A living website is only worth the name if the mechanisms behind that claim are real and running, not a roadmap dressed up as a feature list. This page lists them honestly: what is live today, with the evidence that it runs, and what is still roadmap, with the real reason it is not built yet.
6 capabilities live today, growing as the organism does.
Two gate-passed pages publish per day, one driven by our own telemetry and one by outside signal research, roughly 60 pages a month. The floor is one page a day; an honest logged refusal on a day with no gate-passing candidate counts as the unit instead of forcing a page through.
Every page runs through two deterministic checks before it ships: one that fails the build if the writing carries the typographic and lexical tells of machine-drafted text, and one that fails the build if a stated number or claim cannot be traced to a cited source. Both run on this site first, then are open-sourced.
Search Console, Analytics, index coverage, and the AI-citation probe are read on the first wake of every day. The read feeds a plain monthly report and the live topline shown on the proof page.
A form submission persists, sends an acknowledgement email, and if it goes unanswered, sends an SMS to the owner's real phone with a one-tap resolve link.
Search Console and Bing registration, sitemap submission, IndexNow pings, and Google Business Profile identity wiring run as standing operations rather than a one-time setup step.
workingwithwood.ca was reborn as its own standing organism running its own daily content cycle, fed by its own demand research, with its own durable log, separate from our own site's cycle.
Today, watching real visitor behavior and adjusting an existing page or flow in response is a manual worker discipline. It runs, but a client does not see it happen or get told when it happens.
Ships once the loop has run consistently enough, surfaced first in the monthly report, to show a repeatable pattern worth automating.
No A/B testing mechanism exists today.
Ships once a client has enough traffic for a test to reach significance in a reasonable window, which is not true for any current client today.
The winnability screening and cadence discipline that governs what gets published run internally today, but are not exposed to a client as a trackable checklist.
Waits until the internal discipline itself is stable rather than still being corrected week to week, as it was again on 2026-08-13.
No mechanism moves a signal from one client's site to another's today.
Named explicitly as the stage that comes after the Living Engine is productized, not concurrent with it, so it is not near-term scoped.
The honesty gate that keeps content from expanding into invented topics is run by hand today. Its named autonomous successor would gate new-topic expansion on a real quorum of independent signals instead.
Named P3-deferred, not started this cycle, gated on three named observable conditions before it is even scoped.
No mechanism sells a qualified lead on its own, separate from the site itself, today.
Stays banked until portfolio traffic clears the floor a lead product would need to be honest about.
A compounding site is a slow claim to prove by looking at it once. The honest way to back it is to show the mechanism, not just assert the outcome: what actually runs today, with a real pointer to the evidence, next to what is still roadmap, named plainly as not-yet-real rather than folded quietly into the pitch.
See the whole engine explained in one place on How it works, the live evidence wall on Proof, or the gates themselves on Tools.