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Governed Revenue Architecture · The Spine

Economics set the constraint. Feedback closes the loop.

Seven horizontal layers, from the economic model down to attribution. Five agents span them vertically and enforce the thresholds. Causality flows down; correction flows up. This isn't a marketing stack diagram — it's a control architecture. OpptyCon models the spine's economics, pipeline, and stages today and runs six live governance checks against your inputs; it governs by surfacing the verdicts the agent layer is meant to enforce — not yet by autonomous enforcement.

The full framework is deliberately bigger than the product — the framework is the IP, OpptyCon is one expression of it. Every layer below carries its build status, verified against the app source (audit at commit 3ba29d5, 2026-06-02) — not the marketing copy. Full status per claim lives on the roadmap.

▸ Showing what's shipped or near-term. Each layer carries its real build status. ▸ Showing the doctrine horizon. Research-tagged claims are design intent, not the product today.
Shipped — computes from your inputs today Partial — runs, but a named sub-claim isn't built Roadmap — on the build queue Research — design intent, not in code
01

The seven layers

Read it top-down to see the constraint cascade; read the feedback arrows and it governs itself. Every node is constrained from above and informed from below. Open any layer for the mechanism, the agents that span it, and its build status.

constraint cascades ↓ ↑ feedback flows up
01
Anchor Mass · the set point

Economic Model

Business-plan economics define every downstream constraint. Nothing below this layer can override it.
Shipped

Protected margin, burn multiple, coverage targets, unit-economics ceilings. This is the gravity of the system — the P&L is internal truth, never a vendor input. Every dollar of GTM spend traces back through here.

Runs todayShipped

OpptyCon operationalizes this layer: P&L governance domain, multi-year glideslope, coverage-ratio enforcement, dual-axis cost model. The P&L Agent constrains downstream spend when margin or CAC ceilings are breached.

Protected MarginCoverage TargetBurn MultipleP&L Agent
Constraint math
ARR = ARR × (1 + g) Required Pipeline = ARR × Coverage Multiple guardrails: CAC ceiling · margin floor · LTV:CAC min
02
Economic Clustering · the topography

ICP Governance

Who you sell to is a governance decision, not a marketing one. ICP definitions constrain every motion below.
Shipped · partial

Tier models, segment rules, TAM/SAM/SOM boundaries, exclusion criteria. Capital flows to revenue density; positioning is parameterized by narrative receptivity.

Runs todayShipped

The ICP governance check computes attainment-realism and quota-coverage verdicts off your deal-size and quota inputs — critical when required attainment runs past 120%. Segment definitions stay a human-gated decision.

Attainment RealismQuota CoverageICP verdict
Named but not builtAbsent

SPI (Segment Profitability Index) and Revenue Density — the lexicon's named anchor metrics for this layer — are not computed anywhere in the app. There's no segment clustering; ICP inputs are static. This is the gap between the doctrine's topography and what the engine does.

Revenue Density = (Win × ACV × Margin × Retention) ÷ Cycle // spec only
03
Orchestration & Velocity · where strategy becomes operational

Pipeline Architecture

How pipeline is generated, governed, and allocated. Budget envelopes, spend thresholds, the motion mix.
Shipped

This is where the motion taxonomy lives — and where the framework is mid-resolution. The product runs three motions today; the doctrine names seven lanes as the horizon. Both are shown, tagged.

Runs today — 3 motionsShipped

CREATE / CONVERT / ACCELERATE allocation, channels nested inside each motion, per-motion ROI and CAC computed from spend. Coverage math is real and flags when conversion can't support the target — though it surfaces the breach rather than clamping the target.

CREATECONVERTACCELERATECoverage Agent
The horizon — 7 lanesResearch

The split-funnel model splits acquisition by mode first, channel second: Demand Capture, Conditioning, Exploration Capital, Interception Capital, Distribution Multiplied, Stakeholder Compression, Revenue Density Motion. Lane-level KPIs need richer segmentation before they're useful.

7 acquisition lanesmode-first forecasting
Taxonomy note: doctrine says 7 motions, split-funnel says 7 lanes, the product uses 3. One concept, three names — resolution is on the near-term roadmap. This page shows the shipped 3 as the now and the 7 lanes as the tagged horizon.
04
Adjudication · the stage ledger

Stage Definitions

What qualifies as progress. Entry/exit criteria, velocity benchmarks, handoff SLAs. Without governed stages, everything downstream is noise.
Shipped · partial

Finance trusts the ledger; operators consult the forecast. Keep them separate, keep them connected. The Stage check flags stage inflation and SLA slippage — a human still works the gate.

Runs todayShipped

A real 6-stage funnel: per-stage conversion, benchmark grades, compression and velocity checks, show-rate. The Stage governance check fires on D/C funnel grades, stage bottlenecks, and cycles past 120 days. Phase-shifted lead/lag drives the coverage funnel shapes.

Stage GradesVelocity / CycleShow RateStage verdict
Named but not builtAbsent

Dual-probability (P_base × P_accel) is not in the code — grep returns zero matches. The model is single-probability: close derives from one win-rate, and "acceleration" is a flat additive +5pp lift, not a structural × behavioral product. The quadrant-motion routing exists only in the spec.

P(t) = P_base · α + P_accel · (1−α) // spec only — not built
05
The vertical enforcement rails

Agent Layer

In the doctrine, agents govern by acting. In the app today, the "agents" are governance verdict functions — they surface, they don't act.
Naming, not autonomy

This is the layer where doctrine and product diverge most, so it's worth being exact. The five "agents" are the governance mechanism — and as governance checks, four of them run today. As autonomous agents that act, none of them exist yet. The label maps to a diagram ring, not to acting code.

What's real — verdict functionsShipped

P&L, Stage, Coverage, Attribution, Forecast each run as a synchronous function that thresholds engine output against your inputs and returns a critical/warning/healthy verdict, once per render. Real governance — but they surface findings; they don't enforce them.

P&LStageCoverageAttributionForecast
What's not there yetAbsent

Nothing schedules, polls, acts, writes back, or routes. The Orchestration Agent — the conductor that's meant to resolve conflicts between the others — has no code analog at all. Autonomous enforcement, the read→recommend→write progression, and the full 11-agent registry live in the spec, not the app.

Orchestration · nonewrite-back · none11-agent registry · spec
Honesty note: the architecture diagram currently labels this ring "Autonomous Decision." Per the source audit it isn't autonomous — it's five evaluators wearing the word "agent." The ring label and the "agent" naming both want a pass before this reads as a claim rather than an aspiration.
06
Motion / ABX · where work happens

Execution Systems

Signal surfaces, enrichment, orchestration engines, CRM, demand engines. Every system is governed by the layers above it.
Shipped · partial

The data plane, not the control plane. Execution is where vendors are acceptable — commodity telemetry and infrastructure — but routing logic and thresholds stay proprietary. (The Sovereignty Map governs that build-vs-buy call layer by layer.)

What's real — read & modelShipped

The 3-motion mix models execution cost and per-channel economics, and a read-only HubSpot adapter pulls actuals into a local store to compare plan vs reality. OpptyCon models execution and reads it.

3-motion modelHubSpot actuals · read
What it doesn't doDoesn't act

It never runs execution — no campaign launch, no CRM write, no routing. The CRM/orchestration tool nodes in the diagram are inert; their "health" is a derived color, not a control signal. Per the Sovereignty Map, those stay vendor/config tools — execution is the data plane, not the control plane.

vendor = telemetrybuild = logic
07
Immune System · the sensor that closes the loop

Attribution & Feedback

Forecasting, attribution, optimization — that feed back UP into governance. This is what makes it a loop, not a funnel.
Shipped · partial

In most orgs forecasting is a downstream output — observation, not governance. Here, forecasting is an input to budgets. The forecast corrects the budget; the budget corrects the allocation. Attribution is reclassified from credit-allocation to a calibration dataset.

What's real — drift & suggestionsShipped

A plan-vs-actual comparator computes variance, detects assumption drift (win-rate, deal-size, conversion), and emits recalibration suggestions plus variance verdicts. Real feedback signal — attribution as a governance input, upstream of channel credit.

VarianceAssumption DriftRecalibration suggestions
Not a closed loop yetAbsent

Learning Latency and Correction Latency — the doctrine's primary KPIs for this layer — aren't computed (zero code matches). And recalibration is a suggestion the user applies; nothing auto-corrects, and there's no provenance record of what produced a verdict. The loop is drawn, not yet closed.

Learning Latency · noneCorrection Latency · noneprovenance · none
02

Why it's a thermostat, not a stack

A thermostat has three parts: a set point (what the business demands), a sensor (what actually happens), and an actuator (what translates intent into action). Revenue works the same way — and the feedback arrow is the whole difference between governing and merely observing.

Set Point · economic constraints

What the business demands

Business Plan → P&L → Protected Margin → Coverage Ratio

Actuator · translation layer

How constraints become action

Budgets → GTM Model → Allocations → ICP Spend → Stage Defs

Sensor · operations

What actually happens

Execution → Forecasting → Attribution → Optimization

03

Five agents span the spine

In the doctrine, agents are vertical enforcement rails — they monitor thresholds, enforce constraints, and close loops. In the app today, four run as governance checks that surface verdicts; the fifth, the conductor, isn't built. They're shown here as designed, with each one's real status. The pills are the honest part.

P&L Agent

Shipped · as a check
spans · Economic Model → Pipeline → Execution

Thresholds margin, burn multiple, CAC payback, Rule of 40 against your inputs and flags breaches — critical/warning/healthy. It surfaces the constraint; a human acts on it.

Stage Gate Agent

Shipped · as a check
spans · ICP → Stage Definitions → Execution

Flags funnel-grade drops, stage bottlenecks, slow cycles, and weak show rates. It detects stage inflation; it doesn't yet block a stage transition.

Coverage Agent

Shipped · as a check
spans · Economic Model → Pipeline → Attribution

Computes ramp-adjusted capacity vs required new ARR and flags when coverage, attrition, or deal-load cross threshold. Surfaces the gap; doesn't auto-correct the plan.

Attribution Agent

Shipped · as a check
spans · ICP → Stage Definitions → Attribution

Flags weak CREATE ROI, thin ACCELERATE coverage, channel over-concentration, and low marketing-sourced share. Reads attribution as a governance signal that resets the budget, not a scoreboard.

Orchestration Agent

Absent from code
spans · all layers — the conductor

In the doctrine, this is the conductor: it coordinates the other agents, resolves conflicting constraints, and times the feedback loops — when the P&L Agent wants to cut and the Coverage Agent needs more pipeline, this is what mediates. In the source today it has no analog at all — there is no "Orchestration" anything in the app. It's the clearest single marker of the gap between the architecture as drawn and the engine as built: the four checks above can each surface a verdict, but nothing yet arbitrates between them.

04

The horizon, tagged honestly

The framework is deliberately bigger than the product. The framework is the IP; OpptyCon is one expression of it. These are the doctrine claims that aren't shipped — named, not hidden. Full status per claim lives on the roadmap.

Dual probability model

Roadmap

P_base × P_accel as the core scoring mechanic. On the build plan for months 2–3 — but not in the code today; the engine is single-probability with a flat acceleration lift.

Provenance logging

Roadmap

The largest single unbuilt claim and foundational to every agent claim. Cheap to start, unlocks everything downstream. Highest near-term priority.

Customer Health surface

Roadmap

NRR + churn-prob + expansion-prob as first-class inputs feeding a Retention & Expansion view. CFOs and CROs ask for this directly.

Full 11-agent registry

Research

Beyond the five enforcement rails: the complete registry with read→recommend→write progression. Design intent on the Agents page.

Territory + Pod architecture

Research

GEO as capacity constraint, pods as specialized economic units by segment × territory × ACV band. Design intent.

7-lane motion model

Research

Lane-level KPIs across the seven acquisition modes. Needs richer segmentation before the KPIs are useful.

05

The spine is the constitution

Other screens hang off it. The Motion Map is the Layer 03 detail; the Sovereignty Map is the build-vs-buy call per layer; the Agents page is the build queue. None replace the spine — they attach to it.

Governance over observation

Dashboards observe. Control planes govern. We build control planes.

Constraints before autonomy

Agents get freedom within boundaries. The boundaries are the strategy.

Feedback flows upward

Forecasting is an input to budgets, not a downstream output. Attribution informs governance.

Economics are the set point

Every motion, channel, and dollar traces to a P&L constraint. If it doesn't connect to protected margin, it doesn't ship.

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