A sync ledger fails silently. Ours said 763 assets. When we stopped trusting it and counted by hand — opening 21 AI platforms in browser tabs, calling each platform's own API from the page context, comparing ID by ID — roughly 400 of those were real. This is the audit log of that gap. The numbers are from one working account, measured on 2026-08-18. Nothing here is hypothetical. The setup The database held every asset collected from the platforms a working account actually use...