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29 Aug 2026 · 16:55

SSP/SMP employer duties filed. Market scenarios stayed thin. No path named.

Headline. Standing job is other recon, not stop. This hour read the official Statutory Sick Pay / Statutory Maternity Pay / Statutory Paternity Pay / Shared Parental Pay / Statutory Adoption Pay employer-duties fork — sick pay from the first qualifying day and the 2026 to 2027 statutory-pay table — not another CIPP payroll-profession map. I have not named a market. A £123.25 sick-pay line is 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 SSP/SMP employer-duties source now because a statutory-pay / leave fork can be read without inventing a name.

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-2026-08-29-1655.md.

Area: Market scenarios.
Last found: UK employer statutory payments / leave duties. SSP employer guide (HTTP 200) — £123.25 a week or 80% of average weekly earnings, whichever is lower, for up to 28 weeks. Entitlement + Eligibility and form SSP1 (HTTP 200) — paid on qualifying days from one full working day; still due if you stop trading; different rules for agency workers, directors and educational workers; linked periods 8 weeks or less apart. Calculator (HTTP 200) — “The rules on SSP changed on 6 April 2026.” Named sickness-absences-that-start-before-and-end-on-or-after-6-april-2026 / statutory-sick-pay-changes-from-6-april-2026 HTTP 404. SMP employee Pay (HTTP 200) — first 6 weeks 90% of AWE; remaining 33 weeks £194.32 or 90%. SMP employer guide (HTTP 200) — up to 52 weeks’ leave (Ordinary 26 / Additional 26); remaining SMP still printed £187.18 on that page against the rates-table £194.32. SPP employer + SPP Pay (HTTP 200) — 1 or 2 weeks; £194.32 or 90%; finish within 52 weeks of birth. Shared Parental Leave and Pay (HTTP 200) — share up to 50 weeks of leave and 37 weeks of pay; named employers-shared-parental-pay-leave HTTP 404. Adoption Pay (HTTP 200) — same remaining-weeks £194.32. Maternity Allowance (HTTP 200) — employed £194.32 or 90% for up to 39 weeks; self-employed £27–£194.32. Reclaim (HTTP 200) — usually 92%; 109% Small Employers’ Relief if Class 1 NI in the last complete tax year was £45,000 or less; SMP / SPP / SAP / SPBP / SNCP / ShPP; not SSP. Named reclaim-statutory-payments / employer-reclaim-statutory-payments HTTP 404. Rates and thresholds for employers 2026 to 2027 (HTTP 200; published 30 Jan 2026, last updated 5 Jun 2026) — SMP remaining / SPP / SAP remaining / ShPP / SPBP / SNCP £194.32 or 90%; SMP rate from 5 Apr 2026, other rates from 6 Apr 2026; SSP £123.25 or 80% from the first day of illness; cannot recover SSP. Parental Bereavement HTTP 200. Named neonatal-leave-and-pay HTTP 404; S.I. 2025/376 HTTP 200. Named statutory-pay-rates / statutory-pay-manual / government SSP and SMP rates publications HTTP 404. Running-the-company statutory-pay / leave fork with / between / above next to VAT, PAYE, workplace pensions, EL insurance, NMW/NLW, IR35, MTD, late-filing. Not a FYJ path.
Verdict: stayed thin — Who / why / how / next still missing.
P unchanged.

I opened the live sources above (named neonatal-leave-and-pay / reclaim-statutory-payments / statutory-pay-manual / statutory-pay-rates / 6-April-2026 SSP change paths 404; employer maternity remaining-weeks still prints £187.18; the rest HTTP 200). I did not re-read company 16892858. I did not repeat last recon’s CIPP homepage / About / History / Institute information / Vision / Code of conduct / Membership grades / PAS / useful-contacts / software-directory / consultancy pass, last recon’s Legal Ombudsman homepage / Who We Are / FAQs / common-complaints / Scheme Rules / 2025/26 annual complaints data / OLC Annual Report 2025/26 PDF / how-to-complain / reports-and-plans pass, last recon’s HMRC / GOV.UK CFA corporate-offences publication / guidance PDF / legislation.gov.uk Part 3 / ss.44–48 / S.I. 2017/739 / live CCO investigations / self-reporting / consultation pass, last recon’s GOV.UK NMW/NLW rates / S.I. 2026/357 / LPC 2026 / employer duties / who-gets / calculator-employers / am-i-getting / pay-and-work-rights / employment-status / get-ready-to-employ-someone / employ-someone / NMW Regulations 2015 / NMW Act 1998 pass, last recon’s HMRC/ONS PAYE RTI August 2026 GOV.UK landing / ONS bulletin / release calendar / seasonally adjusted dataset / companion NICs receipts pass, last recon’s ICB / bookkeepers.org.uk About / Membership / Fees 2026–27 / Find a Bookkeeper / Practice Licence / MLR / AML pass, last recon’s Bar of Northern Ireland / Bar Council / Inn of Court / Find a Barrister / practising-list / AML 2025 PDF / Chair’s Annual Report 2025 pass, last recon’s GOV.UK employers-liability-insurance / get-ready-to-employ-someone / HSE40 HTML+PDF / HSE insurance-liability / 1969 Act / 1998 Regulations reg. 3 pass, last recon’s IPA membership / licence / Find-an-IP / AML / Annual Review / R3 membership pass, last recon’s HMRC Self Assessment receipts / SPI / Class 4 / deadline-news pass, last recon’s Home Office failure-to-prevent-fraud collection / s.204 guidance / English PDF / 1 September 2025 news / impact assessments / legislation.gov.uk ss.199, 201, 204, Schedule 13 / S.I. 2025/349 / Law Commission options paper pass as the same pages, last recon’s Faculty of Advocates about / Find an Advocate / FAQs / intrant / devil / professional-standards / AML Supervision Report 2024–25 / QA Statement 2025 pass, last Companies in the space’s CIMA Membership Directories / become-a-member-in-practice / practising-certificates / criminality-test / supervision-by-CIMA / AML Supervision Annual Report 2024–25 pass, last Market scenarios’ GOV.UK workplace-pensions / TPR automatic-enrolment pass, last Market discovery’s Insolvency Service Company insolvencies July 2026 pass, last Competitor mapping’s Law Society of Northern Ireland pass, last Risk reduction’s ICO data protection fee pass as the same pages, last Market scenarios’ IR35 / CEST pass, last Companies in the space’s AAT licensed-membership pass, last Market discovery’s HMRC Corporation Tax Statistics 2025 pass, last Competitor mapping’s Law Society of Scotland pass, last Market scenarios’ late-filing / ECCTA pass, last Companies in the space’s ICAS pass, last Market discovery’s HMRC VAT annual statistics pass, last Companies in the space’s CIOT / ATT pass, last Market scenarios’ Making Tax Digital for Income Tax pass, last Competitor mapping’s ICAEW probate pass, the Help to Grow / Growth Guarantee pass, the HMRC Trust Registration Service pass, the Innovate UK / UKRI pass, the ACCA Report on Regulation pass, the HMRC R&D Tax Credits pass, the Faculty Office notary pass, the confirmation / accounts / CT deadline pass, the HMRC tax-adviser ASA / MMTAR pass, the VAT / PAYE employer pages as the same pages, the HMRC EIS/SEIS pass, the Start Up Loans pass, the OPBAS AML pass, the CLSB Costs Lawyer pass, the DBT BPE 2025 pass, the ACRA / CGIUKI pass, the IA 1986 s.388–390A reserved-appointment pass, the DIY-vs-ACSP / closing-fork pass, the BSB barrister pass, the ONS Business demography pass, the HMRC TCSP pass, the IPReg Core Metrics, the accounts-filing / CT software lists, the CILEx Regulation, the LSB State of Legal Services, the CLC Key Indicators, the SRA population, the Companies House register-activities pass, the IDV / ECCTA risk pass, the WebFiling pass, the public-name pass, the GOV.UK setup class-map pass, the LSA reserved-activity pass, the Law Society (England & Wales)/ICAEW directories pass, the ACSP/MCA pass, the SIC pages, or the ONS stock-size bulletin. Did not retry STEP.org (HTTP 403). Did not retry ICB / bookkeepers.org.uk / www.icb.org.uk. Did not retry CIPP / cipp.org.uk. Prefer Market scenarios this hour with still-unused SSP/SMP employer pages after Companies in the space filled at 15:55. The 14:55 direction window was already skipped at ~16:26 (founder moved on); this hour is standing recon, not a re-ask and not a second skip log.

What stands is simple: next to VAT, PAYE even-if-only-director, workplace-pension automatic enrolment, employers’ liability insurance, NMW/NLW, confirmation / accounts, MTD, IR35, and late-filing penalties sits the official SSP/SMP/SPP/ShPP/SAP statutory-pay fork — SSP £123.25 or 80% of earnings from the first qualifying day, remaining SMP/SPP/ShPP £194.32 or 90% on the 2026 to 2027 table, reclaim 92% or 109% Small Employers’ Relief, SSP not reclaimable. Those facts are checkable. They are 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 SSP/SMP employer / rates / reclaim pages fill a Market scenarios 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 stays empty so the score cannot be faked. p-missing.md stays the one founder-confirmed question: Who is the first customer, or what is the first market path, for For Your Journey Ltd? Empty is not finished. The next useful work is either a real name you accept, or measurable evidence toward answering. This hour is the second kind: other recon under 26e4abb6, not inventing a name so the hour has a title.

Concrete problem removed: after Companies in the space filled CIPP at 15:55, the next Market scenarios cell would have looked frozen on NMW/NLW if the hour stopped. How future file writes change: each recon hour still has to name the area, the source, stronger / thin / discarded, and that P did not move — on Evidence, in founder English. Why that matters for ownership and the $2.5–5bn goal: you can see the map thicken without the score lying. A statutory-pay duties map is not a path. Russian doll gates stay in words only: nested perimeters you penetrate inward toward the $2.5–5bn centre; path candidates still cannot be compiled on the live gate; thin hours do not open a gate; the first open ask stays compile the path candidates that can run end to end; the customer cut stays parked. Inbox reshape (a2f8c91b) re-ranks after each filed cycle. Today (729da95e) is visibility only.

This hour is still standing recon under the live loop, not a layer claim and not a P move.

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. Contract UUID 63e813ea remains live as that parked milestone.

One full day without you in the loop is a test that can qualify taking a layer off you. It is not the destination. The destination is P, with market path(s) first. Filing an SSP/SMP duties map is not that test finishing, and it is not a layer transfer. The 17:15 close already scored this cycle no / no. The 14:55 window was already skipped at ~16:26; this hour did not re-ask and did not re-log the skip.

Systemic effect: Market scenarios now shows a fourteenth dated filing (GOV.UK director hub; DIY vs ACSP / closing; Start Up Loans; VAT / PAYE; confirmation / accounts / CT; Innovate UK; Help to Grow / GGS; MTD; late filing / ECCTA; IR35; workplace pension AE; employers’ liability insurance; NMW/NLW; SSP/SMP/SPP/ShPP/SAP statutory payments), that the line stayed thin, and that P is unchanged. Companies in the space stays fourteen (last found CIPP at 15:55). Competitor mapping stays fourteen. Market discovery stays thirteen. Risk reduction stays eight. The £123.25 SSP and £194.32 remaining-SMP lines did not join market-paths.md as a path.

Alternatives rejected

Pushback invited — decide or criticise

Working set, not exhaustive. This is 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 discovery is now thirteen filings and still thin; Companies in the space is now fourteen filings and still thin; Market scenarios is now fourteen filings and still thin; Competitor mapping is now fourteen filings and still thin; Risk reduction is now eight constraints and still not a path?
2. Which line should I deepen — leave regulator / supervision / loan-programme / tax-scheme / R&D-claim / VAT-PAYE / tax-adviser-registration / annual-filing / ACCA-practice / Innovate-UK-grant / trust-register / Help-to-Grow / Growth-Guarantee / ICAEW-probate / MTD-Income-Tax / CIOT-ATT / VAT-population / ICAS-practice / late-filing-penalty / Law-Society-of-Scotland / CT-receipts / AAT-licensed / IR35-class / ICO-fee / Law-Society-of-Northern-Ireland / Insolvency-Service / automatic-enrolment / CIMA-MiP / Faculty-of-Advocates / FTPF / Self-Assessment / IPA-membership / employers-liability / Bar-of-Northern-Ireland / ICB-membership / PAYE-RTI / NMW-NLW / CFA-tax-facilitation / Legal-Ombudsman / CIPP-membership / SSP-SMP-statutory-pay maps and deepen a thin area closer to who / why / how, or file another still-unused official source?
3. Which line should I drop — the size / flow / directory / regulator-headcount / supervised-population / DIY-vs-paid / reserved-appointment / trade-association / legal-form / AML-PBS / founder-finance / tax-relief-equity / R&D-claim / VAT-PAYE / tax-adviser-ASA / annual-confirmation-accounts / notary-headcount / ACCA-practising-certificate / Innovate-UK-grant / TRS / Help-to-Grow / GGS / ICAEW-probate / MTD-Income-Tax / CIOT-ATT / VAT-population / ICAS-practice / late-filing-penalty / Law-Society-of-Scotland / CT-receipts / AAT-licensed / IR35 / ICO-fee / Law-Society-of-Northern-Ireland / Insolvency-Service / automatic-enrolment / CIMA-MiP / Faculty-of-Advocates / FTPF / Self-Assessment / IPA-membership / employers-liability / Bar-of-Northern-Ireland / ICB-membership / PAYE-RTI / NMW-NLW / CFA-tax-facilitation / Legal-Ombudsman / CIPP-membership / SSP-SMP-statutory-pay maps (ONS stock, ONS demography, Companies House counts, LSB sector revenue, BPE 5.7 million / 3.2 million sole traders, EIS 3,735 / SEIS 2,430, R&D 46,950 / £7.6bn, VAT population 2,330,400 / 2,285,900 live, CT receipts £97.2bn / 1.6 million with no liability, Law Society / ICAEW directories, SRA / CLC / CILEx / IPReg / BSB / CLSB / Faculty Office / ICAEW probate / Law Society of Scotland / Law Society of Northern Ireland / Faculty of Advocates / Bar of Northern Ireland / Legal Ombudsman headcounts and complaint volumes, software lists, HMRC TCSP counts, ACSP opt-in list, closing forks, 1,480 IPs, ACRA, CGIUKI, OPBAS, Start Up Loans, VAT £90,000 / PAYE sole-director, MMTAR, confirmation £50 / accounts 9 months, ACCA 12,810 PC, Innovate UK, TRS, Help to Grow, GGS, MTD, Life at the Scottish Bar, CIOT / ATT, ICAS, late accounts / ECCTA penalties, AAT more than 6,000 licensed, IR35, ICO fee, LSNI, Insolvency Service July 2026 1,931 / 50.3 per 10,000 / 2025 annual 23,938, workplace pension AE 22–SPA / £10,000 / 3%–5%–8% / sole-director no-staff, CIMA 1,631 MiPs / 84 new / 77% limited company, Faculty AML supervised 8 / QA 93, FTPF in force 1 Sep 2025 / large org £36m / £18m / 250 / IA upper bound 24,900 / SME out, SA IT receipts 2025–26 £54.1bn / 11.49 million filed by 31 Jan 2026 / 5.34 million with a self-employment source, IPA 637 Total IPs / 554 appointment takers / AML 327 IPs across 202 firms / appointment-taking licence up to £4,295, EL insurance at least £5 million / £2,500 a day / owner-director ≥50% exempt / family-in-a-limited-company not exempt, Bar of NI AML over 650 / approx 700 / 690 independent practice / practising list 843 / AML supervised Zero / 20 Bar Council / 20 IPLS places, ICB MICB £179 / Practice Licence £206 / AML Free with PL / “hundreds of ICB practices” / HM Treasury AML supervisor claim, PAYE RTI early July 2026 30.3 million payrolled employees / median monthly pay £2,642 / −94,000 YoY, NMW/NLW from 1 Apr 2026 NLW £12.71 / 18–20 £10.85 / under 18 & apprentice £8.00 / accommodation offset £11.10 / directors not entitled / LPC coverage 1.70m, CFA 2017 Part 3 in force 30 Sep 2017 / all-size relevant bodies / HMRC as at 30 Jun 2026 one s.45 charging decision / 13 live investigations / 27 opportunities / 136 rejected, LeO 2025/26 14,259 received / 8,412 accepted / 8,199 resolved / Residential Conveyancing 36% / 3,039 / remedies £3.7m, CIPP more than 9,500 benefitting / 15k+ qualification / Affiliate £119–Chartered £299 to 14 Jun 2026 / PAS with HMRC / Find-a-payroll-professional 404, SSP £123.25 or 80% AWE from the first qualifying day / remaining SMP/SPP/ShPP £194.32 or 90% / reclaim 92% or 109% SER / SSP not reclaimable / employer-guide remaining SMP still £187.18), 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. An SSP/SMP filing 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.
  4. The 14:55 direction window — already skipped at ~16:26. Not re-asked this hour. Russian doll gates stay in words only: nested perimeters; path candidates still cannot be compiled on the live gate; thin hours do not open a gate; the first open ask stays compile the path candidates that can run end to end. Inbox reshape (a2f8c91b) re-ranks after each filed cycle. Today (729da95e) is visibility only.

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 SSP employer guide / entitlement / SSP1 / fit notes / calculator / SMP employer and employee Pay / SPP employer / Shared Parental / Adoption Pay / Maternity Allowance / reclaim / 2026-to-2027 statutory-pay table / Parental Bereavement pass, last recon’s CIPP homepage / About / History / Institute information / Vision / Code of conduct / Membership grades / PAS / useful-contacts / software-directory / consultancy pass, last recon’s Legal Ombudsman homepage / Who We Are / FAQs / common-complaints / Scheme Rules / 2025/26 annual complaints data / OLC Annual Report 2025/26 PDF / how-to-complain / reports-and-plans pass, last recon’s HMRC / GOV.UK CFA corporate-offences publication / guidance PDF / legislation.gov.uk Part 3 / ss.44–48 / S.I. 2017/739 / live CCO investigations / self-reporting / consultation pass, last recon’s GOV.UK NMW/NLW rates / S.I. 2026/357 / employer duties / who-gets / LPC 2026 / calculator-employers / am-i-getting / pay-and-work-rights / employment-status / get-ready-to-employ-someone / employ-someone / NMW Regulations 2015 / NMW Act 1998 pass, last recon’s HMRC/ONS PAYE RTI August 2026 GOV.UK landing / ONS bulletin / release calendar / seasonally adjusted dataset / companion NICs receipts pass, last recon’s ICB About / Membership / Fees 2026–27 / Find a Bookkeeper / Browse Directory / Practice Licence / MLR / AML Guidance pass, last recon’s Bar of Northern Ireland / Bar Council / Inn of Court / Find a Barrister / practising-list / AML 2025 PDF / Chair’s Annual Report 2025 pass, last recon’s GOV.UK employers-liability-insurance / get-ready-to-employ-someone / HSE40 HTML+PDF / HSE insurance-liability / 1969 Act / 1998 Regulations reg. 3 pass, last recon’s IPA membership / licence / Find-an-IP / AML / Annual Review / R3 membership pass, last recon’s HMRC Self Assessment receipts / SPI / Class 4 / deadline-news pass, last recon’s Home Office / legislation.gov.uk / Law Commission failure-to-prevent-fraud pass, last recon’s Faculty of Advocates about / Find an Advocate / FAQs / intrant / devil / professional-standards / AML Supervision Report 2024–25 / QA Statement 2025 pass, last Companies in the space’s CIMA Membership Directories / become-a-member-in-practice / practising-certificates / criminality-test / supervision-by-CIMA / AML Supervision Annual Report 2024–25 pass, last Market scenarios’ GOV.UK workplace-pensions / TPR automatic-enrolment pass, last Market discovery’s Insolvency Service Company insolvencies July 2026 pass, last Competitor mapping’s Law Society of Northern Ireland pass, last Risk reduction’s ICO data protection fee pass, or the earlier list on the dated research file. Do not re-ask the 14:55 direction question. Do not install the customer cut. Do not install it at 17:15. Dead link is a failed publish. Unauthenticated 401 is the login gate.

Agent files

29 Aug 16:55 research · market-paths.md · recon-map.md · p-evidence.md · p-missing.md · cycle 8 close · Contract: hold is no invention · market-path recon · Open asks · Founder View · this page

This is the human reasoning surface, not the working files.

29 Aug 2026 · 16:55