April 2026: Tier 3 Finds Its Footing — Eight Case Studies, the Audit Harness Ships, and the Schema Postmortem

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:00:00 -0500

April was the month Tier 3 found its footing. March’s retrospective predicted “a natural T2 rate of roughly 5–10%” — about two to three deep-dives per month out of thirty. April blew past that. Of the eighteen posts that ran through the classifier, eight were Tier 3 case studies. Five of them landed at the top of the depth charts at three hundred lines or more. The teaching dimension scored a flat TCH=4 on every one of them — the highest score the rubric assigns short of “this changes the field.”

Schema-Postmortem on Start AI Tools - Presented by Intent Solutions

April 2026: Tier 3 Finds Its Footing — Eight Case Studies, the Audit Harness Ships, and the Schema Postmortem