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Auto repair and vehicle service

Technicians and shops repairing cars, fleets and heavy vehicles, where the industry already measures comebacks.

A record here is built from things like a repair that held and did not come back, confirmed by somebody other than the person who did it.

What gets recorded

Both directions. A record that only carries the good weeks is not a record, and the person it is about is told about every entry and can contest any of them.

Repair order completed

Kept its word

The repair was completed and the vehicle released to the customer.

Who confirms it
The customer who collected the vehicleCustomer or client
How they confirm
Confirm on the post-service link the shop management system already sends, or a service-advisor sign-off in the console.
Due
the promised-ready time given to the customer
Done
when the vehicle was actually released

Repair order paid

Kept its word

The customer or fleet account paid for the completed repair.

Who confirms it
The paying customer or fleet account (as recorded by the processor)Payment or marketplace
How they confirm
Auto-verified when a third-party processor records the payer as someone other than the worker.
Due
the invoice due date
Done
the settlement date the processor recorded

Work passed safety / emissions inspection

Kept its word

The vehicle passed an independent statutory safety or emissions inspection after the work.

Who confirms it
The licensed inspection station or state inspector (independent of the shop)Independent authority
How they confirm
Confirmed from the inspection result recorded by the independent inspector.
Due
the date the vehicle was required to be ready for inspection
Done
the recorded inspection date

Comeback / repeat repair

Fell short

The vehicle came back for the same fault; the original repair did not hold. The industry’s own term is a "comeback".

Who confirms it
The customer who returned the vehicleCustomer or client
How they confirm
Recorded against the original repair order; the worker is notified and can dispute.
Due
the date of the original repair the work should have held from
Done
Nothing was delivered, so there is no completion time to compare against.

Due and done are the pair that decide whether something counts as delivered on time rather than merely delivered. Send one without the other and the outcome can only ever read as finished.

Who counts as a witness here

3 kinds of third party confirm work in this trade. None of them outranks another. The formula does not read this at all. What varies is how hard each one is for either side to lean on, which is a fact worth knowing and not a weighting.

Customer or client
The party the work was done for, or who took delivery of it: a homeowner, a patient, a client, a consignee, a family. They know first hand whether it happened.
Payment or marketplace
A processor or marketplace that independently recorded a payer other than the worker. Money moving from a third party is evidence somebody else was involved. It is never, on its own, evidence that the work was good.
Independent authority
A body with no stake in the job: a code inspector or authority having jurisdiction, a title or escrow agent, a state-mandated visit verification record, a safety inspector, a certifying board. The hardest witness for either party to influence.

What is not recorded against the person

A client who did not attend, work the business itself pulled or rescheduled, conditions nobody controls, time off taken with notice, and an opinion about the person. None of it belongs on the record of whoever showed up to do the work.

The full list is on the index, and it is the same list for every trade.

How a confirmed outcome reaches a score

A confirmed outcome becomes evidence in a published formula, version 5.6, with five weights and six bands running from Distinguished down to At Risk. An outcome nobody else confirmed is still recorded, and it shows on the record as a claim rather than as evidence. No plan and no payment moves a score.

The record belongs to the person, not to the business that recorded the work. They take it with them. The model is published in full, and what an employer records covers the recording side.

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