Intellectual Frontiers

Companion to Acquired Alpha

The forms, field guide, question sets, and sources the chapters point to

The book argues that a buyer should count a seller’s evidence only when it cost the seller something real and the buyer can check it. This companion holds the working forms and reference material the chapters point to.

Acquired Alpha is a provisional framework. No recorded purchase decision has yet been changed by it, so treat every form in it as a way to organize your own judgment, not as a verdict. Every case in the book is an illustrative composite. Nothing here is legal, procurement-regulation, or medical advice; take each contract term to your counsel and each public-buying question to your procurement office.

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  1. Fill in a Claim Card for each claim that would change your decision.

  2. Read the look-alike field guide against every proposal and pitch you hold.

  3. Pick Costly Questions from the question sets for the claims that matter.

  4. Write a Proof Plan for each, and set Fail Conditions before any trial starts.

  5. Run the seven-requirement checklist before you sign.

  6. Use the Purchase Review table and Exit Rehearsal log after you buy.

The skills page says which companion skill runs which step with your own AI. The glossary gives the book’s terms, and the sources log says what was checked, when, and what could not be.