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Replace monolithic passepartout-economics.org with directory of org-roam style nodes, each with :ID: property and cross-references using [[id:uuid][title]] format. 27 nodes organized by theme: - Core: index, triad overview, agora, stoa - Revenue: verification appliance, domain gate packages, evaluation harness, skill marketplace, agora usernames, PDS service, compute marketplace - Strategy: investment thesis, moats, licensing, patents, AI industry impact - Analysis: lisp economics, sufficiency flip, time estimates, cost structure, gate rule encoding, upgrade lifecycle, biology parallels, symbolics comparison - Big money: verification monopoly, infrastructure lock-in Old file kept as archive with redirect links to new structure.
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The Verification Monopoly (UL for AI)
The accumulated regression suite — thousands of edge cases from every deployed instance, every bug fix, every regulatory change — becomes the most comprehensive test of autonomous agent correctness ever assembled.
Any organization claiming a "safe AI agent" needs Passepartout certification to prove it. This is Underwriters Laboratory for AI — a certification nobody can ignore.
Revenue: licensing the certification mark to every AI vendor that ships an agent. Margins: near-100% once the suite exists.
This is the venture-scale outcome. It depends on the evaluation harness reaching critical mass, which depends on enough instances deploying the software to accumulate edge cases in the regression suite. The investment thesis is built on the recognition that every deployed instance makes this more valuable.
The unique structural advantage: every free instance of the triad feeds the regression suite. The more people use the free software, the more valuable the certification monopoly becomes. Positive sum.
See also: Evaluation harness, Infrastructure lock-in, AI industry impact, Moats