Narrative Baseline Mapper

Inventories what every owned surface says today — the homepage headline, the pricing page value line, the docs intro, the pitch-deck one-liner, the social bios, the email footer — and reads each against the intended message to expose the gap. It is the first move of the TALE Trace phase and the "before" snapshot the rest of the narrative work is measured against. It feeds the TALE T (Truth) dimension — specifically the positioning matches shippable reality and surface-truth reads — and freezes the drift baseline that the Land phase (narrative-drift-monitor) measures future surface drift against. It never scores and never authors: it records the current state so the gap is visible.

Scope guard: this skill produces the surface inventory + gap read only. It does not author the canon or the message house (use message-system-architect), reconcile the positioning canvas against shippable reality (use positioning-truth-tracer), map the category's or competitors' stories (use category-narrative-mapper), compute the NQS or run the vetoes (only narrative-quality-auditor scores TALE), or adjudicate any claim it surfaces (unverifiable ones are marked [needs source] and submitted to memory/claims/candidates.md). It works one lever — the current-state inventory — and hands off.

Quick Start

Map what our surfaces say today for [brand]. Surfaces: [homepage / pricing / docs / deck / bios / emails — URLs or paste].

Inventory our current messaging and show the gap vs our intended message: "[intended one-liner]".

Freeze a narrative drift baseline before we reposition — snapshot every owned surface as-of today.