The design requirement that any system built to close a research-practice gap must demonstrably close its own gap, rather than reproducing it one level up.
Implementation science, founded to close the research-practice gap in healthcare, barely uses its own findings in real implementation efforts, and accumulates frameworks faster than validated insight. Boundary work without measurement discipline reproduces the gap it was built to close.
Realisation Infrastructure accepts the test as a proof point: we practise our own Gates, deploy our own change, measure our own interventions, and publish what we learn, separating hypothesis from proof. A system that survives recursive self-application is rare enough to carry a whole category.