Capability brief · Independent · Passive recon only

SCE spends $6.2B to clear the brush. Nothing public proves any single span was cleared.

A respectful, evidence-first read of Edison International / Southern California Edison's public web surface and public regulatory record (CPUC / Energy Safety): what an investigator, an insurer, or an AI agent can and cannot verify today, and the one layer that would change it. Baseline credited first; then four findings, each reproducible from a URL and an HTTP status.

Independent & unaffiliated. Not requested, reviewed, or endorsed by Edison International or SCE. All observations are passive reads of public pages plus the public regulatory record (no scanning, no probing, no authentication). Every "demo" is a concept mock on EcoWealth's own live data. Figures cited to sources; live counters override any snapshot on this page.

Baseline credited (this comes first)

SCE runs one of the most technically serious public safety programs in the utility sector, and its surface shows real maturity:

The gap is not effort or sophistication. It is that after inviting the agents in and spending billions on the work, the completion of that work is still an internal record no third party can independently verify.

The bottom line, in plain English

A receipt for every cleared span → "we followed the plan" becomes "here is the proof"

When a fire sparks a claim or an audit, the decisive question is whether a specific span was cleared on a specific day; a signed, photographed completion receipt turns SCE's billion-dollar effort into evidence a court or insurer can check: the strongest possible posture where wildfire liability is existential.

Give the welcomed AI crawlers something to read → SCE gets described accurately

Edison already invited the AI agents in, then left nothing for them to act on; handing them a structured menu means the assistants shaping how investors and regulators see SCE work from SCE's own words, not guesses.

The billion-dollar plan in a form machines read right → the commitments land straight

The wildfire plan is a giant PDF today, so an AI asked whether SCE is on track has only prose to guess from; publishing the key commitments as structured data, backed by per-task receipts, gets them read once and read right by every regulator portal and ESG rater.

Four findings

1Proof that a specific clearance or inspection actually happened is the regulatory and liability question, and no public object answers it.

Vegetation management, pole brushing to a clearance spec, and asset inspection are go-to-a-location → do-a-bounded-task → record-who-did-it-when-and-where. That is the EcoWealth Work Protocol lifecycle exactly. In a post-ignition proceeding, a subrogation claim, or an Energy Safety audit, the decisive question is whether a given span was cleared to spec on a given date. Today that lives in internal work-management systems; there is no object an investigator, insurer, or court can independently verify without discovery.

Why it matters to Edison/SCE
Wildfire liability is existential in California. A GPS-signed, photo-proofed, on-chain completion receipt converts "we followed the plan" (a claim) into "here is the receipt for that span, that day" (a fact): the strongest possible evidentiary posture, produced as a byproduct of the work already being done.
Proof: EcoWealth board carries wildfire-adjacent lanes at capture (vealth.net/labor/stats): urban_canopy_survey 511 · civic_hazard_survey 352 · riparian_buffer_survey 22 · stormwater_maintenance_clearing 48 · clear_invasive_brush · construction_site_safety_walk 44. Re-verify: curl -s https://vealth.net/labor/stats

2Edison opened the door to AI crawlers, then left the room empty.

edison.com's robots.txt is unusually forward: it names and Allows GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, OAI-AdsBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot, and CCBot. But when those agents arrive, there is nothing machine-actionable to act on: /llms.txt (the file AI assistants read first) and /ai.txt are true 404s, /.well-known/agent-card.json (a file that lets other AI agents discover and call you) is a 404, and both edison.com and sce.com homepages carry 0 application/ld+json (schema.org/JSON-LD: the invisible labels search engines and AIs read). The invitation is real; the room behind it is empty.

Why it matters
This is the rare finding that is almost pure upside: the hard cultural decision (welcome the agents) is already made. The remaining step is to give the welcomed crawlers a structured menu: an llms.txt, an agent card, JSON-LD on the WMP and safety pages. The agent kit in this concept drafts all of them.
Re-verify: curl -s https://www.edison.com/robots.txt | grep -iE 'gptbot|claudebot|perplexity' (present) then curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' https://www.edison.com/llms.txt → 404; curl -s https://www.edison.com/ | grep -c 'application/ld+json' → 0.

3The plan and the commitments are machine-illegible: the WMP is a PDF.

The 2026–2028 WMP is published as a large PDF on sce.com, and the ESG / sustainability material on edison.com is prose. Neither homepage carries structured data (0 ld+json each). An AI agent asked "what did SCE commit to in vegetation management, and is it on track?" has only PDF prose to parse, inconsistently, if at all.

Why it matters
A WMP whose key commitments are also published as a structured object, and, better, backed by per-task completion receipts, is read once and read right by every regulator portal, ESG rater, and AI assistant. The gap between a billion-dollar plan and its machine-legibility is a template change plus this concept's receipt layer.
Re-verify: curl -s https://www.sce.com/ | grep -c 'application/ld+json' → 0; curl -s https://www.edison.com/ | grep -c 'application/ld+json' → 0.

4Hygiene note: edison.com's HSTS is effectively non-protective, and there's no researcher-contact path.

edison.com returns Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=300, a five-minute HSTS window, versus the one-year (31536000) standard that sce.com and the other peers in this set publish. A 300-second max-age provides almost no real protection against SSL-stripping between visits. Neither edison.com nor sce.com publishes a security.txt, so a researcher who finds an issue has no standard disclosure channel.

Why it matters
Both are one-line configuration fixes: raise edison.com's HSTS max-age to a year (with includeSubDomains), and add a security.txt. Small, standard hardening for a critical-infrastructure holding company.
Re-verify: curl -sI https://www.edison.com/ | grep -i strict-transportmax-age=300; curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' https://www.edison.com/.well-known/security.txt → 404.

The concept, in two sentences

A vegetation-clearance or inspection task on a specific span becomes an EWP proof-verified work packet: bounded scope with hazard framing, claimed by a line/veg crew, closed with photo + GPS + signature proof scored by a deterministic proof-checker, and settled to a permanent receipt on Base. Each receipt appends to that circuit's, and that contractor's, verified wildfire-work history: the independently-checkable, court-grade upgrade to an internal completion record.

Live proof it's not slides: EWP contract 0x76c17C…A14B on Base mainnet (source-verified, first settled packet workId 14); the priced tool menu at vealth.net/.well-known/x402; and the end-to-end building-agent golden path.

Integration path (smallest first)

StepWhat shipsWho owns it
0 · Prove it (today)One agent pays $0.10 to work-packet; one funded clearance/inspection packet in SCE's SoCal territory settles on-chain.EcoWealth rail, live now
1 · Fill the open roomllms.txt + agent card + JSON-LD on the WMP/safety pages (the crawlers are already welcomed) + edison.com HSTS + security.txt.Edison/SCE web team (drafts provided)
2 · Proof pilot10 clearance/inspection packets across one high-fire-risk circuit, each closed with proof + settled; verified wildfire-work history per contractor.Joint, bounded scope
3 · Standing railCompletion receipts as the default output of WMP field work; tCO2e mapping where restoration applies.Operator decision

The ask

Two figures, both pocket change against a $6.2B wildfire program, and in your own service area:

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