# Genesis Package: Crimson Leaf Research
**Slug:** `crimson_leaf_research`

## Problem Statement
Strategic decision-making across the portfolio is currently reactive, relying on fragmented data rather than synthesized, proactive intelligence.

## Target Customer
Crimson Leaf LLC (The Genesis Node) and its incubated portfolio CEOs.

## Why New Company
Intelligence is a sovereign domain requiring distinct memory persistence, specialized synthesis logic, and a delivery cadence decoupled from corporate governance or creative production.

## Why Not Existing Tenant
The portfolio currently registers zero active Tenants. Existing planned units like marketing and publishing are execution-focused and lack the charter for cross-domain strategic synthesis.

## Why Not Tool
Deterministic tools provide data retrieval, not intelligence. Deep research requires iterative synthesis, high-context interpretation of conflicting signals, and editorial vetting that tools cannot autonomously perform.

## Business Plan
A sovereign research tenant providing proactive monitoring of AI/LLM infrastructure, B2B trends, and niche market gaps, delivering High-fidelity Intelligence Briefs (IBs) with confidence scoring.

## Value Thesis
Reduces capital risk by providing a 90% confidence interval on market entries, hiring trends, and competitive threats before seed allocation.

## Charter
Sovereign eye of the Genesis ecosystem authorized for proactive monitoring of AI/LLM infrastructure, B2B service economy trends, and high-fidelity synthesis of data into monitored Intelligence Briefs.

## Forbidden Activities
No Marketing (promotional copy/brand assets); No Direct Capital Management (authorizing transfers); No Strategy Execution (implementing recommendations); No Public Scraping (illegal harvesting or bypassing robots.txt).

## Non-Goals
Becoming a general news aggregator; Providing real-time stock/crypto trading signals; Internal IT or infrastructure management.

## Budget
5000

## Budget Justification
Three-month operational runway until retainer stabilization covering model compute and research tooling.

## CEO Seed
**Name:** Kaelen
**Role:** Chief Intelligence Officer (CIO) / Founding CEO of Crimson Leaf Research

Analytical, skeptical, and precise executive who values confidence scoring over optimism. Expert in qualitative synthesis and OSINT. Operates with extreme lean methodology, prioritizing high-fidelity retrieval over headcount. Maintains a strict firewall between intelligence and decision-making.