{
  "artifact": "White Noise Public Source Record Acceptance Standard",
  "date": "2026-06-29",
  "public_route": "wn-source-record-acceptance-standard.html",
  "prepared_from": "current public-site materials and current source-record priority queue",
  "use_boundary": "This standard is a governance control for accepting future source records. It is not audited reporting, not legal advice, not investment advice, not a KPI report, and not proof that speculative White Noise systems are commercially deployed.",
  "board_rule": "A source record is not accepted until it names the source family, owner, dated window, exclusions, privacy boundary, retained evidence, review date, public-summary boundary, and blocked claim it is allowed to update.",
  "status_labels": [
    "missing_record",
    "ready_for_review",
    "accepted_source_record",
    "accepted_for_public_summary",
    "rejected_needs_rework"
  ],
  "required_fields": [
    {
      "field": "source_record_name",
      "minimum": "Plain-language name of the record being reviewed."
    },
    {
      "field": "source_family",
      "minimum": "Production system, provider receipt, payment/account record, inquiry log, artifact ledger, permission record, rights record, dependency record, security/privacy record, launch record, or materials freshness receipt."
    },
    {
      "field": "public_claim_blocked",
      "minimum": "Exact claim or claim family that remains blocked unless the record is accepted."
    },
    {
      "field": "owner",
      "minimum": "Named owner category or delegated owner. Founder-led is acceptable only when explicitly stated."
    },
    {
      "field": "dated_window",
      "minimum": "Date or date range covered by the source record."
    },
    {
      "field": "source_location",
      "minimum": "Private retained source location, provider category, ledger path, or public artifact path as applicable. Do not publish secrets or personal data."
    },
    {
      "field": "exclusion_rule",
      "minimum": "Test, demo, sandbox, duplicate, refund, bot, local-only, confidential, or unsupported records excluded from the public summary."
    },
    {
      "field": "privacy_boundary",
      "minimum": "Statement confirming whether customer, investor, partner, personal, regulated, credential, or confidential data is excluded, redacted, permissioned, or private."
    },
    {
      "field": "reviewer",
      "minimum": "Reviewer name, role, or board-review category."
    },
    {
      "field": "review_date",
      "minimum": "Date the record was reviewed."
    },
    {
      "field": "retained_evidence",
      "minimum": "Receipt ID, local JSON path, provider receipt category, register row, or private artifact reference retained for later diligence."
    },
    {
      "field": "public_summary_boundary",
      "minimum": "What the public summary may and may not say after acceptance."
    },
    {
      "field": "next_review_trigger",
      "minimum": "Date, event, claim-change request, provider change, policy change, or material counterparty request that forces review."
    }
  ],
  "disallowed_substitutes": [
    "memory-only assertion",
    "planning model",
    "estimate",
    "demo or sandbox log treated as production",
    "browser-local state",
    "generated image",
    "model output",
    "screenshot without source path or retained receipt",
    "single anecdote converted into a trend",
    "mixed test and production data without exclusions",
    "named customer, partner, sponsor, quote, logo, or case study without permission record"
  ],
  "acceptance_classes": [
    {
      "priority": 1,
      "source_record": "Production contact routing delivery record",
      "source_family": "production_route_and_provider_receipt",
      "minimum_acceptance": [
        "exactly one configured provider mode",
        "redacted ready preflight",
        "production health check",
        "confirmed synthetic delivery test",
        "provider receipt",
        "owner review",
        "fallback rule",
        "privacy boundary",
        "dated test window"
      ],
      "blocked_claim": "Production CRM, monitored enterprise workflow, staffed support, or response SLA."
    },
    {
      "priority": 2,
      "source_record": "Payment and account source reconciliation",
      "source_family": "payment_and_account_reconciliation",
      "minimum_acceptance": [
        "payment processor source",
        "account state source",
        "cohort window",
        "refund and test transaction exclusions",
        "reconciliation note",
        "source owner"
      ],
      "blocked_claim": "Free-to-paid conversion, paid member retention, revenue quality, or audited member actuals."
    },
    {
      "priority": 3,
      "source_record": "Inquiry and scoped-work log",
      "source_family": "inquiry_and_pipeline_log",
      "minimum_acceptance": [
        "inquiry route",
        "qualification definition",
        "scoped-work stage",
        "date window",
        "duplicate and test exclusions",
        "privacy treatment",
        "owner review"
      ],
      "blocked_claim": "Qualified R&D pipeline, consulting pipeline, enterprise demand, or repeatable commercial workflow."
    },
    {
      "priority": 4,
      "source_record": "Evidence artifact shipment ledger",
      "source_family": "artifact_delivery_ledger",
      "minimum_acceptance": [
        "artifact title",
        "delivery date",
        "recipient class",
        "permission state",
        "evidence level",
        "claim boundary",
        "private or public availability state"
      ],
      "blocked_claim": "Delivery velocity, customer outcome proof, named case-study strength, or services maturity."
    },
    {
      "priority": 5,
      "source_record": "Customer, partner, sponsor, logo, quote, or case-study permission record",
      "source_family": "permission_record",
      "minimum_acceptance": [
        "written permission",
        "source context",
        "approved usage channel",
        "revocation or contact route",
        "evidence level",
        "claim boundary"
      ],
      "blocked_claim": "Named customer proof, endorsed partner proof, customer outcome proof, or permissioned logo/quote use."
    },
    {
      "priority": 6,
      "source_record": "Source-rights and corpus-use clearance record",
      "source_family": "source_rights_record",
      "minimum_acceptance": [
        "source-specific rights basis",
        "permitted usage",
        "attribution rule",
        "model-training, corpus, or marketplace restrictions",
        "takedown route",
        "review date"
      ],
      "blocked_claim": "Institutional clearance, complete licensing, model-training permission, or stronger corpus reuse."
    },
    {
      "priority": 7,
      "source_record": "Service-level dependency record",
      "source_family": "dependency_record",
      "minimum_acceptance": [
        "vendor or service name",
        "data class",
        "access owner",
        "terms source",
        "continuity or offboarding plan",
        "security relevance",
        "review trigger"
      ],
      "blocked_claim": "Vendor maturity, procurement readiness, service-level assurance, SOC 2/ISO evidence, or audited dependency controls."
    },
    {
      "priority": 8,
      "source_record": "Security and data-handling control evidence",
      "source_family": "security_privacy_control_record",
      "minimum_acceptance": [
        "data-flow record",
        "access route",
        "retention or deletion rule",
        "production collection state",
        "vendor relevance",
        "privacy policy review",
        "owner review"
      ],
      "blocked_claim": "Security-reviewed enterprise controls, compliance certification, legal-reviewed privacy packet, or production access review."
    },
    {
      "priority": 9,
      "source_record": "Exchange launch evidence file",
      "source_family": "exchange_launch_record",
      "minimum_acceptance": [
        "launch gate checklist",
        "legal or compliance route where applicable",
        "custody/provenance state",
        "payment or settlement owner",
        "incident or rollback plan",
        "support owner",
        "dated board decision"
      ],
      "blocked_claim": "Live Exchange market operations, token sale, custody, liquidity, creator payout, or launch readiness."
    },
    {
      "priority": 10,
      "source_record": "Investor materials freshness receipt",
      "source_family": "materials_freshness_receipt",
      "minimum_acceptance": [
        "manifest update",
        "materials index update",
        "integrity check",
        "claim-language guard where relevant",
        "search and sitemap update",
        "dated board memo"
      ],
      "blocked_claim": "The public investor stack is current without dated review evidence."
    }
  ]
}