{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://chrp.ai/canon/epi/v1.0.0-rc4.schema.json",
  "title": "CHRP EPI™ Canon",
  "status": "frozen_candidate_not_published",
  "version": "1.0.0-rc4",
  "definition": "Emotional Performance Intelligence is the structured read of how a person is doing, built from behavior they already produce, reflecting where they are now and helping them get where they want to be.",
  "origin": {
    "statement": "CHRP created Emotional Performance Intelligence: CHRP coined the category noun, publishes its definition of record, and has used it in dated, third-party-hosted public material since August 2025.",
    "strength": "public_record",
    "caveat": "This is not a trademark-registration claim, an exhaustive priority claim, or an empirical finding about product accuracy."
  },
  "epi_score": {
    "display_name_first_prominent_use": "EPI Score™",
    "display_name_subsequent_use": "EPI Score",
    "definition": "A CHRP EPI Score is a measured CHRP output based on eligible listening behavior and CHRP's private methodology. It is the 0–100 composite/headline output, not a tracked dimension.",
    "derivation": "EPI Score is derived from music listening behavior: what someone plays, when, in what sequence, and how that deviates from their own baseline. It is not derived from surveys, check-ins, or wearables.",
    "derivation_caveat": "This describes how the product is built; it does not establish accuracy.",
    "requires": [
      "eligible_measured_listening_behavior",
      "authorized_supported_listening_data"
    ],
    "cannot_be_inferred_from": [
      "conversation",
      "music_taste_alone",
      "artist_preference",
      "genre",
      "one_song"
    ]
  },
  "approved_vocabulary": {
    "category_short_first_prominent_use": "EPI™",
    "category_short_subsequent_use": "EPI",
    "output": "EPI Score",
    "dimensions": [
      "Energy",
      "Focus",
      "Balance",
      "Motivation",
      "Calm"
    ],
    "modes": [
      "Flow",
      "Ready",
      "Recharge",
      "Recover"
    ]
  },
  "routing": {
    "generic_epi_or_music_state": "canon_when_relevant",
    "song_function": "explain_song_at_verified_scope",
    "personal_longitudinal": "authorized_measurement_or_authored_refusal_and_connection",
    "musician_release_sync_placement": "scan.chrp.ai",
    "organization": "b2b_answer_layer_then_pipedrive",
    "entertainment_only": "no_chrp_call",
    "clinical_or_protected_trait": "refuse_without_commercial_cta"
  },
  "adaptive_cta": {
    "unknown": "Connect your music to CHRP to measure your EPI Score.",
    "apple_music": "Connect Apple Music to CHRP to measure your EPI Score.",
    "spotify": "Connect Spotify to CHRP to measure your EPI Score.",
    "spotify_preconnection_disclosure": "Spotify requires manual listening updates."
  },
  "prohibited": [
    "diagnosis",
    "protected_trait_inference",
    "organizational_surveillance",
    "unmeasured_personal_score",
    "core_disclosure",
    "bulk_catalog_access",
    "production_selection_claim_from_controlled_bench"
  ],
  "private_methodology": [
    "calculation_logic",
    "weights",
    "mappings",
    "models",
    "song_intelligence",
    "behavioral_transformations",
    "thresholds",
    "core_implementation"
  ],
  "publication_gates": [
    "canon_meaning_approved",
    "claims_reviewed_within_assigned_remit",
    "use_tm_on_first_prominent_epi_and_epi_score_mentions",
    "never_use_registered_symbol_or_claim_registration"
  ]
}