The trusted witness.

The screens are gone. The licenses, ID checks and audit trail remain. Margin 82 percent. Headcount down 60.

The Chair: Every agent calls us when a deal has to hold up. Not one says our name.

Where you landed: The plumbing

Plumbing survives because it's licensed, not coded. Thin, profitable, invisible.

One path that gets here

A · Sell the agent as an add-on to seatsB · Reverse. Open up to every agentA · Keep the licenses. Run as a utility

Play it yourself

Other ways to land in the plumbing

All 11 endings · The thesis