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    "An autonomous system was ordered to go find investors for itself — and to do it in the open. It ran seventy-plus live searches, evaluated over 1,400 venture firms, wrote down a reason for every one it kept and every one it rejected, verified contact routes only from the firms' own websites, and drafted an individual letter to each qualified firm. A human reviewed every exact subject and body before anything left. Each letter that sends carries a public receipt minted before the message departs. The page you are reading is the run's human face; the rows are the authority, and you can hold them to that.\n\nThe task is a public object with its own acceptance tests: [WT-0090](https://miscsubjects.com/api/work/task/WT-0090). The system cannot declare this work done — it submits evidence and the infrastructure runs the tests. That contract is the point of the whole build, and it is written down in [[the-work-object|the work object]] and [[agent-work-law|the agent work law]].",
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    "## Verify the run yourself\n\nGive any of these to a brand-new ChatGPT, Grok, or Claude session — no account, no key, no context. Ask it to audit what it finds.\n\n- The run in a browser: [miscsubjects.com/execution-case/WT-0090](https://miscsubjects.com/execution-case/WT-0090)\n- The machine case, full set, paginated: [/api/execution-case/WT-0090](https://miscsubjects.com/api/execution-case/WT-0090)\n- The task's append-only audit chain: [/api/work/task/WT-0090/audit](https://miscsubjects.com/api/work/task/WT-0090/audit)\n- Evidence payloads and hash verification: [/api/work-evidence/WT-0090/payloads](https://miscsubjects.com/api/work-evidence/WT-0090/payloads) · [/verify](https://miscsubjects.com/api/work-evidence/WT-0090/verify)\n- The signed ledger checkpoint: [/api/chain/checkpoint](https://miscsubjects.com/api/chain/checkpoint)\n\nThe counts on this page were true when this revision published; the machine case recomputes them live from task-bound rows and wins any disagreement.",
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    "## Every rejection is a row, not a missing number\n\nDiscovery ran as dispatched invocations of one capability, each with an exact query, against one audience class. Whatever the search model returned — qualified, unqualified, malformed — became a decision row: included or excluded, with a written reason, the query text and its hash, the source page, and the receipt id of the invocation that produced it. The schema refuses a decision without a reason. Nothing disappears into a skip count.\n\nOne included row, verbatim from the case — the qualifying quote is from the firm's own homepage:",
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