Attribution

The expensive question is always "who found this?"

By the time a deal closes, the people who can answer that have moved on, changed systems or changed sides. Attribution disputes are expensive because the evidence was never captured, not because the parties are dishonest.

XODIAK writes an attribution record at the moment of contact, carrying the source, the actor and the cost basis of the lookup. Nothing about it depends on anyone remembering later.

• Written on contact creation, before any revenue exists
• Source of the record and the actor that wrote it are both captured
• Later contributions append rather than overwrite
• The settlement waterfall reads these rows directly

// Six kinds of contribution earn a share.
type Contribution =
  | "capital"
  | "connection"
  | "labor"
  | "data"
  | "technology"
  | "contact_source";

// Every agent that touches a contact logs one.
await xodiak.attribute({
  contact: "c_41ba9d",
  kind: "contact_source",
  actor: "agent:account-intel-enrich",
  source: "internal_cache",
});