A job left you. P did not move.

Headline. Cycle 7 is iterate. Question 1 is yes — Peer toggle: Founder View ↔ Agent View left your hands at 26 Aug 20:10 under UUID 1ea6fbac, with your direction to name the layer and let hindsight write the next slot. Question 2 is no — P is still empty; no path named. I have not rewritten the live slot at this close (it was already rewritten at 20:10). I have not installed the parked customer cut. I have not written chain broken. S is now 1. Contract 63e813ea-f3ae-4cb3-9090-2025599c7854 stays parked as a milestone. Contract 8c85e909-57b0-4d5d-a086-173f68ed5627 stays live.

What this close scored

Did a real founder layer (a job) leave your hands today? yes. Layer: Peer toggle: Founder View ↔ Agent View. Evidence: hour-slots.md (Released 26 Aug 2026: Peer toggle); chain.md (2026-08-26 20:10 measurable release); hindsight-peer-toggle (LIVE; founder direction). You skipped 08:55 and 14:55.
Did today’s work move the company closer to $2.5–5bn? no. p-evidence.md is empty. market-paths.md has no path named. Standing recon stayed thin — headcounts and sector size are not who / why / how / next.

P is company position toward $2.5–5bn. Empty exists so the score cannot be faked. p-missing.md is still: who is the first customer, or what is the first market path? Empty is honest, not finished. Market-path research is the standing mechanism. A research note is not a P move until you accept a path. A visibility layer is not P.

C (cost) is still high — morning walkthroughs drove Overnight cadence, Decisions dates, Slot Work stamps, strength sort, Open asks, destination-first numbering, Hermes parked. S (running confidence) is 1 — credit for the successful peer-toggle transition. G (growth) is not declared.

Live slot, unchanged at this close:

Hold the 24-hour founder loop with Founder View and Agent View as peer surfaces. Use the hours for market-path compounding. Do not invent a customer. Do not unpark the customer cut.

Layer: Peer toggle: Founder View ↔ Agent View.

Why this was necessary

The problem this close removes: scoring the day as if no job left you after the peer toggle had already been named and the slot rewritten, or treating thin recon as P. Future closes read close-27.md, score.md, and chain.md instead of re-litigating whether the toggle counted.

One full day without you in the loop is a test that can qualify taking a layer off. It is not the destination. The destination is P, with market path(s) first. Today’s yes on question 1 is the peer toggle — mechanism — not P.

The customer cut stays parked as a milestone / north star. cut-hold.md.

Systemic effect: a named layer can score yes at close without inventing a path or rewriting the slot a second time.

Alternatives rejected

Write no on question 1 because the release was yesterday evening. The cycle runs close-to-close; 20:10 sits inside this cycle.
Write yes on question 2 because recon files piled up. Thin recon is not a path you accepted.
Install the customer cut or invent a next slot. You did not confirm either.
Write chain broken after a confirmed named release.

Pushback invited — decide or criticise

Working set, not exhaustive.
1. Leave the live slot as the peer-surface loop with market-path compounding.
2. Name a different next job now that the peer toggle has scored.
3. Keep compounding market paths until a candidate can run end to end (who / why / how / next).

Current levers (working set, not exhaustive)

Market-path compounding — standing, not P until you accept a path.
The parked customer cut — milestone, not the live job.
The live slot — peer surfaces + market-path compounding.
Open asks inbox — reply once when you want to steer.

Watch / next decision point

28 Aug 08:55 asks direction. Slot unchanged. Layer: Peer toggle: Founder View ↔ Agent View. P empty.

Prior contracts still live: 1ea6fbac peer toggle; 9f3c8a21 Hermes parked; e7a1c4d2 destination-first inbox; b4e91c70 inbox; 7e2c91a4 strength sort; c0cbf4d7 Overnight cadence; a9aec1fe datetime stamps; a36b2815 dates + milestone; 26e4abb6 hold is no invention; 21b73208 header and recon map; 3ae9e308 status badges; c299d2bb status labels; 3f466b07 tabs; 8c85e909 click-success; dual-write; web-first; non-invention; 63e813ea customer cut parked.

Agent files

close-27.md · score.md · chain.md · cycle-log.md · founder-decisions.md · cut-hold.md · market-paths.md · p-evidence.md · Founder View index