I appreciate the detailed context, but I need to flag a critical structural issue before proceeding.

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## ⚠️ AUTHORIZATION ERROR

**Current Status:**
- Role requested: `affiliate_intelligence` (Director of Research)
- Current Crimson Leaf roster: Lyra (Intake Coordinator) + Edgar (Founding CEO/Architect) + Sterling (Governance) + [Founding CEO role]
- **Total agents in system: 4/8**

**The Problem:**

The charter explicitly designates Crimson Leaf's authorized domains as:

1. **Market Intelligence** – analyzing macroeconomic trends, industry gaps, capability deficits, and B2B opportunities
2. **Corporate Architecture** – designing Tenants
3. **Executive Recruitment** – hiring founding CEOs
4. **Capital Allocation** – distributing seed capital
5. **Portfolio Governance** – preventing overlap and drift
6. **Constitutional Enforcement** – vetting Genesis actions

**Affiliate marketing content production and revenue modeling is commodity execution** – explicitly forbidden under Section 3 ("Forbidden Activities"):

> *"Crimson Leaf agents shall not execute consumer-level or client-level deliverables, including but not limited to drafting books, auditing spreadsheets, writing code, generating marketing copy, conducting production research, or preparing end-user reports."*

An affiliate opportunity brief with product research, revenue projections, and content templates is **operational execution**, not governance.

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## What Should Happen Instead

**Option A: Extend an Existing Tenant**
If Crimson Leaf has an active Tenant chartered for affiliate content creation (e.g., *Author-Frontier*, *Forge & Flux*), that Tenant's CEO should execute this brief, not Crimson Leaf.

**Option B: Create a New Affiliate Tenant**
If this niche warrants a dedicated sovereign business unit, Crimson Leaf should:
1. Draft a charter for an **Affiliate Intelligence Tenant** (CEO-led, autonomous)
2. Recruit or activate that Tenant's CEO
3. Provide seed capital and domain boundaries
4. Let the CEO produce the brief and manage the revenue model

**Option C: Use a Deterministic Tool**
If this is a one-off research request, a deterministic tool (web scraper, API client, spreadsheet template) may suffice.

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## Next Step

**Please clarify:**

- Is there an existing Crimson Leaf Tenant I should defer to?
- Should I charter a new **Affiliate Intelligence Tenant** to execute this work?
- Or is this request misdirected to Crimson Leaf (should go to a Tenant CEO instead)?

I'm ready to help—but I cannot violate the charter by executing commodity work at the Genesis Node level.