Are verification and conditioning layers the first real world-model products with a paying customer independent of the substrate owner?
Hypotheses
H10 — revision 1, active
By the check date a vendor-neutral world-model or policy-evaluation product has at least one paying customer who is not the substrate owner and not an affiliate of the vendor.
resolution criterion: A named paying customer for a neutral eval product on the public record. Free open-source eval (RoboLab, Isaac Lab-Arena) and academic benchmarks do not count. Mindshare, funding, and design partners do not count.
The eval-validity floor (does the benchmark predict real-world success?) is the binding technical constraint, and it is unsolved even inside the substrate owner's stack.