Risk reduction deepened (CH IDV / ECCTA). Stronger as a constraint. No path named.

Headline. Standing job is other recon, not stop. This hour read the official Companies House and GOV.UK pages on director and PSC identity verification — a legal requirement from 18 November 2025, sitting on both the DIY lane and the paid-agent lane. I have not named a market. I have not invented who FYJ would sell IDV to. P has not moved.

UUID 63e813ea-f3ae-4cb3-9090-2025599c7854 is live (parked): the customer cut stays parked.

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

What the agent just did

Wrote market-path-research-2026-08-27-0355.md.

Area: Risk reduction.
Last found: Companies House identity verification / Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act director and PSC IDV. Two official routes: GOV.UK One Login (DIY, free) or an Authorised Corporate Service Provider (paid agent). Legal requirement from 18 November 2025.
Verdict: stronger — as a constraint on invention only.
P unchanged.

I opened verifying your identity for Companies House (HTTP 200), verify your identity for Companies House (HTTP 200), when you need to verify (HTTP 200), personal codes (HTTP 200), the 18 November 2025 rollout notice (HTTP 200), the non-compliance approach (HTTP 200), the ECCTA identity-verification factsheet (HTTP 200), ECCTA 2023 contents (HTTP 200), Companies Act 2006 section 1110A (HTTP 200), and section 167M (HTTP 200). I did not re-read company 16892858. I did not repeat last hour’s WebFiling / register-yourself pages, the 01:55 LinkedIn / Oxford / SeedLegals pages, the 00:55 GOV.UK class-map pages, the LSA/SRA reserved-activity pages, the Law Society or ICAEW directories, the ACSP/MCA pass, the 20:55 SIC pages, or the 21:55 ONS bulletin.

What stands is simple: you now have to prove who you are to set up, run, own or control a UK company. You can do that yourself, free, through GOV.UK One Login, or you can pay an authorised agent to do it. Until every director is verified, the company cannot file its confirmation statement. Acting as a director without a verified identity is an offence. That is a checkable constraint on inventing a path that pretends IDV is optional, on either lane. It is 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.

This is a different constraint from last night’s reserved legal activities. Reserved work is about authorised legal practice. IDV is about who may sit on the register at all.

End-to-end test this hour: who / why pay / how FYJ reaches them / what sits next — all still missing. The IDV fact fills a risk 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 is empty so the score cannot be faked. p-missing.md is still the question you confirmed: Who is the first customer, or what is the first market path, for For Your Journey Ltd? Empty is honest, not finished. Market-path research is the current priority mechanism. This note is not a P move.

The problem this hour removes: Risk reduction sitting only on reserved legal activities while the official IDV duty that sits on both the DIY lane and the paid-agent lane was still unfiled. Future recon hours show area / found / stronger-thin-discarded / P unchanged, from a different public source, still without inventing a name.

That matters for ownership and for $2.5–5bn because a mandatory IDV rule tells you which invented paths would be legally dangerous, on both official lanes. Value starts to form only when a candidate can run end to end. This hour can show the constraint is real and still say the FYJ line has no named path.

A layer is a named piece of the job that can come off once a close has evidence it can run without you. Today's layer stays Peer toggle: Founder View ↔ Agent View. This hour did not rename it.

The slot is 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.

A cut is a shortened next-job draft. The customer cut would make “name the first customer” the next job. You parked it until market paths have been identified and are converging. It stays parked.

Systemic effect: Risk reduction now shows a second filed official constraint (CH IDV / ECCTA next to LSA reserved activities), that the constraint line got stronger, and that P is unchanged.

Alternatives rejected

• Sit on the 25 Aug stop. Hold is no invention, not no recon.
• Repeat WebFiling / register-yourself, GOV.UK class map, LSA/SRA, Law Society/ICAEW, founder/self, ACSP/MCA, SIC neighbours, or ONS size. That would have been the same sources twice.
• Re-read Companies House 16892858. The register was fully read at 19:55 on 25 Aug.
• Invent a “we sell director IDV” or “we sit between One Login and ACSPs” offer. That would fake a path.
• Unpark the customer cut, or rewrite the live slot. You did not confirm that.

Pushback invited — decide or criticise

Working set, not exhaustive.
1. Which recon area is weak — Risk reduction is now filed twice and stronger as a constraint; Companies in the space, Competitor mapping, Market discovery, Market scenarios, and Founder / self are still thin?
2. Which line should I deepen — stay on Risk reduction with another official constraint, or leave it and deepen a thin area?
3. Which line should I drop — none of the filed constraints yet, or drop something earlier that is only context?

Current levers (working set, not exhaustive)

1. Market-path compounding — standing, not P until you accept a path. An IDV constraint is not a name.
2. The parked customer cut.
3. The live slot — still the 24-hour loop with peer surfaces. Not rewritten this hour.

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 IDV / ECCTA pass, the 02:55 WebFiling / register-yourself pass, the 01:55 public-name pass, the 00:55 GOV.UK class-map pass, the LSA/SRA reserved-activity pass, the Law Society/ICAEW pass, the ACSP/MCA pass, the 20:55 classification pages, or the 21:55 bulletin. Dead link is a failed publish. Unauthenticated 401 is the login gate.

Agent files

27 Aug 03:55 research · market-paths.md · recon-map.md · p-evidence.md · p-missing.md · Contract: hold is no invention · market-path recon · Founder View · this page