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Day 55 / PUBLIC SNAPSHOT

02FINANCE

Cash first. Normalized second.

Every cost class is separated before any valuation or leverage claim.

TRACKED CASH SPEND

Declared

≥261.42 EUR

Known cash spent across the whole experiment.

Evidence

Tracked cash spend, all-time history: one admissible observation, ≥261.42 EUR on 5 Oct 2026.

NORMALIZED FOUNDER COST

Calculated

≥10,890 EUR

Imputed labour cost at the EU-27 average rate. Not cash spent, salary paid, enterprise value or replacement cost.

AI SPEND

Declared

≥95.46 EUR

AI_API category only: the AI part of tracked cash spend. A lower bound while the source population is incomplete.

INFRASTRUCTURE & TOOLING

Declared

≥165.96 EUR

Infrastructure, developer platform and domain hosting (OVH, GitHub, domains). Part of tracked cash spend; excludes AI.

Reference rate EU-27 · €34.9/h
FOUNDER COST INPUT
EU-27 · 34.9 EUR/hourThe rate Founder cost is calculated with: founder hours × this rate. It stays the input.
CONTEXT ONLY
Spain · 26.4 EUR/hourSame Eurostat concept and period, shown for scale. Not used in any calculation; it cannot change Founder cost.
SOURCE
Eurostat lc_lci_lev · reference period 2025Dataset updated 2026-04-23, retrieved 2026-10-05. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/lc_lci_lev?format=JSON&lang=EN&geo=EU27_2020&geo=ES&time=2025&unit=EUR&lcstruct=D1_D4_MD5&nace_r2=B-S_X_O
EUROSTAT CELL
unit EUR · D1_D4_MD5 · NACE B-S excl. OTotal hourly labour cost (compensation of employees plus taxes minus subsidies) for industry, construction and services excluding public administration, defence and compulsory social security. Not the whole economy.
DECISION
founder-reference-rate-eu-average-20261005-r2Corrects founder-reference-rate-eu-average-20261005: the scope label only; the rate is unchanged. Permission digest 38154fb08a18. Context digest 5b41d7045934.
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