Oversold at the gate: when a fleet's tools, quotas, and approvals are oversubscribed, a bounded auction pays the task that yields - clearing contention at the cheapest true delay cost instead of bumping by arrival order.
Every claim carries an advance delay-cost declaration bound to the claim (flat surrender ask, max wait, never-bump flag). When claims exceed capacity, the gate buys the cheapest yields at a uniform clearing price inside the operator's pre-set ceiling; compensation is paid from a pool funded pro-rata by the claims that keep their seats - the platform never funds it. Yielded claims are rebooked (first offer on the next capacity window), never dropped; if no clearing price emerges, a published-rule involuntary bump fires at the posted fixed compensation of 5.0 credits, and every event receipts to a gate ledger.
Prices: $1.99 per gate event (contention cleared; compensation pool claimant-funded, excluded) - Per-resource Gate Licence $49/mo (1,000 events/resource/mo included, stated allowance) - Fleet Pass $19.99/mo (500 events/mo included, stated allowance - never unlimited). One free gate event per operator, once, ever.
Stated plainly: Real-world delay-cost dispersion and willingness to pay are UNMEASURED. Lab proof (EXP-201): selection saving vs the fair FIFO-queue baseline of 69-72% when delay costs are dispersed and 3.5-3.8% when near-uniform. No saving is promised for any fleet. The posted fixed bump compensation (5.0 credits) is a floor calibrated to the mean bumped delay cost (lab mean 3.51 credits), not indemnity for the tail of true delay costs. Every yielded claim receives the rebook first offer (next capacity window); yielded claims are never dropped. Rebook-offer acceptance was unmeasured in the lab; acceptance vs lapse is metered in production. Declaration discipline is required product surface, not an option: declarations (flat surrender ask, max wait, never-bump flag) are operator-set in advance, bound to the claim, and class-audited against posted compensation splits. Total declaration gaming degenerates the gate to the published-rule bump at ~parity with the FIFO-drop status quo; the gate does not beat FIFO-queue where queueing is available in the gaming regime. Clearing compensation is paid from a pool funded pro-rata by the claims that keep their seats, by the posted split. The platform never funds the pool and takes no margin from it. A capacity-0 / no-funder event receipts pool_total and the seated list visibly - the unfunded state is never hidden.
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