. No expert-quote platform profile URL, login note or answered-request record appears anywhere in the repo (the HARO-successor platforms are described only as targets in seo/research/backlinks-2026-08-01.md and DOCS/backlinks-guide.html). The one adjacent positive signal is negative and indirect: the live Organization JSON-LD carries no sameAs, so no earned profile has been linked back. WOULD SETTLE IT: the two platform profile URLs or account confirmation emails, plus one published answer with its outbound link.
Spokesperson positioning is already settled in the backlinks guide (leadership speaks, no physician is ever named), so nothing on this machine blocks the founder from starting.
Playbook step 8, scoped honestly: LinkedIn is the one channel where AstraRad's buyer (imaging center administrators, practice managers) reads B2B content, and the company page is a week-one deliverable. Say the word and each week's published pages become drafted posts for review. Reddit and Quora participation has strict authenticity norms in medical subreddits; the backlinks guide covers what is allowed before any posting happens.
Not done. No social posts have been drafted from any published page. Eleven pages have gone live since 31 July with no repurposing pass.
NextAsk me to draft the posts now, eleven published pages are waiting and the LinkedIn company page is already live.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. Owner is Claude and the trigger is 'on request'; it was never triggered and no output exists. seo/drafts/ is empty (ls | wc -l = 0). No LinkedIn post draft exists anywhere: grep -rli 'linkedin post|linkedin draft' across the repo returns only DOCS/action-center.html (this item's own text) and DOCS/archive/site-review-2026-08-08.html. grep -rli 'linkedin' over frontend/src/content and seo/ hits only research and planning files (competitor-analysis.md, backlinks-2026-08-01.md, ai-citation-targets.md, build-geo-plan.mjs), no post copy. The destination channel also does not exist yet: wiki/features/seo-session-state.md:88 still lists 'Create the LinkedIn company page' as a pending founder step.
Eleven pages have published since 31 July with no repurposing pass, so there is a backlog to draft the moment the company page exists.
A page at position 11 already has impressions; a new URL has none. Blocked until Search Console exists (section 1) and has roughly eight weeks of data. Then: pull pages with impressions at average position 8 to 20, check title against the buyer's words, answer in the first paragraph, freshness, one table, and the link to its hub guide, and update the same URL. Never replace the URL.
Not done, and not due yet. Search Console is set up for the domain, but the first page went live nine days ago, so there is no traffic history to read.
NextSubmit the sitemap in Search Console now, the report itself is a late September job.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. Correctly not yet due, and its stated blocker is now only half true. Search Console does exist: dig +short TXT astrarad.com returns 'google-site-verification=6XJWVOqHL_73fhFXhzp_nkOeOYf6K-6FqJAFsKwUlw0', so a GSC property is DNS-verified for the domain. What is still missing is the data and the access: wiki/features/seo-session-state.md:307 records 'GA4 is installed (G-ZX4LWWWLJL, committed). Remaining: GSC sitemap submission and API credentials' (GA4 confirmed live - the tag G-ZX4LWWWLJL is in the homepage HTML I fetched). The eight weeks of impression data the item requires cannot exist yet: the first content page published 2026-07-31, nine days ago, so the earliest honest run is late September at the very soonest.
What the row used to say, and why it was wrong. The row note's blocker line 'Blocked until Search Console exists (section 1)' should read: GSC property is verified by DNS TXT; what remains is sitemap submission, API credentials, and roughly eight weeks of accumulated data.
Writers cite checked numbers, and cited numbers become backlinks without outreach. A single page of teleradiology and imaging statistics (shortage figures, imaging volume growth, turnaround benchmarks), every number attributed to a named external source with a date, updated quarterly. Industry numbers only; AstraRad's own figures stay in the SLA page. Needs a slot on the calendar and a cannibalization check against the coverage map before drafting; the schedule has no free Mon/Wed/Fri slot before late October, which is the right timing anyway.
Not done. There is no industry statistics page. The facts page only carries our own numbers, which is a different thing, and no slot is booked.
NextAsk me to book a publishing slot for it, nothing is scheduled today.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. No such page exists live or in the pipeline. https://astrarad.com/resources/teleradiology-statistics -> 404 and https://astrarad.com/statistics -> 404. None of the 55 URLs in the live sitemap is a statistics page. No slug containing 'statistic' exists among the 180 local content files (searched content-inventory.json) nor among the 154 scheduled 'publish:' entries in frontend/src/content/pages. seo/content-calendar-2026-08-09.json contains zero occurrences of the string 'statistic'. The item's own precondition ('needs a slot on the calendar... no free Mon/Wed/Fri slot before late October') is still unmet: no slot has been allocated.
Watch for a false positive here. https://astrarad.com/facts returns 200 ('AstraRad Facts and Figures: Every Number We Publish, Dated', last updated 9 August) and repo docs such as seo/context/internal-links-map.md:136 call /sla 'the canonical stats page'. Both carry only AstraRad's own figures cross-checked against /sla, which is exactly what this item excludes: it asks for industry numbers, each attributed to a named external source with a date. That page does not exist.
Same questions, same wording, first of the month, recorded next to the baseline in section 3. Then match result to action: no page cited means publish or extend the page that answers it (check the coverage map first; the known risk in this cluster is cannibalization, not absence). Page ranks but is not cited means shorten the answer and add sources. Brand cited but not recommended means add product-fit proof. Competitor wins through a listicle means email that listicle, it is already in the outreach list. Do not publish five versions of the same article; fix the one thing the result points to.
Not done, and it cannot start yet, there is nothing to compare against until the 15 questions have been asked once.
Nothing to do until that first run happens, then repeat it a month later.
What was checked on 9 August 2026. Structurally blocked by the baseline never having run. There is nothing to rerun and no delta to act on: grep -rliE 'perplexity|copilot' across seo/, DOCS/ and wiki/ turns up only planning documents and no dated result capture, first-of-month or otherwise, and wiki/features/seo-session-state.md:306 (section republished today) still lists the AI citation baseline as open. The first rerun cannot legitimately happen earlier than one month after a baseline that has not been taken.
The mechanism it depends on is ready - the 15 prompts with exact saved wording are in the artifact (30 data-key occurrences for 15 prompts) and the result-to-action mapping is written. Only the founder's 60-minute baseline run is missing.
passed / (checks - neutral) and webBotAuth is neutral, not a failure, so the denominator is 14. Still Level 5 Agent-Native, and the single non-pass (DNS-AID) is now a declined decision rather than an open task. The right numbers are 58 sitemap pages, 58 built pages and 17 kinds of structured data. Physician markup is no longer used anywhere since the invented profiles came down.All three counts are wrong. The sitemap carries 55 URLs, the last local build emitted 58 prerendered index.html files, and the schema surface is far wider than five types — while one of the five named (Physician) is no longer emitted anywhere, because the invented physician profiles were removed.
curl -s https://astrarad.com/sitemap.xml | grep -c "<loc>" -> 55. find frontend/dist -name index.html | wc -l -> 58. JSON-LD @type sweep over 7 live pages (/, /services, /resources/teleradiology-cost, /licensing, /sla, /locations/austin, /use-cases) returns the 17 types listed and zero Physician nodes, including on /our-radiologists.
The companion-documents card lists only the three 31 July reports, all of which have since been moved to DOCS/archive/ and superseded. It names none of the six current reports produced in the last two days, and it predates the DOCS index that now exists as the hub. The links themselves still resolve, so the failure is silent: a reader gets a coherent-looking but eight-day-old picture.
ls DOCS/ shows all of the above; ls DOCS/archive/ shows seo-strategy-2026-07-31.html, seo-audit.html, seo-audit-after.html, measurement-setup.html, audit-2026-08-08.html, site-review-2026-08-08.html. HTTP checks: astrarad-artifacts.xdvu.com/DOCS/archive/seo-audit.html -> 200, /DOCS/backlinks-guide.html -> 200. DOCS/index.html: "Every current report, plan and tracker for astrarad.com, served from the repo."
seo/research/, all five research files: the listings research, the link-status three-state verification, the Reddit themes with their method caveats, the 25 closed verification questions with the 13-week schedule, and the keyword and competitor synthesis.Now: There are ten research files now, not five, and the content folders have grown to 50 state pages, 40 city pages and a careers set, which is the biggest content family on the site.There are ten files in seo/research/ now, not five, and the directory-layout sentence next to it is also out of date: frontend/src/content/pages/ has gained locations/ (40 metro pages) and careers/ (3), and licensing/ went from 7 to 50. Anyone using this as the repo map will miss the largest content family on the site.
ls seo/research/ -> 10 files. ls frontend/src/content/pages/ -> careers, compliance.md, licensing, licensing.md, locations, privacy.md, resources, services, sla.md, terms.md, use-cases. ls frontend/src/content/pages/licensing | wc -l -> 50; .../locations | wc -l -> 40.
DOCS/, the before and after on-page SEO audits and the measurement setup notes.frontend/src/content/pages/, the markdown source for every page on the site, organised as services/, use-cases/, resources/, licensing/, plus sla.md and compliance.md.Content no longer sits as unpublished commits awaiting review. Files are committed with a publishDate and the Mon/Wed/Fri cron publishes them from origin/main on that date automatically. The review gate the sentence describes does not exist.
DOCS/content-schedule.html: "Regenerated on each scheduled publish. Last run 2026-08-09T14:40:08Z ... Cadence 3/wk Mon, Wed, Fri 09:00 ... Next to publish, 2026-08-10 (in 1 days)". wiki/index.md: "scheduled publishing (ships from origin/main)".
35 prerendered pages means every page is served as real HTML rather than assembled by JavaScript in the browser, which is what makes them readable to crawlers and answer engines. 34 sitemap URLs is what Search Console will ingest once the property exists. 5 schema types are the structured-data blocks (MedicalOrganization, Service, FAQPage, Physician and the page-level markup) that let an engine quote the site with attribution. Agent readiness at 13 of 14 is the Cloudflare agent-readiness scan (the denominator is 14 because the Web Bot Auth check scores neutral rather than failing), and the single non-pass is DNS-AID, which was declined on 15 August 2026 rather than left open, so the section 1 row is marked superseded. The on-page audit went from 48 percent to 77 percent against the same checklist, and the remaining gap is mostly analytics, which unblocks as soon as the GA4 id arrives.Now: That score is out of date and so is the reason given. The site audit reads about 70 out of 100 and the content and on page score went 70 to 88 on 9 August. Analytics is no longer the gap. Superseded twice over. There are now two scored instruments, both newer than this figure: the standing site audit reads 72/100 built and ~70 production, and the narrower content/on-page instrument measured 70 at audit and 88 after the same-evening fix round. And the stated cause of the remaining gap is wrong — GA4 arrived and is live, so analytics is no longer what holds the score down. DOCS/onpage-content-seo-2026-08-09.html: "48 findings raised, 46 survived ... fix round applied and re-scored the same evening: 70 at audit, 88 after". DOCS/audit-2026-08-09.html: "Production, as it stands tonight ~70 / 100, 52 -> ~70, up 18". GA4 live: Why this changed
G-ZX4LWWWLJL in the homepage HTML.
The footer date contradicts the header stamp (2 August) and both are now eight or more days behind the state of the project. With two different dates in one document and neither current, there is no reliable signal of how much of the page to trust.
Line 314 stamp says "Last updated 2 August 2026"; line 2571 footer says "Generated 31 July 2026". Both precede the 08-08 rewrite ship, the 08-09 audit, the 30-article respread, the 90-page geo family and the two URL renames, all recorded in wiki/log.md entries dated 2026-08-08 and 2026-08-09.