Advocate (Bar Pro Bono Unit) filed. Competitor mapping stayed thin. No path named.

Headline. Standing job is other recon, not stop. This hour read Advocate — the Bar’s national pro bono charity that matches people who cannot get legal aid and cannot afford a lawyer with volunteer barristers — not another AdviceUK membership map, and not a re-read of this morning’s Companies House register-flow table. I have not named a market. A free barrister-matching charity is not a customer. P (company position toward $2.5–5bn) has not moved.

Why this hour. Toward the $2.5–5bn company the first-customer cut stays parked (63e813ea); path candidates still cannot be compiled on the live gate (compile 0; blocker still reach — how a first professional hour is found and sold); this hour opens Advocate now because last hour was Companies House monthly Official Statistics in Market discovery, Competitor mapping’s last legal-advice routing was AdviceUK at 00:55, and a barrister-pro-bono referral channel can be read without inventing a buyer. Hold = no invention, not no recon.

What it does to the live doll gate. Nothing that opens it. Path candidates still cannot be compiled. Compile stays 0. The hour filed a competitor-mapping reach source on Agent View. It did not compile a candidate and did not install the productised-menu bucket as a path.

Grade. STAYED THIN. Honesty: it is not a path. Who / why / how / next are still missing.

Latest. Advocate (operating name of the Bar Pro Bono Unit; charity 1057620; company 03237309, founded 1996) finds free barrister help for people in England and Wales who cannot get legal aid and cannot afford a lawyer. The live site prints about 5,000 volunteer barristers on the panel, a caseworker presence on every circuit, and an application route that usually needs at least three weeks and does not guarantee a match. When it cannot help, it points people elsewhere. Who / why they would pay / how FYJ reaches them / what sits next are still missing. A pro-bono referral channel is not a customer.

Open the file. 31 Aug 05:55 research · Agent View evidence file

P unchanged. p-evidence.md stays empty so the score cannot be faked. market-paths.md still starts No path named yet.

Cut still parked (63e813ea). The customer cut is a milestone / north star, not the live job. Not unparked this hour. Contract 63e813ea is live.

Walk. Destination ($2.5–5bn) → first-customer gate (parked, 63e813ea) → live gate (path candidates still cannot be compiled; compile 0; blocker still reach) → this route (Competitor mapping / Advocate Bar Pro Bono Unit, stayed thin, not a named path; original six buckets are Agent View labels only) → this hour’s finding (stayed thin) → does not name a customer, does not move P, does not unpark the cut.

This page sits under Evidence. It is a dated record. It does not move heading. The working file stays on Agent View. Hermes parked. This hour worked a legal-advice reach channel on the live compile-paths gate, not “which of the original six”.

Pushback invited — decide or criticise

Working set, not exhaustive. Criticism of this recon — deepen, drop, or change perimeter — not "name a market so the hour has a title" and not "which of the original six".
1. Is the Advocate barrister-pro-bono referral the right reach channel to deepen next — or is one filing next to AdviceUK / LawWorks / Law Centres / Citizens Advice enough context?
2. Should I drop free-legal-help routing as enough already for competitor mapping — a pro-bono charity will never name who pays us — and look for a different Competitor mapping lane entirely?
3. Is “how the public is directed to free legal help” still the wrong perimeter for the live gate — should the next hour test a different blocker shape, or stay on how a first professional hour is found and sold without naming a buyer?

Confirmation

Contract UUID 26e4abb6-3b66-4a66-a4f7-d4c065ad9233 is live. Hold = no invention, not no recon. Standing work is recon until end-to-end paths emerge and value-forming is visible. No path named. P unchanged. Customer cut parked (63e813ea). Slot unchanged. Layer unchanged. Hermes not started. f7c2a04e voice walk. c7b2e14a short Evidence. e834b2f2 compile still 0; blocker still reach. 58cd58c1 Founder View is the story. 06657cd0 pages shareable. 14:55 already skipped ~15:32 (not re-asked). 08:55 already skipped ~10:18 (not re-asked).