The foundation arc establishes what a publisher corpus actually is and what changes when archive becomes asset. Three posts cover the operational discipline of corpus development, the transformation work that turns a folder of past stories into balance-sheet inventory, and the case for starting AI strategy from the archive rather than from the prompt box.
These posts assume the reader has accepted the launch arc’s strategic case and is ready to think about the corpus operationally. The vocabulary introduced here — structured corpus, taxonomy debt, archive-first AI, operating inventory — recurs across the rest of the series.
