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 "edition": "E1",
 "cut": "2026-10-09",
 "name": "THE USE CASE CARD",
 "handle": "use-case-card",
 "number": "UNSEATED",
 "house": "THE INSTRUMENTS",
 "wing": "THE APPLIED-AI WING",
 "role": "which AI use cases to pilot first",
 "tagline": "The team's own numbers, sorted; the go bar set before the pilot.",
 "sigil": "◆",
 "hue": "#4A3BC4",
 "punch": "094118C943962D1F434EC0E5",
 "punch_of": "SKILL.md · sha-256 · first 24",
 "score": 98,
 "tier": "LEGENDARY",
 "layer": "WITNESSED",
 "score_line": "SELFTEST 12/12 · THREE COMMANDS ON THE RECORD",
 "honest_line": "I'm an AI reading a card. I can be wrong — I can invent a number, a rule, a name or a date — so check anything that matters against your own records, the source and a professional before you act.",
 "term": "one purchase · yours to keep · nothing renews itself",
 "wakes": "someone asks where to start with AI, which use cases to pick, or how to run a pilot",
 "loop": [
  "discover.py new · the sheet, with the team",
  "score · value, feasibility, risk",
  "the fix for every PREPARE and GUARD",
  "pilot · 30 days, the go bar set first",
  "Write the ledger: ranked · chosen · why"
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 "laws": [
  "**The team's numbers, not ours.** Hours, readiness and risk come from the people who do the work; the machine sorts their judgement and shows every number.",
  "**Value is time the work takes now**, not a forecast of savings. Savings are measured in the pilot, against a baseline.",
  "**Risky work gets a person first.** Serious mistakes with nobody reviewing is GUARD, whatever the value.",
  "**Name the fix.** A PREPARE row says exactly what stands in the way: the data, or an agreed measure of success.",
  "**The go bar is set before the pilot**, never after the results are in.",
  "**Some work should not be automated at all.** Say so plainly; see references/WHEN-NOT-TO.md."
 ],
 "never": [
  "forecast savings the team did not measure",
  "pilot risky work with nobody reviewing",
  "set the go bar after the results are in"
 ],
 "machine": "scripts/discover.py · new · score · pilot · selftest",
 "proof": "selftest 12/12 · THREE commands on the record",
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  "card-machine.svg"
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  "CARD.md",
  "TIN.md",
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  "WITNESS.md",
  "SELFTEST.md",
  "AUDIT.md",
  "MANIFEST.md",
  "HOSTS.md",
  "scripts/discover.py",
  "references/THE-INTERVIEW.md",
  "references/WHEN-NOT-TO.md",
  "rules/ (4 doors)",
  "system/ (2 prompts)",
  "mcp/mcp_card.py",
  "card.json",
  "card.svg",
  "card-machine.svg",
  "card.html"
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 "hundred": "Trigger 5 · Machinery 5 · Law 5 · Portability 5 · Proof 5 — 25 of 25 → 98 of 100 · LEGENDARY"
}