Lantern's Recommendations surface is the answer to "what should we ship next". The answer comes in four queues (Engine, Scanner, Long-term, and Applied) and the queues are not just labels. Each one has a different horizon, a different owner, and a different relationship to the Trust Phase autonomy lever.
Engine bundles: ship now
Engine bundles are the recommendations the Catalog and Content agents can ship inside a single sprint. The canonical Engine bundle types: Product schema, FAQ schema, Review schema, hero-copy edits, claim-proof updates, comparison-block inserts.
Scanner bundles: site infrastructure
Scanner bundles are the AI-era equivalent of the sitemap and robots.txt pair. By April 2026, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini actively read llms.txt files (Google does not).
llms.txt
# Wildgrain Roasters
> Direct-trade single-origin specialty coffee, roasted weekly.
## Core pages
- [Whole bean collection](https://wildgrain.co/collections/whole-bean)
- [Subscription overview](https://wildgrain.co/pages/subscribe)
- [Origin stories](https://wildgrain.co/journal/origin-stories)
## Comparison content
- [Wildgrain vs Atlas Coffee Club](https://wildgrain.co/compare/wildgrain-vs-atlas-coffee-club)
- [Wildgrain vs Trade Coffee](https://wildgrain.co/compare/wildgrain-vs-trade-coffee)Long-term recs: what compounds
| Horizon | Typical work | Confidence tier | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 to 8 weeks | New comparison page; YouTube channel launch | medium+ | Content / Offsite |
| This quarter | Wikipedia article; 3-page editorial hub | high | Offsite / Content |
| Next quarter | Wirecutter-class press placement; podcast tour | medium+ | Offsite |
| Always-on | Trustpilot review automation; LinkedIn org updates | low+ | Offsite |
Applied: predicted versus measured lift
Applied is the audit log. Every shipped recommendation lands here, paired with its predicted versus measured lift on a 7-day window. Reading Applied with a critical eye is the highest-leverage operator habit available in Lantern.
The Impact Runway and Trust Phase
Above the four queues sits the Impact Runway, the projected lift across every open recommendation right now. A typical board-ready Runway reads "+14.6 pts across 8 recs". Trust Phase is the per-brand, per-family autonomy lever.
- FAQ and Product schema set to auto-apply.
- Hero copy and claim-proof copy set to send-for-review.
- Comparison-content drafts in send-for-review.
- Wikipedia and press placement (Offsite) always in send-for-review.