Weekly Reviews · Totem Terminal
2026 · Editorial Archive

A running ledger of what shipped, what slowed, and what carried forward.

Each week's review is generated from session records, git log, and TaskNotes — composed Friday, deployed in place. Newest first.

Archive
2026 · Week 25 June 15 – 21, 2026

The week passing the linters stopped meaning a report was done.

Ten sessions shipped seven client cold reads and briefs, and four of them taught the same lesson — a report can clear every automated gate and still read like slop — so voice enforcement moved to write time and became ShurIQ slash commands, a guard hook, and a hard gate before ship.

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2026 · Week 23 June 1 – 7, 2026

The week the grammar grew its own enforcement and a client said the thesis out loud.

Seven recorded sessions and a nine-arc Thursday carried eight project areas: nine intelligence reports shipped through adversarial fact-checks, Thomas Olmsted confirmed the DBM integration-fear read on the first client call, and an overnight refactor fixed the wrong-repo sync cron and cut .git from 1.9G to 667M.

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Session Review · 2026-06-05 Friday build log · for the 10:00 review

The session a repetitive paragraph became a grammar rule, a linter, and a deploy.

One brief broke on a section that said the same thing five times; a five-agent audit turned the fix into ShurIQ grammar v0.7 (R-DIST.1 + R-PROG.1), shipped a zero-cost headline linter to the studio app, and left a clean public IES Holdings brief live behind the gate.

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2026 · Week 22 May 25 – 31, 2026

The week the report pipeline became an agent that runs itself.

Ten sessions carried six projects: the first production Managed Agent in the Totem ecosystem went live and autonomous, Limore Shur's book lineage was recovered and reshipped across three sites, and a vault-hygiene toolkit was built and run in a single morning.

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2026 · Week 21 May 18 – 24, 2026

The week one session built a brief, tore it down by noon, and rebuilt it on the canonical pipeline.

A single six-hour Monday produced the AXIV intelligence brief through an over-scoped first draft and a clean teardown — then the vault went quiet for six days.

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2026 · Week 20 May 11 – 17, 2026

The week 36 hours of work compressed into three days, and a single client call seeded the recurring-revenue product architecture.

Monday through Wednesday produced 12 sessions across 10 projects; Thursday through Sunday went silent. Kristine Hagedorn's Tuesday call made the two-surface thesis legible — quarterly Intelligence Brief plus weekly Brand Dashboard — and Wednesday's 12-hour overnight build shipped the first pilot at ShurIQ Brand Dashboard Gateway.

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2026 · Week 19 May 4 – 10, 2026

The week the manual pipeline ran twice in one day, then taught the studio to enforce its own grammar.

Monday produced two full reports against the v0.4 grammar in a single 16-hour double session; Thursday's three-agent parallel encoded v0.6's R-LINTs into the ShurIQ runtime; Friday's four-voice synthesis distilled 180+ candidate lines into the ServiceTitan v05 brief.

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Build Report · 2026-05-12 Mid-week ship log

What we shipped Tuesday: ShurIQ v0.7 data model, AHA composite knowledge-graph viewer, AHA Business Model Canvas.

Studio runtime fixed and verified on v0.6 grammar. v0.7 schema merged into master. New /projects/:id/composite route with three modes. Four AHA knowledge-graph layers seeded. AHA BMC overlay v0.1 applies the Fiserv method.

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2026 · Week 18 Apr 27 – May 3, 2026

The week ShurIQ Report Studio went live and the motion library became permanent infrastructure.

Stage 1a shipped Monday; the Cavalry library skillified Wednesday; Friday the autoresearch pipeline got unfrozen, the V3 grammar prep landed, and the editorial-tan canvas became canonical.

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2026 · Week 17 Apr 20 – 26, 2026

The week the studio crossed from grammar to architecture.

Five sessions across three days produced a frozen v0.2a grammar, an interrogated SDP, and a complete Fiserv intelligence package — the parallel-agent pattern delivered cohesive multi-artifact output without manual stitching.

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