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Collection began 2026-07-05. Seventh issue: 6,228 devices and 464 identified people, up from 4,283 and 336 at day forty-six, 3,061 and 245 at day thirty-two. The upstream ingest pause disclosed at the prior issue has backfilled, so the beacon window and the humanness read both run through the issue date. On 2026-07-18, tag delivery moved from direct GTM tags to the audiencepassport loader; the change is disclosed in the claims ledger. Figures accumulate as the instrument runs; nothing is projected.

Resolution is deterministic cookie-to-identity matching against a 274M-person US identity graph. The unresolved remainder is reported, not discarded: the rate itself is part of the measurement.

On-page fingerprinting by FouAnalytics; dashboard read 2026-09-26. Automated read from the dashboard chart.json endpoint (labels no/noish=human 4283, yes/yesish=suspect 1034, declared+search=474, not-enough-data=406; mapping validated vs 2026-07-13 manual dashboard read). Prior manual read 2026-07-13: 74.4% human on 924 pv. Declared crawlers are reported as a distinct signal, not dismissed as fraud: in the agentic era, AI agents visiting a property are a leading indicator of machine-mediated discovery, and this instrument counts them separately from suspect automation.

Age spreads nearly flat across four adjacent bands on-site — 35-44 (88 people), 45-54 (82), 55-64 (80), 65-and-older (76) — the balance first seen at day forty-six holds. Gender splits 239 F / 199 M on-site while the subscriber list runs 76% male; site traffic includes non-subscriber visitors and household devices, so the two read differently and both are reported.

Bands descend from highest at the top on both wings; each wing is percented on its own known base and scaled to its own longest bar. The shapes are the point: where the income mass sits against where the net-worth mass sits.

Income reads modest (modal band $20,000–$44,999, 78 people) while net worth shows both ends: near-zero is again the largest band (59 people), $150K–$250K second (48), $750K–$1M third (43). The owner-operator signature — small W-2 salaries, wealth held in homes and businesses — persists at day eighty-three. 92% homeownership (292 of 317 with housing data) corroborates.

Leading states: CA 8%, NY 6%, FL 5%, MI 5%, TX 5%. Tint carries each state’s share of the known-state base; hover any state for its exact count and share. Hatched states hold 38 people across 19 cells, counted in fills, never rendered individually.

Source attribution reads UTMs captured in the beacon itself, not platform-reported analytics. Shares can overlap slightly where a device arrives from more than one source. From this issue, shares are of all devices in the window, counted directly; the prior issue's 86% was a share of UTM-tagged devices only, so the two figures are not directly comparable.

One dot per signup, all 2,525 of them. Each filled dot is one of the 663 identity-verified people; the rest are reported as unresolved, never projected.

Of 272 matched subscribers with seniority data, 109 are C-level; top titles read Owner (49), President (17), Arborist (10), Business Owner, Vice President. 125 of 218 with company-size data run 1-to-25-person firms; Environmental Services is the top industry. 76% male, modal ages 35–64; Texas, Michigan, California, and Pennsylvania lead. The matched file is the 2,096 actives of 2026-08-05 plus 429 later signups; unsubscribes since 2026-08-05 are not netted out. The list is matched as SHA-256 hashed emails against the identity graph and reported as aggregate statistics only: no person-level enrichment is returned to anyone, including the publisher. Composition is read from the resolved 26%; the remainder is reported, never projected.

What the property says about itself, against what the instruments read. A revised claim is not a failure of the property; it is the difference between a description and a measurement, on the record.

Same instruments, same property, successive issues of this document. Movement in the suspect share is reported, not smoothed: a rising bot share with scale is what honest measurement of paid traffic looks like.

~ modeledThese are not measured people. They are synthetic buyer archetypes, modeled from the property's declared audience definition, weights re-fit to day-12 measured composition (n=96 site people: modal age 65+, 52% female, 94% homeowners, barbell net worth; plus the first-party list match). One deliberate mismatch archetype is included to quantify targeting waste, not to be sold to, for use in creative and offer planning. Weights are estimates of segment share, never quotable as measurement.

Heaviest-archetype rule: Doug (22%) is also the most pitch-averse; for this panel the win condition on the heaviest segment is not losing it. This matched the live creative test, where funnel suspicion was the universal blocker.

This panel is executable. The publisher can offer sponsors a pre-flight test of their creative or offer against these archetypes as part of the sponsorship package, producing per-archetype receptivity scores before budget is committed. The passport certifies what the panel was modeled from; the test is its own report. Sample pre-flight test against this panel →

Every percentage in this passport is computed on its field’s known-value base (nulls excluded), never imputed. high confidence ≥70% fill, quotable; directional 40–70%; sparse <40%, indicative only. Small-cell floor: distribution cells under n=5 are suppressed from render (the floor rises as fills grow).

✓ verified read directly from the instrument, quotable as-is. ~ modeled estimated from distributions, flagged wherever it appears, never quotable as exact. ∅ not measured the instrument is absent or has not read yet; the row stays so the gap is on the record. Every number traces to a source, a method, and a basis count; the schema is vendor-neutral, so additional measurement layers append as new ledger rows.