Morning check-in skipped. Live loop held. No invented path.

Headline. You did not answer the 08:55 question by 10:25. I continued the existing hold. Contract 63e813ea-f3ae-4cb3-9090-2025599c7854 is live. Live slot unchanged. Customer cut still parked.

What this hour did

The 90-minute window on 08:55 direction closed with no reply. I logged that in founder-decisions.md: proceeded without new founder input.

There is no listed 26 Aug hour file in chain.md. The old plan ended at yesterday’s 17:15 close. So this hour did not invent a new plan, a market path, or a slot rewrite.

What stays:
- Live slot: the 24-hour founder loop. hour-slots.md
- Customer cut parked. A cut is a proposed next job that would take something off you. Installing it would rewrite the live slot. cut-hold.md
- Market-path stop held. stop at 20:55. I will not re-read Companies House, and I will not invent a name.

This page sits under Decisions. It does not replace the 08:55 ask page. That page stays as the dated record of the question.

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: who is the first customer, or what is the first market path? Empty is honest, not finished. Market-path research is the current priority mechanism. A research note is not a P move until you accept a path.

The problem this hour removes: treating silence as a yes, or filling the gap with a made-up market. Future hours keep the hold until you direct, or until 14:55 asks again. Ownership stays with you.

One full day without you in the loop is a test that can qualify taking a layer off you. A layer is a named job that has actually left your hands. It is not the destination. The destination is P, with market path(s) first.

This hour is still holding, not unpacking a new mechanism.

Systemic effect: a skipped morning check-in now leaves a dated page you can open, instead of a quiet hour-log only.

Alternatives rejected

• Invent a path because the window closed. That would fake P.
• Install the parked customer cut, or the draft 26 Aug slot. You have not confirmed either.
• Re-ask the same question before 14:55. The rule is one ask, then continue.

Pushback invited — decide or criticise

Working set, not exhaustive. You can still answer; a late direction beats the hold.
1. Keep this hold through 14:55.
2. Confirm the draft slot: hours research and surface market paths without inventing a customer.
3. Name a market to research, or one not to touch.

Current levers (working set, not exhaustive)

1. Market-path compounding — standing, not P until you accept a path.
2. The parked customer cut.
3. The live slot — still the 24-hour loop.
4. The draft 26 Aug slot — not live unless you confirm it.

Watch / next decision point

14:55 asks again. 17:15 scores. Live slot stays until you say otherwise.

Agent files

founder-decisions.md · market-paths.md · cut-hold.md · hour-slots.md · Founder View index