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+# FREE PROOF SURFACE — REVIEW ZERO (report; surface NOT built)
+2026-07-31. Nothing built. `git diff` = docs only.
+
+The order's premise is that this is assembly over existing honest aggregates ("Code's *cheap*
+claim — verify it"). **Verified: it is NOT cheap, and three of the four things the surface is
+supposed to lead with have no data source today.** Building the page anyway would mean
+inventing numbers — the one thing the order forbids most explicitly.
+
+## 0.1 — FILTERABILITY: **THE ENDPOINTS ARE NOT FILTERABLE. VERIFIED BY PROBE.**
+`/api/ledger/accuracy` accepts nothing. Live:
+
+    ?sport=mlb   -> overall.total 937
+    ?sport=wnba  -> overall.total 937
+    ?window=7    -> overall.total 937
+
+Identical payload every time — the params are ignored (the `req.query.sport/tier` reads at
+`routes/ledger.js:61-63` belong to a DIFFERENT route, not `/accuracy` at `:68`).
+
+**What CAN be sliced today:** `/api/accuracy` returns a real **`sports` map** (`mlb`, `wnba`)
+each with its own `sample`/`byGrade`/`min_sample`, and `/api/ledger/model` returns `by_tier`.
+So **sport and tier are servable client-side from existing payloads.**
+**TIME WINDOW IS NOT.** `window_days` is fixed at **30** inside `getModelAggregate`; there is no
+param and no historical series. **"Accuracy over time" has no data source** — it needs a backend
+param (or a stored daily series), which is a build, not assembly.
+
+## 0.3 — 🔴 CLV CANNOT LEAD WITH A NUMBER. THE CANONICAL AGGREGATE RETURNS NULL.
+CLV *is* exposed — `/api/ledger/model` → `aggregate` — and here is the live payload:
+
+    settled 937 · hits 547 · misses 390 · hit_pct 58 · pending 91
+    clv_sample 937 · clv_beat 34 · clv_faded … · clv_flat …
+    beat_close_pct  = null      ← the number the surface was to lead with
+    clv_distribution = null
+    window_days 30 · min_sample 20
+
+`beat_close_pct` and `clv_distribution` are **null by design**: `ledgerService` publishes them
+only when `clvCaptureReliable() && settled >= 20 && clv_sample > 0`. The reliability guard is
+false — the capture is still the starved instrument the 07-28 repair improved but did not
+finish (closing_prob 59→406 of ~1,250 rows).
+
+**So the honest CLV headline today is an ABSENCE, not a percentage.** And the temptation to
+avoid is precise: `clv_beat / clv_sample` = **34/937 = 3.6%** is computable and would be
+**wrong** — it is null *because the instrument is not trustworthy*, not because nobody did the
+division. **Publishing 3.6% as "beat close" would be exactly the marketing fabrication this
+order forbids.** CLV leads with *"tracking since … · building · not yet publishable"* and names
+why — which is defensible, but it is a different surface from the one specced.
+
+## 0.2 — HONEST-RECORD LAWS: **ALREADY HONORED. PRESERVE, DON'T REBUILD.**
+`/api/ledger/accuracy` buckets: **A `{hits:1,total:2,pct:null}` · B `{309/512, pct:60}` ·
+C `{235/413, pct:57}` · D `{1/5, pct:null}` · F `{1/5, pct:null}`.** Thin tiers already return
+**`pct: null`, not a rounded number** — the hollow law is enforced at the source. **C at 57% is
+genuinely below B at 60%**, which is the honest, unflattering truth and must be shown as-is.
+
+## 0.4 — CALIBRATION CURVE: **NO DATA SOURCE.**
+The pack's S4 curve needs *claimed vs actual per probability bucket*. `clv_distribution` is null,
+and there is **no claimed-vs-actual endpoint at all**. The 07-26 calibration diagnosis was a
+one-off read-only measurement, never wired to a served surface. **The curve cannot be assembled
+from anything live** — it is a build.
+
+## WHAT IS ACTUALLY BUILDABLE NOW (honest assembly, no new metrics)
+1. **Tier hit-rates by sport** — real: overall 937 @ 58%, plus per-sport `mlb`/`wnba` splits and
+   `byGrade` buckets **with the existing `pct:null` hollows preserved**.
+2. **Sport + tier filtering** — client-side over `/api/accuracy`'s `sports` map. No backend work.
+3. **The capped 3-call rotating sample** — already served on the snapshot (Build 1), resolved-only.
+4. **Honest state copy** — "tracking since · n building · promising, accruing", and the CLV panel
+   as an explicit *not-yet-publishable* state naming the reliability guard.
+
+## WHAT NEEDS A BUILD FIRST (and should be its own order)
+- **CLV as a leading number** ← blocked on capture reliability, not on presentation.
+- **Accuracy over time** ← needs a windowed param or a stored daily series.
+- **Calibration curve** ← needs a claimed-vs-actual endpoint.
+
+## RECOMMENDATION
+Ship the surface as **tier-record-forward with an honest CLV "building" panel**, not
+CLV-forward — because CLV-forward with a null cannot lead, and CLV-forward with 3.6% would be a
+lie. Then unblock CLV (capture reliability) and add the curve/time-series as their own orders.
+That keeps the strongest claim of the premise intact — *a real thin honest record
+out-credibilizes a fake fat one* — without inventing a single number.
+
+## TAGS
+VERIFIED: filter params ignored (probed); `beat_close_pct`/`clv_distribution` null on the live
+canonical aggregate; hollow law already enforced at source; no calibration endpoint exists.
+CANNOT DETERMINE: none. **BLOCKED: CLV-forward lead, accuracy-over-time, calibration curve.**