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Built on 25 consulting-network interviews (7 ex-employees, 11 quantum experts, 5 purported customers). Memorable 'can't add 1+1' framing device (p.111-115) where they hired experts to run 5,000 test adds on AWS Braket and tabulated error distribution — a rare specimen of a short-seller staging their own empirical experiment as a rhetorical device. Explicitly analogizes to Nikola (staged prototype photos) and Theranos (hidden manual processing behind automated claims). No formal valuation framework — pure fraud-exposure thesis. 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