L1 Intake — the Compliance Gate
at every bin, every time.
Every load classified at the bin, in under 500 milliseconds, by a Google Pixel 10 Pro running Gemma 4 E2B on the Lite-RT AI stack. Sealed by Titan M2 hardware root-of-trust before the truck rolls. This is where the chain of custody begins and where the $1,034 CIRCIL Levy per Mothership load gets defended.
What it doesFrom visual fallacy to verifiable classification
The construction-waste classification problem is not new. Demolition crews have eyeballed bins for sixty years and called them “clean wood” when half the load is painted, treated, or chemically contaminated. The cost of that visual fallacy lands on the Generator: $60 per tonne in CIRCIL Levy, plus disposal cost, plus the audit liability that follows the manifest. At 19.15 t per Mothership, that’s $1,149 per load of avoidable cost — and the regulator’s patience expires in 2029 when REWOOD makes clean-wood landfilling criminal in Ontario.
L1 Intake replaces the eyeball with a Gemma 4 E2B multimodal classifier running on the Pixel 10 Pro’s Tensor G5 EdgeTPU. Visual + audio + LiDAR data are fused on-device in under 500 ms. The verdict is one of three bands — CLEAN ($5/t), AMBER ($10/t), or MIXED ($60/t). Below the 85% confidence threshold, an E4B Visual Fallacy guard escalates to a 4.5B parameter model for the second-opinion check. The Precautionary Principle applies: guilty until proven innocent.
- Class 146 wood — clean construction lumber, no paint, no preservative, no glue laminate.
- AMBER 70–85% confidence band — E4B Visual Fallacy guard activates; weathered gray pine that looks identical to CCA-treated wood is the canonical false-positive case.
- MIXED auto-reject — TCLP thresholds (Arsenic >2.5, Lead >5.0, Chromium >5.0 mg/L) trigger Hub-level XRF/NIR confirmation, not just E2B.
How it shipsPixel 10 Pro + Tensor G5 + Lite-RT-LM
The Pixel 10 Pro is not a phone in this stack — it’s a field-deployed edge inference appliance. The Tensor G5 SoC, fabricated on TSMC’s 3-nm node, includes the EdgeTPU coprocessor that accelerates Gemma 4 E2B’s matrix multiplications in bfloat16 with weight-stationary dataflow. Speculative decoding pushes the realised inference latency to 423 ms median on the Compliance Gate workload.
The runtime is Lite-RT-LM v0.10.1 on Android 16, with the model pinned via Vertex ML Metadata so every classification can be reproduced bit-exact months later. Model version, dataset fingerprint, and regulatory text are frozen at the millisecond of the verdict.
The classification step is only half the story. The other half is the seal. When the operator confirms the verdict, a 2.0-second haptic-lock triggers the Titan M2 hardware root-of-trust. GPS coordinates (±1 m), epoch timestamp, model SHA-256, kernel hash, and the classification decision are bundled into a court-ready payload signed by hardware keys that never leave the chip.
The sealed record is then mirrored to AlloyDB Montreal (data-residency: northamerica-northeast1) where it satisfies PIPEDA, the RPRA HWPR digital manifest, and the O.Reg 347 audit chain — all from a single source of truth.
Why it mattersThe CIRCIL Levy spread is the revenue model
L1 doesn’t exist because we love AI. L1 exists because the Ontario regulator wrote a $55-per-tonne spread between MIXED and CLEAN wood disposal, and that spread compounds across a Mothership load to $1,034 per truck. At 200 Mothership loads per week fleet-wide, the math reaches $206,800 per week in CIRCIL Levy avoidance — only available to operators who can prove the load was CLEAN at the bin, before the truck rolled.
The Compliance Gate is what makes that proof cryptographically defensible. Without it, the operator’s word against the regulator’s audit is a coin flip and the burden of proof sits with the Generator. With it, the Hold-to-Seal payload is the regulator-side burden. Same load, opposite side of the table.
- 2029 · REWOOD landfill ban — clean wood landfilling becomes a criminal offence in Ontario. L1 becomes mandatory infrastructure, not optional differentiation.
- 2034 · Domestic capacity exhaustion — the Capacity Cliff. The Digital Refinery is the only legal disposal pathway left at scale.
- 2036 · CIRCIL Levy maxes at $60/t — full MIXED disposal cost reaches $256/t total. The 905WOOD operational rate of $425 + classification stays 22.7% below.
What ships in the audit chainSaw Blade to Soil — every record
- SALES_QUOTE.pdf — HS256-signed quote with sig_verified=1 confirmed end-to-end. Generated at L1 intake from the RFQ form, before the bin is dispatched.
- USMCA_Shield_CoO.pdf — 9-Point Certificate of Origin, HS 3825.0, Wholly Obtained (Canada). Customs broker auto-routed. Officer-readable on the black-and-white fax-ready layout.
- Hold-To-Seal_Record.pdf — Titan M2 hardware-attested payload (GPS, timestamp, SHA-256, model hash, kernel hash). The court-ready record. CBP, RPRA, and O.Reg 347 referenceable from one document.
- RPRA_Manifest_PartA.pdf — Digital HWPR manifest generated from the sealed record, filed directly via API. No paper.
- CORC_Certificate.pdf — Carbon Removal Certificate. 19.15 t × 0.75 yield × market price. 100% retained by 905WOOD. Lineage Saw Blade to Soil with on-chain hash.
The 46-PDF output library does not begin at Layer 5 Reporting. It begins at L1 Intake, the moment the operator confirms the verdict and the Titan M2 fires. Every classification is a billable PDF.
See L1 Intake in production
Request a 905WOOD quote or call the Voice V1 AI agent. Same intake schema. Same Compliance Gate. Same Titan M2 seal.