A proof surface earns nothing by blurring what is real. Every card, demo, and data point on this estate carries one of five labels — a claim about how real it is, and therefore about how you can check it. Here is the decoder.
A LIVE label means the thing is running in production and you can verify it independently this minute — like the public chain audit behind the hub's Synthetic ⇄ Live receipt toggle, fetched by your browser, not quoted by us. If a LIVE claim can't be checked from outside, it doesn't get the label.
BETA systems (like the Ishtar console) are genuinely operational but changing; demo tenants use demo data. What you see works; what it looks like next month may differ.
PREVIEW marks surfaces we show before their live claim has been re-checked — a recorded run, or a capability pending its verification pass. It is the honest middle state between "watch this video" and "check it yourself."
The tool-call demo hashes synthetic receipts with real SHA-256 in your browser; the sample gallery includes a deliberately broken record. No real customer, call, or payment appears — but the cryptography you're testing is the production mechanism.
Field guides like this one, scenario sheets, and the pilot-economics calculator are ILLUSTRATIVE: they teach the shape of the thing. They are never evidence, never a customer result, never a performance claim.
Real data or nothing: nothing on this estate simulates being live. When a live source is unreachable, the surface says so instead of showing a plausible fake — an unreachable ledger renders as an honest failure, not a cached impression of success. That policy is itself part of what's being sold.