Timestamp Whitepaper v1.0 — From Information Adolescence to AI Maturity: Design Requirements for a Supervision Layer

This whitepaper defines the "Supervision Layer" as a distinct AI product category required for households and institutional adoption. The central thesis is that adoption is limited not by capability but by trust, governance, and the absence of mediated automomy and epistemic scaffolding. The paper summarizes the governance gap, use-case validation across frontier models, deployment requirements, and economic incentives for the category. This upload establishes public timestamp, provenance, and priority for the category definition and terminology.