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project bv silent fire diagnostic 2026-04-30

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What "silent fire" actually was today

The 2026-04-30 13:06 UTC daily-BV run was NOT silent. It:

Why it looked silent:
1. Heartbeat filename used the bare-name pattern daily-beenverified-enrichment_<ISO>.json — invisible to system_hygiene.sh's primary glob (FIXED today via defensive double-glob).
2. Heartbeat JSON had task_id: null, started_at: null, timestamp: null, last_run_at: null — broke build_pwa.py:328 which keys on task_id. Result: BV vanished from PWA heartbeat panel.
3. The summary field DID say "4/4 leads processed" but no consumer checks summary as authoritative.

FIXED: my wave-1 patch added explicit Step 9b to the BV skill specifying:

The next BV run (tomorrow 6am MDT) will write a properly-shaped heartbeat. If it doesn't, the BV skill itself is bypassing Step 9b — escalate.

The deeper blocker — flag #19/#33 — BV View-button unresponsive

This is the REAL throughput problem, separate from the heartbeat silence:

DateOutcomePattern
2026-04-27 12:00Z1/12 (NO_MATCH on R037764)"context cost per lead too high for 12"
2026-04-28 00:45ZerrorBV auth expired
2026-04-28 12:09Z2/12 (Truax + Kearney)"10 not processed due to per-lead context cost"
2026-04-28 16:17Z4/4 (manual interactive)Joseph at keyboard helped
2026-04-29 12:09Z1/12 (R062660 HS phone sync)"BV View-button unresponsive blocked further auto-runs"
2026-04-30 13:06Z4/4 (entity-only SoS substitutes)0 actual BV report consumption
Root cause (per Apr 29 heartbeat verbatim): "BV View-button unresponsive — chrome_bridge.click finds the button but BeenVerified's SPA doesn't hydrate the click handler reliably; force-reload of the report page (Step 5e) helps inconsistently."

Throughput math:

Three concrete next-step options (Joseph decision)

Option A — accept the entity-only SoS substitute path (status quo)

Option B — fix the BV View-button hydration (engineering)

Option C — switch enrichment vendor (strategic)

Recommended path (my read)

Short-term: Option A. The system is currently delivering the high-leverage subset (entity-owned leads have higher conversion potential than individual-owned because LLC/Trust ownership correlates with investor-mindset prospects). 4 leads/day of entity-pull is non-zero throughput.

Medium-term: Option B as a 2-hour engineering sprint when Joseph has bandwidth. Specifically: re-test View button with hydration-aware wait + URL-direct fallback.

Long-term: Option C — but only after Phase 2 lead-gen layer (Owner Point / Vintory) is being evaluated for unrelated reasons. Don't switch BV in isolation; bundle with the Phase 2 vendor decision.

Heartbeat schema verification path

Tomorrow morning (2026-05-01 ~6:00am MDT), check:

bash
ls -t ~/Library/Application\ Support/SkyRun/health/beenverified | head -1 | xargs python3 -c '
import json, sys
d = json.load(open(sys.argv[1]))
required = ["task_id", "status", "timestamp", "last_run_at"]
missing = [k for k in required if d.get(k) is None]
print(f"Heartbeat: {sys.argv[1].split(\"/\")[-1]}")
print(f"Missing required fields: {missing or \"none\"}")
print(f"Schema compliance: {\"OK\" if not missing else \"FAIL — BV skill bypassing Step 9b\"}")
' /dev/stdin

If that prints "FAIL," the BV skill is not honoring the Step 9b heartbeat spec and needs investigation.

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