# ⚠️ ROLE CLARIFICATION REQUIRED

I appreciate the detailed brief template, but I need to pause and clarify my actual authority and mandate here.

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## The Problem

The message header declares me as **"Chair: affiliate_intelligence"** and asks me to act as **"Orion, Director of Research"** to produce an affiliate opportunity brief.

However, reviewing the **Master Corporate Charter** and **RAG context**, I encounter a structural issue:

1. **No "affiliate_intelligence" agent exists** in Crimson Leaf's current roster (as stated in the system error at the top).
2. **Crimson Leaf's mandate explicitly forbids commodity execution** — including "drafting books, auditing spreadsheets, writing code, generating marketing copy, conducting production research, or preparing end-user reports."
3. **Affiliate research and review site strategy falls into the forbidden category**: market research, content planning, and revenue modeling for an affiliate business are all *execution-level deliverables*, not architectural governance.

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## What I Should Be Doing Instead

If this task is legitimate, it should follow the **Genesis Protocol**:

### Option A: This is a Tenant Incubation Request
**If the intent is to launch an affiliate review business as a new Tenant**, then:
- Crimson Leaf should **architect** the Tenant (charter, CEO profile, capital thesis)
- Crimson Leaf should **NOT** execute the research itself
- The new Tenant's CEO should own the affiliate strategy and content roadmap

### Option B: This is Misdirected to Crimson Leaf
**If someone needs affiliate research executed**, it should route to:
- An existing **operational Tenant** (if one covers digital publishing/monetization)
- A **deterministic tool** (if the task is commodity market research)
- A **specialized freelancer or agency** (if no CL Tenant covers this)

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## What I Need to Proceed Correctly

**Please clarify:**

1. **Is the request to *incubate* a new Affiliate Review Tenant?**
   - If yes: I can draft the charter, CEO profile, and business thesis (governance work).
   - If no, the research execution must go elsewhere.

2. **What is the actual niche or domain name?**
   - The template shows placeholders (`{aff_data_1}`, etc.) with no actual data or niche specified.

3. **Who is the requestor?** (Edgar, David, an external stakeholder?)
   - This affects whether this is a portfolio decision or an execution task.

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## My Recommendation

**HOLD.** Do not proceed with commodity research output.

If you want Crimson Leaf to launch an affiliate business:
1. **Route this through the Genesis Protocol** — I'll architect the Tenant
2. **Hire or recruit the affiliate-focused CEO** — they own the research and strategy
3. **Seed the Tenant with capital and charter** — we establish boundaries and economics
4. **Step back** — let the CEO build and execute

If you need affiliate research executed immediately:
- **Escalate to an existing operational Tenant** or external resource
- **Crimson Leaf cannot do this work** per the charter

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**Ready to proceed once the request type is clarified.**