information-gainlisted

# information-gain — mine original source material, never commodity ## Why this exists Google is burying commodity content: AI articles that restate what every other page already says. What ranks now is **information gain** — facts, numbers, and stories that exist *nowhere else in writing*. The cheapest large supply of that raw material is **spoken**: founder interviews, podcasts, and case-study videos on YouTube where someone says "we hit $75K/month" or "here's the exact mistake that cost us 6 months" — and no one has ever written it down. This skill turns that spoken material into **cited source briefs** a content loop writes from. The article becomes an *original source* (Google sees novel information), not the 400th rewrite of a listicle. **This is a SOURCING step, not a publishing step.** It returns briefs; the calling loop (x-post-engine / content-loop / youtube-engine) writes and publishes. Drafts only — Max makes the angle call. ## The one hard rule (never-lies) Everything here is worthless the moment it fabricates. So: - **Never invent a transcript, a quote, a number, or a story.** If the transcript can't be fetched, you have NO brief for that video — say so, move on. - **Every brief cites its source video** (title + channel + URL + the approximate spoken timestamp when you can). The published article must embed or link the original video — this is both the honesty contract and *why* it ranks (Google sees the primary source). - **Only claim what was ac