example.com links and post 169 carries 4. I confirmed both this morning. I cannot
fix them: their WAF returns 406 to the plugin's MCP endpoint, and the trial has now expired
anyway. The email owns this rather than hoping they never look.Hi,
Your trial ended yesterday, so here is the full picture.
Over seven days ClearPost wrote and published fourteen posts on gastronomy.life, and all fourteen are live: onion tear chemistry, kefir grains, vanilla and hand-pollination, surströmming, brown eggs versus white, 25 food myths, kefir versus yogurt, chili heat, MSG, natto, fermented foods for gut health, the prebiotic fibre list, why chocolate turns white, and raw versus shelf-stable sauerkraut.
That is roughly double the normal pace, because you kept pulling the next one forward.
Now the thing I owe you. Two of those posts contain seven links pointing at example.com, which is a placeholder address, not a real site. That was our writer inventing a citation, and it should never have reached you. We found it last week across several customers and shipped a check that now blocks placeholder and invented domains before anything is delivered. It will not happen again, and I am sorry it happened at all.
Thirty more posts were queued and they stopped yesterday: how yeast raises bread, sauerkraut, single origin spices, wagyu, fermented vegetables, and what actually makes olive oil extra virgin. That run matters because "fermented foods" alone is searched 74,000 times a month, and your natto piece is already aimed at a 90,500 term.
On cost. A content agency charges $200 to $500 a post. The fourteen you have would have been $2,800 at the bottom of that range. A month at the planned rate, thirty posts, would be $6,000. ClearPost is $99 a month.
To pick it back up, open ClearPost in your WordPress admin and go to the Premium tab:
https://gastronomy.life/wp-admin/admin.php?page=saiap&tab=premium
Either way, the fourteen posts are yours to keep.
Christian
Seven broken links sit on their site right now. They will find them. A results email that lists fourteen wins and stays silent about that reads as marketing the moment they do.
It is also the strongest thing we can say. We found the defect ourselves across several
customers, and PR #89 (outbound-link editor pass) shipped on 2026-08-23 with a rule that blocks
example.com and every other reserved placeholder before delivery. Defect plus shipped
fix, in one paragraph, is exactly the "data over slop" promise doing real work.
The apology is one clause, not a paragraph. It does not grovel and it does not offer a refund.
| Our record | Live on their site |
|---|---|
| wp=76, pending_review | id 75, published, identical title |
| wp=227, pending_review | id 226, published, identical title |
Both articles reached them and both are live, so the customer lost nothing. The visible symptom is a stray draft in their admin. Explaining a push-versus-pull race in a conversion email would spend their attention on our internals for no benefit to them. It is a real bug and it belongs on your list, not in this email.
It is also why the email says fourteen: 12 live under the ids we track, plus 75 and 226, which I
fetched and confirmed are publish.
| Claim | Source |
|---|---|
| 14 posts, all live | Fetched all 14 from their REST API; 12 by tracked id, 2 by twin id |
| 200% coverage, 0 errors | 14 delivered over 7 elapsed days, 0 generation_error |
| 7 example.com links | 3 in post 160, 4 in post 169, counted today |
| 30 queued, stopped yesterday | 30 rows now expired_trial |
| fermented foods 74,000 / natto 90,500 | DataForSEO, from their own 200-keyword set |
| $99 a month | clearpostplugin.com states "$99/mo" |
They ran at 200%, so a naive projection gives about 60 posts a month. The email says thirty,
which is the planned rate at posts_per_week = 7. Quoting sixty would inflate both the
output and the agency comparison, and they would notice the moment the queue delivered one a day.
lang="en-US" and their wizard answers.