{"band":"advance","deal_breakers":[{"flag":"Payola-adjacent curator history","flag_id":"payola_adjacency","notes":"No pay-to-play curator appears in Zooted Zone's verified evidence chain. Not triggered.","triggered":false},{"flag":"Claim presented as verification","flag_id":"claimed_as_verified","notes":"The momentum evidence below is scan-verified (full playlist scan 2026-09-15), not a curator promise. Not triggered.","triggered":false},{"flag":"Rights disputed or uncleared","flag_id":"rights_disputed","notes":"No rights dispute on the record for this track. sync_readiness is capped at 2 by missing clean/instrumental versions, not by dispute. Not triggered.","triggered":false},{"flag":"Artificial stream inflation","flag_id":"stream_inflation","notes":"No evidence of bots or engagement-farm inflation in the cited records. Not triggered.","triggered":false},{"flag":"No verifiable presence","flag_id":"no_verifiable_presence","notes":"Artist and track verified live on Spotify. Not triggered.","triggered":false}],"evaluated_by":"CWI A&R department — worked example, 2026-09-15","evaluation_date":"2026-09-15","evidence_that_flips_it":["A timestamped listening session documenting hooks could move hook_density to 4 or 5.","A rescan showing the track dropped from New Rap Hits moves momentum_evidence to 3.","Clean and instrumental masters would move sync_readiness to 4; documented pre-cleared splits would move it to 5.","A second scan-verified playlist hold would push the weighted total into the sign band."],"format":"first-spin-verdict/v1","ledger_handoff":"CWI-HANDOFF gear=first-spin verdict=78 band=advance from=cwi-aar to=cwi-data","scores":[{"criterion":"hook_density","criterion_name":"Hook Density","criterion_weight":0.25,"notes":"Listening-judgment score. Zooted Zone is the catalog's documented breakout single (see replay_pull), and its title/hook motif carried the 24-track AI Learning Set branding. A production verdict must attach a timestamped listening session before this number is trusted; until then it caps at 3 by the estimated-confidence rule.","score":3,"score_confidence":"estimated","sources":[{"fact":"Zooted Zone is the catalog's breakout single; 307,439 lifetime Spotify plays recorded against it (catalog metrics note: 'evidence the track converted at playlist scale before').","observed":"2026-09-14","url":"https://cumulativewebinc.github.io/cwi-learn/catalog.json"}]},{"criterion":"replay_pull","criterion_name":"Replay Pull","criterion_weight":0.25,"notes":"Hits the playlist-scale conversion band dead-on: 307,439 verifiable lifetime plays, observed 2026-09-14 — the calibration reference for score 5 in this rubric.","score":5,"score_confidence":"verified","sources":[{"fact":"Zooted Zone: 307,439 lifetime Spotify plays, observed 2026-09-14.","observed":"2026-09-14","url":"https://cumulativewebinc.github.io/cwi-learn/catalog.json"}]},{"criterion":"lane_clarity","criterion_name":"Lane Clarity","criterion_weight":0.15,"notes":"One-lane pitch: alternative rap / Post-Trap Futurism, stated in the catalog record. Genre and scene line up; artist is based in Frederick, MD.","score":4,"score_confidence":"verified","sources":[{"fact":"Artist genre recorded as ['alternative rap', 'Post-Trap Futurism']; label Cumulative Web Inc.","observed":"2026-09-15","url":"https://cumulativewebinc.github.io/cwi-learn/catalog.json"}]},{"criterion":"sync_readiness","criterion_name":"Sync Readiness","criterion_weight":0.15,"notes":"Catalog record states no clean or FCC-safe versions and no instrumental versions exist, and makes no one-stop or pre-cleared rights claim. That is the band-2 description verbatim: pitchable only with a legal caveat, uncapped only if new evidence lands.","score":2,"score_confidence":"derived","sources":[{"fact":"Catalog facts: clean_or_fcc_safe_versions_exist=false, instrumental_versions_exist=false, rights_certainty_claimed=false; 'No clean/FCC-safe or instrumental versions exist. No one-stop or pre-cleared rights claims are made.'","observed":"2026-09-15","url":"https://cumulativewebinc.github.io/cwi-learn/catalog.json"}]},{"criterion":"momentum_evidence","criterion_name":"Momentum Evidence","criterion_weight":0.2,"notes":"Multiple independent curator-validated wins inside 90 days, each scan-verified: the calibration reference for score 5.","score":5,"score_confidence":"verified","sources":[{"fact":"New Rap Hits (673 followers at acceptance): Shaka Zulu #21, Zooted Zone #30, Doves & Diamonds #31 — verified by full 105-track playlist scan.","observed":"2026-09-15","url":"https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5zhnSpZqKRRaOvRMWuT0bL"}]}],"subject":{"artist":"That Boy Hi Hat","spotify_url":"https://open.spotify.com/track/0emH8ktA8x4DkOFLsG5xkW","track":"Zooted Zone"},"summary":"Advance with conditions: Zooted Zone scores 78 — playlist-scale replay pull (307,439 lifetime plays) plus three scan-verified New Rap Hits holds are real momentum, but sync readiness is capped at 2 (no clean/instrumental versions, no pre-cleared rights claim) and the hook score is an evaluator's listening judgment, not a cited session. Ship clean masters and this is a sign.","taste_profile":"cwi-default","verdict_version":"1.0.0","weighted_percent":78,"weighted_total":3.9}