What was accomplished

• Health-checked the data source ladder: Places API still INVALID_KEY; Perplexity API now OK (was 401 last week); WebSearch OK
• Pulled review aggregates for 10-firm watch list via Perplexity (one structured call) + 4 targeted WebSearch passes
• Scanned for SAIL 1-2 star alerts: none surfaced in indexed search
• Scanned for competitor velocity spikes: none
• Identified watch item: Kaufman & Stigger $21.5M Kentucky med mal settlement getting media pickup — may drive review uptick over next 60 days
• Wrote weekly report to /Users/samaguiar/Documents/Codex/competitive/reviews/2026-05-02.md
• Updated pinned Notion dashboard 34d1018d-f1f5-8173-b7fd-fc3e721e771d in place (no proliferation)
• Created dated KB entry: Competitive Reviews Monitor — 2026-05-02 (Weekly)
• Drafted Slack recap to #sam-channel (C0AU6E5R9Q8) — not sent
• Wrote QA detail to /Users/samaguiar/Documents/Codex/_qa-queue/2026-05-02-competitive-reviews.md
• Appended summary to daily QA roll-up /Users/samaguiar/Documents/Codex/_qa-queue/2026-05-02.md

Decisions made autonomously

• Treated Saturday 2026-05-02 fire as the Friday weekly run since no Friday run landed. Flagged as cadence drift (QA-2).
• Chose to write a single fresh dated file rather than append to a non-existent same-day file (none existed).
• Did not retry Places API more than once — last week's run already established the GCP project blocker; testing once confirmed status unchanged.
• Used Perplexity's sonar model with search_domain_filter for the structured pull. Returned mostly nulls; noted recommendation to deprioritize Perplexity in favor of WebSearch in next iteration.

Pending Sam input (6 QA items)

1. CRITICAL repeat: Data source for next run (Places API vs. SerpAPI vs. Outscraper/DataForSEO)
2. NEW: Cadence drift fix — audit cron for why Saturday fire instead of Friday