git:20260814.9350601 to git:20260908.2ec1bf8

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name: notpeople-wave

license: MIT

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# /notpeople-wave — next NotPeople investor outreach wave

> 🧒 **When reporting to the operator** (status/summaries — NEVER inside the pitches themselves): end with a child-simple "In plain words" recap in their language. Standing request, memory `eli5-always`.

> 📖 **Operates under `telegram-lead-outreach`** (the general Telegram outreach playbook) and the `bible` outreach domain. This skill only adds the NotPeople-specific sequencing + the dedup-ledger discipline. Don't duplicate guardrails — they live there; newer rule beats older.

**The two bugs this skill exists to prevent (25 Jun 2026):**

1. The 22 Jun wave was **never appended to `NotPeople-Pitched.csv`**, so `select_next_investors.py` kept proposing already-pitched leads.

2. Sending blind from the ranked queue → duplicate sends, a wrong name (draft "Mei" → actually Alex), and dead handles.

The fix is baked into steps 2 and 5 below: **read each lead's live thread before sending**, and **append the wave the moment it's sent**.

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## The wave checklist

### 0. RECALL (cheap, first)

- Read memory `notpeople-outreach-waves` (pipeline + the gotcha) and `leads-live-operator-check-thread`.

- Confirm which machine you're on. **Follower (Nina, vault on D:, receive-only):** local CSV/dashboard edits may be reverted by Syncthing → you MUST also relay the pitched-record to the hub (step 6). **Hub (`HUB-1`):** you are the source of truth, no relay needed.

### 1. Select the next N truly-new investors

- Default N = 10 (operator may say a number). The operator may name leads to **skip** (e.g. "skip Karim") → drop them, pull the next-ranked to refill N.

- ⚠️ **The ranked queue is contaminated** — its top was already pitched 22 Jun. Do NOT trust queue position alone. Treat the selector output as *candidates*, then verify each in step 2. If the top is all already-contacted, scan deeper (positions 23+ were clean on 25 Jun).

### 2. Verify EACH candidate against the live thread (the rule that saved us)

For every candidate, before composing anything:

- `resolve_username(@handle, account="work_acct_a")` → **GEN-ERR-659 = dead/changed handle → drop it**, refill from next-ranked.

- `get_history(<chat>, account="work_acct_a", limit=…)` → read the actual thread.

- Already pitched / mid-conversation → **drop** (it's a duplicate; if it was pitched but not in the CSV, note it for the backfill in step 5).

- Name mismatch between the draft and the real Telegram display name → **fix the name** (the "Mei"→"Alex" bug).

- Clean / no prior contact → keep.

- Assemble the final N truly-new, name-correct leads. **Report the list to the operator and WAIT for "+"** before sending (outbound = Tier-2, ask-first).

### 3. Compose + send (Opus voice, per lead) — only after "+"

- The standing pitch BODY (NotPeople, $600K pre-seed SAFE, Calendly close) lives in `build_pitch_drafts.py` — reuse it, don't rewrite the offer.

- `send_message(<chat>, <text>, account="work_acct_a")` per lead.

### 4. Verify delivery per-lead (don't assume)

- After the batch, `get_history(<chat>, account="work_acct_a", limit=1)` for each → confirm the outbound msg landed (capture msg_id + timestamp). Report "N/N delivered" with the ids. This is the "are you sure it actually went out?" check — do it without being asked.

### 5. Record the wave IMMEDIATELY (the dedup ledger — never skip)

- Append every sent lead to `NotPeople-Pitched.csv` (in `_Dashboards`), columns `Lead name,Username,Company`.

- **Also backfill** any lead you found in step 2 that was clearly pitched earlier but missing from the CSV (this is exactly the 22 Jun gap). The CSV is the single dedup source `select_next_investors.py` reads — if it's stale, the next wave re-pitches people.

### 6. Refresh the tracker snapshot + (follower only) relay to hub

- Edit the inline wave list in `build_notpeople_tracker.py` (new wave kept as its OWN section, OUT of the waves-1+2 funnel, so reply-rate stays honest), then `python "$IMPORTS_ROOT/notpeople/build_notpeople_tracker.py"` (hub `E:`; follower `D:`). This rewrites `tg_followups_notpeople.json` + `tg_assistant_log_notpeople.jsonl` — the tracker schema the outreach/pipeline dashboard reads.

- Open the outreach view for the operator with a **cache-bust** query so a stale browser tab doesn't hide the update: `_Dashboards\NotPeople-Outreach-Dashboard.html?v=<ts>` (static snapshot — hand-edit its wave section if you need it visually current).

- **Follower machine:** relay the pitched-record to the hub so the real dedup lands there too: `python "%USERPROFILE%\.claude\scripts\machine_bus.py" send HUB-1 "NotPeople wave <date>: appended N rows to Pitched.csv (<handles>); prune dead handles <…> from pool."`

### 7. Report (tight, ELI5 at the end)

Operator-facing: N sent + N/N delivered (with ids), N dropped (dups/dead handles), CSV +rows, dashboard refreshed, hub relay sent. Then the 🧒 recap.

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## Guardrails (inherited, not re-implemented)

- Outbound = **Tier-2 / ask-first**: assemble + report the batch, send only on the operator's "+". NO mass auto-blast; pace the sends. (money/commitments/secrets → pause + ask — [[telegram-lead-outreach]], [[telegram-assistant]].)

- **HUB never messages leads** — leads are worked by the live operator (Nina). On the hub, this skill prepares/records but does not send. ([[leads-live-operator-check-thread]].)

- No em/en dashes anywhere (memory `no-long-dashes`).

## Files & values (reuse, don't recreate)

- Send account: `@work_acct_a` (work_acct_a, Tony SF / Bay Area).

- Pipeline: `$IMPORTS_ROOT/notpeople/` (hub `E:`; follower `D:`) — `select_next_investors.py`, `build_pitch_drafts.py`, `build_notpeople_tracker.py` (snapshots wave state into the tracker JSON the dashboard reads; drive-agnostic).

- Dedup ledger: `_Dashboards\NotPeople-Pitched.csv`. Dashboard: `_Dashboards\NotPeople-Outreach-Dashboard.html`.

- Offer: $600K pre-seed SAFE · deck `notpeople.ai/pitch` · Calendly `https://calendly.com/paloaltolab/1-on-1`.

- GEN-ERR-659 = dead/changed handle. machine_bus relay target = `HUB-1`.

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