{
  "study_id": "yc-identity-gate",
  "idea_id": "accelerator-trends-w2-r4-027",
  "observation_dates": {
    "roster": "2026-09-18",
    "homepage_inventory": "2026-09-19",
    "primary_verification": "2026-09-21"
  },
  "denominator": {
    "all_current_directory_rows": 1586,
    "cohorts": 9,
    "observed_2xx_html": 1515,
    "unknown_html": 71,
    "unknown_breakdown_from_saved_inventory": {
      "no_http_status": 54,
      "non_2xx_status": 17
    }
  },
  "headline_finding": {
    "same_host": 1476,
    "same_registrable_domain_subdomain": 5,
    "cross_registrable_domain_manual_identity_queue": 34,
    "cross_domain_share_of_all_rows_percent": 2.1,
    "cross_domain_share_of_observed_html_percent": 2.2,
    "host_change_total": 39,
    "cross_queue_title_or_heading_row_name_signal": 29,
    "cross_queue_title_or_heading_row_name_signal_percent": 85.3,
    "cross_queue_different_brand_signal_or_no_row_token": 5,
    "cross_queue_different_brand_signal_percent": 14.7
  },
  "classification_rule": {
    "same_host": "listed and final homepage host match after removing a leading www.",
    "same_registrable_domain_subdomain": "hosts differ but share the last two labels; known second-level suffixes are handled in method.py.",
    "cross_registrable_domain_manual_identity_queue": "hosts differ across the registrable-domain boundary; this is an escalation state, not proof of a conflict, acquisition, or rebrand.",
    "primary_name_signal": "for the 34 queue rows only, at least one non-generic four-character company-name token appears in the verified page title, meta description, or first eight h1/h2 headings after punctuation normalization. The absence of that token is a manual-review signal, not a legal identity judgment."
  },
  "by_cohort": {
    "Fall 2024": {
      "rows": 94,
      "html_observed": 85,
      "unknown": 9,
      "same_host": 84,
      "same_registrable_domain": 0,
      "cross_registrable_domain_manual_identity": 1
    },
    "Fall 2025": {
      "rows": 146,
      "html_observed": 138,
      "unknown": 8,
      "same_host": 133,
      "same_registrable_domain": 1,
      "cross_registrable_domain_manual_identity": 4
    },
    "Spring 2025": {
      "rows": 143,
      "html_observed": 138,
      "unknown": 5,
      "same_host": 136,
      "same_registrable_domain": 0,
      "cross_registrable_domain_manual_identity": 2
    },
    "Spring 2026": {
      "rows": 193,
      "html_observed": 188,
      "unknown": 5,
      "same_host": 185,
      "same_registrable_domain": 0,
      "cross_registrable_domain_manual_identity": 3
    },
    "Summer 2024": {
      "rows": 248,
      "html_observed": 229,
      "unknown": 19,
      "same_host": 218,
      "same_registrable_domain": 0,
      "cross_registrable_domain_manual_identity": 11
    },
    "Summer 2025": {
      "rows": 166,
      "html_observed": 159,
      "unknown": 7,
      "same_host": 155,
      "same_registrable_domain": 0,
      "cross_registrable_domain_manual_identity": 4
    },
    "Summer 2026": {
      "rows": 232,
      "html_observed": 231,
      "unknown": 1,
      "same_host": 229,
      "same_registrable_domain": 1,
      "cross_registrable_domain_manual_identity": 1
    },
    "Winter 2025": {
      "rows": 165,
      "html_observed": 156,
      "unknown": 9,
      "same_host": 146,
      "same_registrable_domain": 2,
      "cross_registrable_domain_manual_identity": 8
    },
    "Winter 2026": {
      "rows": 199,
      "html_observed": 191,
      "unknown": 8,
      "same_host": 190,
      "same_registrable_domain": 1,
      "cross_registrable_domain_manual_identity": 0
    }
  },
  "manual_identity_examples": [
    {
      "company_id": 29953,
      "name": "Hey Revia",
      "cohort": "Summer 2024",
      "listed_website": "https://heyrevia.ai/",
      "verified_homepage": "https://openloophealth.com/",
      "verified_title": "Launch a White-Label Telehealth Company in Days | OpenLoop Health",
      "why_manual": "The current page title names OpenLoop Health and does not contain a Hey Revia token; do not merge or relabel without checking the company record."
    },
    {
      "company_id": 29980,
      "name": "Midship",
      "cohort": "Summer 2024",
      "listed_website": "https://midship.ai/",
      "verified_homepage": "https://optro.ai/",
      "verified_title": "Optro | AI-Powered GRC Software",
      "why_manual": "The current page title names Optro and does not contain a Midship token."
    },
    {
      "company_id": 29673,
      "name": "Storia AI",
      "cohort": "Summer 2024",
      "listed_website": "https://storia.ai/",
      "verified_homepage": "https://juliaturc.com/",
      "verified_title": "Substack",
      "why_manual": "The final page title is a Substack surface without a Storia token; the packet does not reproduce personal profile text."
    },
    {
      "company_id": 30229,
      "name": "Maive",
      "cohort": "Winter 2025",
      "listed_website": "https://maive.ai/",
      "verified_homepage": "https://ladderai.com/",
      "verified_title": "Ladder",
      "why_manual": "The current page title names Ladder and does not contain a Maive token."
    },
    {
      "company_id": 30317,
      "name": "Permitify",
      "cohort": "Winter 2025",
      "listed_website": "https://permitify.com/",
      "verified_homepage": "https://pangeanotes.com/",
      "verified_title": "Pangea — AI meeting notes for the built world",
      "why_manual": "The current page title names Pangea and does not contain a Permitify token."
    }
  ],
  "same_brand_signal_examples": [
    {
      "company_id": 30881,
      "name": "Wardstone",
      "cohort": "Fall 2025",
      "listed_website": "https://www.wardstone.us/",
      "verified_homepage": "https://wardstone.space/",
      "verified_title": "Wardstone",
      "interpretation": "A cross-domain redirect still carries the row-name signal; keep it sourced, but do not infer legal continuity."
    },
    {
      "company_id": 29820,
      "name": "Kontigo",
      "cohort": "Summer 2024",
      "listed_website": "https://kontigo.lat/",
      "verified_homepage": "https://www.kontigo.com/",
      "verified_title": "Kontigo | Tu cuenta global",
      "interpretation": "A cross-domain redirect still carries the row-name signal."
    },
    {
      "company_id": 29790,
      "name": "YouShift",
      "cohort": "Winter 2025",
      "listed_website": "https://www.you-shift.com/",
      "verified_homepage": "https://youshift.com/",
      "verified_title": "YouShift - The OS for Healthcare Workforce",
      "interpretation": "A spelling/domain change still carries the row-name signal."
    }
  ],
  "verification_receipt": {
    "rows_fetched": 39,
    "status_200": 39,
    "errors": 0,
    "body_storage": "response bodies discarded; title/headings/meta description and SHA-256 retained in primary-verification.json"
  },
  "limitations": [
    "A 2xx page proves a public response at observation time, not company operation, ownership, acquisition, product availability, customer demand, or adoption.",
    "Host continuity and title-token matching are triage signals. The five different-brand signals require manual source reconciliation.",
    "A missing row-name token in saved raw HTML can reflect JavaScript-only content or extraction limits; it is an escalation signal, not an identity conflict.",
    "The 71 unknown rows remain unknown for this page-level gate; they are not counted as failures.",
    "Current pages can change. The cohort snapshot is a current public index, not historical intake coverage or market prevalence."
  ]
}