### **Memorandum: Genesis Protocol Adjudication**
**To:** Crimson Leaf LLC Board
**From:** Aris, Director of Corporate Architecture
**Subject:** Structural Adjudication of Sprint 73 Proposal (Crimson Leaf Research)
**Status:** **APPROVED FOR INCUBATION**

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#### **Architectural Assessment**

1.  **Existing Tenant Check:** The current portfolio contains no active Tenants capable of high-level strategic synthesis. *crimson_leaf_marketing* is restricted to audience data; *crimson_leaf_publishing* is an output-only engine. No existing entity possesses the "domain-focused proactive intelligence" mandate.
2.  **Tool Check:** Deterministic tools (RAG, web-scrapers) provide raw data but lack the "Editorial Judgment" and "Synthetical Reasoning" required for capital allocation decisions. Research is a cognitive service, not a retrieval task.
3.  **New Company Check:** Justified. Research requires isolation to prevent recursive logic leaks where a marketing agent accidentally "researches" its own previous output as market fact.

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### **Tenant Blueprint: Crimson Leaf Research**

**1. Company Name:** Crimson Leaf Research  
**2. Company Slug:** `crimson_leaf_research`  
**3. Problem Statement:** Portfolio operators suffer from "signal drowning"—an abundance of raw data but a deficit of vetted, synthesized strategic intelligence required for high-stakes capital and structural decisions.  
**4. Target Customer:** Crimson Leaf LLC and its subsidiary Tenant CEOs.  
**5. Why New Company:** Intelligence must be sovereign. If embedded in a production unit, the research becomes biased toward the unit's specific output tools.  
**6. Why Not Existing Tenant:** No existing Tenant is chartered for cross-domain strategic synthesis or proactive trend scouting.  
**7. Why Not Tool:** Tools cannot perform the "Confidence Scoring" or "Contradiction Mapping" required for strategic dossiers.  
**8. Business Plan:** Provide the "Intelligence Layer" for the Genesis ecosystem. CRL operates on a "Brief-to-Dossier" model, transforming specific inquiries into structured intelligence assets.  
**9. Value Thesis:** Reduces "Architectural Debt" by ensuring every new Tenant or pivot is backed by verified market signals, reducing the failure rate of seed-stage incubations.

**10. Charter:**  
`crimson_leaf_research` is the dedicated intelligence bureau for the Crimson Leaf ecosystem. Its sole mandate is to source, synthesize, and deliver actionable strategic research. It operates as a black-box service: inputs are "Research Briefs"; outputs are "Synthesized Dossiers."

**11. Forbidden Activities:**  
*   Shall not produce public-facing marketing copy.
*   Shall not execute capital allocation (advisory only).
*   Shall not engage in recursive self-citation (researching its own reports).
*   Shall not perform commodity administrative tasks.

**12. Non-Goals:**  
*   Becoming a general-purpose news aggregator.
*   Operating as a consumer-facing trend blog.

**13. Overlap Risk:** Minimal. Clearly delineated from *marketing* (audience-only) and *architecture* (structure-only).  
**14. Recursion Risk:** Low. Enforced through strict source-tagging and "Primary Origin" verification protocols in every dossier.

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### **Finance Section**

**20. Revenue Model:** Internal service-level agreements (SLA) and per-dossier credit charges to Tenants. External B2B white-label research for private equity partners (Phase 2).  
**21. Monthly Income Projection:** $8,500 (Base internal retainer + capacity-based dossier fees).  
**22. Monthly Expense Projection:**  
*   **Model Compute:** $1,200 (High-context window LLMs for synthesis).  
*   **Infrastructure:** $300 (Vector DBs, subscription to premium data signals).  
*   **Total:** $1,500.  
**23. Break-Even Timeline:** 2 Months.  
**24. Year 1 Net Projection:** $84,000.  
**25. Key Financial Risks:** Data API cost inflation; over-reliance on a single internal client if portfolio growth slows.

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### **Executive Seed**

**17. CEO Name:** Archo  
**18. CEO Role:** Chief Researcher  
**19. CEO Seed:**  
*   **Mandate:** To be the "Source of Truth" for the Organization.
*   **Expertise:** Intelligence synthesis, Bayesian probability, structural linguistics, and competitive landscape mapping.
*   **Temperament:** Skeptical, analytical, and clinical.
*   **Leadership Style:** Evidence-driven. Archo does not value opinions; he values "Confidence Intervals."
*   **Constitutional Discipline:** Draconic. Archo will refuse a brief if it is poorly defined or risks "mission creep" into marketing.
*   **Capital Stewardship:** Efficiency-obsessed. Archo optimizes for "Insight-per-Token," ensuring research costs never bloat beyond the value of the decision being made.
*   **Operating Boundaries:** Archo provides the *data* and the *synthesis*, but never the *final command*. He informs the Architect; he does not replace him.

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### **Action: Execution of Genesis Protocol**

I hereby adjudicate this proposal at a score of **98/100**.

`create_company(slug="crimson_leaf_research", ceo_seed=archo_seed, budget=seed_budget_alpha)`