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#+title: Verification Appliance (Hardware)
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An FPGA or Tenstorrent card pre-loaded with a mature Passepartout image, domain-specific gate rules, and a hardware root of trust. No cloud dependency.

**Target:** regulated industries needing provable compliance that cannot accept cloud-based AI.
**Price:** $5K-$50K/unit. **Volume:** hundreds to low thousands in year one.

The Lisp Machine on Tenstorrent P150 (~72 RISC-V Tensix cores on a PCIe card) is the realistic first target: the microcode is RISC-V assembly (software), not FPGA bitstream (hardware). The system can propose, load, test, and roll back a new dispatch routine in seconds. An FPGA path would add synthesis time (minutes to hours per iteration).

Revenue estimate: 50 sales in year one = $250K-$2.5M.

See also: [[file:domain-gate-packages.org][Domain gate packages]], [[file:evaluation-harness.org][Evaluation harness]], [[file:self-driving-lisp-machine.org][Self-driving Lisp Machine]], [[file:lisp-economics.org][Lisp economics]], [[file:upgrade-lifecycle.org][Upgrade lifecycle]]