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Checking buyer capability gates…

Trust is a verified state

What each reviewer needs—and what is still missing.

This preview deliberately separates source-code foundations from operational, legal, security, and commercial readiness. A feature flag or database record is not an assurance report, signed agreement, verified buyer, successful delivery, or payout capability.

Procurement

Not procurement-ready
  • Named contracting entity and vendor records
  • Quote, currency, term, renewal, cancellation, and invoice
  • Support owner, service expectations, and commercial escalation

Legal & privacy

Requires qualified counsel
  • Permitted purpose, prohibitions, duties, geography, and duration
  • Contributor and subject rights basis, retention, withdrawal, and deletion
  • DPA, recipients, subprocessors, audit evidence, and incident terms

Security

Assurance not complete
  • Authentication, least privilege, isolation, logging, and encryption
  • Incident handling, vulnerability management, backup, and recovery
  • Destination approval, deletion verification, and independent assurance

Data engineering

Reference specification only
  • Schema, dictionary, representative sample, and loader
  • Stable revision, manifest, checksums, distributions, and change policy
  • Delivery receipt, support path, format and compatibility contract

Controls already reflected in the design

  • Private-by-default contributor catalog and explicit item selection.
  • Context quality separated from rights and Marketplace Readiness.
  • Unknown rights and prohibited sensitive classes fail closed.
  • Public discovery excludes identities, filenames, paths, originals, and private context.
  • Business agents may compare and prepare a request, but cannot assent, purchase, access raw data, or cause payout.
  • Immutable revision and manifest are required before entitlement or delivery.

Required before live commerce

  • Qualified legal review and effective marketplace agreements.
  • Buyer verification, intended-use review, sanctions and high-risk-use policy.
  • Operational security program, tested incident response, and appropriate assurance.
  • Production delivery, access logging, revocation, and deletion verification.
  • Payment, payout, tax, accounting, dispute, and support operations.
  • Tested contributor allocation and legally appropriate retention/deletion model.

Current public policies

The existing consumer policies govern the current catalog service. They are not a buyer data license, DPA, security assurance, or marketplace offer.