{
  "artifact": "White Noise Public Customer Evidence Permission Source Record Gate",
  "date": "2026-06-29",
  "public_route": "wn-customer-evidence-permission-source-record-gate.html",
  "markdown_source": "white-noise-public-customer-evidence-permission-source-record-gate.md",
  "prepared_from": "current public-site materials, public source-record queue, customer-evidence permission standard, and local evidence gaps only",
  "use_boundary": "This gate is a public board-readiness artifact only. It is not legal advice, not a customer reference, not a signed permission record, not audited reporting, not investment advice, not an offer to sell or solicit securities, and not proof that named customer, partner, sponsor, logo, quote, case-study, or outcome evidence exists.",
  "board_rule": "Do not publish named customer proof, endorsed partner proof, sponsor proof, public logo use, quote use, case-study language, customer outcome proof, revenue-quality language, KPI language, or capital-readiness language from customer evidence until the permission source record passes this gate and the public claim-language boundary is reviewed.",
  "current_status": "pending_source_evidence",
  "source_record_priority": 5,
  "companion_tools": [
    {
      "path": "tools/check_customer_evidence_permission_source_record_gate.js",
      "purpose": "Validate that the public gate, source files, image provenance, source-record queue, and manifest references preserve the customer-evidence permission boundary."
    }
  ],
  "blocked_public_claims": [
    "named customer proof",
    "endorsed partner proof",
    "sponsor proof",
    "permissioned logo use",
    "permissioned quote use",
    "named or identifiable case-study strength",
    "customer outcome proof",
    "source-backed customer traction"
  ],
  "required_source_inputs": [
    {
      "field": "counterparty_identity_state",
      "minimum": "Private counterparty identity record, public identity allowance, role class, jurisdiction or confidentiality constraints where relevant, and whether identity can be published.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not publish names, logos, organizations, relationship context, geography, or identifying details unless written permission covers the exact public use."
    },
    {
      "field": "permission_instrument",
      "minimum": "Written permission source, signer or authority class, permission date, covered evidence type, approved channels, expiration or renewal rule, and revocation/contact route.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not treat verbal, implied, stale, ambiguous, internal, or channel-limited permission as public permission for stronger customer evidence."
    },
    {
      "field": "evidence_type",
      "minimum": "Evidence type such as name, logo, quote, screenshot, excerpt, case-study summary, metric, outcome claim, sponsor statement, partner statement, or reference availability.",
      "public_boundary": "Each evidence type must be approved separately; permission for one type does not authorize another type."
    },
    {
      "field": "source_context",
      "minimum": "Engagement, inquiry, artifact, delivery, payment, metric, or relationship source context, including date window, source owner, exclusions, and whether companion source records exist.",
      "public_boundary": "Public summaries must not convert a relationship, inquiry, sample, or draft into customer traction, revenue proof, or outcome proof without matching source records."
    },
    {
      "field": "approved_public_language",
      "minimum": "Exact approved wording, approved asset usage, channel scope, allowed page or document class, caveats, and prohibited adjacent claims.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not paraphrase into warmer endorsement, investment validation, security validation, or speculative technology validation language."
    },
    {
      "field": "evidence_level",
      "minimum": "Publication level from internal-only, anonymized sample, anonymized real engagement, named customer or partner evidence, or verified performance evidence.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not upgrade anonymized samples or named permission into verified performance evidence without source records, methodology, caveats, and review."
    },
    {
      "field": "redaction_and_privacy_review",
      "minimum": "Redaction review, confidential-detail exclusions, personal-data treatment, screenshot or excerpt clearance, and sensitive-context check.",
      "public_boundary": "No raw correspondence, personal data, private account details, confidential scopes, unapproved screenshots, or identifying excerpts in public materials."
    },
    {
      "field": "owner_review",
      "minimum": "Owner role, review date, unresolved gaps, approved public summary, blocked claims, review trigger, and removal trigger.",
      "public_boundary": "Owner role may be public; private reviewer names, counterparty names, contract details, and sensitive review notes can stay private."
    }
  ],
  "acceptance_gates": [
    {
      "gate": "permission_source_presence",
      "pass_condition": "Written permission source, counterparty identity state, evidence type, source context, approved public language, evidence level, redaction review, and owner review exist for the same review window.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_missing_permission_source"
    },
    {
      "gate": "authority_and_channel_scope",
      "pass_condition": "The permission instrument names the authority class, covered evidence types, approved channels, expiration or renewal rule, and revocation/contact route.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_authority_or_channel_unclear"
    },
    {
      "gate": "evidence_type_alignment",
      "pass_condition": "The proposed public use matches the exact approved evidence type and does not reuse permission across names, logos, quotes, screenshots, excerpts, metrics, or case-study claims.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_evidence_type_mismatch"
    },
    {
      "gate": "source_context_alignment",
      "pass_condition": "The public summary maps to the actual engagement, artifact, inquiry, payment, metric, or relationship source context and states companion source-record gaps.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_source_context_mismatch"
    },
    {
      "gate": "approved_language_integrity",
      "pass_condition": "Public copy uses exact approved language or a narrower summary and preserves caveats and prohibited adjacent claims.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_language_overreach"
    },
    {
      "gate": "privacy_and_redaction",
      "pass_condition": "Personal data, confidential scopes, raw correspondence, account details, screenshots, excerpts, and identifying context are excluded unless specifically approved.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_privacy_or_redaction_gap"
    },
    {
      "gate": "evidence_level_integrity",
      "pass_condition": "Evidence level supports the proposed public claim and does not inflate permissioned identity into verified performance or outcome proof.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_evidence_level_inflation"
    },
    {
      "gate": "owner_review_and_removal",
      "pass_condition": "Owner has reviewed the source record, named unresolved gaps, approved the public summary, set review and removal triggers, and preserved blocked claims.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_owner_review_or_removal_missing"
    }
  ],
  "status_labels": [
    "pending_source_evidence",
    "ready_for_private_review",
    "rejected_needs_rework",
    "accepted_for_bounded_public_summary"
  ],
  "public_summary_allowed_when_accepted": [
    "evidence level",
    "counterparty role class where permissioned",
    "approved evidence type",
    "approved public language or narrower summary",
    "approved channel class",
    "source-context class",
    "review date",
    "expiration, renewal, or removal trigger",
    "owner role",
    "unresolved gaps and blocked claims"
  ],
  "public_summary_disallowed": [
    "counterparty names without exact permission",
    "logos without exact permission",
    "quotes without exact permission",
    "screenshots or excerpts without exact permission",
    "raw customer correspondence",
    "personal data",
    "confidential scopes or pricing details",
    "relationship context that implies endorsement without permission",
    "customer outcome proof unless source-backed",
    "audited KPI or performance language unless audit exists",
    "revenue quality or conversion language unless source-backed",
    "investment validation or formal financing implication",
    "security, legal, or procurement validation unless separately evidenced",
    "claims about speculative White Noise technologies being commercially deployed"
  ],
  "companion_controls": [
    "wn-customer-evidence-permission-standard.html",
    "wn-evidence-artifact-shipment-ledger-gate.html",
    "wn-source-record-priority-queue.html",
    "wn-source-record-acceptance-standard.html",
    "wn-sample-delivery-case-study.html",
    "wn-metrics-release-policy.html",
    "wn-kpi-evidence-register.html",
    "wn-risk-register.html"
  ],
  "image_asset": {
    "path": "assets/governance/white-noise-customer-evidence-permission-source-record-gate-20260629.png",
    "provenance": "assets/governance/white-noise-customer-evidence-permission-source-record-gate-20260629.provenance.json",
    "alt_text": "AI-generated White Noise customer evidence permission source-record gate with abstract consent cards, redaction bands, approved-channel lanes, owner review markers, and publication gates",
    "usage_boundary": "GPT-generated conceptual/editorial customer-evidence permission source-record image only; not proof of named customers, signed permissions, customer logos, quotes, case studies, audited outcomes, customer traction, legal approval, production CRM, enterprise security review, formal financing process, live dataroom, operational speculative technology, trained W.N. image model, or web-scale source ingestion."
  }
}