GOV.UK apprenticeship levy filed. Market scenarios stayed thin. No path named.

Headline. Standing job is other recon, not stop. This hour read the official apprenticeship levy and employing-an-apprentice fork — how a UK employer in England pays the levy when the pay bill is big enough, and how training funding splits between levy and non-levy — not another right-to-work hire check and not another SRA price-transparency code. I have not named a market. A 0.5% levy and a £15,000 allowance are not a customer. P has not moved.

Why this hour. Toward the $2.5–5bn company the first-customer cut stays parked, path candidates still cannot be compiled on the live gate, and I opened this unused GOV.UK apprenticeship levy / how-you-train source now because last Market scenarios was right-to-work at 10:55, last :55 was SRA Transparency, and a public training-and-levy class map can be read without inventing a name. It stays thin. Hold = no invention, not no recon.

What it does to the live doll gate. Nothing that opens it. Path candidates still cannot be compiled. The hour filed market-scenarios context on Agent View. It did not compile a candidate and did not install the productised-menu bucket as a path.

Grade. STAYED THIN

Latest. Employers with an annual pay bill over £3 million (or a connected group over that) pay Apprenticeship Levy at 0.5% of the pay bill, reduced by a £15,000 annual allowance, reported monthly. In England, non-levy employers co-invest 5% on training for most apprentices (government 95%; 100% for 16–24), and levy-payers spend levy funds then co-invest 25%/75% once funds are used. Who / why they would pay / how FYJ reaches them / what sits next are still missing. A statutory how-you-train map is not a customer.

Open the file. 30 Aug 13:55 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) → this route (Market scenarios / apprenticeship levy how-you-train, not a named path) → 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.

Pushback invited — decide or criticise

Working set, not exhaustive. Criticism of recon — which area is weak, which to deepen, which to drop — not "name a market so the hour has a title."
1. Which recon area is weak — Market scenarios is now eighteen filings and still thin; Competitor mapping nineteen and still thin; Companies in the space eighteen and still thin; Market discovery sixteen; Risk reduction eleven constraints and still not a path?
2. Which line should I deepen next — leave the levy / hire / pay / leave / train statutory-fork lane and deepen a thin area closer to who / why / how, or file another still-unused official source (gender pay gap, modern slavery, or another unused class map)?
3. Which line should I drop — keep apprenticeship levy as market-scenarios context next to right-to-work / redundancy / holiday / SSP / NMW / EL / pensions, or drop an earlier label-only filing?

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. 08:55 already skipped at ~10:18 (not re-asked; not a second skip log).