{
  "artifact": "White Noise Public Diligence Readiness Matrix",
  "date": "2026-06-30",
  "public_route": "wn-diligence-readiness-matrix.html",
  "validator": "tools/check_diligence_readiness_matrix.js",
  "prepared_from": [
    "white-noise-public-counterparty-readiness-scorecard.json",
    "white-noise-public-source-record-priority-queue.json",
    "white-noise-public-source-record-acceptance-standard.json",
    "white-noise-public-review-calendar.json",
    "white-noise-public-materials-manifest.json"
  ],
  "use_boundary": "This matrix is a public orientation and governance artifact only. It is not audited reporting, not investment advice, not legal advice, not a secure diligence room, not production CRM proof, not a security-reviewed enterprise-controls packet, and not proof that speculative White Noise technologies are commercially deployed.",
  "purpose": "Give a serious reviewer one decision-oriented matrix that shows what can be inspected now, what remains source-record gated, what claim family is blocked, and which next evidence unlock would change the public posture.",
  "board_rule": "Do not warm a public claim unless its source record is accepted, its owner/reviewer is known, its dated window and exclusions are clear, and the public-summary boundary has been reviewed.",
  "readiness_rows": [
    {
      "decision_family": "First-pass capital or board review",
      "inspectable_now": [
        "Investor Relations",
        "Investor Update",
        "Capital Readiness Note",
        "Board Review Packet",
        "Materials Manifest"
      ],
      "current_state": "public_route_available",
      "blocked_claim_family": "audited financials, formal financing documents, securities process, KPI actuals, or current investor-stack status without dated review",
      "source_record_gate": "Investor materials freshness receipt and accepted KPI/payment/account records where metrics are used",
      "next_evidence_unlock": "Refresh investor materials through the freshness gate and accept any metric-bearing source records before publishing warmer capital or KPI language.",
      "best_next_route": "wn-investor-materials-freshness-gate.html"
    },
    {
      "decision_family": "Enterprise buyer or procurement-fit review",
      "inspectable_now": [
        "Enterprise Starter Brief",
        "Enterprise Procurement Readiness Boundary",
        "Security/Data Baseline",
        "Service-Level Dependency Gate"
      ],
      "current_state": "bounded_public_route",
      "blocked_claim_family": "procurement readiness, security-reviewed enterprise controls, SOC 2 or ISO evidence, production CRM, service-level assurance, or vendor maturity",
      "source_record_gate": "Security/data-handling control evidence and service-level dependency source records",
      "next_evidence_unlock": "Produce private service-level and security/data source records, evaluate them, and publish only bounded summaries if accepted.",
      "best_next_route": "wn-service-level-dependency-source-record-gate.html"
    },
    {
      "decision_family": "Commercial demand and revenue review",
      "inspectable_now": [
        "Commercial Surface Register",
        "Revenue Readiness Note",
        "Market Entry Note",
        "Payment Account Source Record Gate",
        "Inquiry Scoped-Work Source Record Gate"
      ],
      "current_state": "source_gated",
      "blocked_claim_family": "free-to-paid conversion, paid member retention, revenue quality, qualified pipeline, consulting pipeline, or repeatable commercial workflow",
      "source_record_gate": "Payment/account reconciliation and inquiry/scoped-work logs",
      "next_evidence_unlock": "Retain payment, account, inquiry, and scoped-work source records with exclusions and owner review before publishing metric or pipeline claims.",
      "best_next_route": "wn-payment-account-source-record-gate.html"
    },
    {
      "decision_family": "Delivery proof and customer evidence",
      "inspectable_now": [
        "Sample Delivery Case Study",
        "Evidence Artifact Shipment Ledger Gate",
        "Customer Evidence Permission Source Record Gate",
        "Customer Evidence Permission Standard"
      ],
      "current_state": "proof_shape_public_evidence_gated",
      "blocked_claim_family": "delivery velocity, named customer proof, logo use, quote use, customer outcome proof, case-study strength, services maturity, or repeatable delivery workflow",
      "source_record_gate": "Evidence artifact shipment ledger and customer/partner/sponsor permission record",
      "next_evidence_unlock": "Create a private artifact-shipment ledger and permission record, then publish only approved bounded language.",
      "best_next_route": "wn-evidence-artifact-shipment-ledger-gate.html"
    },
    {
      "decision_family": "Credibility, source rights, and generated-visual review",
      "inspectable_now": [
        "Generated Visual Disclosure Standard",
        "Investor Visual Provenance Register",
        "Source Rights Register",
        "W.N. AI Dataset Registry",
        "Source Record Acceptance Standard"
      ],
      "current_state": "public_controls_available",
      "blocked_claim_family": "generated visuals as proof, institutional source clearance, complete licensing, model-training permission, corpus-use clearance, or customer-evidence publication rights",
      "source_record_gate": "Source-rights/corpus-use clearance record and generated-visual provenance review",
      "next_evidence_unlock": "Add source-specific rights records and retain provenance/usage boundaries for every public generated visual before stronger source or image claims.",
      "best_next_route": "wn-source-rights-corpus-use-clearance-gate.html"
    },
    {
      "decision_family": "Exchange, marketplace, custody, and WN Coin launch review",
      "inspectable_now": [
        "Exchange Launch Status",
        "Exchange Launch Source Record Gate",
        "Risk Register",
        "Capital Allocation Gate"
      ],
      "current_state": "pre_launch_gate",
      "blocked_claim_family": "live Exchange market operations, token sale, custody, liquidity, creator payout, settlement, compliance readiness, or launch readiness",
      "source_record_gate": "Exchange launch evidence file and dated board decision",
      "next_evidence_unlock": "Complete launch evidence, legal/compliance route, payment/settlement owner, support/incident plan, and board decision before any warmer launch language.",
      "best_next_route": "wn-exchange-launch-source-record-gate.html"
    }
  ],
  "reviewer_use": [
    "Pick the decision family before asking for more material.",
    "Open the inspectable public route first.",
    "Name the blocked claim family if the public material is insufficient.",
    "Ask for one source record, one bounded artifact, or one not-ready answer.",
    "Do not treat a generated image, planning model, demo log, or public route as operational proof."
  ],
  "image_asset": {
    "path": "assets/governance/white-noise-diligence-readiness-matrix-20260630.png",
    "provenance": "assets/governance/white-noise-diligence-readiness-matrix-20260630.provenance.json",
    "alt_text": "AI-generated White Noise diligence readiness matrix with abstract public-now cards, source-record receipts, blocked-claim gates, owner-review lanes, and next-evidence unlock markers",
    "usage_boundary": "Conceptual/editorial governance image only; not proof of operations, audited controls, production CRM, formal financing, customer traction, live Exchange activity, or deployed speculative technology."
  },
  "next_review_trigger": "Refresh when a source-record status changes, a monthly investor-materials freshness review passes, a new public trust artifact is published, or any row's blocked claim family changes."
}