Five commits shipped the Guide's first schema migration and rewrote both pilot entries to a lighter register. Disk-canonical schema, two worked examples, roadmap that resists drift.
Five commits across guide-builder. d5b6fe3 snapshotted the apr 27 editorial state before touching anything — clean baseline before migration. a043cb8 did the schema work: config.ts migrated from a 10-value DMO category enum (hotel/restaurant/civic-institution) to an 11-value founder-shaped one (work/housing/family/health/outdoors/stays/dining/shopping/culture/community/civic). New funnelStages field added as optional array enum (visit/retreat/satellite/relocate/build). city enum appended with adjacent-communities. ecae18a cleaned ROADMAP.md of stale active-drafts, created the CHANGELOG section, added six new trigger entries with abstraction-source naming, and extended _TEMPLATE.md with the tags kebab-case rule.
2434a94 rewrote both pilot entries to a lighter monocle register. DCF reduced from 5 FAQs to 3 — new satellite-stage FAQ added, fiscal-sponsorship and network FAQs removed, scholarship-creation suggestion cut. CVGD reduced from 5 FAQs to 4 with a structural correction at the editorial center: the campaign is a ~30-day arc culminating on the first Tuesday of March, not a 24-hour day. Giving Tuesday Leadership Council membership surfaced. New founder/startup network-leverage FAQ added. 7a531c0 bumped datePublished to 2026-05-01 and dateModified to 2026-05-12 on both entries.
Also authored: CITIES_AND_COMMUNITIES.md as canonical geography reference with unincorporated-community subsumption rule. Token cost wasn't the rewrites — it was nine rounds of progressive recon reading the same files repeatedly. config.ts, DCF, and CVGD each came back into context 4–6 times. Single thorough initial recon outperforms progressive recon when the same files keep returning.