A Trade Room is not merely a shared folder or chat channel. It is a structured workspace centered on one trade case.
Why a room is needed
Trade truth is distributed. The exporter may know the commercial agreement, the carrier controls transport records, the warehouse confirms custody, the insurer holds coverage evidence, and the funder asks a different set of review questions.
No participant should silently overwrite everyone else's version of the truth.
What the Trade Room owns
- the canonical case reference;
- participant and role boundaries;
- source material inventory;
- evidence links and provenance;
- confirmations and disputes;
- missing-evidence status;
- review package preparation;
- a visible audit trail of bounded actions.
What modules should not do
A document panel should not directly call a funding module. A chat surface should not execute external actions. User actions should become intents, and a boundary layer should decide whether they are surface-only, review-preparation actions, or blocked.
This keeps the workspace composable while preventing a helpful interface from becoming an ungoverned execution path.