Parity & Trust (North Carolina)
Trust is an artifact, not an adjective. Here is what the bench enforces about the third state on every release.
Two lanes, one engine
The professional workstation and the plain-language pro-se surfaces share the same deterministic North Carolina core — the corpus, the deadline functions, the machines. Different framing, identical law.
The § 84-2.2 gate is code, not policy
North Carolina's software safe harbor is CONDITIONAL on State Bar registration — so the document assembler is gated behind that registration in code. Until the founder registers, drafting routes to a licensed attorney and the surface says exactly why.
Contamination-guarded
A North Carolina matter can never emit a Florida or Texas authority, and their citations never resolve as North Carolina's. Every NC engine anchor references only NC corpus norms — a foreign prefix is a failing test, not a runtime surprise.
Corroboration-gated
Every operative parameter must survive verbatim in the live North Carolina corpus or the release fails. The refused Chapter 20 load (the periodless-heading catch) is this rule working — the parser had to prove itself against every loaded chapter before a single new section entered.
Dormant until verified
North Carolina ships nothing publicly until its corpus is loaded, its engines pass the bench, and the founder flips the flag. Coverage is exactly what is loaded — never an implied 50 states.