---
title: "Licensing Readiness"
area: compliance
order: 8
lastUpdated: 2026-05-14
updatedBy: Codex
---

## Use This Doc For

- `/compliance/licensing`
- Business license, permit, posting, fee, credential, and authority-layer readiness
- Tracking unresolved licensing questions before a business starts, expands, or changes regulated activity

## Workflow

1. Start with the business context, operating locations, and activities being assessed.
2. Review current licensing records and open readiness issues.
3. Capture known authority layers, evidence, expiry dates, responsible owners, and unresolved questions.
4. Create readiness issues for factual gaps instead of recording unsupported legal conclusions.
5. Revisit the page when the business adds a location, offering, staff credential, or jurisdiction.

## Authoritative State

The licensing readiness workspace is authoritative for the platform's tracked posture and evidence. Official government or regulator sources remain authoritative for legal requirements, and counsel or qualified compliance owners make final determinations.

## AI Coworker Support

The licensing specialist can investigate likely authority layers, summarize visible evidence, persist factual findings, and create readiness issues. It should ask for the next useful piece of context when the business posture is unclear and must avoid inventing legal conclusions.

## What To Watch

- readiness issues without a named location, activity, or authority layer
- expired permits that still appear complete in operating checklists
- fees or staff credentials tracked without an accountable owner
- AI-generated research that has not been tied back to an official source
