{
  "version": "2.2.0",
  "updated": "2026-07-27",
  "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.",
  "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"
      }
    },
    "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."
    },
    "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"
    }
  ],
  "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": "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": [
        "AFiR",
        "SiGR",
        "MiR",
        "Imprimatur"
      ],
      "premium_primitive_uplifts": [
        "MiR"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "ai audit",
        "model output",
        "provenance",
        "llm trace",
        "llm",
        "inference",
        "prompt log",
        "ai governance",
        "compliance"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "media-origin",
      "vertical": "media-origin",
      "pack": "Media Origin",
      "base_tier": "mid",
      "one_liner": "Signed proof of where the pixel came from and what happened to it after.",
      "primitives": [
        "MOR",
        "Morso",
        "OriginProof",
        "SiGR"
      ],
      "premium_primitive_uplifts": [],
      "keywords": [
        "media",
        "image",
        "video",
        "deepfake",
        "origin",
        "camera",
        "photo",
        "newsroom",
        "c2pa",
        "watermark"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "fallback": {
    "id": "generic",
    "vertical": "generic",
    "pack": "Hive Baseline",
    "base_tier": "volume",
    "one_liner": "The core proof rail. Every decision your system makes gets a signed, offline-checkable receipt.",
    "primitives": [
      "Imprimatur",
      "SiGR",
      "R3Pv"
    ],
    "premium_primitive_uplifts": []
  },
  "updated_at": "2026-07-27T08:15:00Z"
}