Regulatory Friction
Rules that fragment a market or stop it forming at all.
What it looks like Illustrative scenario
A graphene supercapacitor startup has working units and cannot sell one without a safety certification priced at four hundred thousand dollars, a process written for firms a hundred times its size. The buyers exist. The certifier's timetable, not the technology, decides whether the market exists.
Scenario: The Certification Bridge
How an AI intervention works AI Risk Insulation ยท AI Input Translation
Regulation rarely says no outright. It says not in this form, not in that jurisdiction, not without this document. The interventions read the rulebook as data: input translation extracts the compliance attributes a deal needs from the parties' own documents, semantic matching applies only the rules that hold where each side sits, and risk insulation watches the registries so a contract can carry a compliant exit or fallback when a permit or standard changes mid-deal. The rule stays. The paralysis goes.