{
  "version": "2.3.0",
  "updated": "2026-08-19",
  "note": "Carnac substrate map v2. Keyword table that maps a plain-English prompt to a canonical Hive vertical, service pack, primitive set, and base meter tier. Versioned on purpose: every classification receipt records the rules version that produced it. v2 adds the volume-tiered meter, premium primitive uplifts, and the clarifier set Carnac asks before it sizes a pack. v2.3 adds the delivery-conformance vertical for buyers of metered machine services, a proposed Conformance uplift, and the delivery-contract clarifier. HELD: not to be served publicly before the provisional is filed.",
  "meter": {
    "base_rates": {
      "volume": 0.005,
      "mid": 0.05,
      "premium": 0.5
    },
    "primitive_uplifts": {
      "S2S": {
        "list_rate": 0.02,
        "bands": [
          {
            "max_monthly": 10000,
            "label": "up to 10K/mo",
            "rate": 0.02
          },
          {
            "max_monthly": 100000,
            "label": "10K to 100K/mo",
            "rate": 0.016
          },
          {
            "max_monthly": 1000000,
            "label": "100K to 1M/mo",
            "rate": 0.01
          },
          {
            "max_monthly": 10000000,
            "label": "1M to 10M/mo",
            "rate": 0.006
          },
          {
            "max_monthly": null,
            "label": "10M+/mo",
            "rate": 0.004
          }
        ],
        "description": "S2S primitive uplift, per-receipt, decays by volume band"
      },
      "HiveSeal": {
        "list_rate": 0.01,
        "bands": [
          {
            "max_monthly": 10000,
            "label": "up to 10K/mo",
            "rate": 0.01
          },
          {
            "max_monthly": 100000,
            "label": "10K to 100K/mo",
            "rate": 0.008
          },
          {
            "max_monthly": 1000000,
            "label": "100K to 1M/mo",
            "rate": 0.005
          },
          {
            "max_monthly": 10000000,
            "label": "1M to 10M/mo",
            "rate": 0.003
          },
          {
            "max_monthly": null,
            "label": "10M+/mo",
            "rate": 0.002
          }
        ],
        "description": "HiveSeal primitive uplift, per-receipt, decays by volume band"
      },
      "QPUF": {
        "list_rate": 0.05,
        "bands": [
          {
            "max_monthly": 10000,
            "label": "up to 10K/mo",
            "rate": 0.05
          },
          {
            "max_monthly": 100000,
            "label": "10K to 100K/mo",
            "rate": 0.04
          },
          {
            "max_monthly": 1000000,
            "label": "100K to 1M/mo",
            "rate": 0.025
          },
          {
            "max_monthly": 10000000,
            "label": "1M to 10M/mo",
            "rate": 0.015
          },
          {
            "max_monthly": null,
            "label": "10M+/mo",
            "rate": 0.01
          }
        ],
        "description": "QPUF primitive uplift, per-receipt, decays by volume band"
      },
      "Sovereign registry": {
        "list_rate": 0.03,
        "bands": [
          {
            "max_monthly": 10000,
            "label": "up to 10K/mo",
            "rate": 0.03
          },
          {
            "max_monthly": 100000,
            "label": "10K to 100K/mo",
            "rate": 0.024
          },
          {
            "max_monthly": 1000000,
            "label": "100K to 1M/mo",
            "rate": 0.015
          },
          {
            "max_monthly": 10000000,
            "label": "1M to 10M/mo",
            "rate": 0.009
          },
          {
            "max_monthly": null,
            "label": "10M+/mo",
            "rate": 0.006
          }
        ],
        "description": "Sovereign registry primitive uplift, per-receipt, decays by volume band"
      },
      "MiR": {
        "list_rate": 0.01,
        "bands": [
          {
            "max_monthly": 10000,
            "label": "up to 10K/mo",
            "rate": 0.01
          },
          {
            "max_monthly": 100000,
            "label": "10K to 100K/mo",
            "rate": 0.008
          },
          {
            "max_monthly": 1000000,
            "label": "100K to 1M/mo",
            "rate": 0.005
          },
          {
            "max_monthly": 10000000,
            "label": "1M to 10M/mo",
            "rate": 0.003
          },
          {
            "max_monthly": null,
            "label": "10M+/mo",
            "rate": 0.002
          }
        ],
        "description": "MiR primitive uplift, per-receipt, decays by volume band"
      },
      "Carnac": {
        "list_rate": 0.01,
        "bands": [
          {
            "max_monthly": 10000,
            "label": "up to 10K/mo",
            "rate": 0.01
          },
          {
            "max_monthly": 100000,
            "label": "10K to 100K/mo",
            "rate": 0.008
          },
          {
            "max_monthly": 1000000,
            "label": "100K to 1M/mo",
            "rate": 0.005
          },
          {
            "max_monthly": 10000000,
            "label": "1M to 10M/mo",
            "rate": 0.003
          },
          {
            "max_monthly": null,
            "label": "10M+/mo",
            "rate": 0.002
          }
        ],
        "description": "Carnac primitive uplift, per-receipt, decays by volume band"
      },
      "Conformance": {
        "list_rate": 0.08,
        "bands": [
          {
            "max_monthly": 10000,
            "label": "up to 10K/mo",
            "rate": 0.08
          },
          {
            "max_monthly": 100000,
            "label": "10K to 100K/mo",
            "rate": 0.06
          },
          {
            "max_monthly": 1000000,
            "label": "100K to 1M/mo",
            "rate": 0.04
          },
          {
            "max_monthly": 10000000,
            "label": "1M to 10M/mo",
            "rate": 0.025
          },
          {
            "max_monthly": null,
            "label": "10M+/mo",
            "rate": 0.018
          }
        ],
        "description": "PROPOSED. Delivery conformance uplift, per-receipt, decays by volume band. Not approved, not live."
      }
    },
    "uplift_reasons": {
      "S2S": "Hardware GPU attestation cycle, NVIDIA Confidential Computing.",
      "HiveSeal": "HSM signing operation on a physical device.",
      "QPUF": "Physics-bound signing on custom silicon, low throughput ceiling.",
      "Sovereign registry": "Anchor into a country-owned ledger, cross-jurisdiction settlement.",
      "MiR": "Continuous model-identity ledger overhead.",
      "Carnac": "Real-time proof-demand routing.",
      "Conformance": "Interleaved probe battery and per-call reconciliation against a committed delivery contract."
    },
    "platform_tiers": [
      {
        "tier": "Starter",
        "fee_month": 99,
        "receipts_included": 20000,
        "self_serve": true,
        "wizard_tier": false
      },
      {
        "tier": "Team",
        "fee_month": 299,
        "receipts_included": 60000,
        "self_serve": true,
        "wizard_tier": false
      },
      {
        "tier": "Growth",
        "fee_month": 2000,
        "receipts_included": 400000,
        "self_serve": true,
        "wizard_tier": true
      },
      {
        "tier": "Scale",
        "fee_month": 10000,
        "receipts_included": 2000000,
        "self_serve": true,
        "wizard_tier": true
      },
      {
        "tier": "Enterprise",
        "fee_month": 50000,
        "receipts_included": 10000000,
        "self_serve": true,
        "wizard_tier": true
      },
      {
        "tier": "Sovereign",
        "fee_month": 250000,
        "receipts_included": null,
        "self_serve": true,
        "wizard_tier": true,
        "public_fee_label": "Custom \u00b7 talk to us",
        "public_total_label": "Custom, priced per deployment",
        "fee_month_public": false,
        "note": "Sovereign is priced per deployment. The internal figure drives volume routing only. Published surfaces show Custom."
      }
    ],
    "volume_routing": [
      {
        "max_monthly": 400000,
        "tier": "Growth"
      },
      {
        "max_monthly": 2000000,
        "tier": "Scale"
      },
      {
        "max_monthly": 10000000,
        "tier": "Enterprise"
      },
      {
        "max_monthly": null,
        "tier": "Sovereign"
      }
    ],
    "base_rate_bands": [
      {
        "max_monthly": 10000,
        "label": "up to 10K/mo",
        "rates": {
          "volume": 0.005,
          "mid": 0.05,
          "premium": 0.5
        }
      },
      {
        "max_monthly": 100000,
        "label": "10K to 100K/mo",
        "rates": {
          "volume": 0.004,
          "mid": 0.03,
          "premium": 0.2
        }
      },
      {
        "max_monthly": 1000000,
        "label": "100K to 1M/mo",
        "rates": {
          "volume": 0.003,
          "mid": 0.02,
          "premium": 0.1
        }
      },
      {
        "max_monthly": 10000000,
        "label": "1M to 10M/mo",
        "rates": {
          "volume": 0.002,
          "mid": 0.01,
          "premium": 0.05
        }
      },
      {
        "max_monthly": null,
        "label": "10M+/mo",
        "rates": {
          "volume": 0.001,
          "mid": 0.008,
          "premium": 0.02
        }
      }
    ],
    "base_rates_note": "These are the list rates at the smallest volume band. See base_rate_bands for the volume-decayed schedule that the classifier actually applies.",
    "notes": {
      "uplift_decay": "Primitive uplifts decay by the same 5 volume bands as base_rate_bands. list_rate applies at up to 10K/mo, decays to 0.2x list at 10M+/mo. Same principle as base rate: high-value primitives stay valuable, high-volume deployments get economies of scale."
    }
  },
  "clarifiers": [
    {
      "id": "jurisdictions",
      "question": "Which regulators do you answer to?",
      "why": "Jurisdiction sets the boundary the receipt has to prove.",
      "options": [
        "US only",
        "EU + US",
        "Global",
        "Multi-state"
      ],
      "extra_options": [
        "Other"
      ],
      "free_text": true,
      "free_text_label": "Name the regulators"
    },
    {
      "id": "volume",
      "question": "How many decisions per day?",
      "why": "Volume sets the platform tier and the meter estimate.",
      "options": [
        "Under 10K",
        "10K to 1M",
        "1M to 100M",
        "Over 100M"
      ],
      "extra_options": [
        "Not sure"
      ],
      "free_text": true,
      "free_text_label": "Type your own number, for example 500K daily"
    },
    {
      "id": "custody",
      "question": "Where do the keys live?",
      "why": "Custody decides whether HiveSeal or QPUF enters the pack.",
      "options": [
        "Hive-hosted",
        "Your KMS plus Hive signer",
        "Air-gapped HSM",
        "We need to talk about this"
      ],
      "extra_options": [],
      "free_text": true,
      "free_text_label": "Describe your custody model"
    },
    {
      "id": "model-provider",
      "question": "Which models do you attest?",
      "why": "Model identity drives MiR and S2S coverage.",
      "options": [
        "OpenAI",
        "Anthropic",
        "Self-hosted",
        "Multiple"
      ],
      "extra_options": [
        "xAI",
        "DeepSeek"
      ],
      "free_text": true,
      "free_text_label": "Name the models"
    },
    {
      "id": "tenant-hierarchy",
      "question": "One tenant or many?",
      "why": "Sub-tenants and federations change how the chain is scoped.",
      "options": [
        "Single tenant",
        "Sub-tenants, per customer",
        "Federation, per region",
        "Not sure"
      ],
      "extra_options": [],
      "free_text": true,
      "free_text_label": "Describe the hierarchy"
    },
    {
      "id": "receipt-stakes",
      "question": "What do these receipts attest?",
      "why": "Stakes decide the base rate. Every inference is routine at scale; every ballot or diagnosis is not. Carnac uses this answer to pick the right rate for what you are actually signing.",
      "options": [
        {
          "label": "Every inference",
          "stakes_tier": "volume",
          "hint": "Model calls, agent decisions, route choices, ad selections. Routine per receipt, high volume total."
        },
        {
          "label": "Every deployment or fine-tune",
          "stakes_tier": "premium",
          "hint": "Model release attestation. Rare per model, high consequence if wrong."
        },
        {
          "label": "Every payment or authorization",
          "stakes_tier": "mid",
          "hint": "Money legs, agent authorizations, machine work cycles. Moderate stakes per receipt."
        },
        {
          "label": "Every ballot, diagnosis, or ruling",
          "stakes_tier": "premium",
          "hint": "Legally or medically consequential per receipt. Never routine."
        }
      ],
      "extra_options": [],
      "free_text": true,
      "free_text_label": "Something else, describe it"
    },
    {
      "id": "delivery_contract",
      "question": "What did the provider promise you in writing?",
      "why": "Whatever was committed up front is what the receipt gets measured against. If nothing was committed, that is where we start.",
      "options": [
        "A named model and precision",
        "Tokens and a rate only",
        "A latency or uptime target",
        "Nothing in writing"
      ],
      "extra_options": [
        "Not sure"
      ],
      "free_text": true,
      "free_text_label": "Paste the line from your contract or order form"
    }
  ],
  "rules": [
    {
      "id": "prediction-markets",
      "vertical": "prediction-markets",
      "pack": "Provable Markets",
      "base_tier": "volume",
      "one_liner": "Signed proof that every eligibility decision ran, under which rule version, in which jurisdiction.",
      "primitives": [
        "Imprimatur",
        "SiGR",
        "HiveBound",
        "R3Pv"
      ],
      "premium_primitive_uplifts": [],
      "keywords": [
        "prediction market",
        "prediction markets",
        "event contract",
        "event contracts",
        "eligibility check",
        "eligibility decision",
        "geofence",
        "gaming rule",
        "gaming rules",
        "sports betting",
        "sportsbook",
        "dfs",
        "daily fantasy",
        "wager",
        "multi-state"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "agentic-finance",
      "vertical": "agentic-finance",
      "pack": "Protected Flow",
      "base_tier": "mid",
      "one_liner": "Signed proof for every settlement hop between agents, including the money leg.",
      "primitives": [
        "Imprimatur",
        "SiGR",
        "MiR",
        "R3Pv"
      ],
      "premium_primitive_uplifts": [
        "MiR"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "payments settlement",
        "settlement",
        "agent-to-agent",
        "agent to agent",
        "x402",
        "usdc",
        "stablecoin",
        "cross-border",
        "treasury",
        "payout",
        "wire",
        "ach",
        "ledger reconciliation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "sovereign-health",
      "vertical": "sovereign-health",
      "pack": "Sovereign Health Inference",
      "base_tier": "premium",
      "one_liner": "Signed proof that a model touched patient data inside the boundary you promised.",
      "primitives": [
        "Imprimatur",
        "SiGR",
        "HiveSeal",
        "Carnac"
      ],
      "premium_primitive_uplifts": [
        "HiveSeal",
        "Carnac"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "healthcare",
        "health care",
        "hipaa",
        "ehr",
        "patient data",
        "patient record",
        "clinical",
        "phi",
        "payer",
        "provider network",
        "prior authorization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "provable-machines",
      "vertical": "provable-machines",
      "pack": "Machine Work",
      "base_tier": "mid",
      "one_liner": "Signed proof of what the machine sensed, decided, and did, second by second.",
      "primitives": [
        "Imprimatur",
        "S2S",
        "HiveSeal",
        "R3Pv"
      ],
      "premium_primitive_uplifts": [
        "S2S",
        "HiveSeal"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "robot",
        "robotics",
        "autonomous vehicle",
        "driverless",
        "industrial",
        "fleet",
        "drone",
        "forklift",
        "plc",
        "scada",
        "telematics",
        "data center attestation",
        "rack-level"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "legal-ai",
      "vertical": "legal-ai",
      "pack": "Legal Proof",
      "base_tier": "mid",
      "one_liner": "Signed proof for every drafted clause, filing, and compliance check.",
      "primitives": [
        "Imprimatur",
        "SiGR",
        "R3Pv",
        "MiR",
        "Carnac"
      ],
      "premium_primitive_uplifts": [
        "MiR",
        "Carnac"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "legal",
        "contract",
        "contracts",
        "filing",
        "filings",
        "regulator",
        "regulatory",
        "discovery",
        "counsel",
        "clause",
        "audit trail for legal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "model-provider",
      "vertical": "model-provider",
      "pack": "Model Provider Attestation",
      "base_tier": "premium",
      "one_liner": "Signed proof of which model shipped, which weights it carried, and which boundary it ran inside.",
      "primitives": [
        "Imprimatur",
        "SiGR",
        "MiR",
        "S2S",
        "Carnac"
      ],
      "premium_primitive_uplifts": [
        "MiR",
        "S2S",
        "Carnac"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "openai",
        "anthropic",
        "xai",
        "grok",
        "deepseek",
        "mistral",
        "cohere",
        "model provider",
        "foundation model",
        "frontier model",
        "model deployment",
        "model release",
        "fine-tune",
        "fine tune",
        "fine-tuned",
        "fine tuning",
        "fine-tuning",
        "rag",
        "retrieval augmented",
        "inference attestation",
        "attestation per deployment",
        "model card",
        "model weights",
        "checkpoint",
        "red team",
        "red-team",
        "safety case",
        "safety cases",
        "eval harness",
        "system card",
        "attest every model",
        "attest model"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "delivery-conformance",
      "vertical": "delivery-conformance",
      "pack": "Delivery Conformance",
      "base_tier": "premium",
      "one_liner": "Signed proof that the metered service you paid for is the one that actually got delivered.",
      "primitives": [
        "Imprimatur",
        "SiGR",
        "MiR",
        "Carnac"
      ],
      "premium_primitive_uplifts": [
        "MiR",
        "Carnac",
        "Conformance"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "am i getting what i paid for",
        "getting what we paid for",
        "inference provider",
        "inference bill",
        "inference spend",
        "quantization",
        "quantized",
        "quantised",
        "precision downgrade",
        "model substitution",
        "silent downgrade",
        "served a different model",
        "tokens per second",
        "time to first token",
        "throughput claim",
        "token billing",
        "token count",
        "usage discrepancy",
        "overbilling",
        "billing discrepancy",
        "metered api",
        "metered service",
        "context truncation",
        "prompt truncation",
        "dropped context",
        "seed determinism",
        "reproducible output",
        "not reproducible",
        "provider sla",
        "api sla",
        "sla verification",
        "router fallback",
        "silent fallback",
        "serverless inference",
        "compute credits",
        "gpu hours",
        "reserved capacity",
        "spot check my provider",
        "audit my provider",
        "vendor claims"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "sovereign-inference",
      "vertical": "sovereign-inference",
      "pack": "Sovereign Inference",
      "base_tier": "premium",
      "one_liner": "Signed proof that a model run stayed inside the country, the cloud, and the clearance you promised.",
      "primitives": [
        "Imprimatur",
        "SiGR",
        "HiveSeal",
        "Sovereign registry",
        "MiR"
      ],
      "premium_primitive_uplifts": [
        "HiveSeal",
        "Sovereign registry",
        "MiR"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "national ai",
        "national cloud",
        "sovereign ai",
        "sovereign cloud",
        "sovereign inference",
        "country-scoped",
        "country scoped",
        "in-country",
        "data residency",
        "data sovereignty",
        "eu ai act",
        "ai act",
        "air gap",
        "air-gapped",
        "air gapped",
        "classified network",
        "government cloud",
        "govcloud",
        "government workload",
        "government workloads",
        "public sector",
        "ministry",
        "state-owned"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "defense",
      "vertical": "defense",
      "pack": "Defense Boundary Receipt",
      "base_tier": "premium",
      "one_liner": "Signed proof that a decision stayed inside the classification boundary and the export-control rules that bind it.",
      "primitives": [
        "Imprimatur",
        "SiGR",
        "HiveSeal",
        "QPUF"
      ],
      "premium_primitive_uplifts": [
        "HiveSeal",
        "QPUF"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "defense",
        "defence",
        "military",
        "dod",
        "department of defense",
        "darpa",
        "space force",
        "classified",
        "itar",
        "ear ",
        "export control",
        "missile",
        "weapons",
        "weapon system",
        "targeting",
        "warfighter",
        "cui",
        "fedramp high"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "verifiable-voting",
      "vertical": "verifiable-voting",
      "pack": "Verifiable Ballot Receipt",
      "base_tier": "premium",
      "one_liner": "Signed proof that each ballot was counted once, in the right precinct, under the published rules.",
      "primitives": [
        "Imprimatur",
        "R3Pv",
        "Sovereign registry"
      ],
      "premium_primitive_uplifts": [
        "Sovereign registry"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "election",
        "elections",
        "ballot",
        "ballots",
        "voter",
        "voter roll",
        "voting",
        "vote",
        "precinct",
        "ranked choice",
        "vote tabulation",
        "tabulation",
        "poll book",
        "pollbook",
        "audit trail"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ai-observability",
      "vertical": "ai-observability",
      "pack": "AI Observability Receipt",
      "base_tier": "volume",
      "one_liner": "Signed proof for every model call your observability stack already watches.",
      "primitives": [
        "Imprimatur",
        "SiGR",
        "MiR"
      ],
      "premium_primitive_uplifts": [
        "MiR"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "observability",
        "telemetry",
        "logs",
        "logging",
        "tracing",
        "trace",
        "llm ops",
        "llmops",
        "guardrail",
        "guardrails",
        "hallucination detection",
        "hallucination",
        "moderation",
        "content moderation",
        "eval pipeline",
        "monitoring"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ai-provenance",
      "vertical": "ai-provenance",
      "pack": "AFiR Provenance",
      "base_tier": "volume",
      "one_liner": "Signed proof of which model, which prompt, which output, at which second.",
      "primitives": [
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