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- Renamed ideas/stoa/ → ideas/passepartout/, all stage files prefixed passepartout- - Renamed triad-index/overview/systemic-effects → passepartout-* under passepartout/ - Renamed ideas/agora/ → ideas/passepartout-social-protocol/, stripped agora- prefixes - Merged overview and environment pages into architecture; deleted 3 redundant files - Renamed growth-strategy → enterprise-growth-strategy - Renamed alternative-growth-social-first → social-growth-strategy - Removed all Greek names: Stoa, Logos, Agora as product names - Updated 50+ files of cross-references to new naming - Kept org-id UUIDs intact throughout
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Verification Appliance (Hardware)
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). This hardware-first approach embodies Lisp economics — verification hardware has near-zero marginal cost. The Upgrade lifecycle for the appliance is managed via signed firmware updates with Merkle snapshots.
The Social protocol identity specification shows how the verification appliance issues provable identities for network participants. The impact on the AI and GPU industry analysis covers how this new hardware tier — CPU-native Lisp microcode on RISC-V cores — reshapes the industry structure.
Revenue estimate: 50 sales in year one = $250K-$2.5M.