{"schema_version":1,"research_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp06_external_evaluation_20260803","source_assessment_id":"catalytic_pathway_enablement__film_media_production:P2:v0","cell_id":"catalytic_pathway_enablement__film_media_production","search_queries":["site:filmla.com filming location permission owner insurance permit FilmLA official","site:film.ca.gov location filming property owner permission film commission official","film location platform property owners production location marketplace official","film commission location database production companies official services locations","site:bls.gov occupational employment wages producers directors 2025 official","film office location software pricing official film commission locations platform","site:nyc.gov film office locations filming private property permission official","site:afci.org film commission standards locations production assistance official"],"sources":[{"source_id":"S1","title":"Get a Film Permit","publisher":"FilmLA","url":"https://filmla.com/get-a-film-permit/","source_class":"OFFICIAL_GUIDANCE","publication_date":"n.d.","accessed_at":"2026-08-03","claims_supported":["FilmLA provides production-planning assistance intended to flag location challenges and save time and money.","Permit release requires liability-insurance evidence, while requirements vary by jurisdiction and activity.","Applications undergo vetting, clarification, insurance review, production coordination, and potentially surveys, community meetings, safety walk-throughs, and monitoring.","Location workflows involve production, insurance, public-authority, and community interfaces that cannot simply be bypassed."]},{"source_id":"S2","title":"About Us","publisher":"FilmLA","url":"https://filmla.com/about-us/","source_class":"OFFICIAL_ORGANIZATION_DATA","publication_date":"n.d.","accessed_at":"2026-08-03","claims_supported":["FilmLA is an official film-office service provider operating centralized, multi-jurisdictional permit coordination.","FilmLA reports that its services expanded in response to industry, government, and community needs.","Its existing services include production planning, neighborhood notification, community relations, monitoring, and digital permit coordination.","FilmLA expressly lacks permit-approval authority; government jurisdictions retain that authority.","FilmLA reports that most of its operating budget is employee compensation, indicating that coordination is labor-intensive."]},{"source_id":"S3","title":"Guidelines for Best Practices","publisher":"California Film Commission","url":"https://film.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Guidelines-for-Best-Practices.pdf","source_class":"OFFICIAL_GUIDANCE","publication_date":"2020-11","accessed_at":"2026-08-03","claims_supported":["Filming on private property requires the owner's permission, consent, and signed location agreement in addition to a public permit.","Extraordinary activities such as pyrotechnics, excessive noise, drones, street closures, and extended filming trigger additional safeguards.","Productions must restore filming sites and comply with traffic-control and public-safety requirements.","Owner consent and public permitting are separate authorization boundaries."]},{"source_id":"S4","title":"Location Service Agencies, Libraries, & Directories","publisher":"California Film Commission","url":"https://film.ca.gov/locations/location-service-agencies/","source_class":"OFFICIAL_GUIDANCE","publication_date":"n.d.","accessed_at":"2026-08-03","claims_supported":["Location-service companies already represent properties and connect them to productions for fees.","California maintains numerous location libraries and marketplace-style services, demonstrating dense prior art.","In California, a company representing a property for a percentage of the location fee generally requires a real-estate broker's license, subject to limited exceptions.","The relay's legal classification and compensation model require jurisdiction-specific review."]},{"source_id":"S5","title":"Make Your Home a Star","publisher":"New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment","url":"https://www.nyc.gov/site/mome/industries/make-home-star.page","source_class":"OFFICIAL_GUIDANCE","publication_date":"n.d.","accessed_at":"2026-08-03","claims_supported":["Private-location use is a private negotiation between the property owner and production.","Location brokers, scouts, and listing services are established pathways for connecting properties to productions.","Owners are advised to verify production identity, insurance, crew and vehicle footprint, schedule, special effects, tenant and neighbor impacts, restrictions, payment, damage protection, and restoration.","The breadth of recommended information supports the existence of substantial translation and assurance work before informed agreement."]},{"source_id":"S6","title":"About Film Commissions","publisher":"Association of Film Commissioners International","url":"https://afci.org/about-film-commissions/","source_class":"STANDARD","publication_date":"n.d.","accessed_at":"2026-08-03","claims_supported":["Film commissions already provide location suggestions, procedural guidance, government connections, community liaison, and production support.","AFCI frames these services as helping productions secure locations, avoid delays, and work efficiently.","AFCI requires legitimacy checks and warns against favoritism, endorsement, and actual or apparent conflicts of interest.","Government-endorsed nonprofit film commissions are identifiable potential sponsors or stewards for a bounded relay."]},{"source_id":"S7","title":"Location Pro — Film Location Management Platform","publisher":"Location Pro","url":"https://locationpro.com/","source_class":"COMMERCIAL_FIRST_PARTY","publication_date":"2026","accessed_at":"2026-08-03","claims_supported":["A commercial product already combines location libraries, owner self-submission, gated contacts, inquiry tracking, reservations, permits, approvals, permissions, and analytics for film offices.","Role-based permissions, audit trails, document access controls, and workflow dashboards are commercially claimed capabilities.","Software components of the proposal are implementable but are not distinctive by themselves.","Public pricing is unavailable, leaving procurement cost uncertain."]},{"source_id":"S8","title":"Occupational Employment and Wages — May 2025","publisher":"U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics","url":"https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ocwage.htm","source_class":"OFFICIAL_ORGANIZATION_DATA","publication_date":"2026-05-15","accessed_at":"2026-08-03","claims_supported":["May 2025 national mean wages were $54.47 per hour for producers and directors, $40.44 for public-relations specialists, $31.90 for interpreters and translators, and $51.32 for project-management specialists.","These occupational wages provide a defensible labor-cost anchor for broad 2026 resource-equivalent bands.","The estimates do not establish local specialist rates, benefits, legal costs, software prices, or actual relay staffing requirements."]}],"problem_evidence":{"support":"MODERATE","rationale":"Official guidance demonstrates a real, consequential multi-party workflow: owners must separately consent; productions must communicate identity, insurance, footprint, schedule, hazards, impacts, restrictions, payment, and restoration; and public permits remain distinct. FilmLA also provides planning and clarification services specifically to prevent conflict and delay. However, no located source measures how often otherwise feasible, complete requests fail specifically because contact, trust, or translation must be rebuilt. Prevalence, delay magnitude, abandonment rates, and attributable cost therefore remain unverified.","source_ids":["S1","S2","S3","S5"]},"stakeholder_evidence":{"support":"STRONG","rationale":"FilmLA is an identifiable operating analogue and potential authorizer or adopter: it centrally coordinates location-related workflows, reports service expansion in response to industry, government, and community needs, and already supplies planning and community liaison. AFCI describes government-endorsed film commissions as providing location assistance, procedural guidance, legitimacy checks, government connections, and community liaison. These sources establish credible institutional authority and expressed operational need, though no organization was found requesting this exact relay design or committing funds.","source_ids":["S2","S6"]},"prior_art":{"proximity":"ESTABLISHED_PRACTICE","closest_analogues":[{"name":"FilmLA centralized film-office coordination","similarity":"A standing intermediary already reuses expertise, planning processes, community relationships, insurance review, digital intake, and government interfaces across successive productions.","remaining_difference":"FilmLA's documented model centers permit coordination and community relations, not a separately evaluated, opt-in private-property trust relay with owner profiles, consent-quality checks, relationship-regeneration metrics, and matched ordinary-path comparison.","source_ids":["S1","S2"]},{"name":"Private location-service brokers and marketplaces","similarity":"Existing services represent properties, list locations, introduce productions and owners, and commonly receive fees or commissions.","remaining_difference":"The proposal specifies a neutral, published, non-authoritative pathway with conflict controls, easy refusal, no undisclosed representation, protective rerouting, and measurement of whether relational capital can be regenerated without proportional effort.","source_ids":["S4","S5"]},{"name":"AFCI film-commission liaison practice","similarity":"Film commissions already offer location suggestions, procedural translation, government connections, community liaison, legitimacy screening, and support from first contact through production close.","remaining_difference":"The proposal narrows this practice to private-property consent readiness and adds explicit eligibility, turnover, selectivity, confidentiality, regeneration, and causal-comparison requirements.","source_ids":["S6"]},{"name":"Location Pro film-office platform","similarity":"The platform already offers owner-submitted listings, gated contacts, inquiry tracking, reservations, permits, approvals, access controls, audit trails, and analytics.","remaining_difference":"Software does not establish a neutral human trust relationship, informed consent quality, non-coercive refusal, multi-cycle relationship recovery, or a causal effect relative to ordinary location work.","source_ids":["S7"]}],"distinctive_claim_remaining":"The remaining claim is an empirical incremental-effect claim, not a broad practice-novelty claim: among complete, routine, opt-in private-location requests, adding governed owner profiles, a standardized impact-and-assurance packet, neutral translation, conflict screening, and post-case relationship regeneration to existing directories and film-office services will reduce elapsed time and combined producer-owner clarification labor over successive cycles, without increasing pressured consent, misrouting, confidentiality incidents, relationship withdrawal, specialist effort per case, or downstream permit backlog.","confidence":"HIGH"},"implementation_evidence":{"support":"MODERATE","rationale":"The workflow is technically implementable using already demonstrated intake, owner-listing, permission, audit, dashboard, and permit-platform capabilities, and a six-case probe can operate manually. Film-office liaison roles and governance principles also exist. Feasibility remains conditional on written opt-in, data minimization, access control, conflict disclosure, workload caps, independent consent checks, and preservation of owner and public authority. Jurisdiction-specific counsel must determine whether the relay constitutes licensed property representation or brokerage, particularly if compensation depends on location fees. No source establishes actual interoperability, data-retention terms, consent validity, staffing capacity, or safety performance for this design.","source_ids":["S1","S3","S4","S6","S7","S8"]},"scores":{"meaningful_impact":{"score":3,"rationale":"Timelier decisions could reduce repeated scouting, scheduling disruption, and owner burden, but prevalence, baseline delay, attributable cost, and realized impact are unmeasured.","source_ids":["S1","S2","S5"]},"stakeholder_pull":{"score":4,"rationale":"Film offices explicitly provide location, process, liaison, and delay-reduction support, and FilmLA reports adapting services to industry, government, and community needs. No exact adopter commitment was found.","source_ids":["S2","S6"]},"incremental_advantage":{"score":2,"rationale":"Directories, brokers, film commissions, and integrated film-office platforms already cover much of the proposed pathway. Advantage depends on untested governance, consent-quality, regeneration, and multi-cycle labor effects.","source_ids":["S2","S4","S5","S6","S7"]},"distinctiveness_plausibility":{"score":2,"rationale":"The practice family is established. Only the narrow causal combination and measured non-coercive regeneration claim remains plausibly distinctive.","source_ids":["S2","S4","S6","S7"]},"technical_implementability":{"score":4,"rationale":"A manual pilot needs ordinary forms, controlled records, communication, and measurement; commercial platforms demonstrate more advanced supporting capabilities. Integration and privacy configuration remain unverified.","source_ids":["S7"]},"adoption_authority_feasibility":{"score":4,"rationale":"Government-endorsed film commissions and FilmLA are credible bounded-pilot sponsors, while owners and public bodies retain substantive authority. Brokerage classification must be resolved locally.","source_ids":["S2","S3","S4","S6"]},"evidence_readiness":{"score":2,"rationale":"The proposal contains observable outcomes and falsifiers, but no external prevalence study, operational baseline, adopter commitment, live comparison, or vendor price is available.","source_ids":["S1","S2","S8"]},"safety_net_benefit":{"score":3,"rationale":"Eligibility rules, easy refusal, conflict checks, access controls, and rerouting could protect owners and relationships, but centralized intermediation also creates coercion, privacy, favoritism, and gatekeeping risks that require live monitoring.","source_ids":["S3","S4","S5","S6","S7"]},"scalability":{"score":2,"rationale":"Reusable records and software can scale, but relational stewardship, specialist interpretation, refresh work, jurisdictional rules, and downstream permit capacity may scale approximately with case volume.","source_ids":["S1","S2","S6","S7"]}},"score_confidence":"MODERATE","costs":{"first_evidence":{"band_2026_usd":"10K_TO_50K","scope":"Design and execute the proposed six-request, three-property matched probe, including intake preparation, steward time, participant consent checks, measurement, incident readiness, and a short legal/privacy review.","confidence":"MODERATE","assumptions":["Approximately 160-320 combined hours across a steward, evaluator, production participants, and specialist advisers.","Occupational wages are converted to resource-equivalent costs using a benefits/overhead factor rather than treated as contractor prices.","Existing communication and document tools are used; no custom platform is built.","Property access fees, insurance premiums, permit fees, and shoot costs are excluded because they are cofactors rather than relay evidence costs."],"source_ids":["S7","S8"]},"initial_deployment_startup":{"band_2026_usd":"50K_TO_250K","scope":"Create production and owner interfaces, eligibility and conflict rules, confidentiality and retention controls, operating procedures, training, initial property profiles, metrics, and configured case-management tooling for one jurisdiction.","confidence":"LOW","assumptions":["Uses configured commercial or existing government tooling rather than a bespoke platform.","Includes jurisdiction-specific legal analysis of brokerage, privacy, records, procurement, and insurance issues.","Requires roughly 0.5-1.5 staff-years plus specialist and configuration work.","Public vendor pricing was not available."],"source_ids":["S4","S6","S7","S8"]},"operational_launch":{"band_2026_usd":"250K_TO_1M","scope":"Run a 6-12 month single-region launch with steward coverage, specialist escalation, property onboarding, production outreach, independent safety and consent monitoring, software administration, and evaluation.","confidence":"LOW","assumptions":["Approximately two to five staff-equivalents across stewardship, operations, community relations, data administration, and evaluation.","Includes benefits, overhead, contracted legal/privacy support, training, and contingency.","Excludes production-specific property rentals, permits, insurance, and public-safety charges.","Volume and service-level requirements are unknown."],"source_ids":["S2","S6","S7","S8"]},"annual_recurring":{"band_2026_usd":"250K_TO_1M","scope":"Maintain one regional relay, including staffing, relationship and profile refresh, access-control administration, specialist coverage, audit, incident response, software support, and periodic independent evaluation.","confidence":"LOW","assumptions":["Two to five continuing staff-equivalents depending on volume and hours of coverage.","FilmLA's disclosure that compensation is its dominant operating cost supports labor as the principal recurring resource.","Software, insurance, legal, and cybersecurity costs are included only as allowances because direct quotes were unavailable.","Expansion across jurisdictions would require additional legal and operating capacity."],"source_ids":["S2","S7","S8"]}},"verified_pipeline_gates":{"externally_supported_problem":{"status":"YES","reason":"Official sources verify that private-location decisions require separate owner consent and extensive production, insurance, impact, safety, neighborhood, and restoration information. The exact prevalence and size of trust-related delay remain unknown but do not negate the visible workflow burden.","source_ids":["S1","S3","S5"]},"externally_credible_adopter_or_authorizer":{"status":"YES","reason":"FilmLA and government-endorsed film commissions are identifiable organizations with relevant liaison, location, legitimacy-screening, and workflow responsibilities, although none has committed to this proposal.","source_ids":["S2","S6"]},"distinct_testable_incremental_claim":{"status":"YES","reason":"The remaining claim can be tested against ordinary location work and directory-only or existing-film-office practice using elapsed time, combined labor, successive-cycle effort, consent quality, misroutes, incidents, relationship condition, and downstream load.","source_ids":["S2","S4","S5","S6","S7"]},"bounded_next_evidence_step":{"status":"YES","reason":"A six-request, three-property, opt-in matched probe is bounded, reversible, measurable, and equipped with precommitted stop conditions and explicit comparators.","source_ids":["S3","S5","S6"]},"no_unresolved_safety_or_authority_stop":{"status":"UNCERTAIN","reason":"The proposal correctly preserves owner, insurer, contracting, and public-permit authority, but a sponsor must obtain jurisdiction-specific confirmation that relay conduct, compensation, records handling, and dual-party facilitation do not create brokerage, agency, privacy, or conflict obligations. California guidance makes this a concrete pre-pilot issue.","source_ids":["S3","S4","S5","S6"]},"credible_cost_scope_and_range":{"status":"UNCERTAIN","reason":"The scopes and broad labor-based bands are credible enough for planning, but staffing demand, local loaded rates, specialist coverage, insurance, platform pricing, and legal obligations are not quoted or empirically observed.","source_ids":["S2","S7","S8"]}},"next_evidence_step":"After a sponsoring film office and local counsel approve the non-authoritative, non-commission-based role, preregister and run no more than six routine, complete requests across at least three independently controlled, opt-in properties. Randomize where feasible, or prospectively match each relay case to an ordinary-path case on location type, request complexity, budget class, schedule pressure, insurance readiness, compensation range, season, and permit jurisdiction. Include a secondary comparator using the existing directory or film-office service without the new owner profile and assurance packet where operationally possible. Measure elapsed time and combined hands-on minutes to informed consent or refusal; contacts and clarification cycles; dossier completeness; specialist and steward minutes; effort by cycle and maintained relationship; pressure or misunderstanding signals; misroutes; privacy or conflict events; withdrawals; post-case relationship condition; refresh work; and downstream permit queue. Independently verify that owners understood the request, could refuse easily, and did not treat the relay as access or permit authority. Falsify the problem if complete feasible requests show no recurring contact or translation burden. Falsify the intervention if time and combined labor do not improve relative to comparators, if steward or specialist effort remains approximately proportional to every request or fails to decline across repeated relationships, or if any speed gain is offset by worse consent quality, misrouting, confidentiality incidents, relationship withdrawal, unequal access, or downstream backlog.","blocking_evidence":["No externally measured prevalence or baseline distribution for trust-and-translation delay among otherwise complete, feasible private-location requests.","No production, owner, or film-office commitment to participate, authorize, adopt, or fund the relay.","No live comparator evidence that the proposed layer improves on existing location managers, brokers, directories, film commissions, or integrated platforms.","No evidence that relationship-maintenance effort declines across successive cases rather than scaling one-for-one with volume.","No jurisdiction-specific determination of brokerage, agency, conflict, privacy, public-records, procurement, insurance, or data-retention obligations.","No empirical consent-quality, confidentiality, favoritism, access-equity, workload, or downstream-capacity results.","No vendor quotes or observed staffing model sufficient to narrow deployment and recurring costs.","World novelty, patentability, freedom to operate, market size, and realized impact remain unmeasured."],"research_disposition":"PARTNERED_RESEARCH_PROGRAM","world_novelty_boundary":"This evaluation establishes neither world novelty nor absence of undiscovered analogues. It found established film-office coordination, location brokerage, property marketplaces, owner-listing workflows, community liaison, and integrated location-permit software. Only the narrow, contrastive empirical claim concerning governed private-property trust reuse, consent-preserving translation, regeneration, and non-proportional multi-cycle effort remains open. Patentability, freedom to operate, market size, and realized impact were not assessed.","arm":"COMPLETE_PROPOSAL_PORTFOLIO","candidate_version":0,"controller_recommendation":{"action":"STOP_EMPIRICAL_RESEARCH_NEEDED","repairable":false,"material_progress_observed":true,"progress_targets":["Secure a named film-office sponsor and written opt-in from at least three independently controlled properties and participating productions.","Obtain jurisdiction-specific written legal and authority clearance for the relay's compensation, brokerage or agency status, conflicts, confidentiality, records, insurance, and data handling.","Collect a prospective ordinary-path baseline and execute the preregistered matched six-request probe.","Demonstrate lower combined elapsed time and hands-on effort versus ordinary-path and, where possible, directory-only comparators.","Show that steward and specialist effort does not scale one-for-one and that relationship-related effort is stable or declines on repeated cycles.","Show no deterioration in informed refusal, consent quality, privacy, conflict incidence, participant withdrawal, equitable access, relationship condition, or downstream permit load.","Obtain staffing observations and vendor or internal implementation quotes sufficient to narrow launch and recurring cost bands."],"reason":"Web evidence confirms a consequential workflow, credible institutional sponsors, strong prior art, implementable components, and a bounded test. It cannot establish the candidate's central incremental effect, multi-cycle relationship regeneration, consent safety, workload scaling, or adopter commitment. Those questions require proprietary operational data and live participation, so further bounded web research cannot resolve the decision."},"proposal_index":2}