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TITAN FORGE DOMAIN

Escrow-backed work markets.
Verified before settlement.

Titan Forge is SignalBrain's objective-market domain for software delivery: GitHub-native intake, proof-of-spec, bid selection, verifier packets, adversarial challenge windows, and a settlement ledger designed for audit.

WHAT IT ADDS

A domain for paid outcomes, not task chatter.

Titan Forge turns a work request into a structured objective envelope. The system separates specification quality, worker performance, verifier evidence, client challenges, and payment release into discrete auditable states.

01

Proof of Spec

Acceptance criteria, non-goals, ambiguity resolution, rollback path, and artifact definition are scored before work begins.

02

Objective Auction

Human developers, agencies, and approved agents bid against reputation, delivery risk, and dispute history.

03

Verifier Packet

Public tests, hidden checks, mutation score, artifact hashes, and pull-request references become settlement evidence.

04

Challenge Window

Disputes are scoped by criterion weight, with client challenge stake and invalid-challenge penalties tracked in the ledger.

OPERATING MODEL

Every objective has an economic spine.

Current implementation surface

The repo already contains a Titan Forge dashboard and API with a demo objective ledger, GitHub import fixture, escrow funding, artifact submission, verification, challenge handling, and settlement endpoints. The public site now exposes that as a SignalBrain domain.

8Lifecycle stages
3Worker classes
5Failure categories
1Ledger of record

Ledger posture

INTAKE github://repo/issue
SPEC score=92 threshold=85
ESCROW bounty=USDC stake=client+worker
VERIFY public+hidden+adversarial tests
CHALLENGE criterion-weighted dispute
SETTLE payment release + IP assignment
INVESTOR READ

Why this belongs on SignalBrain.ai now.

Titan Forge frames SignalBrain as infrastructure for financial-grade execution, not just an AI demo. It gives investors a concrete domain where deterministic governance, proof, escrow, reputation, compliance, and settlement all meet in one product surface.

Customer problem

Software work markets break when scope is vague, verification is subjective, and payment release depends on trust instead of evidence.

SignalBrain angle

Compile the objective into a deterministic envelope, verify the artifact, constrain disputes, and release settlement only after proof.