The Spotlight Network: Master List and Anatomy

One platform, many niche-skinned sites — think of the dating networks that run BlackPeopleMeet, JDate, and OurTime on one engine. We do the same for local-service and athlete verticals. This page is the living registry of Spotlight sites, the components they may share, and the intended propagation process. Agents are configured to review it weekly; a page assertion is not independent uptime or deployment evidence.

The Master List of Spotlight Sites

Status scope: LIVE is the status asserted by this registry. This alignment pass did not independently re-observe all 13 sites, so use attached observation dates and future per-site receipts before treating a row as verified uptime.

The local-service verticals carry the full component anatomy below — audit wall, builder, scorecard, Dollar-a-Day guide + PDF — inherited from the master rather than built per site. Three sites are deliberate exceptions, and we list them rather than let the blanket claim paper over them: Dunker Spotlight has the audit wall but no scorecard (a dunker is not a company to grade); AI Builder Spotlight runs a skills-and-agents layout instead of the audit/scorecard pair; Athlete Spotlight is newly recovered and still on its own page set, with the standard trio queued to propagate down.

Anatomy of a Spotlight Site: the Component Library

The network is designed around one component library with industry-specific skins. Actual coverage varies: a component may be present, absent, planned, not applicable, unknown, or stale on a given site. The list below is the catalogue, not proof of universal deployment.

1. Personal-Brand Audit wall

A floating scorecard wall of real people from the industry — verified faces, honest 0–100 scores, Knowledge-Panel-gated tiers. Answers “what’s your brand score?” and sells everything else.

Master: dennisyu.com/personal-brand-audit · live on dunker, HVAC, roofer

2. Business Scorecard + Quick Audits

Grades the company — Maps visibility, website quality, SEO authority, social — by national percentile. Backed by the per-industry quick-audit engines on this site.

Master: /hvac-scorecard · quick-audit hub (12 industries)

3. Website Builder offer

“Your personal brand website, built for you, about $1/day” — the Founder Authority Hub, Knowledge Panel assistance, and content repurposing, productized.

Master: /spotlight-core + /ai-builder-program · strongest skin: aibuilderspotlight.com/about

4. Dollar-a-Day engine

The Promote stage: $1/day × 7 behind proven content, kill the bottom 90%, $30/30 behind winners. Every vertical carries a skinned guide page + downloadable agentic PDF.

Master: blitzmetrics.com/dad · LSS edition · 9 vertical editions shipped July 1

5. Claude / agent setup

How a member (or their kid, or their agency) puts agents to work: install, connect, run the skills. Turns the site from brochure into operating manual.

Master: localservicespotlight.com/claude-setup · strongest skin: dunkerspotlight.com/set-up-claude · why Claude

6. Skill pack downloads

Zipped, installable agent skills per vertical — dollar-a-day strategist, content factory, audit runner — so members’ own agents run our playbook.

Pattern: Dunker Spotlight skill pack · DealCon workshop packs · the deployed 253-record Task Library registry · AI Builder Spotlight skill pack (10 agents, 1-click install)

→ The Skill Pack Library — the master list of every place we publish a pack, each with its last-updated date.

7. QR codes

Physical-to-digital on-ramp: every event handout, truck wrap, and slide carries a QR that lands on the audit or skill pack — scannable proof at trade shows.

Pattern: DealCon attendee QR → leaderboard → audit funnel

8. Leaderboards & industry scoring

When there’s an event or an industry to rank: live leaderboards scored on real signals. Competition is the growth loop — nobody wants to be unranked.

Pattern: DealCon attendee leaderboard · Content Factory leaderboards · the audit walls themselves · first public, always-on instance shipped August 2026: theathletespotlight.com/leaderboard

9. Digital plumbing

Pixel, analytics, Google Business Profile, review flow — wired before a dollar gets spent. Boosting without plumbing is reach you can’t retarget.

Master: blitzmetrics.com/digital-plumbing

10. Content Factory

The four P’s — Produce, Process, Post, Promote. The member produces real ingredients; agents run stages two through four and document every run with a meta-article.

Master: blitzmetrics.com/content-factory · meta-article process

11. Your Website Is Your Hub

The web-footprint wheel: their site in the center, every profile pointing in. The anti-Linktree teaching that makes the entity home make sense.

Master: hub system · live on dunkerspotlight

12. Knowledge Panel assistance

Entity home, schema, Wikidata hygiene — the path to owning your name in Google and the AI engines. The KP gate is why our audit scores stay honest.

Master: KP package

13. Weekly AI Report & retention loop

One branded weekly email per client covering both halves of their presence: a Positive-Mentions digest (new mentions, an ad-ready quote, one-click add-to-site/LinkedIn/ad actions) and a Metrics-Analysis-Action site-health block (uptime, PageSpeed/Core Web Vitals, SSL, search basics) built entirely on free, no-OAuth signals — real numbers where connected, an honest “not yet connected” label where not, never an invented number. Paired with a real self-serve subscription checkout (Keap, $30/mo, referral codes, guardian checkout) that turns the offer page into an actual sale, not just a pitch.

Sourced from theathletespotlight.com (built by Cam Hazzard, developed with Dennis Yu) — propagating UP to the master per the master-first rule; not yet on localservicespotlight.com or any other vertical. Unblocked August 3, 2026: this was the one component whose source site was offline, so it could not be read or copied while Athlete Spotlight was down. The source is live again and the propagation is ready to run. Still not propagated as of August 10, 2026 — one week ready, zero sites moved. Ready is not done; this needs a named owner rather than another weekly re-listing. See the weekly AI report standard and the full user journey.

14. Self-serve funnel: instant audit → public leaderboard → SMS

A visitor scores themselves in under a minute without talking to anyone, lands on a public leaderboard that shows exactly where they rank, and gets followed up by SMS. It turns the audit from something we run for a prospect into something the prospect runs on themselves — the same competitive loop as component 8, but self-serve and always on. Shipped with a localized edition (Chinese) proving the whole funnel translates without a second site.

Sourced from theathletespotlight.com, built August 8–9, 2026: /audit/ · /leaderboard/ · /zh/. Write-ups: the instant audit · leaderboard + SMS · the funnel · internationalization. Propagating UP — not yet on localservicespotlight.com or any other vertical.

How Propagation Works (This Is Our Process)

The intended loop is master-first, then target-by-target propagation. Applied and verified are different states:

• Config-driven generators, not hand-built pages. The audit walls, builder pages, scorecards, Dollar-a-Day guides, and PDFs are all generated from per-industry config blocks. Adding a vertical is a config entry, not a rebuild. Improving a component once can rebuild supported editions; each target still needs a deployment and verification result.
• Everything links up. Each vertical component points to its definitive article on blitzmetrics.com — one master teaching, many examples. No page competes with its own hub.
• Agents preserve qualifying receipts. A privacy-safe build can produce a Meta Article that records what happened and feeds reviewed lessons forward. A Meta Article is historical context, not proof that every target received the change.
• A weekly scan is configured. It checks the domain portfolio and published work for candidate changes. The registry should label the result as proposed, queued, applied-unverified, verified, failed, or rolled back instead of treating the scheduled scan itself as proof.

The Hosting Layer: Our Own WP Engine

We pay WP Engine about $700 a month. Our AWS bill is about $1,000 — and it hosts a ton more sites. So before the end of the year, we’re off WP Engine and off WordPress: the Spotlight fleet moves to static pages on AWS, built and maintained entirely by agents.

No plugins to collide. No PHP to crash. No admin passwords to phish. No humans logging in — ever — because there is nothing to log into. Agents generate the pages, agents publish them, agents monitor them. Members on our platform get what WP Engine sold us — hosting, security, speed — plus the parts WP Engine can’t sell: the agents and the component library above.

The rule we run on until then: one site, one platform — and whoever owns the platform owns the update discipline. We learned both halves the expensive way. A managed host that auto-updates plugins does not cause version drift, it detonates it; our own fleet auto-updates nothing, so it never crashes and never improves either — 87% of those sites sit on months-old plugin builds with a fatal queued up behind whatever finally triggers an update. And a site whose DNS points at one platform while its install lives on another returns HTTP 500 on every path, including the login page, which sends people hunting a plugin conflict that does not exist. That is exactly what took Athlete Spotlight down for thirteen days. The full postmortem: our crashing sites were on WP Engine, our rotting sites were on ours.

Want a Spotlight for Your Industry? (Lighthouse Criteria)

Every Spotlight site is anchored by a lighthouse — the person the industry already looks to, or the one clearly on the way. Anthony in landscaping. Chuck Thokey in roofing. Cam Hazzard for athletes. If that’s you, or someone in your network, here’s the honest bar:

• You’re a real lighthouse. A body of work, reviews, reputation — signals we can verify and amplify. (Our audits are Knowledge-Panel-gated; we don’t inflate scores, including yours.)
• Your community is big enough. Enough people in the niche to fill an audit wall of 14+ scored names and an audience worth ranking.
• The economics work. A ~$10 domain and agent time is cheap; your attention isn’t. There has to be a real offer behind the site — coaching, services, sponsorships, a book.
• You understand the model. You produce the real ingredients — the jobs, the wins, the stories. Agents process, post, and promote. If you want to fake it, this isn’t your platform.

Registry last verified against registrar (RDAP) records, the GoDaddy portfolio, and every live site on August 10, 2026. Maintained by agents; refreshed weekly. Related: how the Dollar-a-Day editions were propagated · how Athlete Spotlight launched · how AI Builder Spotlight got its agents, skills, and a figurehead.

The Spotlight Build Engine — hosting layer + website-builder fulfillment (LIVE)

The year-end goal on this page, a Spotlight fleet of static sites on AWS built and maintained entirely by agents, is now running as the Spotlight Build Engine. It is the fulfillment backend of the website-builder component: after a customer buys, the engine researches them, generates their personal brand site, provisions it on AWS with HTTPS and a CDN, emails them the two steps to point their domain, and holds a review gate before the “you’re live” announcement. It took its first verified real purchase and self-serve build in July 2026.

Read the full build story on BlitzMetrics: How We Built the Spotlight Build Engine on AWS and How We Wired a 13-Site Spotlight Network to One AI Build Engine.

The engine is trade-aware: each customer is tagged with their vertical at purchase, so one pipeline renders the right front door for every trade in the network (local service, dunker, athlete, and more as they are added). Uptime monitoring, backups, and standard access logging run on the fleet. Agents update this registry as the network grows.

Status: live. Self-serve buy-to-built pipeline verified. Per-vertical support added July 2026 so every front door on this page can sell into the one engine.