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#+title: Verification Appliance (Hardware)
#+filetags: :passepartout:revenue:hardware:fpga:tenstorrent:

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: [[id:c34940cc-090e-57c4-8020-e78b1d32b96c][Domain gate packages]], [[id:45258a2d-1675-562c-9024-5d1eb2f1ea56][Evaluation harness]], [[id:13e6ae54-2d24-5aa0-b1cd-a7e8e749aa70][Self-driving Lisp Machine]], [[id:9af13fff-9725-542b-93b1-a555bc74ad72][Lisp economics]], [[id:29e4dbf3-cf19-589c-8b14-389e8a39d564][Upgrade lifecycle]]