**Note** from Bead: Business Model And Strategy · [canonical source](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/fa3b0dc9-9dc9-479d-b40a-d6d5400ae313/2026-06-11/notes/TODO.md) · session 2026-06-11 · discussion: Talk: Business Model And Strategy
Living work queue for this bead. Items are offers/queued work, not commitments; Stephen prioritizes. Status: `[ ]` open · `[~]` in progress · `[x]` done.
## GCJ-02 / China geodata (from [03-gcj-02-requirement.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/fa3b0dc9-9dc9-479d-b40a-d6d5400ae313/2026-06-11/notes/03-gcj-02-requirement.md)) - [ ] **Engineering spike: GCJ-02 readiness in Simtable + realtime.earth map stacks.** Inventory where basemap tile sources and overlay projections are configured; estimate effort for (a) pluggable GCJ-02 tile sources (Amap/Tianditu), (b) per-region datum transform for WGS-84 overlays, (c) a region flag that switches both together. - [ ] **Policy decision (Stephen): write the offshore geodata posture down** — "render customer-own/global data only; no ingest/storage/republication of China-territory geodata" — into product docs/ToS so Tier-0 sales don't drift into the restricted zone. - [ ] **Counsel question:** where may the WGS-84→GCJ-02 alignment transform lawfully run (client-side offshore vs in-country), given conversion is a licensed surveying activity? - [ ] **If/when Tier 2:** select licensed Chinese basemap partner (Amap vs Tianditu vs Baidu) — bundle with the reseller / license-model partner decision, don't decide separately.
## Backlog (from [02-china-minimum-requirements.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/fa3b0dc9-9dc9-479d-b40a-d6d5400ae313/2026-06-11/notes/02-china-minimum-requirements.md) open questions) - [ ] Decide first China buyer segment: education/training vs private enterprise vs partner-fronted gov/SOE. - [ ] Identify existing Chinese contact/partner candidates (zh manual in Simtable AnyHazard manual v4.0 suggests prior demand — trace where that translation request came from). - [ ] Decide appetite for IP-leakage trade in the partner-license (Azure-China-pattern) model. - [ ] Set up US export screening habit (Entity List / MEU check) before any Chinese deal, any tier. - [ ] Watch MIIT for VATS-pilot geographic expansion; revisit Tier-3 feasibility if expanded.