Revision 02 · New
Six conditions become the core of the standard
Was
Five principles, and ten metrics offered only as illustration.
Now
Five principles and six disclosable conditions: hours, training, junior headcount, human authorship, rework, exposure.
What changed
The six conditions were already in Part I, inside the case for Principle One, as examples of what a stranger could verify without having an opinion about the output. Version 0.2 lifts them out and makes them the thing an organisation actually discloses.
Each one is externally observable, industry-neutral and set as a floor. The ten-row table stays, as Annex A, to show what the conditions look like in one sector.
Why
The table was always labelled “illustration, not proposal”. But a standard that is only illustrated cannot be adopted: something has to be the thing you disclose.
Six conditions that hold up in a hospital, a law firm and a bank make a better spec than ten metrics that only make full sense in an agency.
Where it shows
The list
The ledger is a working spec, not a manifesto.
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