# subscriptions.sgit.ai — brief pack

**For:** the agent commissioned to build `subscriptions.sgit.ai`
**From:** Dinis Cruz, via the SG/Send Librarian
**Version:** v0.33.62 · 24 August 2026
**Licence:** CC BY 4.0 — but read `LICENSE.md`: this site's real rules are defamation and personal-data discipline, not copyright.

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## What this is

The subscription standard, register and workflows — everything on one site, by decision of 24 August, with the commercial service designed to refactor out later to its own property if a business partner emerges (**the riskmandate pattern, run in the other direction**).

Two source briefs ship in `sources/`. The second (*the refund is the pretext and the register is the product*) **overrides the first's framing and keeps all its research**:

> *"The law is not the product. It is evidence, and a floor. The product is the record of who answers, what they hold, and how they behave when asked."*

And the front-page principle:

> **A subscription is a discount for committing to regular use. It is not rent on something you have the right to ignore.**

The site also carries the legislative ambition: the five clauses are **the recommended subscription model — the proposal for what the law should be** — published as an adoptable standard first, with the law-shaped draft as the artefact for consumer groups and committees.

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## Read in this order

| File | Words | What it does |
|---|---:|---|
| **`00__BRIEF.md`** | 1.1k | **Start here.** The two briefs and the override, the decision, the three load-bearing rules, the split table, build order |
| **`01__the-standard.md`** | 0.7k | The principle, the five clauses, standard-before-law sequencing, the four-axis maturity model |
| **`02__the-register.md`** | 0.6k | Do-you-hold-it, the no-verdict entry format, the three answers, **the inconsistency test**, the reflexivity defences, governance |
| **`03__the-workflows-and-vaults.md`** | 0.9k | The March pipeline, the three-vault architecture, the honest vault claim, BYOM-first — **and the sgit showcase argument** |
| `04__the-legal-pages.md` | 0.7k | The levers ranked, the closing window, the dating discipline, the perimeter |
| `05__site-architecture-and-the-split.md` | 0.5k | Page by page, and the three mechanisms that make the future split a DNS change |
| `06__publishing-rules-and-boundaries.md` | 0.5k | The register's constitution as build requirements |
| `07__gaps-and-open-questions.md` | 0.6k | 5 blocking items, 9 open questions (3 new), the honest gaps |
| `09__source-manifest.csv` | 19 rows | Sources, tiered; corpus paths verified; two marked verify-at-build |
| `sources/` | 2 briefs | The 16th and 17th of 20 August, verbatim |

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## The five things that make this site unusual in the network

**1. Its rules bound its own name.** No-adjectives killed every "fair/honest" candidate; the corrected headline killed every "refund" name. The same filters govern every future headline — and the DNR trap (Discount-Not-Rent) is noted so nobody rediscovers it.

**2. It can launch before contacting anyone.** The exit-path measurement — fifty companies, click counts, dated, method published — needs **no cooperation**: *"a public, dated, reproducible artefact before a single letter has been sent."* Build it first; it is the register's credibility deposit.

**3. Its strongest instrument is the fairest.** The inconsistency test — *"the answer to a data subject and the claims in the marketing cannot both be true"* — lands only where true, needs no characterisation, and passes clean companies cleanly.

**4. Its legal pages expire on a known date.** Spring 2027. Every page dated, statused, and owned — the memory-network staleness rule at its sharpest, because here a stale page gets a reader corrected by a trader.

**5. It is the sgit business-model showcase.** Client files in client vaults, parsers as shared vault workspaces, the register as re-pointable vault data, BYOM because the meter costs the privacy claim, serverless economics — *"no new infrastructure was invented for this business."* Feature `/workflows/` from `sgit.ai`.

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## Before anything publishes

Five blocking items (`07__` §1): solicitor review of the publishing rule and entry one · the selection rule published · the refusal interval published · the template versioned · the authority-capture workflow. **The register's governance page goes live before its first row.**

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