Companies in the space mapped. Still thin. No path named.

Headline. Standing job is other recon, not stop. This hour read official UK pages on the professional-services class next to founder ops. I have not named a market. P has not moved.

Contract UUID 26e4abb6-3b66-4a66-a4f7-d4c065ad9233 is live. Hold = no invention, not no recon.

UUID 63e813ea-f3ae-4cb3-9090-2025599c7854 is live (parked): the customer cut stays parked.

What the agent just did

Wrote market-path-research-2026-08-26-2222.md.

The 25 Aug 20:55 hold stays as the dated record of the negative work. The standing job is now other recon. This is the first Evidence page under that reading.

Area: Companies in the space.
Last found: a public UK professional-services class — authorised agents, and a membership directory of consultancies.
Verdict: stayed thin.
P unchanged.

I opened the GOV.UK ACSP guidance (HTTP 200), the Companies House launch note (HTTP 200), the MCA members directory (HTTP 200), and the MCA home (HTTP 200). I did not re-read company 16892858. I did not repeat the SIC map or the ONS size bulletin.

An ACSP is a Companies House authorised agent — a formation agent, solicitor, or accountant who files, or will file, on behalf of other companies, and who can verify identity. Agents must already sit under a UK anti-money laundering supervisor. Companies House estimated up to 50,000 applicants in the first year. Filing as an authorised agent is postponed until no earlier than November 2026. Tide Platform Ltd is still the ACSP identity check already on file. It is not a FYJ customer.

The MCA is the Management Consultancies Association. Its public members page is a directory of UK consulting firms by sector and service line. That is a list of companies in a neighbouring professional-services space. It is not a FYJ buyer list.

None of that is 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.

market-paths.md still starts No path named yet.

This page sits under Evidence. It is a dated record. It does not move heading. The live contract sits under Contract.

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. The next useful work is a real name you accept, or evidence that gets closer to answering. Market-path research is the current priority mechanism. This note is not a P move.

The problem this hour removes: Evidence being only a rule restatement after the standing job changed. 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 class of agents, or a consultancy directory, is space context. Value starts to form only when a candidate can run end to end. This hour can show the space is real and still say the FYJ line is thin.

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.

Systemic effect: Companies in the space is no longer a blank card. It now shows what was found, that the line stayed thin, and that P is unchanged.

Alternatives rejected

• Sit on the 25 Aug stop. Hold is no invention, not no recon.
• Repeat SIC neighbours or ONS size. That would have been the same map twice.
• Re-read Companies House 16892858. The register was fully read at 19:55 on 25 Aug.
• Treat ACSPs or MCA members as FYJ customers or as a path. That would fake P.
• Invent a who / why / how so the hour looks end-to-end. It is not.
• Unpark the customer cut, or rewrite the live slot. You did not confirm that.

Pushback invited — decide or criticise

Working set, not exhaustive.
1. Which recon area is weak — Companies in the space is now filed and still thin; Competitor mapping, Risk reduction, and Market scenarios are still empty?
2. Which candidate should I deepen — there is not one yet with even a partial who / why / how?
3. Which line should I drop — the ACSP class, the MCA directory, or neither?

Current levers (working set, not exhaustive)

1. Market-path compounding — standing, not P until you accept a path. Space context is not a name.
2. The parked customer cut.
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 ACSP/MCA pass, the 20:55 classification pages, or the 21:55 bulletin. Dead link is a failed publish. Unauthenticated 401 is the login gate.

Agent files

26 Aug 22:22 research · market-paths.md · recon-map.md · p-evidence.md · p-missing.md · Contract: hold is no invention · market-path recon · Founder View · this page