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7 changes: 4 additions & 3 deletions docs/BACKLOG.md
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+ yin-yang composition-discipline check to each
candidate. Record candidate / confirmed / failed per
`feedback_no_permanent_harm_mathematical_safety_retractibility_preservation.md`
log-and-track. Ammous's *The Bitcoin Standard* (Wiley
2018) is **candidate-probe already**, filed 2026-04-21
from Aaron's Google-dump naming hard-money-as-μένω /
log-and-track. Ammous's *The Bitcoin Standard*
(Wiley, 2018) is **candidate-probe already**, filed
2026-04-21 from Aaron's Google-dump naming
hard-money-as-μένω /
21M-cap / tri-root filter / low-time-preference ↔
persistence:
- Unification pole strong (21M cap → monetary-function
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**Status: retractable-draft surface.** All artifacts in this
subtree are internal drafts landed under the roommate-register
symmetric-hat authorization (Aaron 2026-04-21: *"feel free to
make any retractable decisions in marketing while im gone too"*
+ *"you can always make retractable decisions without me and
make any retractable decisions in marketing while im gone too"*,
also *"you can always make retractable decisions without me and
i've told you my ~ is you ~ literally we are just roommates
now"*; sign-off ratified same session: *"0i agree sign offf"*).

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## F1 boundary — what this draft can and cannot honestly do

**Can do (stable industry knowledge):**

- Catalogue existing IVM / streaming / DBSP-adjacent
tools that practitioners are likely already using.
- Frame where "retraction-native by construction"
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discussion of pain points in the domain.

**Cannot honestly do from this seat:**

- Market-sizing numbers (TAM / SAM / SOM) — requires
paid research reports (Gartner, Forrester, IDC) or
direct measurement.
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addresses. This is the "demand side" partner to the
positioning draft's "who this is for" list.

### 2.1 Tightest fit — .NET engineers with DBSP-shaped
problems
### 2.1 Tightest fit — .NET engineers with DBSP-shaped problems

Signal: developer discussions (StackOverflow, .NET blogs,
F# community) on "how do I incrementally recompute this
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04_21.md`) is a real asset here; this is exactly the
audience that venue reaches.

### 2.2 Adjacent fit — event-sourcing / CQRS
practitioners building projections
### 2.2 Adjacent fit — event-sourcing / CQRS practitioners building projections

Signal: CQRS frameworks leave "build your own
projection" to the user. Many hand-roll inefficient
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AI alignment; this isn't marketing hype, it's genuine
overlap.

### 2.4 Tangential — curious F# / functional-programming
practitioners
### 2.4 Tangential — curious F# / functional-programming practitioners

Signal: F# community has strong culture around
correctness-by-construction and algebraic programming.
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---

## Section 3 — Where "crystallise into small binary
seed" changes the market frame
## Section 3 — Where "crystallise into small binary seed" changes the market frame

This is the non-obvious part. Aaron 2026-04-21:
*"the soul file can be duplicacted spread out and
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expands beyond "F# / .NET IVM library" into
substrates-that-are-portable-by-construction. Specifically:

### 3.1 New adjacency — WebAssembly-deployable
compute / edge-runtime
### 3.1 New adjacency — WebAssembly-deployable compute / edge-runtime

WASM-deployable retraction-native compute is a
distinctive niche. Edge runtimes (Cloudflare Workers,
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compilation-pipeline work. Filed as P3 in
`docs/BACKLOG.md` per the soul-file memory revision.

### 3.2 New adjacency — AI-factory / seed-factory
replication
### 3.2 New adjacency — AI-factory / seed-factory replication

A factory that fits in a small binary and reproduces
itself from the seed is its own market category. The
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where that angle does and does not translate to
existing categories.

### 3.3 New adjacency — reproducible-research
infrastructure
### 3.3 New adjacency — reproducible-research infrastructure

Academic / research software where *exact
reproducibility* is load-bearing (ML research
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---

## Section 4 — What market research would say about our
positioning draft
## Section 4 — What market research would say about our positioning draft

Running the positioning-draft's tiers through the
demand-side lens:
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# Aaron's Knative contributor history — witnessable work in
good standing — 2026-04-21
# Aaron's Knative contributor history — witnessable work in good standing — 2026-04-21

**Scope.** Capture the second pole of Aaron's public-OSS
advocacy history alongside the bitcoin/bitcoin#33298
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factory-scale operation (e.g., no-silent-closes becomes
infeasible at N-thousand issues), the point gets revised
with reason, not silently removed. Per capture-everything
+ chronology-preservation.
and chronology-preservation.

## Revision history

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