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<!--
  Every indexable page belongs here. Two were missing until 2026-08-20, /shadow-pilot and
  /audit, which meant the conversion page and the incident-reconstruction page were reachable
  by anyone holding the link but invisible to a crawler that had not been handed one.
  When a page is added to public/, add it here in the same change.
-->
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    <loc>https://verifiedcrude.com/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-20</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>1.0</priority>
  </url>

  <!-- Guides: the durable reference layer. Highest priority after the homepage because these
       are the pages a stranger arrives on. -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://verifiedcrude.com/guides/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-20</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://verifiedcrude.com/guides/nis2-terminal-operators/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-20</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://verifiedcrude.com/guides/terminal-audit-evidence/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-20</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://verifiedcrude.com/guides/connecting-terminal-systems/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-20</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://verifiedcrude.com/glossary/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-20</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.8</priority>
  </url>

  <url>
    <loc>https://verifiedcrude.com/use-cases/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-20</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://verifiedcrude.com/press/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-20</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
  </url>

  <!-- Proof -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://verifiedcrude.com/case-studies/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-20</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://verifiedcrude.com/case-studies/terminal-evidence/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-20</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
  </url>

  <!-- Conversion + assessment -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://verifiedcrude.com/shadow-pilot/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-20</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://verifiedcrude.com/score/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-07-11</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.8</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://verifiedcrude.com/brief/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-07-11</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.8</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://verifiedcrude.com/audit/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-01</lastmod>
    <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
  </url>

  <!-- Legal + security -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://verifiedcrude.com/security</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-07-16</lastmod>
    <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.4</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://verifiedcrude.com/terms</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-07-16</lastmod>
    <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.3</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://verifiedcrude.com/privacy</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-07-16</lastmod>
    <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.3</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://verifiedcrude.com/dpa</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-07-16</lastmod>
    <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.3</priority>
  </url>

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