Define prosumer up front, in its own opening beat

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Third of the six review points on the document: place a strong prosumer definition early enough that it sticks.

Why it wasn't sticking

The term was already defined on first use, but as a subordinate clause inside a sentence whose main job was explaining where the document's name comes from. The vivid part — a god with two faces — sat in an em-dash aside, and the definition trailed behind it. So the term the entire architecture rests on arrived as an aside.

What changed

The definition now opens the document on its own, and the Janus metaphor follows it rather than carrying it:

Every member of an economy is a prosumer — not only a consumer, but at the same time a producer of something of value, even if all they have to offer is time (Toffler, 1980). Nobody stands on only one side of a trade; the two faces are the same person.

Janus Facing Architecture is named for the Roman god who looks in two directions at once, because that is what every prosumer does: each faces demands for both production and consumption, at the same time. It allows communities to address the economic reality of prosumership, and provides an option to transform the issuance model from exogenous, chartal money (issued by an authority outside the community) to endogenous mutual credit (issued by members to one another as they transact).

Two things this buys beyond findability. The name now earns its image from a term the reader already holds, instead of introducing both at once. And "the two faces are the same person" sets up the paragraph that follows it — The name's second face is political — which previously asked the reader to think in faces before the document had given them one.

Bolded at first use so it can be found again on a re-read.

Note on ordering

Opened against main rather than stacked on #9, so the two can be reviewed separately. They touch different hunks of the same file and merge cleanly in either order.

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Conformance was failing on this branch and is now fixed — flagging it since I opened the PR before the check finished.

Rewriting the Janus sentence dropped the INTRO-janus anchor, faces demands for both production and consumption, and failed D4. The phrase is back verbatim:

Janus Facing Architecture is named for the Roman god who looks in two directions at once, because that is what every prosumer does: each faces demands for both production and consumption, at the same time.

The definition still leads the document, which was the point of the change. I have updated the quoted text in the description to match. Conformance and DCO both pass.

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Translations: after adoption. Required by CONTRIBUTING ## Translations and missing from my original description — flagging it late rather than not at all.

The English is authoritative and still under review. These seven amendments touch overlapping parts of the introduction, principles, layer bodies and references, so translating each separately would mean seven passes over seven languages against text that may still change in review. Recommend one translation pass covering every adopted amendment once this review closes.