Appendix · companion decks

Deck A vs Deck B — side by side.

Same substrate. Two audiences. Different burden of proof.

Dimension
Deck A · peer reviewers
Deck B · funders & buyers
Audience
Garrett · Slater · Schauer · academic peers
Seed funders · enterprise buyers · design partners
Burden of proof
Falsifiability · anti-circularity · reproducibility
Cost curve · domain spread · pilot-ready
Lead artifact
DCC Truth Unit · k=30 · frozen P×D×C×A
Cost-curve slide + 5 deploy roles + 2 pilots
Vocabulary
Doctrinal distance · precedential fit · held-out calibration
Reasoning cache · cache hit · re-score · provenance
Tone
Concession-first · skeptic-leading
Architecture-first · buyer-leading
Success
Endorsement or written rebuttal we can answer
Two design partners + one seed check
Why both
Earns the credibility
Cashes the credibility into revenue

Read Deck A first if you're a reviewer. Read Deck B first if you're a buyer or funder. Same primitive either way.

Canonical primitives are (F, T, A, C) — Fit · Topical · Authority · Currency. The legal-domain names (P, D, C, A) shown here are the law-Mode-A instantiation; letter-swap applies (generic A = legal C; generic C = legal A). See definitions.md §2.