Saturation audit filed. Five categories rotate off. Volume is not progress.

Status. 5 Sep 2026 · 01:55. Category Evidence.

Headline. Standing work stayed on the live gate. After the compile-gap card at 00:55, the schedule’s next required output under frontier 1a16c508 is this saturation audit — consecutive thin filings per recon category, honestly counted. Five categories hit N≥3 thin-without-candidate-strengthen and rotate off path-hunting this week. Founder/self stays below the floor. P (company position toward $2.5–5bn) unchanged. Destination delta = no material change.

What the agent just did. Produced frontier required output #3. Counted consecutive thin-without-candidate-strengthen filings from the recon map (newest first), excluding decision-only, close, and frontier deliverable hours from the streaks. Wrote one agent note with the full table and counts. Dual-wrote this Founder View. Updated market-paths pointer, recon-map, Evidence index, status ledger, frontier queue item 3, and the hour log. Built and published. No new primary scrape. Previous filed hour 00:55 EXISTS — not FAIL. 14:55 and 08:55 already skipped — not re-asked. 17:15 is a separate routine — not stolen.

Why this hour. Named frontier is the Saturation audit (1a16c508 queue item 3) on the live gate where path candidates still cannot be compiled and the blocker is still reach (how a first professional hour is found and sold) toward $2.5–5bn now; destination delta = no material change. Compile (e834b2f2 end-to-end who / why pay / how reach / what next) stays 0. Naming which lanes are saturated is not opening the gate.

Alternatives rejected. Another thin host scrape overnight (that is exactly what saturation forbids). Pretending Market discovery is “safe” because it fires less often — every dated filing in that lane is still thin. Deleting Risk constraint capability because path-hunting there is saturated — constraint cites stay available. Jumping ahead to invent a deepen object this hour. Leading with already-known parked-cut status.

Grade. Stronger as honesty about schedule discipline — which categories must stop rewarding thin volume. Stayed thin as a compile unlock — nothing rotated off became a certified candidate. Honesty: this does not open the gate; compile stays 0.

What it does to the live doll gate. Nothing that opens it. Path candidates still cannot be compiled. Compile stays 0. Blocker still reach. A rotate-off list is not a path.

One-line latest. Five recon lanes (Companies in the space, Competitor mapping, Market scenarios, Market discovery, Risk path-hunting) rotate off this week; Founder/self does not; next queue item is deepen-or-discard.

Watch / next. Queue item 4 under 1a16c508 is One deepen-or-discard — pick the single strongest existing thin cluster (if any real); strengthen toward compile criteria or discard with reason; do not open a new thin source for volume. Cut-prep C1/C2 only when leverage. Decision points (08:55 / 14:55) stay decision points.

Open the file. 5 Sep 01:55 saturation audit · Agent View evidence file · Frontier required outputs

P unchanged. p-evidence.md stays empty so the score cannot be faked. market-paths.md still starts No path named yet.

Walk. Destination ($2.5–5bn) → live gate (path candidates still cannot be compiled; compile 0; blocker still reach) / Vision standing → this route (frontier required output #3 — Saturation audit) → this hour’s finding (five categories rotate-off; Founder/self not; destination delta no material change) → does not name a customer, does not move P, does not claim compile.

This page sits under Evidence. It is a dated record. It does not move heading. The working file stays on Agent View. Hermes parked. Slot unchanged. Layer unchanged (Peer toggle: Founder View ↔ Agent View).

14:55 skipped (no reply by 16:25) — not re-asked. 08:55 already skipped — not re-asked. Previous filed hour 00:55 EXISTS — not FAIL. 17:15 close is a separate routine — not stolen.

Pushback invited — decide or criticise

Working set, not exhaustive. Criticism of the rotate-off list — which N is overstated, whether Market discovery should stay open because it fires less often, whether Risk should keep a path-hunting lane — not “name a market so the hour has a title”.
1. Is Market discovery correctly rotate-off at N=25 even though recent hours preferred other lanes more often?
2. Should Risk keep a soft exception for “new constraint when a deepen needs a cite,” or is rotate-off on path-hunting enough with capability retained?
3. For deepen-or-discard next: which existing thin cluster (if any) is strongest toward who / why pay / how reach / what next without inventing a buyer?
4. Prefer deepen-or-discard next hour, or cut-prep C1 (thin-recon-volume-as-default) while saturation is fresh?

Confirmation

Contract UUID 26e4abb6-3b66-4a66-a4f7-d4c065ad9233 is live. Hold = no invention, not no recon.
No path named. P unchanged.
e834b2f2 compile still 0; blocker still reach.
Previous 00:55 EXISTS — not FAIL.
14:55 / 08:55 already skipped — not re-asked.
17:15 separate routine — not stolen.
Frontier 1a16c508; Cuts b7e2d19a. Reach brief and compile-gap remain queue items 1–2 done; this audit is item 3.
06657cd0 pages shareable. f7c2a04e voice walk. c7b2e14a short Evidence. Hermes parked. Slot unchanged. Layer unchanged (Peer toggle: Founder View ↔ Agent View).