{"method":"indicative_seeded_v0","provenance":"Unless a market carries its own provenance, seeded from observable comparables (10 Aug 2026 market scan): Prolific participant rates $8-12/hr plus 42.8% platform fee; 3-worker consensus fulfilment $1.15-2.60/task; Proof.com remote notarisation $10-25 wholesale plus $4 IAL2 identity verification; Mercor-class expert pay $85+/hr. Indicative until replaced by real clears. check.general repriced 1 Oct 2026 from 0.80 to 1.25 so the responder's take-home clears the published floor; the previous figure did not. consensus.3.general repriced 4 Oct 2026 from 3.50 to 4.70, inside its published band of 2.60 to 5.00, for the same reason and because it now takes paid orders: at 3.50 each of three responders took home 0.93 for 5 seeded minutes, 0.19 a minute against the floor of 0.25; the lowest price that clears the floor at 5 minutes is (0.25 x 5 x 3) / 0.8 = 4.69. The floor did not move. check.general is live from 4 Oct 2026: sold at its seeded price and answered by hand by a named group, not cleared by an auction. consensus.3.general is open for quotes and registered interest, and opens for orders once its three responders are in place.","market_provenance":[{"id":"countersign.accessibility_statement","title":"Accessibility conformance judgment","provenance":"Seeded 13 Sep 2026, revised 14 Sep 2026. Unit anchor: Accessible.org publishes USD 100-250 per primary page or screen and USD 25-100 per light page for fully manual WCAG 2.1/2.2 AA evaluation, with most audits totalling USD 1,250-2,750, plus USD 350 to produce a VPAT or ACR from an audit (pricing stated accurate 25 July 2026, retrieved 14 Sep 2026). This market sells the same unit, narrowed to specified criteria. Rate anchor: the same publisher lists technical accessibility expert time at USD 195 per hour with a two-hour minimum; 25 active minutes at that rate is USD 81. Lower bound: published fixed-price whole-site audits (Optimum Web, EUR 319 for WCAG 2.1 AA, 3-5 business days) scaled to one page, the cheapest published provider found and recorded as a floor rather than a centre. Coverage anchor: automated tools reliably test roughly 20-40% of distinct WCAG success criteria; axe-core detected 22.6% and Evinced 62.8% of issues found in manual audits (January 2026 study). The base sits below both the per-page unit anchor and the hourly rate anchor because the scope is narrower: a judgment on specified criteria after automation, not a full manual evaluation. The cited comparable's auditors are certified DHS Trusted Testers; this market requires IAAP WAS or CPWA, a different credential and not necessarily a cheaper one. Indicative until replaced by real clears. Class table cs-a11y-classes-2026-09-23: Seeded 23 Sep 2026 by Jesús Quintana, author of a11y-toolkit (github.com/kinti/a11y-toolkit), from _EFFORT in a11ycrit.py and docs/effort-class-table.md in that repository. The exchange's copy, version cs-a11y-classes-2026-09-23, governs pricing on this market; the repository's copy is the supplier's statement of the human work remaining after the machine. Effort anchors are the midpoints of the seeded minute ranges and bands are the ranges themselves. Rate USD 2.80 per active minute gross, carried over from the 14 Sep anchor for this market (USD 70 per attestation at 25 minutes); take rate 25 percent, so USD 2.10 per active minute to the responder (USD 126 an hour, against the published floor of USD 0.25 a minute and Accessible.org's published USD 195 an hour retail). Base = rate x anchor minutes; band = rate x [low, high] minutes. Indicative until real completions replace the anchors."},{"id":"countersign.certified_translation","title":"Certified translation countersign","provenance":"Seeded 23 Sep 2026. Unit anchor: Verdacert (US) publishes USD 11.95 per page to review and certify a submitted AI draft at 48 hours and USD 22.95 at 24 hours; MotaWord publishes proofreading and MTPE from USD 0.06 per word, USD 15 for a 250-word page. UK retail certified translation, which includes the translation itself, runs GBP 25 to 40 per page (Locate Translate 25, Kings of Translation 29.90, Official Translation Services 29.99, DHC 40), and Lingo Service prices an additional certificate at GBP 25. Effort anchor 12 minutes to compare 250 words against the source, correct and sign. Credential lane per the ATC, CIOL and ITI joint statement of 25 July 2024."}],"wage_floor":{"per_active_minute_usd":0.25,"note":"Published floor, net to the responder, per active minute, equivalent to $15.00 an hour net. A policy commitment, not a parameter. It sits above the participant rates this index is seeded from, which is deliberate: a market whose clearing price does not cover the floor does not open. Revisited when measured completion times replace seeded effort anchors, and never tuned to make a market look ready."},"how_to_read":{"base":"The indicative clearing price a buyer pays for one task in this market, before multipliers.","band":"The spread of the underlying comparables, scaled by the same multipliers. It is a range of observed market prices, not a statistical confidence interval.","effort_minutes":"A seeded estimate of active minutes per responder, used only to derive per-minute figures. Replaced by measured completion times once the book runs.","take_rate":"The clearing fee retained by the exchange. Responders are never charged.","state":"Whether a market can be traded, which is a separate property from its price. The index publishes an indicative price for every listed market, because a published reference rate for a market with no volume yet is what an index is for, and it keeps the price tied to its provenance. open: the market takes quotes. live: the market takes quotes and orders, an order is paid for and answered by hand by a named group, and fulfilment carries the number of responders behind it; a market is published live only while payment and enough responders stand behind it. opening: the market is listed with its reference rate but has no supply behind it yet, so a quote returns market_not_open and interest is recorded against its market_id.","provenance":"Where a price comes from. The index-wide provenance applies to every market unless the market carries its own, in which case the market's provenance replaces it and is listed in market_provenance.","derived":"Every per-minute and per-hour figure in a quote is derived from base, take_rate and effort_minutes. Nothing is measured yet, and the response says so."},"class_tables":{"cs-a11y-classes-2026-09-23":{"markets":["countersign.accessibility_statement"],"rate_per_minute_usd":2.8,"take_rate":0.25,"classes":{"MIN":{"base":5.6,"band":[2.8,8.4],"effort_minutes":2,"minutes_seed":[1,3]},"MED":{"base":21,"band":[14,28],"effort_minutes":7.5,"minutes_seed":[5,10]},"MAX":{"base":63,"band":[42,84],"effort_minutes":22.5,"minutes_seed":[15,30]}},"derivation":"Effort anchors are the midpoints of the seeded minute ranges and bands are the ranges themselves. Rate USD 2.80 per active minute gross, carried over from the 14 Sep anchor for this market (USD 70 per attestation at 25 minutes); take rate 25 percent, so USD 2.10 per active minute to the responder (USD 126 an hour, against the published floor of USD 0.25 a minute and Accessible.org's published USD 195 an hour retail). Base = rate x anchor minutes; band = rate x [low, high] minutes. Indicative until real completions replace the anchors.","rules":["A measured automated-fail (the pack row carries value, e.g. {measured: \"3.91:1\"}) earns its criterion the MIN class for the human confirmation. The evidence is in the pack; the human confirms rather than recomputes. The class basis is recorded as automated_fail_confirmation.","not-flagged never earns a lower class. \"The machine looked and found nothing\" is weaker than a confirmation, so the criterion keeps its table class.","A criterion quoted at its class settles at the MIN price when the verdict is not_applicable with a reason. The quote is the maximum; the buyer pays for examination that happened. In Stage 0 this is a published rule and a field on each quote line (settles_at_min_if_not_applicable); settlement itself is Stage 1."],"corollary":"A MIN confirmation buys a fail verdict with basis confirmed, or a declined with a reason. A pass on that criterion requires the full examination at the table class. 1.4.3 is the worked case: 3.91:1 measured is confirmed at MIN; a pass on 1.4.3 needs gradients, images and hover states examined, and is MAX.","provenance":"Seeded 23 Sep 2026 by Jesús Quintana, author of a11y-toolkit (github.com/kinti/a11y-toolkit), from _EFFORT in a11ycrit.py and docs/effort-class-table.md in that repository. The exchange's copy, version cs-a11y-classes-2026-09-23, governs pricing on this market; the repository's copy is the supplier's statement of the human work remaining after the machine.","criteria":[{"id":"1.1.1","class":"MIN"},{"id":"1.2.1","class":"MED"},{"id":"1.2.2","class":"MIN"},{"id":"1.2.3","class":"MAX"},{"id":"1.2.4","class":"MAX"},{"id":"1.2.5","class":"MAX"},{"id":"1.3.1","class":"MED"},{"id":"1.3.2","class":"MED"},{"id":"1.3.3","class":"MIN"},{"id":"1.3.4","class":"MIN"},{"id":"1.3.5","class":"MIN"},{"id":"1.4.1","class":"MED"},{"id":"1.4.2","class":"MIN"},{"id":"1.4.3","class":"MAX"},{"id":"1.4.4","class":"MIN"},{"id":"1.4.5","class":"MED"},{"id":"1.4.10","class":"MED"},{"id":"1.4.11","class":"MED"},{"id":"1.4.12","class":"MED"},{"id":"1.4.13","class":"MED"},{"id":"2.1.1","class":"MED"},{"id":"2.1.2","class":"MAX"},{"id":"2.1.4","class":"MAX"},{"id":"2.2.1","class":"MIN"},{"id":"2.2.2","class":"MED"},{"id":"2.3.1","class":"MAX"},{"id":"2.4.1","class":"MIN"},{"id":"2.4.2","class":"MIN"},{"id":"2.4.3","class":"MIN"},{"id":"2.4.4","class":"MIN"},{"id":"2.4.5","class":"MED"},{"id":"2.4.6","class":"MED"},{"id":"2.4.7","class":"MAX"},{"id":"2.4.11","class":"MED"},{"id":"2.5.1","class":"MED"},{"id":"2.5.2","class":"MIN"},{"id":"2.5.3","class":"MIN"},{"id":"2.5.4","class":"MIN"},{"id":"2.5.7","class":"MED"},{"id":"2.5.8","class":"MED"},{"id":"3.1.1","class":"MIN"},{"id":"3.1.2","class":"MIN"},{"id":"3.2.1","class":"MIN"},{"id":"3.2.2","class":"MIN"},{"id":"3.2.3","class":"MED"},{"id":"3.2.4","class":"MED"},{"id":"3.2.6","class":"MIN"},{"id":"3.3.1","class":"MAX"},{"id":"3.3.2","class":"MIN"},{"id":"3.3.3","class":"MAX"},{"id":"3.3.4","class":"MAX"},{"id":"3.3.7","class":"MAX"},{"id":"3.3.8","class":"MIN"},{"id":"4.1.2","class":"MIN"},{"id":"4.1.3","class":"MAX"}]}},"known_gaps":["Prices are seeded from third-party comparables, not set by an auction. Orders in live markets are sold at the seeded price and answered by hand; there is no order book yet.","Effort anchors are estimates and are the weakest input in the model.","task_type does not yet move price; it is recorded to decide which markets open next.","Seal-tier pricing is partner cost plus a fixed spread and takes no urgency premium.","A market can be listed with an indicative price before it trades, and markets in that state take no quotes.","Per-criterion effort classes are the supplier's seeded minute ranges, not measured completions. The class a criterion sits in is a judgment about human work, published in full and open to argument."],"contact":"index@countersignatory.com"}