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Replaced every bottom-of-section 'See also:' block with inline Org-mode file: links at the first natural mention in body text. All 29 files across the economics directory now use wiki-style inline cross-references rather than standalone reference blocks.
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:ID: 2f783eb4-638e-5afa-9b59-6224d086a712
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#+title: Infrastructure Lock-In and Switching Costs
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#+filetags: :passepartout:economics:moats:lock-in:switching:
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A hospital that runs Passepartout with HIPAA gate rules ($50K/yr) for five years has accumulated:
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- A fact store with a decade of compliance decisions
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- A proof forest of verified rules
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- An empirical decision history tied to their specific deployment
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- Customized gate rules encoding their specific workflows and approvals
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Switching to a competitor means discarding all of it. The accumulated value grows as the fact store deepens. Annual revenue per enterprise grows from $250K in year one to $500K-$1M by year five as more [[file:domain-gate-packages.org][domain packages]] are added.
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This is the strongest residual [[file:moats.org][moat]]. The [[file:evaluation-harness.org][evaluation harness]] (regression suite) is a close second — it grows with every deployment and cannot be ingested from public data. The [[file:verification-monopoly.org][verification monopoly]] and [[file:upgrade-lifecycle.org][upgrade lifecycle]] compound this lock-in: every new regulation encoded as a gate rule deepens the proof forest, making the deployment harder to reproduce elsewhere.
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