{
 "assumptions": "a team of 1-2 senior engineers with distributed-systems experience, Python, existing libraries (cryptography, FastAPI); ranges are engineering judgement, not measured, and exclude sales/ops",
 "context": "docs/ip/valuation (2026-10-02/04 internal estimate) put whole-repository rebuild cost around USD 0.65M; that is an earlier session's estimate with its own assumptions and is cited, not re-derived, here.",
 "rows": [
  {
   "dominant_burden": "fault injection + liveness debugging (live soak found 4+ liveness bugs)",
   "engineer_months": "6-12",
   "expertise": "BFT protocols",
   "mechanism": "PBFT engine at the tested level (BFT-TV-01..20, 39 suites)"
  },
  {
   "dominant_burden": "integration + failure semantics",
   "engineer_months": "0.5-1.5",
   "expertise": "applied crypto",
   "mechanism": "BFT-IP-0002 fail-closed consensus stage + QC verification"
  },
  {
   "dominant_burden": "revocation/TTL semantics, anchoring, multi-worker consistency",
   "engineer_months": "1-3",
   "expertise": "authorization systems",
   "mechanism": "BFT-IP-0001 snapshot data plane"
  },
  {
   "dominant_burden": "operations; both clusters currently NOT_OPERATIONAL",
   "engineer_months": "2-4",
   "expertise": "SRE",
   "mechanism": "multi-region operations (2 clusters, WireGuard, hourly proofs)"
  },
  {
   "dominant_burden": "keeping claims truthful (stale-claim bug found 2026-10-05)",
   "engineer_months": "1-3",
   "expertise": "security engineering",
   "mechanism": "evidence program (public verifiers, signed claims, bundles)"
  }
 ]
}