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Nope. I tension up as far as i dare. Install tyres, check dish as big tension drops affect dish and check trueness then ship. The customer may choose to use clinchers at a future date or sell the wheels to some one who uses tubes. So i cant over tension the wheel. Hense i use alot of asymetric rims ut that is not essential either. Got one set of wheels with 24 spome pacenti sl23 with tight irc tyres installed. The miche supertype hubs leave a bit under 400N on the nds as i use 1150n max on the V1 rims. With tubeless tyres there is 300n or so on the nds spokes but because the nds flange is 46mm from centre (1:1 lacing) the wheel is very stiff so the low tension does not matter as the spokes dont loose tension. So you can overthink this.
Just fit tubless tyres to well built, even tensioned stiff wheels and all will be well.
I tend to build tubeless wheels with the dish set 1/4 turn to the nds so it corrects when a tubeless tyre is fitted. With a tubed tyre the correction is partial.
I took a lie down in a race when one of the riders at the front turned on a straight bit into a rider to the left of him. They took a lie down and it would have rude of me not to join them so i did with a bit of a bump. The bike is fine though thanks for asking!