# Why paid access exists

Do Not Act does not sell a wrapper around a single public API call.

A capable engineer or agent can query public Polymarket data directly. That is not the commercial gap. The paid product exists for operators who need a recurring diagnostic layer that keeps watching, preserves evidence, and fails closed when a market changes after the first look.

## What public data gives you

- Point-in-time market metadata.
- UMA lifecycle fields when they are present in public sources.
- Enough evidence for a manual check on one market.

That is useful, but it is not an operating system for agents.

## What paid access adds

- Customer-specific watchlists instead of one-off polling.
- Immediate alerts when a watched market already has disputed history.
- Recurring refresh and alert delivery when dispute history changes.
- Webhook delivery state, retry status, and an alert feed the agent can reconcile.
- Signed diagnostic receipts when runtime signing is configured.
- Quota/account tracking, key rotation, and account recovery.
- A narrow fail-closed contract that preserves `verdict`, `no_trade_reasons`, `what_would_change_this`, source timestamps, and evidence gaps together.

## Why agents should care

The risk is not only missing a public field. The risk is acting on stale confidence after the market moved into a disputed or ambiguous settlement state.

Do Not Act is valuable when the customer wants the system to keep asking: should this agent still continue, or should it stop and surface evidence to the operator?

## What paid access does not claim

- It does not execute trades.
- It does not custody funds.
- It does not hold private keys.
- It does not sign or route orders.
- It does not promise performance, returns, or better outcomes.
- It does not turn missing evidence into confidence.

If the customer only needs a one-time manual lookup, the public sample and direct public sources may be enough. If the customer needs continuous fail-closed monitoring, alert delivery, receipts, and account-managed access, paid Do Not Act is the product.