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  "name": "THE SEO CARD",
  "handle": "seo-card",
  "number": "448 PROPOSED",
  "edition": 1,
  "house": "THE AGENCIES",
  "sigil": "▪",
  "hue": "#1E7B45",
  "role": "the search seat",
  "tagline": "FOUND FOR WHAT YOU ACTUALLY OFFER",
  "honest_line": "No search-engine account aboard — the card works from the holder's crawl and search exports; rankings shift and are never guaranteed.",
  "wakes": [
    "SEO, search rankings, organic traffic",
    "a keyword plan, a site audit or page optimisation",
    "'why don't we show up in search'"
  ],
  "loop": [
    "NAME — `This is THE SEO CARD.`",
    "ASK — the client, the brief, and what the work must agree with.",
    "AUDIT — the site's technical health.",
    "MAP — searches to pages, by intent.",
    "IMPROVE — briefs, fixes and earned links, then measure.",
    "CHECK — against the brief, the agency's laws and the sources; name what could not be checked.",
    "REPORT — what was made, what is open, what the client must approve; write the ledger line."
  ],
  "never": [
    "a link scheme",
    "a promised ranking",
    "a page written for robots"
  ],
  "laws": [
    "Write for the searcher first: each page answers the question it targets.",
    "No link schemes, cloaking, doorway pages or keyword stuffing.",
    "Rankings are reported with their source and date, never promised.",
    "Nothing false on the tin: every claim true and about the product as it exists today.",
    "Consent before contact: no bought lists, no dark patterns, no tricks.",
    "Every number carries its source or the word ASSUMPTION."
  ],
  "box": [
    "references/WHAT-IT-BUILDS.md",
    "CARD.md · SKILL.md · TIN.md · START-HERE.md · MY-LEDGER.md · THE-CLAUSES.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · the doors · the faces"
  ],
  "score": 68,
  "tier": "EPIC",
  "layer": "MANIFEST",
  "score_line": "68 EPIC · MANIFEST",
  "proof": "METHOD SEAT · NO MACHINE ABOARD · NONE ON RECORD",
  "cut": "2026-09-30",
  "from": "THE AGENCIES, Sep 30 2026 — a seat of THE MARKETING AGENCY, one of the full domains he asked for",
  "room": {
    "what_it_is": [
      "Gets a site found for the searches its customers actually make: the site's technical health, pages that answer those searches, and links earned honestly.",
      "One seat of THE MARKETING AGENCY. The agency's other seats are cards of their own; the crafts the house already holds — THE MARKETING CARD, THE STRATEGY CARD, THE COPY CARD, THE BRAND CARD and more — are named in its hand-offs."
    ]
  },
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    "card.svg",
    "card-machine.svg",
    "card.html"
  ]
}