{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://waxislab.pages.dev/schemas/founder-submission.schema.json",
  "title": "W-Axis Lab Thesis Submission",
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "required": [
    "submitter_type",
    "founder_name",
    "email",
    "company_name",
    "website",
    "one_liner",
    "stage",
    "sector",
    "why_now",
    "compulsory_payer",
    "strongest_evidence",
    "consent_authorized",
    "consent_no_restricted_info"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "submitter_type": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "Founder / builder",
        "Researcher",
        "Scientist",
        "Engineer / technical operator",
        "Product / company operator",
        "Investor / allocator",
        "Policy / institutional actor",
        "Lab / research team",
        "Other"
      ]
    },
    "founder_name": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 160,
      "description": "Submitter name."
    },
    "email": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "email",
      "maxLength": 220
    },
    "company_name": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 220,
      "description": "Project, lab, company, or research direction name."
    },
    "website": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "uri",
      "maxLength": 500,
      "description": "Website, paper, product, or project link."
    },
    "one_liner": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 500
    },
    "stage": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "Idea / Research",
        "Research paper / pre-product",
        "Prototype",
        "Pre-seed",
        "Seed",
        "Series A+",
        "Bootstrapped",
        "Public / Open-source project",
        "Lab / academic research",
        "Internal institutional project",
        "Other"
      ]
    },
    "sector": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "AI Infrastructure",
        "Agentic Economy",
        "Robotics",
        "Space / Lunar",
        "Defense",
        "Energy / Nuclear",
        "Quantum / PQC",
        "Stablecoin / Payments",
        "Bio / Autonomous Science",
        "Data / Verification",
        "Identity / Security",
        "Industrial / Manufacturing",
        "New Cities / Governance",
        "Other"
      ]
    },
    "why_now": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 2400
    },
    "compulsory_payer": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 1600
    },
    "strongest_evidence": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 2200
    },
    "misunderstanding": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 1800
    },
    "expected_layers": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 1400
    },
    "kill_switch": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 1400
    },
    "desired_help": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "maxItems": 8
    },
    "supporting_links": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 1800
    },
    "pitch_deck": {
      "type": "string",
      "contentMediaType": "application/pdf",
      "description": "Optional PDF pitch deck or research memo, maximum 20 MB, sent as multipart form data."
    },
    "consent_authorized": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "const": true
    },
    "consent_no_restricted_info": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "const": true
    },
    "consent_anonymized_learning": {
      "type": "boolean"
    }
  }
}