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The vetting checklist — the gate to going active

Vetting is the trust we sell — the thing the cheap-tech competitors can never copy. An operator goes onto people’s home networks and into their homes, so this gate is strict on purpose and is not optional (LAUNCH-NOTES #12).

Heads up: this is a first draft, not a finished legal standard. What “guild-certified” means has to be nailed down with a lawyer before scaling (still open — MARKETING). Treat the items below as the bar we’re aiming for, and confirm the legal specifics — what checks are allowed where you operate, what bonding/insurance is required — before you rely on them.

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The gate (status: vetting → active)

• Who they are — government ID matches the application.
• Background check — passed (which check / which provider is CHANGE_ME; confirm with counsel).
• Bonded / insured — active (they’re entering homes; coverage limits CHANGE_ME).
• References — at least two, actually checked. (A converted customer comes with the best reference there is: their own operator and a year of their own statements.)
• Can do the work — they can follow localDNS’s install guide on a real home and pass its built-in check on their own, no hand-holding.
• Agreement signed (stage 10) — the relationship, the scope, how they handle data.
• W-9 on file (stage 10) — before any payment goes out.
• Data-handling briefing — the honesty rule (never invent a number on a statement), the privacy rule (statements show categories, never the actual sites someone visited), and how to handle customers’ personal info.

What gets saved (08 → operator.vetting)

The background check passed, the bond is active, references checked, the agreement signed-on date. Only when every box is ticked does the operator go active — and only then can they be matched to a route and paid.

Why this is the product, not red tape

The whole moat in one sentence: anyone can buy most of the tech for about $30 a year — what nobody can buy off a shelf is a vetted, bonded, local person they trust in their home. Every hour spent vetting buys the kind of defensibility a competitor with cheaper software simply can’t match.

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