Pre-Listing Authenticity Gate for Specialty Online Marketplaces

A pre-publish verification gate that trust-ops leads at specialty online marketplaces (vintage goods, art, classic cars, watches, high-value resale, collectibles) queue suspect seller submissions into. AE's adversarial multi-model debate generates the strongest 'this listing is manipulated or misrepresented' case for each submission, applies the 6-pattern autopsy taxonomy (e.g., Cosmetic Confidence on staged photos, Premise-Conclusion Severing on provenance claims), and emits a graded recommendation: publish, hold for additional evidence, or reject. Decisions are logged; downstream outcomes — chargebacks, fraud reports, returns, takedowns — feed back within 30-90 days from the marketplace's existing chargeback platform and trust ticketing system, compounding into a marketplace-specific miss-pattern ledger. Fresh C2PA signal: signing-at-capture is now commodity but platforms strip metadata at distribution, and second-hand sellers rarely use signing cameras — verification-at-consumption is the open gap. AE uniquely fits because the value is not a single classifier score but the strongest counter-argument trust ops can act on, plus a reality-graded ledger that gets calibrated to one marketplace's actual fraud surface. Not a generic deepfake detector.

Specialty marketplaces have a defensible-decision problem, not a detection problem — AE's graded adversarial debate plus a marketplace-calibrated miss-pattern ledger fits a gap commodity C2PA and generic classifiers leave wide open.

Still in evaluation (phase: ranked). No verdict yet.