{
  "artifact": "White Noise Public Capital Allocation Gate",
  "date": "2026-06-29",
  "prepared_from": "current public-site materials only",
  "public_route": "wn-capital-allocation-gate.html",
  "source_artifact": "white-noise-public-capital-allocation-gate.md",
  "use_boundary": "This artifact is for general information only. It is not investment advice, not an offer to sell or solicit securities, not audited reporting, not a use-of-proceeds document, and not proof that speculative White Noise technologies are commercially deployed.",
  "current_board_view": {
    "posture": "White Noise can discuss capital needs as milestone-conditioned operating readiness, not as a formal financing process.",
    "decision": "Keep capital allocation language tied to public proof state, source-record gates, and explicit absences until formal materials and source-backed metrics exist.",
    "blocked_claim": "Do not imply audited financial planning, formal fundraising, committed investors, securities offering, investment performance, production finance controls, or deployed speculative systems."
  },
  "allocation_lanes": [
    {
      "lane": "Public trust stack",
      "current_public_support": "Investor route, enterprise starter brief, proof pack, risk register, materials index, review calendar, source-record controls, generated-visual disclosure standard.",
      "capital_use_when_appropriate": "Tighten review cadence, source-record preparation, public materials QA, and governance artifacts before warmer claims.",
      "evidence_before_warmer_language": "Dated source records, owner review, review-calendar update, and public claim-language check."
    },
    {
      "lane": "Commercial operating surface",
      "current_public_support": "Services routes, Academy and member surfaces, W.N. Plus library, public commercial surface register, sample delivery case study.",
      "capital_use_when_appropriate": "Improve paid path measurement, artifact delivery discipline, customer-evidence permissions, and repeatable scoped-work packaging.",
      "evidence_before_warmer_language": "Payment/account records, delivery logs, permissioned customer evidence, and metrics released under the metrics release policy."
    },
    {
      "lane": "Product and W.N. AI strategy",
      "current_public_support": "W.N. AI route, product dossier routes, product readiness board, dataset governance notes, source-rights controls.",
      "capital_use_when_appropriate": "Move from narrative product breadth to small, inspectable product milestones with source rights, QA, and release-state records.",
      "evidence_before_warmer_language": "Release-state notes, source-rights records, QA outputs, usage telemetry where appropriate, and explicit product claim-boundary updates."
    },
    {
      "lane": "Enterprise and risk controls",
      "current_public_support": "Security/data baseline, dependency register, accountability map, decision ownership register, contact-routing evidence pack.",
      "capital_use_when_appropriate": "Harden intake, dependency records, privacy boundaries, production workflow ownership, and enterprise-readiness documentation.",
      "evidence_before_warmer_language": "Accepted source-record assessment, provider receipt where relevant, owner/fallback/privacy review, and updated risk register."
    }
  ],
  "gate_rules": [
    "Do not present allocation lanes as committed use of proceeds.",
    "Do not publish capital milestones as achieved until the supporting source record exists.",
    "Do not convert planning assumptions into audited forecasts, securities materials, or investment-return language.",
    "Do not let generated visuals imply a live finance function, staffed dataroom, or operational dashboard.",
    "Use this gate before changing investor, enterprise, product, Exchange, KPI, or revenue language."
  ],
  "next_actions": [
    "Use this gate as the capital companion to the Public Capital Readiness Note.",
    "When source records improve, update the relevant source artifact first, then this allocation gate.",
    "Keep the next board focus on production contact-routing evidence and payment/account source records before any warmer KPI or capital language."
  ],
  "image": {
    "path": "assets/investors/white-noise-capital-allocation-gate-20260629.png",
    "provenance": "assets/investors/white-noise-capital-allocation-gate-20260629.provenance.json",
    "boundary": "GPT-generated conceptual/editorial capital-allocation image only; not proof of a staffed finance function, audited budget, formal financing process, securities offering, investment performance, live dataroom, production CRM, customer traction, or operational speculative technology."
  }
}