5 patent provisional dossiers filed: defensive moats for the protocol layer

Patent provisionals are the quiet half of building a defensible marketplace. We do not file them to extract licensing fees; we file them to make sure no future incumbent can shut us down by claiming the design of one of the five strategic moats. Wave 294A delivered the dossier package — five Markdown documents totalling 16,259 words plus a 1,013-word filing-priority README, ready for outside counsel (Wilson Sonsini or Cooley) to draft formal claims from.

Dossier 01 (3,447 words) covers the deterministic two-lane marketplace routing using permit, value, multi-trade, and regulatory-density signals. The Lane-Classifier (Wave 292C) is the reference implementation. The patent claim narrows the broader "marketplace lead routing" prior art into a deterministic, auditable, multi-signal classifier whose lane assignment is reproducible byte-for-byte.

Dossier 02 (3,226 words) covers the multi-agent quorum requirement for irreversible actions across distinct LLM backends. The reference is Wave 292H. The claim covers the system-level design of routing irreversible financial or contractual actions through 2-of-3 consensus across at least two distinct vendor backends, with vendor-independence enforced at the credentialing layer.

Dossier 03 (3,098 words) covers the Trust Ledger Merkle append-only event log with hourly batched root publication. Reference: Wave 292D. The claim narrows broader "audit log" prior art into the per-subject hash chain plus hourly Merkle root plus public verifier endpoint — the specific composition that makes third-party retroactive audit feasible without exposing private payloads.

Dossier 04 (3,008 words) covers the predictive churn engine with the 6-signal weighted scoring. Reference: Wave 292K. The claim covers the specific weights derived from cohort-exit data plus the routing of churn signals to retention agents (rather than penalty actions).

Dossier 05 (3,467 words) covers the photo-driven scope predictor with regulatory AR overlay. Reference: Wave 293A. The claim covers the multimodal classifier (vision + regulatory data fusion) plus the AR overlay rendering of regulatory constraints onto a homeowner-supplied image.

The filing priority is dossier 01 first, then 03, then 02, then 04, then 05. The order matches the relative public visibility of each design — the Lane-Classifier is on every routing path on the apex and is the most likely to be reverse-engineered by an incumbent, so it gets the earliest provisional date. Dossier 05 (the multimodal predictor) is filed last because the live multimodal fusion path is still partly stubbed and we want the claim language calibrated against the production implementation, not the scaffold.

The provisional priority date locks the priority for 12 months. The non-provisional deadline is 2027-04-24. Counsel will refine claim language during that window; we will commission figures (the dossiers describe figures in prose, but USPTO requires drawings). Total filing cost across the five: roughly $1.6K USPTO fees per provisional plus counsel time. We filed under the AskBaily Inc. Delaware C-corp entity (Wave 11.0).