ship-gatelisted

# /operator-cmo:ship-gate The common failure of an agent marketing stack is not that it publishes something terrible. It is that a human promises to approve everything, the stack produces faster than the human reads, and approval quietly becomes either a queue or a rubber stamp. Reviewing every item does not scale. Reviewing nothing is negligent. So review by tier, and cap production at the review capacity you actually have. ## The three tiers **Tier A: goes out.** Low blast radius, reversible, makes no claims about the company or a customer. Internal briefs, keyword research, outlines, list building, drafts that stay in the repo. No human step. **Tier B: sampled.** Reversible, public, makes only claims already evidenced in positioning.md. Social posts, blog updates, newsletter sections, landing page copy edits. One in N is read in full before it goes out, N is set in the policy file, and every item is still checked automatically for the tier B rules below. If two sampled items in a rolling window of twenty fail, the tier drops to C for that channel until a review clears it. That rule is what makes sampling honest rather than optimistic. **Tier C: a human reads every one.** Anything that is hard to reverse or that speaks for the company in a way a correction cannot catch up with. Pricing, legal and compliance copy, named customer references, first contact with a named account, paid spend, anything with a number that is not in positioning.md, anything a regulator or a la