Reframe suite as Strong Inference open research product - #50

Purpose

Replace the rejected Rigilum / Instrument 01 proposal with a fresh, collision-screened company/product architecture selected through three non-duplicative Mastermind loops.

Working decision

• Company-facing working identity: Strong Inference Systems
• First product line: Strong Inference
• Descriptor: Open Research Suite
• Release state: free pre-product preview
• Legal status: scoped naming screen only; not trademark, corporate-name, domain, or freedom-to-operate clearance

Strong inference is an established scientific-method term associated with competing hypotheses and discriminating experiments. This product uses that methodological meaning; it does not claim the phrase as a new scientific concept.

Product modules

• Route (soul / /soul)
• Prove (mathbot / /mind)
• Discover (scoutbot / /space)
• Synthesize (novelbot / /reality)
• Verify (codebot / /power)
• Measure (benchbot / /time)
• Assure (infinity-gauntlet / /gauntlet)
• Preflight (meditate)
• Review (council-of-elders / /council)
• Adapt (foil / /foil)

Technical IDs, commands, runtime files, schemas, environment variables, benchmark condition names, and historical evidence artifacts remain unchanged.

Three-loop redo

1. Meaning and architecture — banned pseudo-Latin/invented startup names and generated candidates from real scientific and engineering concepts.
2. Collision attack — killed candidates when active companies/software/research projects occupied the territory. This loop also killed The Gauntlet as the preferred public product brand after finding a directly adjacent 2026 LLM behavioral-evaluation Gauntlet plus independent scientific-software use of Gauntlet.
3. External comparator — compared survivors against the Nature Index 2026 corporate-research cohort and selected the architecture that best combined scientific meaning, expansion range, institutional credibility, and current distinctiveness.

Full record: validation/MASTERMIND_BRAND_PRODUCT_3_LOOP_REPORT_2026年08月25日.md.

Public surfaces changed

• README and citation metadata
• GitHub Pages showcase and semantic system visualization
• canonical architecture and public claim provenance
• installable module public identities
• Adapt / FOIL compatibility documentation
• validation contracts that fail on rejected-brand leakage

Compatibility and migration boundary

This PR does not rename the repository, move it to an organization, rename runtime namespaces, change package identifiers, or claim legal clearance. The-Gauntlet and /gauntlet remain technical compatibility surfaces until a separate migration is justified.