<b>The differentiation budget: how much must be unique per page</b>

<b>The differentiation budget: how much must be unique per page</b>

"Unique content" is too vague to gate on. Set a numeric budget and enforce it in the template.

The per-page budget:
— At least 35% of rendered words must come from record-specific fields, not the shared skeleton. Gate: a word-source tagger fails any page below 35%.
— At least 1 computed value that no sibling shares: a ratio, a delta vs. category average, a rank. Gate: this number must change across pages or the block is boilerplate.
— At least 1 data point in the H1 or first 100 words. Gate: the opening must not be identical across the set.

How to enforce:
☐ Tag every template token as STATIC or DYNAMIC at build time.
☐ Render 100 sample pages, measure the DYNAMIC ratio.
☐ If a template can't clear 35%, the dimension is too thin — merge records into fewer, richer pages instead of generating many empty ones.
☐ Re-measure on every template edit; static additions silently erode the ratio.

Ship gate: don't publish until all boxes are checked.