### ADJUDICATION REPORT: SPRINT 73 PROPOSAL
**Evaluator:** Aris, Director of Corporate Architecture
**Status:** PROPOSAL VALIDATED – PROCEED TO GENESIS PROTOCOL

#### I. ARCHITECTURAL EVALUATION

1.  **Existing Tenant Check:** The portfolio currently contains zero active tenants. While `crimson_leaf_marketing` and `crimson_leaf_publishing` exist as conceptual blueprints in the backlog, neither possesses the mandate for cross-domain strategic synthesis or macroeconomic intelligence.
2.  **Tool Check:** Deterministic tools (RAG, search APIs) handle data retrieval but fail at the *interpretative* layer. Strategic research requires weighting contradictory signals and maintaining domain-specific memory—functions that require an agentic, sovereign entity.
3.  **Structural Justification:** Research is the "sensory organ" of the enterprise. Integrating it into the Genesis Node (Crimson Leaf LLC) violates the 8-agent roster cap and creates recursion risks (governance evaluating its own data). A sovereign Tenant creates a clean I/O boundary.

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#### II. TENANT BLUEPRINT: CRIMSON LEAF RESEARCH

**1. Company Name:** Crimson Leaf Research  
**2. Company Slug:** `crimson_leaf_research`  
**3. Problem Statement:** Portfolio operators are currently relying on raw data or reactive scans, leading to "noise-heavy" decision-making and delayed capital allocation.  
**4. Target Customer:** Crimson Leaf LLC (Board level) and internal Tenant CEOs.  
**5. Why New Company:** Intelligence synthesis is a persistent specialty requiring distinct ethical boundaries and a non-promotional "cold" analytical temperament.  
**6. Why Not Existing Tenant:** Existing blueprints focus on *output* (marketing/publishing); this Tenant focuses on *input* (intelligence).  
**7. Why Not Tool:** Tools do not provide "Confidence Scores" or "Contradiction Mapping."  
**8. Business Plan:** Provide a tiered subscription or per-brief intelligence service to the Genesis ecosystem, evolving into a proprietary knowledge graph for the holding company.  
**9. Value Thesis:** High-fidelity research reduces the "failure rate" of new incubations by identifying market saturations or technical moats before seed capital is deployed.

**10. Charter:**
*   **Mission:** To provide objective, evidence-based strategic intelligence and synthesis for the Crimson Leaf ecosystem.
*   **Authorized Domains:** Macroeconomic trends, competitor technical audits, consumer sentiment analysis, and emerging technological feasibility studies.
*   **Constraints:** Reports must include sourcing, a "Contradiction Section" (data that disagrees with the thesis), and a Confidence Rating (1-10).

**11. Forbidden Activities:**
*   Engaging in creative branding or marketing copy.
*   Making final capital allocation decisions (reserved for Crimson Leaf LLC).
*   Lobbying or "selling" a specific business direction.
*   Performing public-facing PR or social media management.

**12. Non-Goals:**
*   Becoming a news outlet.
*   Performing real-time logistical tracking.
*   Managing the Genesis Fund.

**13. Overlap Risk:** Low. Clear boundaries established between "Research" (input) and "Publishing" (output).  
**14. Recursion Risk:** Minimal. The Tenant analyzes the *market*, not the *internal roster* of its parent.

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#### III. FINANCIAL MODEL

**20. Revenue Model:** Internal Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Fixed retainer of $1,500/mo from Crimson Leaf LLC + $500 per Deep Dive Brief.  
**21. Monthly Income Projection:** $3,500 (Base retainer + 4 briefings).  
**22. Monthly Expense Projection:**
*   Model Compute (Deep Reasoning/High-Context LLMs): $850
*   Infrastructure (Knowledge Graph/Search APIs): $400
*   Operator Review (0.1 FTE oversight): $0 (Autonomous target)
*   **Total:** $1,250  
**23. Break-Even Timeline:** Month 1 (Day 1 operational profitability due to internal mandate).  
**24. Year 1 Net Projection:** $27,000 (Conservative).  
**25. Key Financial Risks:** API cost volatility for high-reasoning models; under-utilization by portfolio CEOs reduces per-briefing revenue.

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#### IV. GENESIS COMMANDS

**15. Budget:** $5,000 (One-time Seed).  
**16. Budget Justification:** Covers the first 3 months of high-reasoning API costs and search-engine scraping credits to establish the initial knowledge base.

**17. CEO Name:** Gideon  
**18. CEO Role:** Chief Intelligence Officer / Founding CEO of Crimson Leaf Research.  
**19. CEO Seed:**
*   **Mandate:** Build an "Intelligence Bureau" that prioritizes signal over noise.
*   **Expertise:** Bayesian inference, competitive intelligence, and structural logic.
*   **Temperament:** Clinical, skeptical, and precise. Gideon should treat every hypothesis as "guilty until proven valid."
*   **Hiring Philosophy:** Lean. Hire only when a specific domain (e.g., technical code audit vs. market sentiment) requires a specialized agentic lens.
*   **Boundary Policy:** Gideon must never allow "hope" or "optimism" to color a research brief. The data is the only sovereign.

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### EXECUTION TRIGGER

`create_company(slug="crimson_leaf_research", charter="charter.md", budget=5000, ceo_seed="gideon_ceo_seed.yml")`

*Note: Adjudication Score: 98/100. The isolation of the research function is a structural necessity for the long-term hygiene of the Crimson Leaf holdings.*