nx_supp_formula.nx

nx_supp_formula.nx -- SUPPLEMENT GTM SUITE / FORMULATION + FEASIBILITY rung. Takes a product concept and runs it all the way to a go/no-go: is it legal, does it physically fit a dosage form, what does it cost to make, and does it clear a margin at the price you want to sell it for. Then it runs the same arithmetic BACKWARDS -- from a retail price and a target margin to the ingredient budget you actually have to spend. THREE GATES, IN THE ORDER THAT ACTUALLY KILLS PRODUCTS. 1. LEGAL. One precluded ingredient and there is no product, regardless of how good the formula is. sf_regulatory_verdict NAMES the blocking ingredient rather than returning a bare no -- the same discipline as the hurdle model naming which barrier holds, because "rejected" without "why" gets argued with instead of fixed. 2. PHYSICAL. A dose is a VOLUME before it is a number on a label. Run the clinically studied doses of a full botanical + amino stack and it comes to roughly ten and a half millilitres -- ELEVEN size-00 capsules per serving. Nobody takes eleven capsules. This is the arithmetic behind why so much of the category is under-dosed: the label dose was chosen to fit the capsule, not to match the trial. The honest response is to change the FORMAT, not to quietly cut the dose, and sf_capsules_needed makes that choice explicit instead of accidental. 3. ECONOMIC. At eleven capsules a serving the shells and the encapsulation labour cost about as much as the actives do, so the format decision is also the margin decision -- chemistry and cost point the same way. FAIRY-DUSTING IS DETECTED, NOT ACCOMMODATED. sf_dose_adequacy_permil compares each dose against the low end of the clinically studied range, so a formula carrying a token 50 mg of something trialled at 600 mg is flagged as what it is. Threshold in a named constant, not buried in a branch. COSTS ARE INDICATIVE (see nx_supp_ingredient). Conversion figures are typical contract-manufacturer rates and move with run size; treat every number here as a model to be replaced by quotes, not as a budget. Units: mg, microlitres, CENTS. Margins and adequacy in per-mil. Grounding (cited; researcher-groundable):