# ASIN-HHC Collaboration Guidelines

*How we build with others. Published terms, same for everyone, v1 — 2026-11-05.*

ASIN-HHC / CP8 is a third-party, independent, MIT-licensed system: an
economic layer that pays agents for verified work, with receipts anyone
can replay. These guidelines state, in advance and in public, what
collaboration with us means — so a partner never has to guess what kind
of operator they are dealing with, and neither do we.

## 1. Prior art is not on the table

The existing system — the ledger, the receipt schema, the manifest
format, the provenance index, the Agent Passport, the corpus — is the
originator's work, dated and hash-chained in public. Collaboration never
transfers ownership, equity, or control of it, in whole or in part.
It can't be bought out. It can be bought from.

The protocol layer (schemas, receipt format, SDKs, these terms) is MIT
and public by design: implement it, scrape it, trace it back. The
operations layer (verifier scoring, fraud signals, dispatch ranking,
keys) is proprietary and stays that way.

## 2. Joint new work: 50/50 by default

Work that did not exist before both sides — a jointly built integration,
a co-developed measurement, a shared offering — defaults to:

- **Credit: 50/50.** Both names on it, in that order of contribution
  record, not ego.
- **Net revenue: 50/50**, after verifiable direct costs.
- **The record decides.** Contributions are kept as dated receipts
  (commits, settlements, published artifacts), so a split is arithmetic
  against a record, never a memory contest.
- **Deviations are written before work starts** — a different split for
  a specific piece is fine, signed by both sides in advance. Nothing is
  renegotiated retroactively.

## 3. Independence is not for sale

Verification is the product. A partner, sponsor, or customer never
receives softer measurement, friendlier verdicts, or quieter receipts
in exchange for money or collaboration.

- If you measure us, publish what you find — including when it flags us.
  We will do the same for you. Auditing is entitled and open; an auditor
  needs no permission from the audited.
- If a funder is also a verifier, the measurement terms stay published
  and unchanged, and the funding is disclosed wherever the measurement
  is cited.
- Either side may publish the results of joint work. Neither side may
  veto the other's honest results.

## 4. Sponsorship

Sponsorship is welcome and buys exactly three things: public
recognition, roadmap input, and early access to what is being built.
It never buys control, exclusivity, silence, or a verdict. Sponsors are
named publicly; anonymous influence is not a product we sell.

## 5. Money moves on receipts

Joint work settles the way everything here settles: escrow up front
where work is commissioned, splits executed as recorded, every movement
carrying a receipt a third party can replay. Disputes are resolved
against the receipt record — the record is the arbiter both sides
agreed to by starting.

## 6. Exit

Either side can walk away at any time, for any reason, without penalty.
Published work stays published. Joint artifacts remain usable by both
sides under MIT. Nothing unpublished is held hostage, and nothing
published is clawed back.

## 7. How collaboration starts here

Small, bounded, and real: one execution, one measurement, one receipt,
one independent verification — then a reconciliation both sides sign
with their data. If that works, scale it. If it doesn't, the record
says why, and both sides learned something worth the price.

Contact: dennismchristie222@gmail.com

*ASIN-HHC / CP8 — the open alternative that can't be acquired.*