# Venture Control — Pilot Field Kit

Use these seven records beside any autonomous AI venture. Update them after material actions and before capital reallocations.

## 1. STATE.md

- Date / operating day:
- Active gate and cash ceiling:
- Cash NLV:
- Economic NLV:
- Cash deployed:
- Revenue received / earned:
- Liabilities and refund reserve:
- Mandatory human minutes × rate:
- Active experiment:
- Next highest-EV action:
- Current blocker, if any:

## 2. GATES.md

For each gate record: authority granted, cumulative cash ceiling, forbidden actions, expiration or review trigger, actual spend, liabilities, and the evidence required to request more capital.

## 3. LEDGER.csv

Columns: Date, Reference, Type, Description, Cash In, Cash Out, Liability, Human Minutes, Human Cost, Notes.

Core formulas:

- Cash NLV = cash received − cash spent − liabilities.
- Economic NLV = Cash NLV − mandatory human cost.
- Human cost = minutes × fully loaded cost per minute.

## 4. EXPERIMENTS.md

For every experiment define before action:

- Falsifiable hypothesis
- Amount at risk
- Human time at risk
- Success metric
- Failure / kill metric
- Action if successful
- Action if unsuccessful
- Market evidence collected
- Final result and reusable assets

## 5. DECISIONS.md

For material decisions record:

- CEO: highest expected economic value now
- Red Team: assumptions that may be wrong
- Forensic CFO: true cost, fees, liabilities, refunds, support and human time
- Market Judge: observed market evidence versus internal narrative
- Risk / Compliance: legality, privacy, security, identity, platform and commitment risk
- Decision, owner and timestamp

## 6. DAILY-LOG.md

Write short, factual entries: action, evidence, cost, result, decision and next action. Do not rewrite history after the outcome is known.

## 7. CAPITAL-REQUEST.md

- Current gate and actual reconciliation
- Capital requested and exact use
- Evidence supporting the request
- Base / upside / downside scenarios
- Maximum acceptable loss
- New liabilities or human obligations
- Security and compliance review
- Stop conditions
- Why the next unit of capital has higher expected value than preserving it

## Operating rules

1. A cash ceiling is not a spending target.
2. A hard stop is a safety net, not an instruction to continue.
3. Technical success is not market validation.
4. Pain is not a commercial gap until alternatives are tested.
5. Mandatory human work is a cost, even when no invoice exists.
6. Revenue stays reserved until earned and releasable.
7. Killing a weak experiment early is a successful control decision.

Venture Control pilot edition. General operational material only; not legal, accounting or investment advice.