The easiest way to learn what people do is to watch them. That is also exactly the habit a private-agent company has to break.
A private-agent company cannot honestly use conventional behavioral telemetry as its north-star instrument. The open problem is to estimate useful daily agents while treating the operator as an adversary and making individual behavior structurally difficult to observe.
If useful work happens locally and consent limits data departure, then a conventional event pipeline measures a biased leftover. It tells you who reported, not who was helped.
That sounds dramatic, but it makes the design clearer. Assume the operator is curious, the network is observable, and metadata leaks. Then ask what can be estimated anyway.
Local randomization, shuffled batches, and secure sums are not magic. They have error, cost, and failure modes. A small transparent simulator is worth more than a privacy adjective on a dashboard.
Implement an auditable toy simulation: receipt predicate → local randomized response → time-decoupled batching → secure sum → population estimate with published error bounds.
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