Legal / tax / payment
Seller entity, tax documentation and a verified payment route.
Evidence ceiling E3Proof boundary
VENDOR READINESS VAULT
A perfect technical evaluation can still die in vendor onboarding.
Finality refuses READY_TO_SIGN until every seller-side onboarding dependency carries a current, unexpired evidence reference.
Current seller state
HOLD_NOT_READY_TO_SIGN
The baseline deliberately remains fail-closed where the current production estate has not verified real-world seller artifacts.
- LEGAL ENTITY
- HOLD
- TAX DOCUMENTATION
- HOLD
- PAYMENT ROUTE
- HOLD
- IP TITLE CHAIN
- HOLD
- CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
- HOLD
- MSA AND EVALUATION SCHEDULE
- HOLD
- PRIVACY TERMS
- HOLD
- SECURITY DOCUMENTATION
- HOLD
- SBOM AND PROVENANCE
- HOLD
- SUPPORT TERMS
- HOLD
- INSURANCE POSTURE
- HOLD
Direct purchasing rail
HOLD_NOT_LIVE
A direct agreement is offered only when seller readiness, the contract rail and the payment rail all carry current evidence.
- READY_TO_SIGN
- FALSE
- Contract rail
- UNVERIFIED
- Payment rail
- UNVERIFIED
- Direct purchase LIVE
- FALSE
Required evidence
READY_TO_SIGN is earned, never typed into a page.
Each gate requires both satisfied=true and a current evidence reference.
IP / authority
Title chain and verified contracting authority.
Contracting
MSA plus evaluation schedule and definitive commercial scope.
Privacy / security
Applicable privacy terms, security package and evidence-handling rules.
Provenance
Current SBOM, source/build lineage and release truth.
Operations
Support terms and required insurance posture.