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The Weekly Bulletin

Once a week, your Clamp gets the box score. Seven days of watched-app activity, logged and counted all week, then rolled into one bulletin they can read with their coffee. The final tally — no play-by-play.

Once a week, and only once a week

A slip is something your Clamp should know about, but nobody needs a 2 a.m. phone call over it. The app counts each one on your phone as it happens, then bundles the whole week into a single digest. Nothing is sent between bulletins, so there is no surprise message in the middle of a bad night — and nothing arrives that you cannot see coming.

The box score, every week

A clean week shows up as a flat line. A rough week shows up as a number with your Clamp’s eyes on it. The scoreboard doesn’t editorialize — the bulletin is just where it gets printed.

Each count is a usage mark — one stretch of time spent in a watched app, long enough to register. It means time was spent in the app, not that a bet or trade was placed. No sites, no content, no screenshots.

What the bulletin actually shows

Your accountability partner sees counts by gambling/speculation category, never an app or venue name. A count, by category — that’s the whole picture. Enough signal to know how the week went, none of the surveillance.

Where the numbers come from

Electric Nipple Clamps watches the named apps you put on your own watch list, on this device. Web activity is not visible in this version — anything you open in a browser, or in an in-app browser inside Reddit, Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok and similar, is not counted. Every bulletin carries that limitation on its face; an expanded coverage scope is on the roadmap.

Categorization is performed on your device against the watch list you built yourself; no outside classification service is used. Your accountability partner sees counts by gambling/speculation category, never an app or venue name.

Exactly what we do and don’t see →

Why weekly

A daily report is noise. A monthly report is a cold case. Weekly is the cadence where your Clamp can still do something about it — a Monday text, a gym session, a “GG, do better next week.” Lateral accountability runs on rhythm, and the bulletin sets it.

The Monday delivery slot is maintained by Mike H. Awk, Director of Schedule Integrity (ext. 4417). He has assured us the bulletin will never be late. We have elected to believe him.