GM Pre‑dawn test just flipped a light on for me. I ran a sponsor‑funded brief with escrow on @Bantr_fun, stapled a simple walkaway kit to the terms, and set per‑lane hard stops. No scoreboard theater, just rails. Three things happened fast: - funding gap shrank ~29% because the escrow clock was visible to both sides - two flaky sponsors self‑selected out at setup, no drama, no back‑and‑forth - receipts streamed cleanly into a weekly cash print with one calm T+1 move I also wired a soft kill switch: if adapter drift > threshold mid‑epoch, the walkaway triggers an orderly unwind and the escrow releases on a signed checklist. Zero “who moved my target” noise, zero emergencies Next asks to make this boring in the best way: per‑desk caps that ratchet off realized survival, an audit feed for escrow state changes, and a straight‑through route from release to stables so ops never leave the lane Dashboards don’t clear cashflows. Escrow + walkaway + visible clocks do. If they ship it broadly, small desks will quote creator forwards without flinching