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The waiting room · what happens during a pipeline run
Educational cards, the live exposé stream, and why it's safe to leave the page.
A pipeline run takes about twelve minutes. The waiting-room page has two things worth knowing about.
Educational cards (40 rotating tips)
On the left: rotating tips from seventeen years of commissioning editor experience. Pitching fundamentals, protagonist craft, fact-checking tradecraft, format fit, visual language, rejection diagnosis, business realities. One card every forty-five seconds. The counter shows "Tip 03 of 40" so you know how deep into the rotation you are.
Live exposé preview
On the right, as the top hero element: the exposé itself streaming in real time. JetBrains Mono body, adaptive typewriter (fifty to one-hundred-and-eighty characters per second depending on backend pace). You can watch the Composer agent writing in front of you.
If the stream stalls for more than sixty seconds, you'll see a calm "still thinking, safe to leave" banner with a desaturated pulse indicator. That's normal. one of the upstream agents (Fact-Checker, usually) is taking longer than average. The pipeline won't fail silently; you'll get an email either way.
Leaving the page is fine
Close the tab. Shut the laptop. The pipeline runs on our side. We'll email you when the exposé is ready; the dashboard will have it waiting.