{ "$comment": "Canonical manifest for the Proofscaling Standard. The content hash published for this version is the sha256 of this file's bytes. Verify with: shasum -a 256 manifest.json", "dimensions": [ { "detail": "Form is the quality of how a venture measures and discloses. It reads the assurance level a third party attached to the financials, whether the filing arrived inside its window, and whether the cost side is instrumented well enough to derive a margin rather than assert one. It binds to the SAFR Reporting Standard schema, version 0.07, for the financial reporting shape it reads. The term is Ledger Base, never Ledger NAV.", "key": "form", "name": "Form", "note": "Binds to the SAFR Reporting Standard schema, version 0.07.", "order": 1, "reports": [ "Assurance level: reviewed, audited, or filed", "Filing timeliness against the reporting window", "Completeness of the financial statements", "As-of date and source filing" ], "schemaFile": "form.schema.json", "summary": "How the venture measures and discloses: assurance, timeliness, and completeness." }, { "detail": "Playbook is the commitment a venture put on record and how binding it is. A revenue-share security or a defined-return note is a binding forward commitment with a defined payoff; a cooperative charter or an employee-ownership plan is a structural one. A mission stated only on a website is marketing, not a commitment, and does not count.", "key": "playbook", "name": "Playbook", "order": 2, "reports": [ "The forward commitment on record", "How binding it is: charter, security, or declaration", "Use of proceeds or milestone declared", "Source filing and as-of date" ], "schemaFile": "playbook.schema.json", "summary": "What the venture committed to, and how binding the commitment is." }, { "detail": "Conversion is what a venture delivered measured against what it declared. In version 0.2 the filing record supports two readings: revenue disclosed across fiscal years, and a repeat raise, which is the market's verdict that the last cycle delivered. It is the narrowest dimension the public record can currently populate, and it grows as commit-and-prove cycle detection matures.", "key": "conversion", "name": "Conversion", "order": 3, "reports": [ "Revenue disclosed against what was declared", "A repeat raise after a prior cycle", "Delivered against declared, to the extent the record supports it", "Source filings and as-of date" ], "schemaFile": "conversion.schema.json", "summary": "What the venture delivered against what it declared." }, { "detail": "Streak is how long and how consistently a venture has reported. One annual report is a filing; four on an unbroken cadence is a streak. It reads the number of annual-report periods, the operating history behind them, and whether the cadence held. It is the dimension the designation ladder climbs: three or more consecutive cycles is what a Seasoned designation asks for.", "key": "streak", "name": "Streak", "order": 4, "reports": [ "Annual reports on file", "Consecutive reporting periods, unbroken", "Years of operating history", "Cadence against the reporting window" ], "schemaFile": "streak.schema.json", "summary": "How long and how consistently the venture has reported." }, { "detail": "Stats is what a venture reports directly beyond its filings. It is issuer self-reporting with no filing-record path, so there is nothing in the public record to score. It is stated in the Standard and left unscored in version 0.2 until that data exists, rather than approximated from something else.", "key": "stats", "name": "Stats", "note": "Issuer self-reported, with no filing-record path. Unscored in version 0.2.", "order": 5, "reports": [ "Self-reported operating metrics", "Provenance: source system and as-of date", "Method and baseline where stated", "Unscored in version 0.2" ], "schemaFile": "stats.schema.json", "summary": "What the venture reports directly, beyond its filings." } ], "extensionRule": "A Domain Thesis may add proofs and may narrow reporting within a base type. It may never alter, remove, or redefine a base type. A change to a base type ships only by versioned amendment to the Standard, never by per-thesis exception.", "files": { "/examples/0.2/quantinuity-bond.thesis.json": "sha256:0ef88df7eef27398fddee041b0bdd2e6c138868ee20f0e06eb84c1d9fe78c303", "/schema/0.2/conversion.schema.json": "sha256:88da2bdc4f0172b561922d4d12d29af38ecd42da4cb50757ba64e320e8c8fd40", "/schema/0.2/domain-thesis.schema.json": "sha256:53803e20707f112bcffaa1abdb0e07f50939d53fec3609e63e3b462b57d3e15b", "/schema/0.2/form.schema.json": "sha256:9fc77fd29dbd11df185993d9d30356097fe458bb5bad005a1969f66d9daf599a", "/schema/0.2/playbook.schema.json": "sha256:5e509dfec62236e4dc09c03d8d7bafec1fd7ab4650dfb80ce25c743757a021df", "/schema/0.2/proof-record.schema.json": "sha256:b74ec838dfc55e48097739675cc19775ee0f65abe6ac42384695915d5ee2c876", "/schema/0.2/stats.schema.json": "sha256:ed6a4e6e19a9a813878a725eb1fdc9887f3b39b04a0d10e03ff3e5940f847034", "/schema/0.2/streak.schema.json": "sha256:a07d5b9d481017c1ac95dce9857667a47586629b15820b84b342aed922c3877b" }, "mechanics": [ { "detail": "A mechanic of proof: what a venture measures, commits to, delivers, sustains, and reports. There are five in version 0.2.", "gloss": "A base type of the vocabulary.", "name": "Proof Dimension" }, { "detail": "The way a publisher extends a schema.org type. A Domain Thesis declares its Thesis Scope, direct or diversified, and may add proofs or narrow reporting. It may never alter a base type.", "gloss": "A fund manager's specialization of the base types for a domain.", "name": "Domain Thesis" }, { "detail": "One cycle, all dimensions. Consequential items ship as event driven notices between cycles.", "gloss": "The quarterly cadence on which every dimension reports.", "name": "Proof Cycle" }, { "detail": "Adopted by consent. Two parties agree on one hash, so both read the same shapes for the term of the agreement.", "gloss": "A Domain Thesis at a specific version, identified by content hash.", "name": "Pinned Thesis" } ], "proofDefinition": "Proof on this property means third-party attestation: a filing, a review, a cadence. It is a claim the record can carry and a reader can inspect, not a status the venture asserts about itself.", "standard": { "governance": "Governed as an open standard. Base types change only by versioned amendment, never by per-thesis exception.", "license": "CC BY-NC-ND 4.0", "licenseDeedUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en", "licenseSummary": "The Standard and data are openly readable, shareable, and citable with attribution. Commercial reuse and derivatives are not licensed.", "name": "Proofscaling", "safrSchemaVersion": "0.07", "status": "Draft standard, open for comment.", "tagline": "A standard for proving a venture on quarterly data.", "version": "0.2" }, "version": "0.2", "visibility": [ { "note": "Readable by anyone.", "tag": "Public" }, { "note": "Readable by holders of record.", "tag": "Investor" }, { "note": "Readable within a named layer of the structure.", "tag": "Layer" }, { "note": "Readable by the venture only.", "tag": "Internal" } ] }