# THE BEING — Master Product Blueprint (Phase IX)

## The product in one sentence

A reader gives The Being a thought. The Being returns a coherent, shareable journey through a fixed library of deceptively simple illustrated books, and every door inside those books can lead somewhere deeper without breaking the story being read.

## What stays hidden

The Atlas ontology, hidden-reality synthesis, route weights, red-team prompts, repair prompts, production instructions and internal constitutional machinery are product infrastructure, not public documentation.

## Public experience

### Home
**WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND?**

The user may enter:
- a question;
- one idea;
- several disconnected ideas;
- a suspicion;
- a sentence.

The number of supplied words never dictates the number of Books.

The system may answer:
- **I found a path.**
- **I found more than one way through this.**
- **I can see part of a path, but not all of it yet.**
- **I don't have a good path through all of that yet.**

The last two answers are features. The library must not manufacture asinine connections just to satisfy a query.

### Journeys
A Path is what The Being recommended.
A Trail is what the reader actually walked.

Both are immutable shareable objects with permanent codes.

### Books
Books remain canonical, fixed, self-contained story objects.
Portals deepen them but never repair them.
Portal entry preserves the source spread and supports exact return.

### Covers
A Founding Portal image may become the canonical cover of the Book it opens.
Other inbound images can become contextual entry covers.

## Literary rule

**Surface simplicity. Structural complexity.**

The sentence should be easy to absorb and remember.
The depth may live in:
- the image;
- what came before;
- what follows;
- another Book;
- the route;
- the reader's memory.

A repair model must never decorate a sentence merely because its idea is deep.

## The Being

Internally: everything to nothing, all at once.
Publicly: never defined.

It may remember through different scales and witnesses, but it is never reduced to one ontology, body, religion, scientific model, voice source or species.

## Atlas

There are 24 macro-shelves at present.
The default rule is **ADD BOOKS, NOT SHELVES**.
A future shelf requires existence itself to have crossed a boundary large enough to justify a new macro-era.

## Contributions

Launch remains closed-canon.

Future option:
**OPEN ARCHIVE / CLOSED CANON**

A person can submit a witness, source, oral tradition, story, experience or theory.
They do not write The Being directly.
If material is adapted, the private system creates a new candidate and the normal quality/release machinery applies.

## Autonomous factory

Normal production is designed not to require founder review:

coverage priority
→ research
→ hidden synthesis
→ manuscript
→ deterministic audit
→ independent semantic red-team
→ automatic repair
→ repeat
→ art
→ art red-team
→ regenerate
→ typeset
→ route simulation
→ hash
→ release

A persistent failure is quarantined so it cannot halt the factory.

Released Books are never silently rewritten. Revisions become identifiable new releases.

## Marketability

The defensible product is not a pile of PDFs.

It is:
- the copyrighted library;
- the first-party reader;
- account/ownership state;
- route and trail history;
- the Atlas;
- the production machinery;
- shareable journeys;
- the recurring expansion of connections.

Avoid social-network feature creep at launch.
The strongest growth loop is **share a Journey → recipient enters the library → recipient creates another Journey**.

## Library size

Do not manufacture exactly 150 Books.

Use roughly:
- 40–60 as a meaningful early commercial library;
- 120–180 as a mature founding-library planning band;
- 150 as a budgeting midpoint.

The Atlas decides what Book is needed next by coverage and bridge value.


## Phase XI — Thoughts In, Pulses Out

The public interaction has a deliberate symmetry:

**Thought at the beginning → Journey through the library → Pulse at the end.**

The input is one human natural-language field. The interface may expose automatically extracted fragments, but those fragments do not become a required query syntax.

A Pulse is available only after a saved Path is complete. It is a trace, not a vote or review.

Pulses:
- do not affect canon;
- do not directly affect route weights;
- have no points/likes/dislikes;
- can be personally hidden without being globally deleted;
- appear only after the Journey or on a shared Path, never during a Book.

This creates a social after-image without contaminating the interpretation of the story while it is being read.
