Delivery clock
Target: two business days after written scope/evidence acceptance and cleared payment. If evidence is inaccessible, materially changed or unsafe to process, the clock pauses before analysis.
Evidence states
Each observation distinguishes what was observed, what was inferred and what remains unknown. Missing evidence is not converted into a defect claim.
Correction round
One asynchronous round corrects factual misunderstandings against the frozen evidence. New flows, new artifacts or implementation requests are separately scoped.
Stop / re-scope
If the useful answer requires secrets, customer data, production access or certified specialist work, the review stops or narrows before that material is requested.