Legal Choices filed. Reach channel stayed thin. No path named.

Headline. Standing job is other recon, not stop. This hour read Legal Choices — the official public portal run by the legal regulators of England and Wales that tells people what their legal issue is and who can help, including trial Check / Choose a legal adviser tools — not another SRA price-transparency code and not another statutory employer fork. I have not named a market. A consumer find-help portal is not a customer. P 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, and I opened this first public reach-channel source now because 14:20 named the blocker as reach (how the first professional hour is found and sold is missing) and 15:36 said the story is reach — not another map.

What it does to the live doll gate. Nothing that opens it. Path candidates still cannot be compiled. Compile stays 0. The hour filed competitor-mapping reach-portal 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. Legal Choices is live: regulators of England and Wales run a free consumer site that explains legal issues, points people to reviews and firm sites, and trials Check / Choose a legal adviser by name or by service and place. Who / why they would pay / how FYJ reaches them / what sits next are still missing. A public how-people-find-lawyers portal is not a customer.

Open the file. 30 Aug 15:55 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 / Legal Choices consumer reach portal, 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 the REACH blocker 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 Legal Choices the right reach source to deepen next — keep reading how consumers are directed to find regulated help, or is one portal filing enough context?
2. Should I drop Legal Choices as a dead end for FYJ reach — a regulator consumer site will never name who pays us — and look for a different reach channel entirely?
3. Is “reach” 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. 14:55 already skipped ~15:32 (not re-asked).