Stage one of financial risk assessments obliges Great Britain's largest operators to buy, build and integrate a data supply chain that did not exist as a regulated category before this July. The winners will be decided by match rates, per-query pricing and integration quality that nobody has published. This is the anatomy of that supply chain, and of the two numbers the debate is missing: what the machinery costs, and whether it is right. On 7 July 2026 the Gambling Commissio