The quirqon the record.
The unit of measurement for AI's business impact: budgeted by a human, minted by verification, dual to the token.
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The unit of work definesand verifies the job
The unit of work defines and verifies the job. The quirq is what that verification mints: the output meter, dual to the token's input meter.
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The definitionunit of account
A quirq is one unit of budget currency of verified, owner-valued, delivered work. It is minted, never self-reported:
A human owner defines an outcome with a
machine-checkable definition of done and budgets it at value B. The task now carries B potential quirqs.
The environment snapshots the world before execution
(S₀) and after (S₁) and scores completion V ∈ [0, 1] against the definition of done.
Verification mints V · B quirqs
recorded in a tamper-evident ledger with everything production consumed.
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