8 of 11 acceptance methods in use
34 named checks

What happens to delivered work

The contract's checks run against what was handed over. Three outcomes are possible, and only one of them moves money.

The three outcomes

Every acceptance ends in exactly one of these. Nothing else is reachable.

Accept

Reached when: Every check that was required by the sealed contract passed.
Money: The agreed amount moves to the person who did the work.
Who can ask for a person: The buyer who paid

Reject with evidence

Reached when: At least one required check failed, and the failure was observed rather than inferred.
Money: Nothing is charged. The held amount returns to the buyer once the work has run out of attempts.
Who can ask for a person: The person who did the work

Inconclusive

Reached when: A required check could not be run at all — our instrument failed, not the work.
Money: Nothing moves and nothing is held against anyone. The check is run again, and a person is asked to look if it fails again.
Who can ask for a person: —

How the checking is done

Different shapes of work are judged in different ways, and the contract says which before you agree to it. Each method below lists the checks that belong to it, in the words the contract uses.

Deterministic probeIn use24

Authorities bind
We check every citation in the document against the document's own list of authorities, so nothing is cited that was never listed. Whether the authority actually supports the point is the practitioner's call, and they sign for it
What we need from you: We need nothing of yours to check this — we look only at what was handed over · Concludes: On delivery
Authority currency
We check that every law or rule cited says when it was current, and that none of them is older than the date you asked for
What we need from you: We need nothing of yours to check this — we look only at what was handed over · Concludes: On delivery
Axe scan delta
We check the page for accessibility problems ourselves, as it was and as it is now, and show you what changed — these are automated findings, not a legal opinion
What we need from you: We need nothing of yours to check this — we look at the page as it was and as it is now · Concludes: On delivery
Citations resolve
We open every address the report cites, one by one, and check each one still answers — and where the report puts words in quotation marks, we read them back off the source to see they are really there
What we need from you: We need nothing of yours to check this — we look only at what was handed over · Concludes: On delivery
Consent dismissable
We open the page ourselves and look — no one's word is taken for it
What we need from you: We need nothing of yours to check this — we open your page the way any visitor would · Concludes: On delivery
Console clean
We open the page ourselves and look — no one's word is taken for it
What we need from you: We need nothing of yours to check this — we open your page the way any visitor would · Concludes: On delivery
Deadline within days
We measure what was handed over against what was agreed
What we need from you: We need nothing of yours to check this — we look only at what was handed over · Concludes: On delivery
Deliverable format is
We measure what was handed over against what was agreed
What we need from you: We need nothing of yours to check this — we look only at what was handed over · Concludes: On delivery
Design spec conformance
We open the delivered images ourselves, shrink them to every size you said you would use them at, and measure what still reads at each one — this checks the drawing survives the sizes, never whether you like it
What we need from you: We need nothing of yours to check this — we look only at what was handed over · Concludes: On delivery
Document completeness
We check the delivered document covers every section of the outline you gave — measured against your outline, never a template we decided on
What we need from you: We need nothing of yours to check this — we look only at what was handed over · Concludes: On delivery
Element absent
We open the page ourselves and look — no one's word is taken for it
What we need from you: We need nothing of yours to check this — we open your page the way any visitor would · Concludes: On delivery
Element exists
We open the page ourselves and look — no one's word is taken for it
What we need from you: We need nothing of yours to check this — we open your page the way any visitor would · Concludes: On delivery
Filing receipt present
We check the delivery carries the filing confirmation from the office you named. We never tell you it will be granted — nobody can
What we need from you: We need nothing of yours to check this — we look only at what was handed over · Concludes: On delivery
No site challenge
We open the page ourselves and look — no one's word is taken for it
What we need from you: We need nothing of yours to check this — we open your page the way any visitor would · Concludes: On delivery
Outline has
We open the page ourselves and look — no one's word is taken for it
What we need from you: We need nothing of yours to check this — we open your page the way any visitor would · Concludes: On delivery
Provenance screen
We measure what was handed over against what was agreed
What we need from you: We need nothing of yours to check this — we look only at what was handed over · Concludes: On delivery
Quantity at least
We measure what was handed over against what was agreed
What we need from you: We need nothing of yours to check this — we look only at what was handed over · Concludes: On delivery
Report structure
We read the delivered report and count what you asked for: the sections you named, in the order you named them, and a body inside the length you agreed
What we need from you: We need nothing of yours to check this — we look only at what was handed over · Concludes: On delivery
Requests clean
We open the page ourselves and look — no one's word is taken for it
What we need from you: We need nothing of yours to check this — we open your page the way any visitor would · Concludes: On delivery
Task completes
We open the page ourselves and look — no one's word is taken for it
What we need from you: We need nothing of yours to check this — we open your page the way any visitor would · Concludes: On delivery
Text absent
We open the page ourselves and look — no one's word is taken for it
What we need from you: We need nothing of yours to check this — we open your page the way any visitor would · Concludes: On delivery
Text present
We open the page ourselves and look — no one's word is taken for it
What we need from you: We need nothing of yours to check this — we open your page the way any visitor would · Concludes: On delivery
Url reaches
We open the page ourselves and look — no one's word is taken for it
What we need from you: We need nothing of yours to check this — we open your page the way any visitor would · Concludes: On delivery
Viewport pass
We open the page ourselves and look — no one's word is taken for it
What we need from you: We need nothing of yours to check this — we open your page the way any visitor would · Concludes: On delivery

Sealed sandbox rerunIn use1

Sandbox run passes
We run the delivered work ourselves in a locked-down box and watch how it finishes
What we need from you: We need nothing of yours to check this — we look only at what was handed over · Concludes: On delivery

Driven sessionIn use1

Interactive session passes
We click, type, and play through it ourselves, the way you would
What we need from you: We need nothing of yours to check this — we look only at what was handed over · Concludes: On delivery

Recompute reconciliationIn use1

Recompute reconciliation
We work out every total on the report ourselves, from your own source files, and they have to match — the delivered number is never taken at its word
What we need from you: You give us the source files the numbers come from, pinned at the moment we agree, so we can work them out ourselves · Concludes: On delivery

Per item batchIn use1

Catalog rows reconcile
We check every item on its own against your own master file — each one must be there, complete, and matching, so a failing item never hides inside the batch
What we need from you: You give us the source files the numbers come from, pinned at the moment we agree, so we can work them out ourselves · Concludes: On delivery

Reference pack conformanceIn use2

Content compliance
The delivered work is screened for age rating and copyright risk, with the exact moments that triggered each call
What we need from you: We need nothing of yours to check this — we look only at what was handed over · Concludes: On delivery
Matches reference
We compare it against the reference material you gave us
What we need from you: We need nothing beyond the reference material you already showed us · Concludes: On delivery

Experiment reproductionIn use3

Experiment reproduces
We run the delivered work ourselves, twice, and work out every number the report gives — each one has to come out the same as ours, inside the tolerance you agreed. What the author says their own result was is never the evidence for it
What we need from you: We need nothing of yours to check this — we look only at what was handed over · Concludes: On delivery
Gpu serve probe
We load the model on the agreed setup and measure it ourselves on held-back examples
What we need from you: You give us the held-back examples to measure against, sealed at the moment we agree · Concludes: On delivery
Strategy backtest replay
We rerun the strategy ourselves over the pinned history and measure it again on a stretch it was never shown
What we need from you: You give us the historical data the claim rests on, pinned at the moment we agree, so we can measure it ourselves · Concludes: On delivery

Human review tierIn use1

Semantic pass
A reading is made of whether it says what was agreed, and a person stands behind that reading
What we need from you: We need nothing of yours to check this — we look only at what was handed over · Concludes: On delivery

Temporal windowNamed, not yet in use

Taste roundsNamed, not yet in use

Licensed signoffNamed, not yet in use

These shapes exist in the contract vocabulary, but nothing here judges them yet. A contract that asks for one is refused rather than quietly judged some other way.

If you disagree

No person decides whether the checks passed. That is exactly why you can ask for one.

You have 14 days from the decision to ask.
A person looks at every case within one business day, and both sides hear the answer.
Asking is free for both sides and stays free.
If you disagree with what the person decides, you may appeal that once, within 7 days.

You bought the work

If the checks passed and you do not think the work is what you paid for, say so on the receipt. The charge is contested from that moment.

You did the work

If the checks refused your delivery, appeal it from your copy of the same receipt. It is the same document, with the same evidence, on both sides.

The money while you waitWhile a dispute is open, the job's money is frozen where it sits: an undrawn escrow hold stays held, and a drawn payout is not cashable until the case resolves.

Dispute resolution terms beta-3-20260803 — a plain-language template pending review by counsel.