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The digitally-native case: outcomes already live in your tools.

A record here is built from things like a change someone else reviewed and merged, 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.

Work delivered and merged

Kept its word

Committed work was delivered and accepted (merged/shipped) by someone other than the author.

Who confirms it
The reviewer/merger (not the author)Supervisor or reviewer
How they confirm
Auto-derived from the VCS/CI system; a self-merge is never a third-party witness.
Due
the agreed or sprint delivery date
Done
the merge/ship timestamp

Milestone paid

Kept its word

A client paid for a completed milestone.

Who confirms it
The paying client (as recorded by the marketplace/processor)Payment or marketplace
How they confirm
Auto-verified when the payer is a third party (marketplace or settled invoice).
Due
the milestone due date
Done
the settlement date the processor recorded

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

2 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.

Supervisor or reviewer
The responsible party where the work happened, who is not the worker: a shift or site manager, a charge nurse, a dispatcher, a production manager, a reviewer. Distinct from the worker by construction, so a worker can never be their own supervisor here.
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.

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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