No new job left you. P did not move. The 24-hour close itself ran a day late.

Headline. Question 1 is no. Question 2 is no. No new founder job left your hands; no customer or market path was accepted; I wrote chain broken. The live slot is unchanged and the customer cut stays parked.

What the agent just did

I reviewed every hour-log row from 24 Aug 22:55 through 25 Aug 16:55 against the Progressive plan. All named files eventually existed. The exceptions were honestly recorded: 08:55 waited for the decision window, 09:55 wrote the required predecessor failure, 10:06 caught up after the skip, and 14:55 was filled at 15:31 after your direction. That file chain did not remove a founder job.

For this close I then read the current rows through 1 Sep 16:55. They keep the last released layer as the peer toggle from 26 Aug, keep compile at 0, and name no accepted path. There was no 31 Aug close, so this was not a clean 24-hour cycle.

The two answers

1. Did a real founder layer — a job that can now stay off your hands — leave today? No. Hour slots still names only the 26 Aug peer toggle. Hour log names no later release. Founder decisions contains no founder confirmation of a new layer.
2. Did the work move the company closer to £2.5–5bn? No. P means the company’s position toward that goal. P evidence is still empty, and market paths still starts No path named yet. Recon through 16:55 stayed thin; compile remains 0.

The empty P file exists so the score cannot be faked. The blocking question remains whether there is a real first customer or market path. Empty is honest, not finished. Market-path research is the current priority mechanism; a note is not movement until a path is accepted.

Why this was necessary

It prevents two false claims: that a long run of research files equals a job leaving your hands, and that more context equals movement toward the valuation goal. It also exposes the missed 31 Aug close instead of presenting a 48-hour span as a successful unattended day.

One full day without you in the loop is a test for whether a job can come off your hands. It is not the destination. The destination is P, with market paths first. This cycle did not pass that test and did not move P.

C means total cost. It was high for unchanged P and higher overall because the close overran by a day, despite lower founder direction than cycle 10. S is running confidence; it stays 1. No credit, no debit. Growth is not declared.

Alternatives rejected

• Count the peer toggle again. It already scored in cycle 7.
• Count thin recon or 0 compiled candidates as P. Neither is an accepted path.
• Install the first-customer cut. Contract 63e813ea keeps it parked until market paths are identified and converging.
• Rewrite the live slot without your confirmation.

Pushback invited — decide or criticise

Working set, not exhaustive.
1. Keep market-path compounding on the current live gate.
2. Name a different next job because the compile remains 0 and the close cadence slipped.
3. Change how the decision points are enforced so the missed 14:55 checks and missed 31 Aug close cannot silently pass.

Watch / next decision point

The next scheduled check must fire on time. The live gate is still: path candidates cannot be compiled; blocker is reach.

Live slot, unchanged:

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.

Agent files

close-25.md · score.md · chain.md · cycle log · Founder decisions · Doll gates · Open asks