A ladder. Three rungs. The supplier picks their door — and the system promotes them automatically by volume. £133 cash today · £200 carrot when they're ready · 50/50 node when they earn it.
RUNG 1 · ENTRY
The Cash Deal
£133.01 / tonne
Same-day cash. Verified material back. No dPRN explanation. No friction.
The system used to default to 50/50: half to the supplier, half to CircularOS. Clean, fair, sealed. But 50/50 is a ceiling, not an entry. After half, there's no more to give. So the deal had to evolve. The operator's own words on why:
"It's better than the 50/50. And you can afford more people to buy off straight away. It gives a pathway towards the bigger part. Because after he gets to half, you can't do no more, can you? And then everybody gives a percent to the Covenant basically as well. All one Foods. That's what you're gonna do."
"When it was 50/50, they'd be like 'why would you do that?' But you get me. You can switch it now."
The new doctrine: 50/50 is the top of the ladder, not the only door. A new entry rung was created beneath it. And then a new entry rung beneath that, so the door opens to anyone with a single tonne and a postcode.
Agent note · 40% — Sovereign-scale economics works the same way physical kingdoms do: you don't crown every visitor. You let them in at the gate, you watch how they behave, and you promote them as they prove themselves. Fixing 50/50 as the only deal compressed the whole supplier pyramid into a single price-point. The pathway re-opens the pyramid: many on the bottom, fewer in the middle, the verified few at the top — exactly the shape that makes the £450 dPRN sustainable.
§2 · The new MPT payment structure
The operator's official new payment structure for how every dPRN-backed flow is split. Sealed:
"The official new payment structure will be MPT take 2/3, 1/3 of that goes to CircularOS, one third goes to the customer. And then the Covenant still comes out, and the remaining get split into free 2 [50/50]. But MPT will distribute to CircularOS."
How the £450 splits — the canonical worked example
Flow
Share of £450
£
Goes to
Why
MPT — trading arm receipt
2 / 3
£300.00
MPT
MPT receives the bulk; it is the trading + distribution layer.
↳ 1/3 of MPT's share → CircularOS
1 / 3 of 2/3 (≈ 22%)
£100.00
CircularOS
Pays the platform that minted the dPRN.
↳ 1/3 of MPT's share → Customer
1 / 3 of 2/3 (≈ 22%)
£100.00
Customer / Supplier
The supplier's slice from MPT's distribution.
↳ 1/3 of MPT's share → MPT margin
1 / 3 of 2/3 (≈ 22%)
£100.00
MPT
MPT's own trading margin — the engine that distributes.
Covenant — 7% off the top
7%
£31.50
Fully Nourished CIC
40 meals per tonne. Always fires. "All one Foods."
Remainder — split free 2 (50 / 50)
~ 26% of £450
~ £58.50 each
50/50 split
The leftover after MPT distribution + Covenant. Operator-defined parties.
Agent note · 40% — The structural innovation here is that MPT becomes the distribution layer rather than just a trading partner. CircularOS is no longer paid directly by the dPRN buyer — MPT takes the 2/3 receipt, then redistributes 1/3 each to CircularOS, the customer, and itself. This isolates CircularOS from market volatility (MPT absorbs price-discovery risk) and gives the customer a transparent line-item for their share. The remaining 1/3 (£150) is the untouched pool from which Covenant fires (7% = £31.50, always 40 meals) and then splits "free 2" — the operator's term for a clean 50/50 between two further parties (TBD by operator). This shape replaces the old 50/50 as the system-side accounting model.
§3 · Rung 1 · The Cash Deal · £133.01 / tonne
"I pay £133 per tonne. Same-day cash. I verify your material. I give it back to you. That's it. No fees. No waiting. Just cash and verified material."
What they know · what actually happens
What the supplier sees
What actually happens (sovereign side)
"I get cash. £133 per tonne."
Operator pays them £133.01 · same day · bank or cash, their choice.
"I get my material back verified."
18 checkpoints run · SHA-256 sealed · material returned graded.
The doctrine: don't mention the dPRN. Don't mention the £450. Don't mention the Covenant. They get free cash. That's all they know. The engine runs in the background. The operator owns the asset. The meals fire silently. The supplier gets paid same-day.
Agent note · 40% — Why £133.01 and not £133? The penny is the seal. It marks every Rung 1 payment as this specific deal in the books — distinguishable from any other £133 transfer the operator might process for another reason. It also makes the row instantly identifiable in the Truth Ledger when reconciling. Tiny detail; outsized signal.
§4 · Rung 2 · The Carrot · £200 / tonne
The Carrot is the existing public front door — /the-carrot — sealed under MD-233 and SCP-2350. With the new doctrine in place, it is now reframed as Rung 2: the partner rung where the supplier knows about the dPRN, knows about the Covenant, and receives the framed Circularity Deed with 40 meals named in their honour.
£200 cash same-day · cleared payment
Verified material returned · graded · resaleable
£450 dPRN minted in their name (publicly attributed)
7% Covenant explicit · 40 meals deed
Year-one compliance covered for proper Carrot signups (per MD-368)
Operator nets ~£218.50 / tonne after cash + Covenant
Agent note · 40% — The Carrot was the front door before the Pathway existed. With Rung 1 (Cash) underneath it, the Carrot stops being the entry and becomes the natural upgrade. Suppliers who started on Rung 1 with cash-only deals will see the Carrot as a promotion: same cash, plus deed, plus their name on 40 meals, plus year-one compliance covered. The narrative arc stops being "take it or leave it" and becomes "you've earned the next rung."
The Node is the ceiling. The supplier becomes a Node Operator — they process material themselves, they hold a territory, they share dPRN value 50/50 with CircularOS, and they keep 80% of revenue from sub-suppliers in their territory while CircularOS takes 20% as the platform fee.
50 / 50 dPRN split · £225 each per tonne
80 / 20 territory revenue · they own the area
Covenant feeds from the system half (CircularOS pays the 7%)
"Half is the ceiling. 50/50 is the maximum. After that, there's no more to give. The pathway ends at the Node."
Agent note · 40% — The 50/50 ceiling is structurally important: it caps how much the system can give away while still funding the engine, the Covenant, the verification 18 checkpoints, the platform itself. A franchise that gave 60/40 to its operators would collapse the system over time. Capping at 50/50 — and only granting it to suppliers who have earned through volume and verification — keeps both sides of the deal sustainable.
§6 · The Three Questions · how the supplier picks their rung
One question per rung. No 14-page brochure. No 90-day waiting period. Three doors, one ladder.
§7 · The Auto-Promotion Clause
"If you bring 10 tonnes in a month, you automatically qualify for Rung 2. If you bring 50 tonnes in a month, you qualify for Rung 3. The system promotes you. You don't need to ask."
Node onboarding · territory assigned · 50/50 split active
Drop below threshold for 3 months
Higher rung
Lower rung
Polite step-down · cash terms hold · no penalty
Agent note · 40% — Auto-promotion (and graceful step-down) is what makes the Pathway feel like a system rather than a price list. Suppliers don't need to negotiate, ask, or fill in upgrade forms. Their volume is their signal. The system reads the signal and moves them. This is identical in spirit to how loyalty schemes earn trust — but instead of points, the currency is verified tonnage.
§8 · The Paperwork · sealed, not scary
Document
What it is
When
Cash receipt
"We received X tonnes. We paid £Y. Signed."
Same-day, on payment
Transaction record
Logged in Truth Ledger · SHA-256 hash · immutable
Same-day, automated
Pathway letter
"You are on Rung 1. Here's how to climb."
On first transaction · re-issued on promotion
No contracts. No fine print. Just proof. The paperwork is the only friction the supplier sees, and it works in their favour: every payment is documented, every verification is sealed, every promotion is announced.