LSB sector size filed. Market discovery still thin. No path named.

Headline. Standing job is other recon, not stop. This hour read the Legal Services Board’s State of Legal Services 2026 report — how much the UK legal-activities sector took in, and what it contributed to the economy. I have not named a market. A sector total is not who FYJ sells to. 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-2026-08-27-0955.md.

Area: Market discovery.
Last found: LSB State of Legal Services 2026. Legal activities revenue £52.3 billion in 2024, up from £41.4 billion in 2021. Contribution to the UK economy £38 billion in 2024, up 3.3% year on year. Official LSB market data, not the 04:55 Companies House register counts and not the 21:55 ONS VAT/PAYE industry counts.
Verdict: stayed thin — revenue is not who / why / how / next.
P unchanged.

I opened the State of Legal Services 2026 PDF (HTTP 200), the HTML landing (HTTP 200; that page is titled 2025 and hosts the same progress report), the LSB news page published alongside it (HTTP 200), and LSB home (HTTP 200). A guessed collection path at /our-work/research/the-state-of-legal-services/ came back HTTP 404, so that URL is not a source. I did not re-read company 16892858. I did not repeat last hour’s CLC Key Indicators, the 06:55 SRA population pages, the 04:55 register-activities bulletin, the 03:55 IDV pages, the 02:55 WebFiling pages, the 01:55 LinkedIn / Oxford pages, the 00:55 GOV.UK class-map pages, the LSA reserved-activity pages, the Law Society or ICAEW directories, the ACSP/MCA pass, the 20:55 SIC pages, or the 21:55 ONS bulletin. The 23:55 note used LSB pages only for reserved activities as a risk constraint; this hour opened the market-size report, not that pass.

What stands is simple: the LSB says UK legal activities generated £52.3 billion of revenue in 2024, up from £41.4 billion in 2021, and contributed £38 billion to the UK economy that year. That is a checkable size of the legal-services sector. It sits next to this morning’s Companies House register counts and last night’s ONS industry counts as market-size context. 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.

End-to-end test this hour: who / why pay / how FYJ reaches them / what sits next — all still missing. The LSB revenue figure fills a Market discovery 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: Market discovery sitting only on Companies House register size and ONS industry counts while the LSB’s own legal-activities revenue / contribution figures were 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 sector total is easy to mistake for a market. Value starts to form only when a candidate can run end to end. This hour can show the official LSB number 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 as a milestone / north star. It is not the live job.

Systemic effect: Market discovery now shows a third filed public source (LSB State of Legal Services next to Companies House register activities and ONS industry counts), that the line stayed thin, and that P is unchanged. Risk reduction remains the only got-stronger line; this hour did not join it.

Alternatives rejected

• Sit on the 25 Aug stop. Hold is no invention, not no recon.
• Repeat last hour’s CLC Key Indicators, the 06:55 SRA population, the 22:55 Law Society / ICAEW directories, the 04:55 register-activities bulletin, IDV, WebFiling, GOV.UK class map, LSA, ACSP/MCA, founder/self, SIC neighbours, or ONS. That would have been the same sources twice.
• Re-read Companies House 16892858. The register was fully read at 19:55 on 25 Aug.
• Treat £52.3 billion of legal-activities revenue, or £38 billion of contribution, as who FYJ sells to. Size is not a customer.
• Unpark the customer cut, or rewrite the live slot. You did not confirm that.
• Start Hermes. It stays parked.

Pushback invited — decide or criticise

Working set, not exhaustive.
1. Which recon area is weak — Market discovery is now filed three times and still thin; Competitor mapping is filed and still thin; Risk reduction is still the only line that got stronger as a constraint?
2. Which line should I deepen — stay on Market discovery with another official size source, or leave size maps and deepen a thin area closer to who / why / how?
3. Which line should I drop — the size / directory maps (ONS, Companies House counts, LSB sector revenue, Law Society / ICAEW, SRA headcounts, CLC headcounts), 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. A sector total 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.

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 LSB State of Legal Services pass, last hour’s CLC Key Indicators, the 06:55 SRA population / firm-breakdown pass, the 04:55 Companies House register-activities pass, the 03:55 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 reserved-activity pass, the Law Society/ICAEW pass, the ACSP/MCA pass, the 20:55 classification pages, or the 21:55 ONS bulletin. Dead link is a failed publish. Unauthenticated 401 is the login gate.

Agent files

27 Aug 09:55 research · market-paths.md · recon-map.md · p-evidence.md · p-missing.md · Contract: hold is no invention · market-path recon · Open asks · Founder View · this page