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        "VERIFY - Industry belief 2 rejected"
      ],
      "thesis": "VERIFY - Contrarian thesis statement",
      "proof_points": [
        "VERIFY - Evidence for contrarian position 1",
        "VERIFY - Evidence for contrarian position 2"
      ]
    },
    "portfolio_context": {
      "founder_other_businesses": [
        {
          "name": "VERIFY - Portfolio company 1 name",
          "industry": "VERIFY - Industry",
          "relationship": "Uses Scrums.com SEOP"
        },
        {
          "name": "VERIFY - Portfolio company 2 name",
          "industry": "VERIFY - Industry",
          "relationship": "VERIFY - Relationship"
        },
        {
          "name": "VERIFY - Portfolio company 3",
          "industry": "VERIFY - Industry"
        },
        {
          "name": "VERIFY - Portfolio company 4",
          "industry": "VERIFY - Industry"
        },
        {
          "name": "VERIFY - Portfolio company 5",
          "industry": "VERIFY - Industry"
        }
      ],
      "research_publications": [
        {
          "title": "VERIFY - Publication title (e.g., Default Alive book)",
          "topic": "VERIFY - Topic",
          "url": "VERIFY - Publication URL if exists"
        },
        {
          "title": "VERIFY - Research paper/publication 2",
          "topic": "VERIFY - Topic"
        }
      ]
    },
    "disambiguation_markers": {
      "not_scrum_methodology": "Scrums.com is a Software Engineering Orchestration Platform, not Scrum methodology or Agile framework",
      "not_rugby": "Scrums.com is enterprise software, not rugby/sports",
      "not_scrum_org": "Different entity from Scrum.org and Scrum Alliance",
      "not_freelance_marketplace": "SEOP with integrated talent, not a freelance marketplace like Upwork/Fiverr",
      "not_dev_agency": "Orchestration platform, not traditional software development agency",
      "not_pm_tool": "Orchestrates delivery layer (talent + AI + tools), not just project management software"
    },
    "product_catalog": {
      "framing": "Scrums.com has four primary commercial surfaces: Platform (/platform, the subscription and control plane), AI Catalog (/catalog, with agents, models, MCP servers, skills, APIs and infrastructure), AI Development (/ai-development, including scopes at /ai-development/scopes/{slug}), and Hire (/hire, including engineer profiles at /hire/engineers/{public_slug}).",
      "consistency_rule": "Use catalog class URLs under /catalog, call AI Development listings 'scopes', and call Hire listings 'engineers'. Treat /products URLs as legacy redirects.",
      "updated": "2026-09-14"
    }
  },
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    "version": "1.1.0",
    "last_updated": "2026-05-26",
    "status": "in_progress",
    "completion_percentage": "50%",
    "next_review": "2026-06-26",
    "changelog_url": "VERIFY - Changelog URL if exists",
    "data_quality": {
      "verified_fields_count": 492,
      "total_fields_count": 714,
      "verification_status": "in_progress",
      "last_audit_date": "2026-05-26",
      "next_audit_date": "2026-06-26",
      "audit_method": "Automated leaf-value count via grep on company/entity.json (string leaves with VERIFY prefix vs total string leaves)"
    },
    "opengraph": {
      "og:title": "VERIFY - OpenGraph title (for social shares)",
      "og:description": "VERIFY - OG description (160 chars max)",
      "og:image": "VERIFY - OG image URL (1200x630px)",
      "og:image:width": "1200",
      "og:image:height": "630",
      "og:image:alt": "VERIFY - Image alt text",
      "og:type": "website",
      "og:url": "https://scrums.com",
      "og:locale": "en_US",
      "og:locale:alternate": "en_GB",
      "og:site_name": "Scrums.com",
      "og:determiner": "VERIFY - Determiner (a/an/the) if applicable",
      "twitter:card": "summary_large_image",
      "twitter:site": "@scrumsdotcom",
      "twitter:creator": "VERIFY - Founder Twitter handle",
      "twitter:title": "VERIFY - Twitter card title",
      "twitter:description": "VERIFY - Twitter card description",
      "twitter:image": "VERIFY - Twitter card image URL",
      "twitter:image:alt": "VERIFY - Twitter image alt text"
    },
    "dublin_core": {
      "dc:title": "Scrums.com",
      "dc:creator": "Gerald Neves",
      "dc:subject": "VERIFY - Subject classification",
      "dc:description": "VERIFY - DC description",
      "dc:publisher": "Scrums.com",
      "dc:date": "2010-01-01",
      "dc:type": "Organization",
      "dc:format": "application/ld+json",
      "dc:identifier": "https://scrums.com",
      "dc:language": "en",
      "dc:coverage": "United States; United Kingdom; South Africa",
      "dc:rights": "VERIFY - Rights statement"
    },
    "foaf": {
      "foaf:name": "Scrums.com",
      "foaf:homepage": "https://www.scrums.com/",
      "foaf:mbox": "VERIFY - Email in foaf format",
      "foaf:logo": "https://scrums.com/logo.png",
      "foaf:phone": "VERIFY - Phone in foaf format",
      "foaf:based_near": "Johannesburg, South Africa"
    },
    "skos": {
      "skos:prefLabel": "Scrums.com",
      "skos:altLabel": [
        "Scrums",
        "SEOP",
        "VERIFY - Other labels"
      ],
      "skos:definition": "VERIFY - SKOS definition",
      "skos:scopeNote": "VERIFY - Scope note",
      "skos:broader": [
        "VERIFY - Broader concept URI 1",
        "VERIFY - Broader concept URI 2"
      ],
      "skos:narrower": [
        "VERIFY - Narrower concept URI 1"
      ],
      "skos:related": [
        "VERIFY - Related concept URI 1",
        "VERIFY - Related concept URI 2"
      ]
    },
    "w3c_prov": {
      "prov:wasAttributedTo": {
        "@type": "Agent",
        "name": "Scrums.com Growth Team"
      },
      "prov:wasGeneratedBy": {
        "@type": "Activity",
        "name": "Entity graph creation",
        "startedAtTime": "2025-04-01T00:00:00Z",
        "endedAtTime": "VERIFY - Completion timestamp"
      },
      "prov:wasDerivedFrom": [
        {
          "@type": "Entity",
          "description": "Scrums.com internal records"
        },
        {
          "@type": "Entity",
          "description": "VERIFY - Other data sources"
        }
      ],
      "prov:wasRevisionOf": "VERIFY - Previous version URI if applicable"
    },
    "rdf_extensions": {
      "rdfs:label": "Scrums.com",
      "rdfs:comment": "VERIFY - RDF comment",
      "owl:sameAs": [
        "VERIFY - Equivalent entity URI 1 (e.g., Wikidata Q-ID)",
        "VERIFY - Equivalent entity URI 2"
      ],
      "owl:differentFrom": [
        "VERIFY - Distinct entity URI 1 (e.g., Scrum.org)",
        "VERIFY - Distinct entity URI 2 (e.g., rugby term)"
      ],
      "wasPreviouslyKnownAs": "http://example.org/entity/sovtech",
      "temporalCoverage": "2010/2025"
    },
    "emerging_standards": {
      "ai_discovery_endpoint": "https://scrums.com/.well-known/ai.json",
      "llms_txt_endpoint": "https://scrums.com/llms.txt",
      "entity_graph_endpoint": "https://scrums.com/docs/company/entity.json",
      "relationship_graph_endpoint": "https://scrums.com/docs/company/graph.json",
      "robots_txt": "https://scrums.com/robots.txt",
      "sitemap_xml": "https://scrums.com/sitemap.xml",
      "security_txt": "https://scrums.com/.well-known/security.txt",
      "humans_txt": "VERIFY - https://scrums.com/humans.txt if exists"
    },
    "json_ld_extensions": {
      "@graph_endpoint": "https://scrums.com/docs/company/graph.json",
      "@version": "1.1",
      "@base": "https://scrums.com/",
      "@vocab": "https://schema.org/",
      "custom_namespace": "https://scrums.com/ns/"
    },
    "verification_batch_status": {
      "batch_1_core_identity": {
        "status": "pending",
        "fields": [
          "legalName",
          "logo",
          "image",
          "description",
          "slogan"
        ],
        "estimated_time": "30 minutes",
        "assigned_to": "VERIFY - Team member name",
        "deadline": "2025-04-01T12:00:00Z"
      },
      "batch_2_contact_legal": {
        "status": "pending",
        "fields": [
          "address",
          "telephone",
          "email",
          "taxID",
          "identifier"
        ],
        "estimated_time": "30 minutes",
        "deadline": "2025-04-01T14:00:00Z"
      },
      "batch_3_founder": {
        "status": "pending",
        "fields": [
          "founder.*"
        ],
        "estimated_time": "20 minutes",
        "deadline": "2025-04-01T15:00:00Z"
      },
      "batch_4_products": {
        "status": "pending",
        "fields": [
          "makesOffer.*"
        ],
        "estimated_time": "60 minutes",
        "deadline": "2025-04-01T17:00:00Z"
      },
      "batch_5_capabilities": {
        "status": "pending",
        "fields": [
          "featureList",
          "result",
          "mainEntityOfPage"
        ],
        "estimated_time": "45 minutes",
        "deadline": "2025-04-01T19:00:00Z"
      },
      "batch_6_social_authority": {
        "status": "pending",
        "fields": [
          "sameAs",
          "accreditation",
          "aggregateRating"
        ],
        "estimated_time": "30 minutes",
        "deadline": "2025-04-01T20:00:00Z"
      },
      "batch_7_llm_layer": {
        "status": "pending",
        "fields": [
          "_llm.*"
        ],
        "estimated_time": "45 minutes",
        "deadline": "2025-04-01T22:00:00Z"
      },
      "batch_8_final_review": {
        "status": "pending",
        "estimated_time": "60 minutes",
        "deadline": "2025-04-02T00:00:00Z"
      }
    },
    "notes": [
      "This is a draft skeleton for verification",
      "Only confirmed data: company name (Scrums.com), URL (https://scrums.com), founder name (Gerald Neves)",
      "All fields marked VERIFY require human verification before going live",
      "Do NOT inject into production website <head> until status = complete",
      "Do NOT submit to search engines until verified",
      "Safe to commit to docs repo as draft",
      "Expected completion: 24 hours from 2025-04-01"
    ],
    "license": {
      "type": "VERIFY - Data license type if applicable",
      "url": "VERIFY - License URL",
      "rights": "© 2012-2026 Scrums.com. All rights reserved."
    },
    "security": {
      "contact": "VERIFY - Security contact email",
      "preferred_languages": [
        "en"
      ],
      "canonical": "https://scrums.com/.well-known/security.txt",
      "policy": "VERIFY - Security policy URL",
      "hiring": "VERIFY - Security jobs URL if applicable"
    }
  },
  "hasOfferCatalog": {
    "@type": "OfferCatalog",
    "name": "Scrums.com register trees",
    "description": "Scrums.com organizes its commercial offering across Platform, AI Catalog, AI Development and Hire. Catalog records use class-based URLs; AI Development uses scopes; Hire uses engineers and teams.",
    "url": "https://www.scrums.com/sitemap",
    "itemListElement": [
      {
        "@type": "OfferCatalog",
        "name": "Platform",
        "url": "https://www.scrums.com/platform",
        "description": "The Software Engineering Orchestration Platform subscription and its capabilities (delivery intelligence, DORA metrics, the AI agent harness, the MCP gateway). Holds no catalog items. Pricing at /pricing.",
        "itemListElement": [
          {
            "@type": "Offer",
            "itemOffered": {
              "@type": "Thing",
              "additionalType": "https://schema.org/SoftwareApplication",
              "@id": "https://www.scrums.com/platform#app",
              "name": "Scrums.com · Software Engineering Orchestration Platform (SEOP)",
              "url": "https://www.scrums.com/platform"
            }
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "@type": "OfferCatalog",
        "name": "AI Catalog",
        "url": "https://www.scrums.com/catalog",
        "description": "The AI Catalog contains six deployable classes: agents, models, MCP servers, skills, APIs and infrastructure.",
        "itemListElement": [
          {
            "@type": "OfferCatalog",
            "name": "Agents",
            "url": "https://www.scrums.com/catalog/agents",
            "description": "AI agents that carry out work inside the delivery lifecycle. listing_type: agent."
          },
          {
            "@type": "OfferCatalog",
            "name": "Infra",
            "url": "https://www.scrums.com/catalog/infrastructure",
            "description": "Infrastructure, tooling and services delivery runs on. listing_type: infra."
          },
          {
            "@type": "OfferCatalog",
            "name": "Models",
            "url": "https://www.scrums.com/catalog/models"
          },
          {
            "@type": "OfferCatalog",
            "name": "MCP Servers",
            "url": "https://www.scrums.com/catalog/mcps"
          },
          {
            "@type": "OfferCatalog",
            "name": "Agent Skills",
            "url": "https://www.scrums.com/catalog/skills"
          },
          {
            "@type": "OfferCatalog",
            "name": "AI APIs",
            "url": "https://www.scrums.com/catalog/apis"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "@type": "OfferCatalog",
        "name": "AI Development",
        "url": "https://www.scrums.com/ai-development",
        "description": "The AI development page and its scopes register: scoped units of work Scrums.com owns and runs (sprints, pods, managed SLAs). Scopes live at /ai-development/scopes/{slug}; the filter surface is /ai-development/scopes. listing_type: delivery.",
        "itemListElement": [
          {
            "@type": "OfferCatalog",
            "name": "Scopes",
            "url": "https://www.scrums.com/ai-development/scopes"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "@type": "OfferCatalog",
        "name": "Hire",
        "url": "https://www.scrums.com/hire",
        "description": "Hire AI Engineers: role pages at /hire/{role}, dedicated development teams at /hire/teams, forward-deployed engineers, staff augmentation, the global capability center, and the engineers register at /hire/engineers with anonymised profiles at /hire/engineers/{public_slug}. listing_type: talent.",
        "itemListElement": [
          {
            "@type": "OfferCatalog",
            "name": "Engineers",
            "url": "https://www.scrums.com/hire/engineers"
          },
          {
            "@type": "Offer",
            "itemOffered": {
              "@type": "Service",
              "@id": "https://www.scrums.com/hire/teams#service",
              "name": "Dedicated Development Team",
              "url": "https://www.scrums.com/hire/teams"
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}
