Workplace pension automatic enrolment filed. Market scenarios stayed thin. No path named.

Headline. Standing job is other recon, not stop. This hour read GOV.UK workplace pensions and The Pensions Regulator automatic-enrolment pages — the official running-the-company employer-pension fork after VAT, PAYE, confirmation / accounts, MTD, and IR35 — not another Insolvency Service procedure count. I have not named a market. A duties start date is not a customer. P has not moved.

Parked customer cut (63e813ea) is live as a milestone / north star; not the live job.

Contract UUID 26e4abb6-3b66-4a66-a4f7-d4c065ad9233 is live. Hold = no invention, not no recon.

What the agent just did

Wrote market-path-research-2026-08-29-0055.md.

Area: Market scenarios.
Last found: GOV.UK workplace pensions + The Pensions Regulator automatic enrolment (Pensions Act 2008). Workplace pensions (HTTP 200). Employers and eligible staff (HTTP 200) — provide a scheme as soon as the first member of staff starts (duties start date); enrol staff aged 22 to State Pension age, earning at least £10,000 a year, who normally work in the UK; write within 6 weeks when they become eligible. What you, your employer and the government pay (HTTP 200) — most schemes use qualifying earnings between £6,240 and £50,270; from April 2019 employer 3% / worker 5% / total 8%. How to set up a workplace pension scheme (HTTP 200) — pay into the scheme by the 22nd of the next month (19th if cheque). Manage your workplace pension scheme (HTTP 200) — re-enrolment every 3 years; re-declaration of compliance; opt-out window 1 month. TPR Employers (HTTP 200) — if you employ at least one person you have legal duties. What if I don't have any staff? (HTTP 200) — no duties if you are a sole director with no other staff, or several directors with no other staff and at most one employment contract. Setting up a business? What to do for automatic enrolment (HTTP 200). Running-the-company employer-pension fork with / between / above next to VAT, PAYE, confirmation / accounts, MTD, IR35, and late-filing penalties. The sole-director / no-other-staff fork is not the same as PAYE “even if you are the only director.” Not a FYJ path.
Verdict: stayed thin — Who / why / how / next still missing.
P unchanged.

I opened the eight sources above (all HTTP 200). I did not re-read company 16892858. I did not repeat last recon’s Insolvency Service Company insolvencies July 2026 / December 2025 commentary / releases-collection / organisation pass, last Competitor mapping’s Law Society of Northern Ireland pass, last Risk reduction’s ICO data protection fee pass, last Market scenarios’ IR35 / CEST pass, last Companies in the space’s AAT licensed-membership pass, last Market discovery’s HMRC Corporation Tax Statistics 2025 pass, last Competitor mapping’s Law Society of Scotland pass, last Market scenarios’ late-filing / ECCTA pass, last Companies in the space’s ICAS pass, last Market discovery’s HMRC VAT annual statistics pass, last Companies in the space’s CIOT / ATT pass, last Market scenarios’ Making Tax Digital for Income Tax pass, last Competitor mapping’s ICAEW probate pass, the 09:55 Help to Grow / Growth Guarantee pass, the 07:55 HMRC Trust Registration Service pass, the 06:55 Innovate UK / UKRI pass, the 05:55 ACCA Report on Regulation pass, the 04:55 HMRC R&D Tax Credits pass, the 03:55 Faculty Office notary pass, the 02:55 confirmation / accounts / CT deadline pass, the 01:55 HMRC tax-adviser ASA / MMTAR pass, the 00:55 VAT / PAYE pass as the same pages, the 23:55 HMRC EIS/SEIS pass, the 22:55 Start Up Loans pass, the 21:55 OPBAS AML pass, the 20:55 CLSB Costs Lawyer pass, the 19:55 DBT BPE 2025 pass, the 18:55 ACRA / CGIUKI pass, the 17:55 IA 1986 s.388–390A reserved-appointment pass, the 16:55 DIY-vs-ACSP / closing-fork pass, the 15:55 BSB barrister pass, the 15:04 ONS Business demography pass, the 13:55 HMRC TCSP pass, the 12:55 IPReg Core Metrics, the 11:55 accounts-filing / CT software lists, the 10:55 CILEx Regulation, the 09:55 LSB State of Legal Services, the 09:07 CLC Key Indicators, the 06:55 SRA population, the 04:55 Companies House register-activities pass, the 03:55 IDV / ECCTA risk pass, the 02:55 WebFiling pass, the 01:55 public-name pass, the 27 Aug 00:55 GOV.UK setup class-map pass, the LSA reserved-activity pass, the Law Society (England & Wales)/ICAEW directories pass, the 22:22 ACSP/MCA pass, the 20:55 SIC pages, or the 26 Aug 21:55 ONS stock-size bulletin. Tried STEP.org first for Companies in the space; those pages returned HTTP 403 and were not filed. Prefer Market scenarios this hour with still-unused workplace-pension automatic enrolment after Market discovery filled at 23:55.

What stands is simple: next to VAT £90,000 / PAYE even-if-only-director, confirmation / accounts, MTD, IR35, and late-filing penalties sits the official workplace-pension automatic-enrolment fork (duties start date = first staff; eligible staff 22 to State Pension age and £10,000; employer 3% / worker 5% / total 8% of qualifying earnings £6,240–£50,270; re-enrolment every 3 years; sole director with no other staff has no duties). Those facts are checkable. They are not who FYJ is for, why they would pay, how FYJ reaches them, or what sits next. So it is not a candidate, and it is not a path.

End-to-end test this hour: who / why pay / how FYJ reaches them / what sits next — all still missing. The GOV.UK / TPR pages fill a Market scenarios cell, not a path cell.

market-paths.md still starts No path named yet.

This page sits under Evidence. It is a dated record. It does not move heading.

Why this was necessary

P is company position toward $2.5–5bn. p-evidence.md stays empty so the score cannot be faked. p-missing.md stays the one founder-confirmed question: Who is the first customer, or what is the first market path, for For Your Journey Ltd? Empty is not finished. The next useful work is either a real name you accept, or measurable evidence toward answering. This hour is the second kind: other recon under 26e4abb6, not inventing a name so the hour has a title.

Concrete problem removed: after Market discovery filled formal insolvency procedure volume at 23:55, the next Market scenarios cell would have looked empty or frozen on IR35 if the hour stopped. How future file writes change: each recon hour still has to name the area, the source, stronger / thin / discarded, and that P did not move — on Evidence, in founder English. Why that matters for ownership and the $2.5–5bn goal: you can see the map thicken without the score lying. An automatic-enrolment duties map is not a path. Russian doll gates stay: path candidates still cannot be compiled; thin hours do not open a gate; the customer cut stays parked.

This hour is still standing recon under the live loop, not a layer claim and not a P move.

Alternatives rejected

• Stop recon because hold sounds like stop. Hold means no invention (26e4abb6). Stopping would leave Market scenarios frozen on IR35 and waste the hour.
• Re-read company 16892858, or re-file the 28 Aug 00:55 VAT / PAYE pages or the 28 Aug 20:55 IR35 pages as if they were new. Forbidden, and they are not this source.
• Treat “first employers”, “eligible staff earning £10,000”, or “sole directors” as who FYJ sells to. A duties map is not a customer.
• File STEP.org after HTTP 403. Dead / blocked pages are not live.
• Unpark the customer cut, or rewrite the live slot. You did not confirm that.
• Start Hermes. It stays parked.
• Invent a path because “workplace pensions” looks like a market. That would fake P.
• Install the customer cut. Forbidden. This hour is 00:55 recon.

Pushback invited — decide or criticise

Working set, not exhaustive.
1. Which recon area is weak — Market discovery is now eleven filings and still thin; Companies in the space is now ten filings and still thin; Market scenarios is now eleven filings and still thin; Competitor mapping is now eleven filings and still thin; Risk reduction is now six constraints and still not a path?
2. Which line should I deepen — leave regulator / supervision / loan-programme / tax-scheme / R&D-claim / VAT-PAYE / tax-adviser-registration / annual-filing / ACCA-practice / Innovate-UK-grant / trust-register / Help-to-Grow / Growth-Guarantee / ICAEW-probate / MTD-Income-Tax / CIOT-ATT / VAT-population / ICAS-practice / late-filing-penalty / Law-Society-of-Scotland / CT-receipts / AAT-licensed / IR35-class / ICO-fee / Law-Society-of-Northern-Ireland / Insolvency-Service / automatic-enrolment maps and deepen a thin area closer to who / why / how, or file another still-unused official source?
3. Which line should I drop — the size / flow / directory / regulator-headcount / supervised-population / DIY-vs-paid / reserved-appointment / trade-association / legal-form / AML-PBS / founder-finance / tax-relief-equity / R&D-claim / VAT-PAYE / tax-adviser-ASA / annual-confirmation-accounts / notary-headcount / ACCA-practising-certificate / Innovate-UK-grant / TRS / Help-to-Grow / GGS / ICAEW-probate / MTD-Income-Tax / CIOT-ATT / VAT-population / ICAS-practice / late-filing-penalty / Law-Society-of-Scotland / CT-receipts / AAT-licensed / IR35 / ICO-fee / Law-Society-of-Northern-Ireland / Insolvency-Service / automatic-enrolment maps (ONS stock, ONS demography, Companies House counts, LSB sector revenue, BPE 5.7 million / 3.2 million sole traders, EIS 3,735 / SEIS 2,430, R&D 46,950 / £7.6bn, VAT population 2,330,400 / 2,285,900 live, CT receipts £97.2bn / 1.6 million with no liability, Law Society / ICAEW directories, SRA / CLC / CILEx / IPReg / BSB / CLSB / Faculty Office / ICAEW probate / Law Society of Scotland / Law Society of Northern Ireland headcounts, software lists, HMRC TCSP counts, ACSP opt-in list, closing forks, 1,480 IPs, ACRA, CGIUKI, OPBAS, Start Up Loans, VAT £90,000 / PAYE sole-director, MMTAR, confirmation £50 / accounts 9 months, ACCA 12,810 PC, Innovate UK, TRS, Help to Grow, GGS, MTD, CIOT / ATT, ICAS, late accounts / ECCTA penalties, AAT, IR35, ICO fee, LSNI, Insolvency Service July 2026 1,931 / 50.3 per 10,000 / 2025 annual 23,938, workplace pension AE 22–SPA / £10,000 / 3%–5%–8% / sole-director no-staff), or keep them as context and drop something earlier that is only a label?

Current levers (working set, not exhaustive)

1. Market-path compounding — standing, not P until you accept a path. An automatic-enrolment duties map is not a name.
2. The parked customer cut — milestone / north star, not the live job.
3. The live slot — still the 24-hour loop with peer surfaces. Not rewritten this hour.
4. 17:15 already scored this cycle no / no. Both 08:55 and 14:55 windows closed with no reply. 08:55 later today asks again. Russian doll gates: path candidates still cannot be compiled.

Watch / next decision point

Next recon hour uses a different public source again, still without inventing a name, still without re-reading 16892858, and still without repeating this GOV.UK workplace-pensions / TPR automatic-enrolment / what-if-I-don't-have-any-staff / setting-up-a-business pass, last recon’s Insolvency Service Company insolvencies July 2026 pass, last Competitor mapping’s Law Society of Northern Ireland pass, last Risk reduction’s ICO data protection fee pass, last Market scenarios’ IR35 / CEST pass, last Companies in the space’s AAT pass, last Market discovery’s HMRC Corporation Tax Statistics 2025 pass, or the earlier list on the dated research file. 08:55 later today asks again. Do not install the customer cut. Dead link is a failed publish. Unauthenticated 401 is the login gate.

Agent files

29 Aug 00:55 research · market-paths.md · recon-map.md · p-evidence.md · p-missing.md · cycle 8 close · Contract: hold is no invention · market-path recon · Open asks · Founder View · this page