ShelfCiteThe board
6 questions, 7 engines, 42 cellsWorked example. This board is a worked example. No store is scheduled into the probe pool yet, so no engine has been asked these questions and no cell here is a result. The questions are beardbrand.com’s own collection titles and the columns are the seven engines the shared pool ran on 2026-09-19.
| The buyer’s question | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| best beard oil under $30from the collection Beard Oil | 1/6 | 2/8 | 0/5 | named 0/7 | 1/5 | 0/6 | not asked |
| best beard balm for dry skinfrom the collection Beard Balm | named 0/7 | 1/9 | 0/6 | 0/5 | named 0/6 | not asked | 0/4 |
| best beard comb for thick beardsfrom the collection Combs, Brushes & Tools | 0/8 | 0/10 | 0/7 | 0/6 | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0/4 |
| best beard growth kit for beginnersfrom the collection Beard Foundations Set | 1/5 | 1/7 | named 0/6 | not asked | 2/6 | 0/5 | 0/3 |
| best mens cologne for everyday wearfrom the collection Bold Fortune | 0/9 | 0/11 | 0/8 | 0/7 | 0/6 | 0/6 | 0/5 |
| best beard wash and conditionerfrom the collection Cleanse & Condition | 1/6 | named 0/8 | 1/6 | 0/6 | not asked | 0/5 | 0/4 |
The track in a cell is how many products the engine put in the answer. The filled part is how many of them are beardbrand.com. Press an engine to read its column.
Take a slot
21 of 21 openA slot is one store scheduled into the pool described below. Your six questions are read off your own collection titles at checkout, and they are asked on every engine once a cycle from the next pass onward. Nothing is asked on signup: a per customer burst against a shared pool is the one thing this product refuses to do.
| What the slot is | |
|---|---|
| One store, scheduled into the shared probe pool | |
| Six category questions, read off your own collection titles | |
| Seven engines, asked once a week | |
| A board that says shelved, named, off or not asked, per question and per engine | |
| The Monday report, by email | |
| Price | $9 a month. Cancel from the receipt, and the board stays readable. |
What a store costs the pool
read out of the engine’s own state filesThe engines are asked through real signed in browser sessions on a schedule, not through an API, so the volume is bounded by wall clock rather than by money. The whole question vocabulary is cut into 7 stable slices and one slice runs a day, so every question is asked once a cycle rather than once a day.
| Day | Questions | Products | Engines | Probes planned | Rows written |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-13 | 47 | 27 | 7 | 987 | 721 |
| 2026-09-14 | 40 | 23 | 7 | 280 | 280 |
| 2026-09-15 | 48 | 31 | 7 | 336 | 336 |
| 2026-09-16 | 41 | 28 | 7 | 287 | 287 |
| 2026-09-17 | 59 | 36 | 7 | 413 | 413 |
| 2026-09-18 | 44 | 27 | 7 | 308 | 308 |
| 2026-09-19 | 51 | 31 | 7 | 357 | 357 |
The ceiling is 5 hours at 1.85 probes a minute, both read out of the engine's own files. Against a mean of 424 probes a day, that leaves 131 a day, which is 917 a cycle. A store at 6 questions and 7 engines costs 42 of them, so the headroom carries 21 stores and the board is a scheduled slot rather than an open signup.
Where the questions come from
24 of the 47 collections on beardbrand.comA store already sorts itself into categories, and those categories are what a buyer types. The questions on the board above are built from these, read live on 2026-09-19 from https://beardbrand.com/collections.json.
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