Market Gap Case
hr.market-gap-case.0002
The Two-Person Market
A 26-gate working architecture for a market that can add independent producers without requiring every successful company to become a larger organisation.
Case state
Research details
| Case ID | Market Gaps 002 |
| Research stage | M2/P0 |
| Record status | Local Release Candidate |
Boundary
What publication does not claim
- Not an operating network, franchise offer, investment offer, validated business model or launch announcement.
- The working calculations expose assumptions and failure conditions; they are not forecasts or observed commercial results.
- Two core livelihoods is a stress test, not a claim that two people are an optimal company size.
- The separate apple edge is not evidence for or against the general FAF architecture.
- Publication makes the model inspectable; it does not establish legal, tax, equipment, demand or economic validity for a real deployment.
Inspectable case material
Data, calculations and working files
Open the files below to inspect the case. Fixed PDF records live in Camelot; the ZIP is only a convenient copy of these non-PDF materials.
Boundary and claim map
Start here: the case boundary, an AI reading guide, claim-level reading and the current editorial source-check limits.
| File | Open | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| AI reading guide | AI-READING-GUIDE.md Download |
How to inspect the package with AI without turning assumptions into conclusions. |
| Public working-material README | README.md Download |
How to read the material without treating it as validation. |
| Claim map | claims.md Download |
What is architectural, speculative, missing or explicitly not claimed. |
| Editorial source boundary | source-check.md Download |
Why the article and case remain OPEN rather than empirical results. |
| Sources and research pointers | sources.md Download |
Working source list and pointers; not a completed external validation set. |
Viability, variety and demand
Working thresholds and sensitivity tests for labour, variety, exchange, distance and demand.
| File | Open | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Gate 1 labour thresholds | gate1-labour-thresholds.csv Download |
Working labour-capacity thresholds; not observed staffing performance. |
| Gate 1 sensitivity | gate1-sensitivity.csv Download |
Sensitivity around initial viability assumptions. |
| Gate 3 exchange scenario | gate3-scenario.json Download |
Machine-readable specialist-exchange example. |
| Gate 3 specialist versus generalist | gate3-specialist-vs-generalist.csv Download |
Comparison structure, not a demonstrated market result. |
| Gate 4 distance sensitivity | gate4-distance-sensitivity.csv Download |
How transport assumptions pressure the exchange model. |
| Gate 6 community demand floor | gate6-community-demand-floor.csv Download |
Candidate demand-floor assumptions; not observed commitments. |
| Gate 7 catchment rings | gate7-catchment-rings.json Download |
Illustrative catchment structure for a regional role. |
Governance, livelihood and physical flow
Working models for autonomy, reserves, skills, Friday flow and actual node constraints.
| File | Open | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Gate 8 governance matrix | gate8-governance-matrix.csv Download |
Separates operator autonomy, local stewardship and network roles. |
| Gate 10 reserve coverage | gate10-reserve-coverage.csv Download |
Illustrative resilience and coverage calculations. |
| Gate 12 node schema | gate12-node-schema.json Download |
Candidate identity and transfer fields for an independent node. |
| Gate 13 paid skill ladder | gate13-paid-skill-ladder.csv Download |
Makes supplementary paid labour visible rather than hidden. |
| Gate 14 Friday flow | gate14-friday-flow.json Download |
Illustrative counter/service flow; not an observed operation. |
| Gate 15 flow constraints | gate15-flow-constraints.csv Download |
Constraints that can invalidate the small-node arrangement. |
| Gate 16 equipment stack | gate16-equipment-stack.csv Download |
Working equipment assumptions requiring site-specific recheck. |
Network protocol and anti-capture tests
The shared layer is useful only if it stays smaller than the businesses it coordinates.
| File | Open | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Gate 19 capability catalogue | gate19-capability-catalogue.csv Download |
Candidate capabilities held by different independent nodes. |
| Gate 20 transfer contract | gate20-transfer-contract.json Download |
Proposed ingredient-transfer structure, not a legal contract. |
| Gate 21 customer surface fields | gate21-customer-surface-fields.csv Download |
What a public product/lineage surface could expose. |
| Gate 22 common versus local | gate22-common-vs-local.csv Download |
Boundary between a shared identity and local operator control. |
| Gate 23 network minimum | gate23-network-minimum.json Download |
Minimum shared-layer cost/role hypothesis. |
| Gate 24 risk tiers | gate24-risk-tiers.csv Download |
Candidate evidence burden by claim risk. |
| Gate 25 abuse controls | gate25-abuse-controls.csv Download |
Candidate controls against arbitrary network power. |
Research-gate index
The full ZIP contains all 26 written gate notes and 69 model files. These notes make the main reasoning path readable before deeper inspection.
| File | Open | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Gate 0 precedent | gate-0-precedent.md Download |
Starting precedent and architecture boundary. |
| Gate 1 one-node viability | gate-1-one-node-viability.md Download |
Initial viability reading and explicit failure conditions. |
| Gate 16 hard-candy equipment stack | gate-16-real-hard-candy-equipment-stack.md Download |
Equipment research input; not a procurement recommendation. |
| Gate 23 minimum network cost | gate-23-minimum-network-cost.md Download |
Tests whether the shared layer becomes the largest organisation. |
| Gate 26 end-to-end node story | gate-26-end-to-end-node-story.md Download |
Internal coherence walk-through; not field validation. |
