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# Venture-Autonomy Status Report ​

Report Type: QA Matrix & Health Atlas Generated: 2026-02-21 Auditor: AI Agent (Claude Opus 4.6)

## Executive Summary ​

Metric | Score | Status
--- | --- | ---
Overall Health | 3/10 | 🟡 SPEC-ONLY PHASE
Documentation Completeness | 9/10 | ✅ Excellent
Implementation Progress | 0/10 | 🔴 None
Architecture Quality | 9/10 | ✅ Excellent
Test Coverage | 0/10 | 🔴 None
FR Coverage (Designed) | 100% | ✅ Complete
FR Coverage (Implemented) | 0% | 🔴 Not Started

Verdict: Project is specification-only with no implementation. Architecture is well-designed with 45+ comprehensive functional requirements, 6 detailed user journeys, and 35 WBS tasks across 7 milestones. Ready for implementation kickoff.

## Project Overview ​

Aspect | Value
--- | ---
Name | Venture (Parpour repository)
Purpose | Autonomous AI economic civilization - venture orchestration platform
Stack | Python (FastAPI/FastMCP), PostgreSQL, NATS JetStream, Redis
Orchestration | process-compose
Target Users | Founders, Finance Controllers, External Auditors

## Current Codebase State ​

### Implementation Status ​

Component | Status | LOC | Tests | Notes
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
`control-plane-api` | ❌ Not Started | 0 | 0 | REST + WebSocket for founders
`policy-engine` | ❌ Not Started | 0 | 0 | Tool allowlist, validation
`artifact-compiler` | ❌ Not Started | 0 | 0 | IR → render → export
`treasury-api` | ❌ Not Started | 0 | 0 | Authorization, double-entry ledger
`compliance-engine` | ❌ Not Started | 0 | 0 | Policy evaluation, audit trail
`venture-orchestrator` | ❌ Not Started | 0 | 0 | DAG execution, L1/L2/L3 dispatch
`agent-runtime` | ❌ Not Started | 0 | 0 | L1/L2/L3 agent execution
`ledger-db` | ❌ Not Started | 0 | 0 | PostgreSQL schema
`event-bus` | ❌ Not Started | 0 | 0 | NATS JetStream config

Total Implementation: 0 lines of code

## Functional Requirements Audit ​

### By Domain ​

Domain | FR Count | Designed | Implemented | Tested | Coverage
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
ORCH (Orchestration) | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0%
TREAS (Treasury) | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0%
ARTIF (Artifact Compiler) | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0%
COMPL (Compliance) | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0%
AGENT (Agent Runtime) | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0%
CTRL (Control Plane) | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0%
XC (Cross-Cutting) | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0%
TOTAL | 48 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0%

### Critical P0 Requirements Status ​

FR ID | Description | Priority | Status
--- | --- | --- | ---
FR-VNT-ORCH-001 | Portfolio Management API | P0 | ❌ Not Started
FR-VNT-ORCH-002 | Workstream DAG Execution | P0 | ❌ Not Started
FR-VNT-ORCH-003 | L1/L2/L3 Task Dispatch | P0 | ❌ Not Started
FR-VNT-TREAS-001 | Money Intent Creation | P0 | ❌ Not Started
FR-VNT-TREAS-002 | Authorization Decision (Default-Deny) | P0 | ❌ Not Started
FR-VNT-TREAS-003 | Double-Entry Ledger | P0 | ❌ Not Started
FR-VNT-ARTIF-001 | Artifact IR Registration | P0 | ❌ Not Started
FR-VNT-ARTIF-002 | Deterministic Build & Replay | P0 | ❌ Not Started
FR-VNT-COMPL-001 | Policy Rule Evaluation | P0 | ❌ Not Started
FR-VNT-COMPL-002 | Audit Trail | P0 | ❌ Not Started
FR-VNT-AGENT-001 | L2 Specialist Agent Dispatch | P0 | ❌ Not Started
FR-VNT-AGENT-002 | Tool Permission Checking | P0 | ❌ Not Started
FR-VNT-CTRL-001 | Founder Task Submission API | P0 | ❌ Not Started
FR-VNT-CTRL-003 | Kill-Switch (Global Pause) | P0 | ❌ Not Started

## User Journey Readiness ​

Journey | Description | Readiness | Blockers
--- | --- | --- | ---
UJ-1 | Founder onboarding → first revenue | 0% | All components missing
UJ-2 | Portfolio review & rebalancing | 0% | No portfolio, no metrics
UJ-3 | Treasury crisis → freeze → resolution | 0% | No treasury, no alerts
UJ-4 | New venture launch | 0% | No venture system
UJ-5 | Compliance audit (90-day evidence) | 0% | No audit trail
UJ-6 | Scale-up expansion | 0% | No scaling system

## Architecture Assessment ​

### Strengths ✅ ​

1. Event Sourcing: Immutable events, no CRUD for state, full audit trail
2. Default-Deny Authorization: Treasury requires explicit approval for all spend
3. Double-Entry Ledger: Financial integrity guaranteed
4. L1/L2/L3 Agent Hierarchy: Scalable dispatch model
5. Tamper-Evident Logs: Checksum chains, cryptographic signatures
6. Policy-Driven: All actions flow through policy engine
7. Workload Identity: Short-lived credentials per task
8. Multi-Provider Artifact: Claude, Veo, Banana fallback routing

### Design Quality ​

Aspect | Rating | Notes
--- | --- | ---
Service decomposition | ✅ Excellent | Clear bounded contexts
Data flow design | ✅ Excellent | Intent → Policy → Auth → Execute → Audit
Security model | ✅ Excellent | mTLS, tool allowlists, workload identity
Scalability model | ✅ Good | NATS cluster, PG HA, horizontal agents
Failure handling | ✅ Good | Retries, timeouts, escalation
Compliance built-in | ✅ Excellent | DSAR, deletion, audit trail first-class

### Potential Issues 🔴 ​

Issue | Risk | Mitigation
--- | --- | ---
Python performance | Medium | Consider Rust for hot paths (policy engine)
NATS complexity | Low | Good documentation, established tech
L3 subprocess management | Medium | Need robust timeout/signal handling
Determinism for artifacts | Medium | Non-deterministic providers (Veo, Banana)
Cross-crate sharing with civ | Low | Could share policy engine, event schemas

## Milestone Progress (PLAN.md) ​

Milestone | Description | Tasks | Progress | Dependencies
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
M0 | Foundation | 5 | 0% | None
M1 | Core Services | 6 | 0% | M0
M2 | Treasury & Compliance | 5 | 0% | M1
M3 | Agent Runtime | 6 | 0% | M1
M4 | Artifact Compiler | 5 | 0% | M1
M5 | Control Plane | 4 | 0% | M2, M3, M4
M6 | Integration | 4 | 0% | M5

Critical Path: M0 → M1 → M2/M3/M4 (parallel) → M5 → M6

## Critical Gaps (Top 10) ​

# | Gap | Impact | Recommendation
--- | --- | --- | ---
1 | No code at all | Blocking all work | Create project scaffold
2 | No database schema | No state storage | Design PostgreSQL tables
3 | No event envelope | No event sourcing | Define EventEnvelopeV1
4 | No FastAPI services | No REST endpoints | Create service stubs
5 | No NATS config | No event bus | Set up JetStream
6 | No process-compose | No orchestration | Create compose.yaml
7 | No policy rules | No authorization | Define rule schema
8 | No tool layer | No agent tools | Implement tool allowlist
9 | No test framework | Quality risk | Add pytest + coverage
10 | No CI/CD | Regression risk | Add GitHub Actions

## Recommended Next Steps ​

### Immediate (Week 1-2) - M0 Foundation ​

1. Create project scaffold:

   - `pyproject.toml` with FastAPI, asyncpg, nats-py, redis
   - Directory structure per service
   - Dockerfile + docker-compose for local dev

2. Database schema:

   - Create `ledger-db` schema with events, workflows, tasks tables
   - Add append-only constraint on events
   - Add audit_checkpoints table

3. Event envelope:

   - Define `EventEnvelopeV1` TypedDict
   - Create event emitter utility
   - Add NATS JetStream config

4. First service stub:

   - Create `control-plane-api` with `/health` endpoint
   - Add process-compose entry
   - Add basic logging

### Short-term (Week 3-6) - M1 Core ​

1. Policy engine:

   - Tool allowlist schema
   - Policy validation endpoint
   - Redis caching

2. Treasury API:

   - Money intent creation
   - Authorization decision logic
   - Double-entry ledger posting

3. Venture orchestrator:

   - Portfolio management endpoints
   - Task queue management
   - L3 worker pool (subprocess spawning)

### Medium-term (Week 7-12) - M2/M3/M4 ​

1. Agent runtime: L2 specialist agents + L3 copilot integration
2. Compliance engine: Rule evaluation, audit trail, DSAR
3. Artifact compiler: IR schemas, build pipeline, provenance

## Technology Stack Assessment ​

Component | Choice | Alternatives | Verdict
--- | --- | --- | ---
Language | Python | Rust, Go | ✅ Good for LLM integration, fast dev
Web Framework | FastAPI | Flask, Django | ✅ Excellent (async, OpenAPI)
Database | PostgreSQL | MySQL, CockroachDB | ✅ Excellent (ACID, RLS)
Message Bus | NATS JetStream | Kafka, RabbitMQ | ✅ Good (simpler than Kafka)
Cache | Redis | Memcached | ✅ Excellent
Orchestration | process-compose | Kubernetes, Docker Compose | ✅ Good for single-node

### Shared Opportunities with CIV ​

Component | Potential Sharing
--- | ---
Event schema | Both use EventEnvelopeV1
Policy engine | Similar rule evaluation
Ledger model | Double-entry patterns
Test utilities | Property-based testing

## Metrics Summary ​

Category | Current | Target (M6) | Gap
--- | --- | --- | ---
Services implemented | 0/7 | 7/7 | 7
Test coverage | 0% | 80% | 80%
FR implemented | 0% | 100% | 100%
User journeys | 0/6 | 6/6 | 6
API endpoints | 0 | ~50 | 50
Event types | 0 | ~30 | 30

## Conclusion ​

Venture has exceptional documentation and architecture but zero implementation. The spec-first approach is commendable, with 48 comprehensive functional requirements, 6 detailed user journeys, and a clear WBS with 35 tasks.

Key Strengths:

- Default-deny authorization model
- Event sourcing with immutable audit trail
- Double-entry ledger for financial integrity
- Clear service boundaries

Key Recommendation: Begin M0 foundation immediately. Focus on database schema and event envelope first, as all other components depend on them. Consider Python/Rust hybrid for performance-critical paths.

Estimated Time to First Revenue (UJ-1): 8-12 weeks with focused effort.

## Next Focus ​

- Create project scaffold (pyproject.toml, services structure)
- Design and implement PostgreSQL schema
- Implement event envelope and NATS integration
- Build first service (control-plane-api)
- Set up process-compose orchestration