Stage 7 — AI Trust Acceptance: Formal Eligibility for AI Outputs (v0.7)

Comprehensive technical documentation of Stage 7 of the 11-Stage AI Visibility Lifecycle. Covers how AI systems formally accept digital entities as eligible for use in AI-generated outputs. Details the Trust Barrier where approximately 5–15% of websites pass, non-regression requirements, trust threshold variations by commercial classification, sustained positive signal requirements, and the acceptance conditions that qualify entities for candidate surfacing. Part of the AI Visibility Architecture (AIVA) framework documentation.