Is there any vertical where the neutral verification position is structurally defensible?
Hypotheses
H12 — revision 1, active
In at least one vertical a liability bearer who structurally cannot self-assess pays a neutral verifier, and the substrate owner has not absorbed that role by the check date.
resolution criterion: At least one neutral verifier with three or more paying customers, none owned by the substrate it verifies, in any vertical the corpus tracks (robotics, world models, creative AI, crypto, agent coordination).
The only budget-backed buyer for neutral provenance/attribution in creative AI is the risk-transfer chain (insurer / E&O), not the creative-tool chain.
The one vertical with a structurally forced paying buyer for neutral adjudication is financialized stakes, because staked money makes self-assessment corrupt by construction.