Axiom · Layer

The validity gap · one questionnaire

Estimate it.
Qualify it.
Measure it.

Three figures size the recognition-validity cost your business carries, test whether your book fits, and preview the year-end proof — in a single flow. Change the figures once; the estimate, the gate verdict, and the year-end preview all move with them.

Step 1 · Estimate

The addressable zone, and the coverage it buys.

A first-touch sizing of the part of your validity gap Axiom actually touches — the enforcement-eligible zone — and the recognition-integrity coverage it buys. The full carried gap is shown as context, never as the headline.

Your three figures
Total revenue for your last completed financial year.
Cr
What you pay vendors, suppliers, and subcontractors in a year.
Cr
Roughly what share of that procurement runs through formal written agreements.
70%
0%40%100%
Whether you mostly pay (payables) or mostly collect (receivables) — it shapes the proof.
Eligible · standard
The addressable zone — what Axiom touches
Recognition-integrity coverage. The book never recognises invalid money as valid — certain on every caught item, regardless of recovery.
The gap you carry — context, not the headline

Conservative coefficients at the low end of the evidence range. Lines tagged modeled are not visible in filed accounts (they are estimated); lines tagged observed have a booked footprint. The addressable figure is scaled by your contract-governed share and an enforceability haircut that firms at ingestion, so it is a band, not a point.

Price form — indicative only
Fixed infrastructure fee, per agreement₹—
Agreement-value-band premiumindicative
First quarterfully free

Price = fixed infrastructure fee per agreement + an agreement-value-band premium. The premium is insurance framing — it buys coverage, decoupled from the gap. No quoted total, no capture rate, no prevented-value term. Your figure is prepared in a working session.

Step 2 · Qualify · worst across three layers

Does your book fit the gate?

Three stacked layers — structural fit, enforceability, materiality. The verdict is the worst result across all three, provisional at first touch and firming at ingestion, and it is binding on sales operations.

1
Structural fit

Enough governed surface to act on?

Layer 1

A revenue floor (≥ ₹5 Cr) and a four-band rule on the share of procurement under written agreements — a recognition layer can only enforce validity where an agreement governs the transaction.

Governed sharev1 verdictRouting
< 40%Reject v1Architectural mismatch — routed to an Axiom-led land-and-expand ramp that owns the relationship toward v1. Not an external referral.
40–50%Reject · referralThe referral is internal — into the Axiom-led ramp. The prospect is not handed away.
50–80%Accept v1In scope. 50–60% carries a sub-mature digitisation-lift caveat; 60–80% is a clean accept.
> 80%Accept · priorityHighly governed surface — priority into the v1 funnel.
2
Enforceability haircut

How much of the governed share is enforceable?

Band

Contract-governed is not the same as Axiom-enforceable — a transaction is enforceable only where an invariant-bearing agreement is bound to it. So the governed share takes a maturity-correlated, conservative haircut. Because it firms only at ingestion, it is shown as a band, not a point.

Contract-governed sharestated at first touch70%
Enforceability haircutmaturity-correlatedapplied
Enforceable share (provisional)firms at ingestion≈ band
3
Materiality · two-track

Enough at stake to be worth it?

Layer 3

Two tracks — a prospect qualifies on either, a hard reject only if it fails both.

Track 1 · leakage-led

Value is prevention

Economic addressable ≥ the materiality threshold (≈ ₹20–25 L).

Track 2 · integrity-led

Value is coverage

Price-viability and material integrity coverage — economic addressable not required. For clean, high-agreement-count books whose value is coverage.

Qualitative until pricing calibrates — not an honor-system gap
Combined verdict — worst across layers
What other prospects get — the gate’s full behaviour
< 40% governed
Reject v1
Routed to the Axiom-led land-and-expand ramp; the relationship is not severed.
40–50% governed
Reject · referral
Internal referral into the ramp. Still an Axiom-owned account.
Both tracks fail
Reject · immaterial
Below materiality both ways. Founder logo-override only, capped & excluded from evidence.
> 80% governed, material
Accept · priority
Highly governed and material — priority into the v1 funnel.

Step 3 · Measure · the year-end proof

What a year on Axiom hands back.

After a year, your report returns five separate numbers — graded by certainty, never summed. The two certain lines show from your first free quarter; the rest firm over the year. The illustrative shape for the book you entered, at conservative efficacy:

Book
Payables
First read
Quarter 1 (free)
Full read
Year-end
Billing dependency
None
Blocked
certain
Caught before the payment left the bank, by a pre-payment hold — so the loss is prevented outright, not merely found. Economically certain, and credited to Axiom.
Surfaced
certain
Caught just after the payment or a statutory deadline — Axiom’s certain, fully-attributable detection. On clean and receivables-led books, this is the tangible certain number.
Recovered
your action
The share of surfaced items you then reversed and clawed back. Your action, not ours — so it is reported apart from Surfaced, and neither over-claims the other.
Saved
estimated
Coordination and reconciliation work the layer lifts off your existing roles — the operating-leverage line. Inferred from a self-reported baseline, never a hard number and never summed.
Integrity
certain
Share of recognised value matched, governed and resolved against its agreement, with an auditable trail. Invalid items route to exception and are never recognised — certain by construction.
Measured — process fact

Economic prevention

A process fact is a recorded count and value of what the layer actually did — a measured number, never a modelled or counterfactual savings claim. Split by mechanism: pre-payment Blocked (hard) and post-payment Surfaced → Recovered (soft, because the recovery is your action).

Pre-payment blocked · hard
Hard process fact
Surfaced + recovered · soft
Surfaced with certainty; the recovered part is customer-action-dependent, so this leg is soft.
Soft · action-dependent
× never summed ×
Measured — integrity axis

Recognition integrity

The integrity axis answers a different question from prevention — not “what did the layer stop?” but “how trustworthy is the book?” Held apart from prevented and never summed with it: it is the value the premium buys, and the leg that carries clean and receivables-led books.

Book validity-closed
of recognised value matched, governed, and resolved against its agreement.
Disputed-validity residue
₹0
An invalid item routes to exception and is never recognised — so the governed book carries no validity-driven disputed residue, by construction.
Inferred — soft, labelled

Operating leverage — the saved line

Coordination and exception work the layer takes off existing roles. Quantifiable on a self-reported baseline, so it stays inferred — never a hard number, never summed with prevented, and never a price input.

Year-end reconciliation

What still sits outside coverage.

At year-end your filed accounts are reconciled against the book Axiom governed. The difference is the recognition-validity cost still outside the agreements we cover — your roadmap to expand. The booked part of it is now observable; only the unbooked leakage stays an estimate.

Unaddressed residual · land-and-expand target
Carried gap, refreshed at period-end, minus what came under governance. This is what bringing more agreements into scope removes next.
Estimated · off-surface not fully observable
How to read these

The five numbers answer different questions and add to nothing if combined. Economic prevention is “what did the layer stop?”; integrity is “how trustworthy is the book?”. Surfaced is our certain detection; recovered is your action on it — reported apart so neither over-claims the other.

For clean and receivables-led books, lead with the integrity axis and the saved line, not the structurally-soft economic prevented.

After the questionnaire

The bands above are a starting point, not a quote. They firm to points once your agreements are ingested and the enforceable share is measured. When you are ready, the conversation is a working session — we map this to your actual agreements, then size, qualify, and measure it live.