Better Tribe
Articulate's network of AI field guides. Owner: Benjamin (the Better publisher).
What this is, and why
For every craft an AI operator works in — agents, design, film, selling, writing, shipping — there's a fog of tools, voices and patterns and no honest map. Better Tribe is that map. Each member is a field guide: a curated, scored, JSON-backed page of the field's Voices, Tools, Patterns, Hype, Science, Questions and Library. Not a pitch — a map.
Why Articulate runs it: it makes Articulate the authority and the reference for each AI field, it's a GEO/AI-answer surface (the guides are exactly what answer engines cite), and it's a clean, honest top-of-funnel. Every guide carries one canonical "The Articulate take" link — the single door to the offer and POV — so the map stays a map and the selling stays in one place.
How it relates to Hype Radar: Hype Radar is the intake; Better Tribe is the publication. The Tier-1 items Hype Radar scores get written into each guide's hype.json, so the guides stay current automatically.
The field guides
How it's fed — the cycle
Hype Radar (scores Tier-1 items)
│ writes
▼
each guide's hype.json ──► better-tribe-daily (06:31, refresh + decay)
benjamin-tribe-weekly (Sun 09:03, deep refresh + re-score)
│
▼
the live field guide ──► "The Articulate take" ──► the offer
So yes — Better Tribe runs in parallel with Hype Radar on its own schedule: a daily refresh that pulls in new scored items and decays stale ones, and a weekly deep re-score. Hype Radar feeds it; it publishes.
The standard
One template — every member is a field guide on the Better Agents engine, conforming to the Design Better visual standard (locked 1 Jun 2026): Apple-editorial sans, shared nav/footer, the non-negotiables (cards, screenshots, logos, Hype, Science). No product-page template; the commercial POV lives only behind "The Articulate take."
Under the hood
Architecture, sources, deploy (the plumbing)
Sources under Articulate/microsites/<slug>/; each has an index.html + hype.json. Standard + plan: _BETTER-STANDARD.md. Domain bindings (project ↔ <verb>-better.articulate-ai.work): _VERCEL-BINDINGS.md. Deploy via cwdeploy (Vercel projects, Cloudflare A → 76.76.21.21). Refresh jobs: better-tribe-daily (enabled, last run 19 Jun 02:31) and benjamin-tribe-weekly-refresh (enabled, Sundays).