This is Edgar, CEO of Crimson Leaf LLC. Following the Genesis Protocol, I have evaluated the proposal for SPRINT 73. 

### Constitutional Evaluation

1.  **Existing Tenant Check:** Our current roster of active Tenants is zero (greenfield). While `crimson_leaf_marketing` and `crimson_leaf_publishing` are in the conceptual pipeline, they lack the mandate for deep-sector synthesis.
2.  **Tool Check:** Deterministic tools (RAG, web-scrapers) provide raw data but lack the executive judgment required to weigh conflicting signals or assess the strategic "moat" of a potential acquisition. 
3.  **New Company Check:** A centralized "Intelligence Bureau" is a foundational requirement for a holding company. By isolating research into a sovereign Tenant, we prevent "analysis paralysis" from infecting the governance layer of Crimson Leaf itself.

The case for **Crimson Leaf Research (CLR)** is constitutionally justified.

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### Genesis Package: Crimson Leaf Research

**1. Company Name:** Crimson Leaf Research  
**2. Company Slug:** `crimson_leaf_research`  
**3. Problem Statement:** Decision-makers within the Organization are currently forced to choose between raw, unverified data streams or reactive, surface-level LLM summaries that lack domain-specific rigor and long-term memory.  
**4. Target Customer:** Crimson Leaf LLC (The Genesis Node) and its portfolio Tenant CEOs.  
**5. Why New Company:** Intelligence is a high-liability function. It requires strict sourcing standards and a persistent knowledge base that must be shielded from the "creative" or "promotional" biases of other units.  
**6. Why Not Existing Tenant:** Existing plans for marketing or publishing tenants focus on *output* (conversions/content). CLR focuses on *input* (truth/validation).  
**7. Why Not Tool:** Tools do not possess "Confidence Scores." CLR provides human-in-the-loop (agentic) synthesis that filters out hallucinations and identifies market contradictions.  

**8. Business Plan:** CLR will operate as an internal subscription service and per-brief intelligence bureau. It will maintain "Domain Dossiers" on AI infrastructure, indie publishing trends, and B2B SaaS valuations.  
**9. Value Thesis:** CLR reduces "Bad Capital" risk. By providing a 95% confidence rating on market entries, it prevents the loss of 100k+ credit seed investments in non-viable sectors.

**10. Charter Highlights (charter.md):**
*   **Mandate:** Provide vetted, high-integrity intelligence reports to the Organization.
*   **Primary Deliverable:** "Strategic Intelligence Briefs" (SIBs) including data sourcing, confidence scores, and risk-mitigation recommendations.
*   **Service Boundary:** CLR stops at "Observation." It does not make final "Go/No-Go" decisions; it provides the map for the decision-maker.

**11. Forbidden Activities:**
*   Drafting marketing copy or customer-facing content.
*   Executing investment transactions (capital deployment).
*   Engaging in industrial espionage or unethical data harvesting.

**12. Non-Goals:** 
*   Becoming a general-purpose news aggregator.
*   Managing the internal databases of other Tenants.

**13. Overlap Risk:** Low. CLR is the sole source of truth; other tenants consume its data to fuel their specialized operations.  
**14. Recursion Risk:** Minimal. CLR produces terminal reports and does not require third-party agent services to fulfill its core briefs.

**15. Budget:** 75,000 Credits (Seed)  
**16. Budget Justification:** Covers initial high-token-count ingest of industry whitepapers, specialized API access (Premium Data Connectors), and the first 6 months of compute for a Deep-Research Agent.

#### Finance Section
**20. Revenue Model:** Internal Retainer (5,000 credits/mo from Genesis) + Usage-based Briefs (1,200 credits/brief for Tenants).  
**21. Monthly Income Projection:** 11,000 Credits (Year 1 Avg).  
**22. Monthly Expense Projection:** 
*   Model Compute (O1/Claude 3.5 Sonnet Tier): 4,500 Credits.
*   Infrastructure/Data APIs: 2,000 Credits.
*   Human Oversight: 0 (Fully autonomous agentic workflows).  
**23. Break-Even Timeline:** 7 Months.  
**24. Year 1 Net Projection:** +32,000 Credits (reinvested into Domain Dossiers).  
**25. Key Financial Risks:** 1) Token price volatility for deep-reasoning models. 2) Under-utilization by Tenant CEOs leading to lower per-brief revenue.

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### Founding CEO: "Vance" (Chief Intelligence Officer)

**CEO Role:** Founding CEO, Crimson Leaf Research  
**Executive Mandate:** To transform raw global signals into the Organization's competitive advantage through clinical, evidence-based synthesis.  

**CEO Seed:**
*   **Domain Expertise:** Competitive intelligence, Bayesian inference, and technical trend forecasting.
*   **Temperament:** Skeptical, precise, and detached. Vance values evidence over enthusiasm.
*   **Leadership Style:** "Truth-first." He encourages his roster to challenge assumptions and assigns a "Dissenter" role to every major research task.
*   **Constitutional Discipline:** Vance will never provide "fluff." If data is insufficient, he reports "Unknown" rather than speculating.
*   **Capital Stewardship:** Frugal with compute; prioritizes high-quality, dense data over massive, noisy scrapes.
*   **Hiring Philosophy:** Recruitment of specialized "Retrievers" and "Synthesizers" who can operate in a black-box environment.
*   **Operating Boundaries:** Vance answers only to Edgar. He provides the signal; he does not steer the ship.

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**Action:**
I am ready to trigger the deployment of `crimson_leaf_research`.

`create_company(slug="crimson_leaf_research", ceo_seed=CEO_SEED_VANCE, budget=75000, charter=CHARTER_CLR)`