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ICCE-MUI-001 Milestone Update · 001

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AUGSCAPE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
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Q3 2026

Milestone Update 001

To prospective investors and strategic participants,

Please find below the milestones achieved since 01 May 2026, accompanying Letter to Investors 001.

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Milestone 01

25 May 2026

Unified Model Specification v1 IP IP Entry
The research, consultation, operating-model, transaction-architecture, platform and technical-validation work completed to date has been consolidated into a single governed model-specification suite. It establishes one authoritative definition of the proposed system across its legal, operational, technical, financial, evidential, commercial and risk-related domains.

Unified Model Specification v1 is now complete and locked, marking a major development milestone for ICCE. The system is now defined through a single governed specification covering its operating model, architecture, data, payroll, payments, reporting, risk and external participation. This provides stakeholders with a controlled foundation for validation, commercial planning and implementation assessment.


UMS Suite:

UMS-000Programme authority and governance
UMS-001Canonical unified model
UMS-101Legal and structural positioning
UMS-102Party roles and exchange boundaries
UMS-103Terminology and interpretation
UMS-201Controlled engagement lifecycle
UMS-202Worked-time, dispute and correction controls
UMS-203Engagement initiation and activation
UMS-301Payroll execution
UMS-302Statutory payroll reporting
UMS-303Payroll and worker outputs
UMS-401Financial participation controls
UMS-402Financial exposure boundaries
UMS-403Payment execution controls
UMS-404Continuity and residual-outcome treatment
UMS-405Project and end-client resolution
UMS-501Reporting and reconciliation
UMS-502Audit, data lineage and evidence integrity
UMS-503Source-of-truth and visibility control
UMS-504Risk and control mapping
UMS-505Procurement-support evidence and reporting
UMS-601System architecture
UMS-602External interfaces and validation
UMS-701Commercial model and fee logic
UMS-702Counterparty onboarding and eligibility
UMS-703Strategic expansion and network value
UMS-704Insurance architecture and placement control
UMS-X04Risk and Control Register
UMS-S01Insurance Coverage Schedule
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Milestone 02

22 June 2026

Procurement and Transaction Evidence Research (SLTE-002)
Research Entry
A dedicated study has been completed into how ICCE may support national-scale change aligned with policy objectives, regulatory direction, responsible-business expectations and the lived experience of flexible workers across work, pay and financial matters.

SLTE-002 is a 48-page research paper supported by 12 principal public-source and evidence entries. It examines whether supplier questionnaires, policies, declarations and periodic audits provide sufficient evidence where upper-chain organisations are increasingly expected to understand the actual labour activity occurring beneath them.


Principal findings:

01 Temporary labour should be governed as individual supply lines, each beginning with a specific requirement and carrying its own parties, project, engagement route, payer and outcome.
02 Upper-chain organisations are increasingly accountable for outcomes produced lower in supply lines, despite lacking direct access to the transactions that created them.
03 Approval of a supplier does not establish the route of a worker; different engagements through the same supplier may involve different agencies, umbrellas, employers and payment arrangements.
04 Supply-line evidence is time-sensitive: party roles, project attribution, worker route and payroll responsibility should be established while the line is active, not reconstructed after payment.
05 From April 2026, PAYE exposure within umbrella supply lines reaches the end-client-facing agency - or the end client where no agency exists—making transaction visibility a direct financial control.
06 Lower-chain operational and payroll records must be translated into the specific evidence questions asked by procurement, tax, social-value, ESG, audit and regulatory stakeholders.
07 A shared supply-line transaction record can support multiple assurance obligations while reducing repeated checks, restrictive supplier controls and competing accounts of the same labour activity.

The research also finds that existing expectations can become operationally restrictive where upper-chain parties are held accountable for facts they cannot directly access. Transaction-level data provides the clearest route to attributable, timely and reusable evidence, while shared market truth can reduce the need for repeated questionnaires, duplicate checks and intermediary assurance.

The assessment indicates that upper-chain flexibility can be preserved more effectively where governance is applied to individual transactions rather than through heavily restricted supplier lists. This supports the ICCE position that better evidence can strengthen assurance without unnecessarily narrowing lawful market participation.

The research therefore supports the case for transaction-level evidence as a practical route to stronger assurance, fewer repeated checks, better reporting and continued commercial flexibility.

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Milestone 03

07 July 2026

External Framework Alignment
Changelog Entry
A public-facing alignment layer has been produced to translate selected ICCE outcomes, controls and evidence capabilities into forms that can be reviewed against recognised external frameworks without publishing the protected operating model.

The suite provides stakeholders with a public and reviewable bridge between the protected Unified Model Specification and the procurement, regulatory, employment, payroll, financial-risk and evidential expectations relevant to market participation.

It contains 13 upper-chain alignment statements and 8 labour-chain alignment statements. The documents record alignment only and do not claim certification, accreditation, statutory compliance determination, procurement approval or endorsement.


Upper-chain alignment statements:

UPS-AS-001Constructing the Gold Standard
UPS-AS-002The Construction Playbook
UPS-AS-003PPN 002 and Social Value Model
UPS-AS-004Procurement Act 2023
UPS-AS-005National Procurement Policy Statement
UPS-AS-006PPN 009 and modern slavery
UPS-AS-007PPN 018 supplier payment
UPS-AS-008PPN 021 payment spot checks
UPS-AS-009Common Assessment Standard
UPS-AS-010BES 6002 Ethical Labour Sourcing
UPS-AS-011ISO 20400 sustainable procurement
UPS-AS-012ISO 44001 collaborative relationships
UPS-AS-013Fair Payment Code

Labour-chain alignment statements:

URS-AS-001PAYE and labour-chain tax assurance
URS-AS-002Employment status and engagement route
URS-AS-003Pay, deductions and employment rights
URS-AS-004Holiday pay, SSP and pensions
URS-AS-005Payroll funding and financial continuity
URS-AS-006Due diligence, fraud and intermediary risk
URS-AS-007Right to work and worker eligibility
URS-AS-008Reporting, records and audit evidence
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Milestone 04

17 July 2026

Initial Public Concept Launch
Changelog Entry
Public-facing materials have been produced to support pre-launch conversations and provide external parties with a clear, controlled starting point for understanding the ICCE concept.

The launch establishes the venture’s first coherent public representation while preserving the protected legal, operational, financial and technical mechanics contained within the Unified Model Specification.

This marks the transition from internally developed research, intellectual property and technical validation into structured external stakeholder review.


Initial stakeholder audiences:

01 Upper-chain stakeholders Market operators, public and private buyers, major contractors and project owners.
02 Procurement functions Procurement, framework-management, commercial and social-value teams.
03 Labour-market participants Agencies, labour suppliers, payroll operators and other relevant service providers.
04 Financial participants Prospective funders, insurers and parties exposed to payroll or supply-line risk.
05 Assurance functions Advisers, auditors, responsible-business teams and independent assurance parties.
06 Public-interest stakeholders Relevant policy, regulatory, worker-outcome and market-governance stakeholders.
07 Capital participants Early-stage investors and strategic participants assessing the venture’s relevance and development position.

The initial public concept launch is not a commercial product launch, a formal investment offer or a representation that the proposed operating environment is currently available for deployment.

Its purpose is to give prospective participants a common body of public material through which the market problem, proposed response, development maturity and external-framework relevance can be reviewed.

The launch opens the programme to structured stakeholder, regulatory, commercial and investor engagement while maintaining clear boundaries between public explanation and protected operating-model intellectual property.

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Milestone 05

20 July 2026

Upper-Chain Market Validation
Compatibility Review
ICCE has entered an upper-chain market-validation phase focused on organisations responsible for buying, governing, financing, assuring or overseeing temporary labour supply lines.

The purpose of this phase is to test whether the proposed system reflects the operational requirements, evidence expectations and commercial constraints of the parties positioned above individual labour transactions.

Compatibility reviews will examine how ICCE could integrate with established procurement structures, contractor operating models, framework arrangements, assurance processes and workforce platforms without unnecessarily restricting lawful market participation.


Participants sought:

01 Major contractors Tier 1 and Tier 2 contractors managing material temporary labour volumes across projects, packages and locations.
02 Public buyers Contracting authorities and major public-sector buyers responsible for procurement outcomes and supply-chain assurance.
03 Framework operators Organisations governing approved routes, supplier participation, performance requirements and reporting obligations.
04 Procurement and workforce platforms Technology operators supporting labour sourcing, supplier management, onboarding and workforce administration.
05 Responsible-business functions Social value, ESG, modern-slavery, fair-work and responsible-procurement teams requiring attributable evidence.
06 Assurance stakeholders Audit, regulatory, legal, tax, risk and independent assurance parties reviewing labour-chain activity.

Validation questions:

How are worker requirements, suppliers, projects, engagement routes and paying parties currently connected?

Which upper-chain parties require access to engagement, payroll, payment and outcome information?

Which reports, KPIs and transaction-level evidence would create the greatest operational and assurance value?

Where do onboarding, supplier assurance, reconciliation and audit processes create duplication, delay or opacity?

How should buyer, contractor, project, package, location, worker and social-value attribution be structured?

Which procurement, regulatory, contractual and internal-control requirements must the system support?

How can agencies and lawful supply routes remain commercially flexible within stronger transaction governance?

What technical, operational, legal and commercial conditions would be required for a controlled pilot?

This phase will determine whether ICCE is framed around the correct upper-chain requirements and where its controls, stakeholder views, evidence outputs and integration boundaries should be refined. Findings will inform the next Unified Model Specification issue, technical and operational priorities, pilot design, market-entry planning and the scope of the first formal investment round.