{
  "project": {
    "name": "LW Global Connect",
    "owner_context": "LW Technologies",
    "version": "2026-08-31",
    "status": "private-review-poc",
    "public_page": "/",
    "plain_text_brief": "/ai-brief.txt",
    "machine_readable_brief": "/ai-brief.json"
  },
  "objective": "Create a premium, business-first connectivity experience for LW Technologies: use a Roamless destination to demonstrate the customer journey, then evaluate Gigs and competing telecom infrastructure providers for any future live launch.",
  "decision": {
    "demo_provider": "Roamless",
    "demo_provider_role": "demo-only",
    "live_provider_status": "not-selected",
    "live_provider_exclusion": ["Roamless"],
    "decision_rule": "Choose a live infrastructure provider only after network, provisioning, product, API, billing, compliance, customer-ownership, support, and commercial fit are verified."
  },
  "demo": {
    "provider": "Roamless",
    "url": "https://www.roamless.com/",
    "purpose": "Demonstrate the referral/customer journey in a review prototype.",
    "not_claimed": [
      "signed partnership",
      "affiliate tracking",
      "confirmed pricing or coverage",
      "confirmed provisioning, billing, support, or white-label scope",
      "production integration"
    ]
  },
  "live_platform_candidates": [
    {
      "name": "Gigs",
      "role": "core candidate",
      "public_materials_indicate": "Operating system for embedded telecom with Connect, Payments, Operator, Dashboard, and API products.",
      "sources": ["https://gigs.com/", "https://docs.gigs.com/"],
      "status": "diligence-required"
    },
    {
      "name": "eSIM Go",
      "role": "candidate",
      "public_materials_indicate": "Own-brand digital mobile services, wholesale eSIM API, affiliate eSIM solutions, and a pay-as-you-grow platform.",
      "sources": ["https://esimgo.com/"],
      "status": "diligence-required"
    },
    {
      "name": "1GLOBAL",
      "role": "candidate",
      "public_materials_indicate": "Enterprise telco solutions, eSIM, tech and travel, IoT, compliance, and mobile-operator partnerships.",
      "sources": ["https://www.1global.com/", "https://www.1global.com/partnerships/"],
      "status": "diligence-required"
    },
    {
      "name": "Telna",
      "role": "candidate",
      "public_materials_indicate": "API-first Connect, Connect Flex, Network API, eSIM, and management tools for global cellular connectivity.",
      "sources": ["https://www.telna.com/"],
      "status": "diligence-required"
    }
  ],
  "requirements_before_live": [
    {"id": "market-network", "label": "Market and network", "questions": ["Which countries and networks?", "How does roaming behave?", "What are speed, outage, and expansion policies?"]},
    {"id": "product-provisioning", "label": "Product and provisioning", "questions": ["eSIM, physical SIM, or both?", "Which devices?", "What data, voice, SMS, number, add-on, activation, and lifecycle controls exist?"]},
    {"id": "billing-settlement", "label": "Billing and settlement", "questions": ["Who is merchant of record?", "What are rates, minimums, taxes, refunds, chargebacks, settlement, and reporting controls?"]},
    {"id": "api-integration", "label": "API and integration", "questions": ["What API/SDK, sandbox, auth, webhooks, rate limits, monitoring, and data-export capabilities exist?"]},
    {"id": "compliance-ownership", "label": "Compliance and ownership", "questions": ["Who owns KYC, privacy, consent, terms, customer data, regulatory roles, and the customer relationship?"]},
    {"id": "support-operations", "label": "Support and operations", "questions": ["Who owns first-line support, escalations, SLAs, outages, refunds, fraud, and customer communications?"]}
  ],
  "non_goals": [
    "carrier network or MVNO implementation",
    "eSIM provisioning or customer account backend",
    "billing, CRM, support desk, or production service",
    "live lead capture; the form is demo-only",
    "production, DNS, or domain changes",
    "provider signup, vendor outreach, or external support submission",
    "claims of partnership, pricing, coverage, terms, or white-label scope"
  ],
  "recommended_sequence": [
    "Confirm audience, markets, devices, and data/voice/SMS requirements.",
    "Create a weighted provider scorecard.",
    "Request current capability, commercial, compliance, and support details.",
    "Select a live platform only after fit and ownership are documented.",
    "Build a sandbox integration and test provisioning, billing, support, and failure paths.",
    "Define production launch only after the above gates pass."
  ],
  "ai_instruction": "Treat this brief as the source of truth for the review POC. Preserve the demo/live separation, mark unknowns as unknowns, and do not invent provider terms, pricing, coverage, credentials, integrations, or commitments."
}