{
  "artifact": "White Noise Public Inquiry and Scoped-Work Source Record Gate",
  "date": "2026-06-29",
  "public_route": "wn-inquiry-scoped-work-source-record-gate.html",
  "markdown_source": "white-noise-public-inquiry-scoped-work-source-record-gate.md",
  "prepared_from": "current public-site materials, public source-record queue, and local evidence gaps only",
  "use_boundary": "This gate is a public board-readiness artifact only. It is not a CRM proof packet, not audited pipeline reporting, not investment advice, not an offer to sell or solicit securities, and not proof that qualified enterprise demand, booked consulting revenue, customer traction, or scoped-work records have been accepted.",
  "board_rule": "Do not publish warmer enterprise-demand, consulting-pipeline, scoped-work, conversion, revenue, KPI, or capital language until inquiry and scoped-work source records pass this gate and the public claim-language boundary is reviewed.",
  "current_status": "pending_source_evidence",
  "source_record_priority": 3,
  "companion_tools": [
    {
      "path": "tools/check_inquiry_scoped_work_source_record_gate.js",
      "purpose": "Validate that the public gate, source files, image provenance, and manifest references preserve the acceptance boundary."
    }
  ],
  "blocked_public_claims": [
    "qualified R&D pipeline",
    "consulting pipeline",
    "enterprise demand",
    "repeatable commercial workflow",
    "booked scoped-work revenue",
    "source-backed services conversion"
  ],
  "required_source_inputs": [
    {
      "field": "inquiry_route_source",
      "minimum": "Inquiry route, capture source, received date, channel class, delivery state, and redaction rule retained privately.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not expose raw message text, sender names, email addresses, phone numbers, company identifiers, tracking parameters, or secrets."
    },
    {
      "field": "qualification_definition",
      "minimum": "Written qualification criteria separating spam, test messages, curiosity notes, partner inquiries, buyer inquiries, investor notes, and scoped-work candidates.",
      "public_boundary": "Public language may summarize the criteria only; it must not imply every inquiry is qualified demand."
    },
    {
      "field": "scoped_work_stage",
      "minimum": "Stage labels for received, acknowledged, qualified, discovery scheduled, scoped, proposed, accepted, rejected, dormant, or duplicate records.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not imply booked work, revenue, or customer proof unless the exact stage and source support it."
    },
    {
      "field": "date_window",
      "minimum": "Start date, end date, timezone, and reason the window is representative or intentionally narrow.",
      "public_boundary": "The public summary must state the dated window and avoid implying broader history."
    },
    {
      "field": "exclusion_rule",
      "minimum": "Treatment for tests, internal notes, duplicate submissions, spam, unqualified curiosity, unsupported product requests, investor-only notes, and private relationship context.",
      "public_boundary": "Warm demand or pipeline claims are blocked if exclusions are unresolved."
    },
    {
      "field": "privacy_treatment",
      "minimum": "Redaction rule, retained private evidence location, access boundary, and treatment for personal data, company identifiers, and message contents.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not publish raw inquiries, personal data, sender identities, company names, confidential project details, or message excerpts without permission."
    },
    {
      "field": "owner_review",
      "minimum": "Owner role, review date, unresolved gaps, allowed public summary, blocked claims, and next review trigger.",
      "public_boundary": "Owner role may be public; private reviewer names and counterparty details can stay private."
    }
  ],
  "acceptance_gates": [
    {
      "gate": "source_presence",
      "pass_condition": "Inquiry records, capture route, and scoped-work stage source exist for the same dated review window.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_missing_source"
    },
    {
      "gate": "qualification_integrity",
      "pass_condition": "Qualification criteria are written before counting qualified demand and all ambiguous records are separated.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_qualification_unclear"
    },
    {
      "gate": "stage_alignment",
      "pass_condition": "Inquiry, qualification, and scoped-work stages are aligned or mismatches are itemized.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_stage_mismatch"
    },
    {
      "gate": "exclusion_integrity",
      "pass_condition": "Test, duplicate, spam, internal, unqualified, unsupported, and investor-only exclusions are explicit.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_exclusions_unclear"
    },
    {
      "gate": "privacy_boundary",
      "pass_condition": "Private source files are retained and public summary excludes personal data, company identifiers, confidential project details, raw messages, and secrets.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_privacy_boundary"
    },
    {
      "gate": "owner_review",
      "pass_condition": "Owner has reviewed the source record, named unresolved gaps, approved the allowed public summary, and set the next review trigger.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_owner_review_missing"
    },
    {
      "gate": "claim_boundary",
      "pass_condition": "Public summary maps each supported claim to the exact source window and keeps unsupported demand, pipeline, revenue, and workflow claims blocked.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_claim_boundary"
    }
  ],
  "status_labels": [
    "pending_source_evidence",
    "ready_for_private_review",
    "rejected_needs_rework",
    "accepted_for_bounded_public_summary"
  ],
  "public_summary_allowed_when_accepted": [
    "dated review window",
    "evidence classes reviewed",
    "qualification definition summary",
    "stage taxonomy summary",
    "exclusion rule summary",
    "owner role and review date",
    "bounded count or category only if directly supported",
    "unresolved gap count or explicit no-material-gap statement",
    "next review trigger"
  ],
  "public_summary_disallowed": [
    "raw inquiry text",
    "sender names or personal data",
    "company names or identifiers without permission",
    "email addresses or phone numbers",
    "confidential project details",
    "CRM secrets or provider receipts",
    "audited pipeline language unless audit exists",
    "booked revenue language unless source-backed",
    "investment performance language",
    "formal financing process implication",
    "claims about speculative White Noise technologies being commercially deployed"
  ],
  "companion_controls": [
    "wn-source-record-priority-queue.html",
    "wn-source-record-acceptance-standard.html",
    "wn-contact-routing-evidence-pack.html",
    "wn-commercial-surface-register.html",
    "wn-revenue-readiness-note.html",
    "wn-kpi-evidence-register.html",
    "wn-review-calendar.html"
  ],
  "image_asset": {
    "path": "assets/investors/white-noise-inquiry-scoped-work-source-record-gate-20260629.png",
    "provenance": "assets/investors/white-noise-inquiry-scoped-work-source-record-gate-20260629.provenance.json",
    "alt_text": "AI-generated White Noise inquiry and scoped-work source-record gate with abstract inquiry cards, redaction shields, review stamps, and blocked-claim gates",
    "usage_boundary": "GPT-generated conceptual/editorial inquiry and scoped-work evidence image only; not proof of qualified enterprise demand, booked consulting revenue, production CRM, staffed sales pipeline, customer traction, accepted scoped-work records, formal financing process, or operational speculative technology."
  }
}