Regulator drops - day-of-drop page shell

First-mover lane for Irish institutional source releases (CSO, Revenue eBriefs, CBI quarterly bulletins, DPC enforcement notices, CRO filings). Spec: Vendors-Content-Strategy-2026.md §2.5 cue 1 + Unified-SME-Intelligence-Strategy-2026.md §15.2 Template F.

Spin up a new drop page

1. Copy dpc-tiktok-eea-china-2025.astro to a new file under src/pages/regulator-drops/<regulator>-<slug>-<year>.astro.
2. Fill the frontmatter contract: source, verdict (≤150 words), irishRealityCheck, matrixRows, affectedVendors, reviewer, asaiSubstantiation, reviewCycle, crossLinks. Editor pulls values out of src/data/external/{dpc-decisions,cbi-authorised,revenue-approved}.json where the cron has already captured them; no engineering needed.
3. Run npm run build (or npm run check) to verify Astro + TypeScript.
4. Open PR, get the named reviewer to sign off the verdict, merge, ship. Target: 4-hour SLA from drop to publish.

SLA

4 hours from drop to publish. The shell exists so publish-on-drop is editorial-only, not engineering. If a drop requires a layout change, that drop is not first-mover material - slot it as a pillar instead.

Quality-bar non-negotiables (§7 + §2.5 anti-rule)

• Verdict is operational, not a recap. “What this means for Irish SMEs” beats “the regulator announced X.”
• Irish reality check names the regulator + a specific date + the SI / regulation / authority reference. Generic regulatory commentary fails the gate.
• Source URL must resolve. source.documentURL is checked on every build via the existing referral-URL checker; broken source links block merge.
• Matrix-row delta must be linked. matrixDeepLink defaults to /tools/compliance-matrix - override with ?cat=<slug> when the drop maps to a single category.
• Named reviewer signoff is mandatory. Template F default reviewer is Bryan Collins (Operator, Vendors.ie). Note: production drops on regulated-finance or tax-adjacent material require a credentialed reviewer per master §22.0b. Operator signoff is a placeholder until the named-reviewer retainer is signed.
• 3-month review cycle by default. Set reviewCycle="6-month" only for low-velocity regulatory areas (e.g. CSO methodology notes).
• AIO-resistance: three signals. Every drop page must satisfy (a) live regulator source URL + capture datestamp, (b) structured matrix-row delta, (c) named-reviewer signed verdict. All three are rendered by the layout - passing the gate is a function of filling the frontmatter, not adding sections.

Anti-rule: never sacrifice the quality bar for speed. A weak day-of-drop page erodes the data-co brand faster than a slow-mover strong page builds it.