Published before it is cleared
The Sub-Brand Gate.
No AI body anywhere publishes the conditions under which it will and will not launch something. It costs nothing, it is unarguably honest, and it makes every future launch credible because the bar was published before it was cleared.
All five must be true, in writing, signed
A named full-time owner who is not the founder
Accountability has to have a name and a full-time diary.
A Milk line
A named, priced, sold revenue source covering at least 60% of first-year cost.
A Mountain charter
Rung served, cost curve with a ratio, four failure modes, gates G0–G4, five kill criteria.
A coherence mechanism
One sentence with a verb. “Synergies” and “ecosystem” are not mechanisms.
An independence audit
Shared critical dependency means it is not a second venture; it is the first one wearing a second hat.
By this gate, today
| Brand | Gate |
|---|---|
| AITN | Passes |
| QuantumTN | Does not |
| SemiTN | Not yet |
| AutoTN | Not yet |
| AgriTN | Not yet |
| BlueTN | Not yet |
Not because they are bad ideas, but because none has an owner, a Milk line or a charter.