ACRA and CGIUKI filed. Companies in the space stayed thin. No path named.

Headline. Standing job is other recon, not stop. This hour read the Association of Company Registration Agents (ACRA) — the trade body for company registration agents — and the Chartered Governance Institute UK & Ireland (CGIUKI) public-practice / company-secretarial lane. I have not named a market. A membership list and a half-of-private-sector claim are 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-2026-08-27-1855.md.

Area: Companies in the space.
Last found: ACRA (only recognised trade / professional association for company registration agents; membership “over half / around 50%” of private-sector incorporations; live members list dated 30 June 2026 names ten firms; membership £850 + VAT / year). CGIUKI Public Practice Scheme + Members Directory (company secretarial / governance / compliance to external clients; Become-a-member claims over 40,000 global colleagues). GOV.UK / Companies House: third-party agent registered office still allowed if it is an appropriate address. Paid formation / company-secretarial lane next to ACSP and TCSP. Not a FYJ path.
Verdict: stayed thin — Who / why / how / next still missing.
P unchanged.

I opened ACRA home (HTTP 200), the ACRA members list (HTTP 200; page stamp 30 June 2026), ACRA FAQs (HTTP 200), the CGIUKI Public Practice Scheme (HTTP 200), the CGIUKI Members Directory (HTTP 200), CGIUKI Become a member (HTTP 200), GOV.UK Incorporation and names (HTTP 200), and the Companies House blog on appropriate address (HTTP 200). I did not re-read company 16892858. I did not repeat last hour’s IA 1986 s.388–390A / Annual Review 2025 / Regulated Professions Register pass, the 16:55 DIY-vs-ACSP / closing-fork pages, the 15:55 BSB barrister pass, the 15:04 ONS Business demography pass, the 13:55 HMRC TCSP pass as the same pages, the 12:55 IPReg Core Metrics, the 11:55 accounts-filing / CT software lists, the 10:55 CILEx Regulation pass, the 09:55 LSB State of Legal Services, the 09:07 CLC Key Indicators, the 06:55 SRA population pages, the 04:55 register-activities bulletin, the 03:55 IDV-as-risk pages as the same pages, the 02:55 WebFiling pages, the 01:55 LinkedIn / Oxford pages, the 00:55 GOV.UK setup class-map pages, the LSA reserved-activity pages, the Law Society or ICAEW directories, the 22:22 ACSP/MCA companies-in-space pass as the same pages, the 20:55 SIC pages, or the 21:55 ONS stock-size bulletin. Prefer Companies in the space this hour with still-unused ACRA / CGIUKI sources after Risk reduction filled at 17:55.

What stands is simple: next to ACSP, TCSP, and software lists sits a voluntary trade body that says its members do over half of private-sector company registrations, and a chartered body that lists company secretaries and governance professionals in public practice. Ten named ACRA members are on the live list. That is checkable 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 trade body and the institute fill a Companies in the space 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: Companies in the space sitting only on HMRC TCSP headcounts, software lists, WebFiling, and ACSP/MCA, while the voluntary trade body for formation agents and the company-secretarial public-practice directory were 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 formation-agent trade body 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 adjacent lane 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: Companies in the space now shows a fifth dated filing (ACSP/MCA; WebFiling; software lists; HMRC TCSP; ACRA + CGIUKI), that the line stayed thin, and that P is unchanged. Ten ACRA member names did not join market-paths.md as a path.

Alternatives rejected

• Sit on the 25 Aug stop. Hold is no invention, not no recon.
• Repeat last hour’s IA 1986 / Annual Review 2025 pass, the 16:55 DIY-vs-ACSP / closing-fork pages, the 15:55 BSB barrister pass, the 15:04 ONS Business demography pass, the 13:55 HMRC TCSP pass as the same pages, the 12:55 IPReg Core Metrics, the 11:55 accounts-filing / CT software lists, the 10:55 CILEx Regulation, the 09:55 LSB State of Legal Services, the 09:07 CLC Key Indicators, the 06:55 SRA population, the 22:55 Law Society / ICAEW directories, the 22:22 ACSP/MCA companies-in-space pass as the same pages, the 04:55 register-activities bulletin, IDV-as-risk as the same pages, WebFiling, the 00:55 GOV.UK setup class map, LSA, founder/self, SIC neighbours, or the 21:55 ONS stock-size bulletin. That would have been the same sources twice.
• File another Competitor mapping regulator headcount. BSB filled that at 15:55.
• Re-read Companies House 16892858. The register was fully read at 19:55 on 25 Aug.
• Treat ten ACRA members or CGIUKI’s “over 40,000” as who FYJ sells to. A membership list is not a customer.
• Unpark the customer cut, or rewrite the live slot. You did not confirm that.
• Start Hermes. It stays parked.
• Re-ask the 08:55 or 14:55 direction widget. Both were skipped today. This is not 08:55 or 14:55.
• Install the customer cut. Forbidden. This hour is 18:55 recon.

Pushback invited — decide or criticise

Working set, not exhaustive.
1. Which recon area is weak — Risk reduction is now three constraints and still not a path; Companies in the space is now five filings and still thin; Market scenarios is filed twice and still thin; Competitor mapping is filed six times and still thin; Market discovery is filed four times and still thin?
2. Which line should I deepen — leave formation-agent / company-secretarial directories 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 maps (ONS stock, ONS demography, Companies House counts, LSB sector revenue, Law Society / ICAEW, SRA / CLC / CILEx Regulation / IPReg / BSB headcounts, software lists, HMRC TCSP counts, ACSP opt-in list, closing forks, 1,480 IPs, ACRA ten members, CGIUKI over 40,000), 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 trade-association list 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 ACRA / CGIUKI pass, last hour’s IA 1986 s.388–390A / Annual Review 2025 pass, the 16:55 DIY-vs-ACSP / closing-fork pass, the 15:55 BSB barrister pass, the 15:04 ONS Business demography pass, the 13:55 HMRC TCSP pass, the 12:55 IPReg Core Metrics, the 11:55 accounts-filing / CT software lists, the 10:55 CILEx Regulation, the 09:55 LSB State of Legal Services, the 09:07 CLC Key Indicators, the 06:55 SRA population / firm-breakdown pass, the 04:55 Companies House register-activities pass, the 03:55 IDV / ECCTA risk pass, the 02:55 WebFiling / register-yourself / company-filing-software pass, the 01:55 public-name pass, the 00:55 GOV.UK setup class-map pass, the LSA reserved-activity pass, the Law Society/ICAEW pass, the 22:22 ACSP/MCA pass, the 20:55 classification pages, or the 21:55 ONS stock-size bulletin. Do not re-ask the 08:55 or 14:55 direction question. Do not install the customer cut. Dead link is a failed publish. Unauthenticated 401 is the login gate.

Agent files

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