Synthetic market
Invented shows, sellers and prices
CCI reads a market’s records against the rules its prices answer to, splits every price into what public inputs explain and what they leave unexplained, and seals each finding so a regulator or a court can check it. This page runs the engine in your browser on a synthetic resale ticket market in the District of Columbia, under the RESALE Act’s price and fee lines, and nothing leaves the page. The same code runs on any market that supplies records, a fair basis and a set of lines.
Each dial is a setting the engine reads. The price and fee lines come from the RESALE Act here; in another market they come from the client’s own law, rate card or contract. The jump size is a calibrated threshold for the repricing test. Move a dial and the engine reruns on every record, then compares the result with the defaults.
One price against the lines set on the dials. The fair basis is the first-sale total for a ticket; in other markets it is a posted fare, a shelf price or a contract price. Enter the three figures or start from a sale in the synthetic market.
| Market | Records | Fair basis | Lines | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ride-share fares, DC | Trip receipts | The posted rate card | The rate card | First market read |
| Resale tickets, DC | Receipts, listing captures, platform records, test quotes | The first-sale total | RESALE Act: 110% price line, 10% fee line | Running on this page on a synthetic market |
| Grocery shelf | Shelf-label captures, receipts, loyalty offers | The store’s posted shelf price | Maryland’s Protection From Predatory Pricing Act, in force 1 October 2026 | Next |
| Federal programs | Obligations, awards, invoices, payments | Contract terms and rate schedules | FAR clauses, 2 CFR 200, appropriation limits | Proposed in Inter-Level Intelligence |
| Phase | Client supplies | Lexeme returns |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Lines | The rules its prices answer to and the fair basis for each price | The rules written as tests, with the source of every setting |
| 2. First run | A sample of the records the market already keeps | Graded findings, sealed packets and the dollars over the lines |
| 3. Tuning | Cases with known answers | Settings that catch the known cases, with the reason for each change |
| 4. Standing runs | Records as they arrive | Each run sealed, and each finding routed to the office that acts on it |
The CCI Console holds every test and evidence packet behind this page.