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Operations Audit
Symptom to cause
- Purpose
- Turn a symptom into a cause, treating whatever AI proposes as a hypothesis to check against the evidence.
- Inputs
- The constraint from Find the constraint
- The same evidence: emails, CRM, invoices, meeting notes
- Method
- Ask why, repeatedly, until the answer is a rule, a decision, an ownership gap, or a capacity limit
- Check the answer against the evidence: what supports it, what contradicts it, what else could explain the same pattern
- Output
- A named cause, tied to the evidence that supports it and the alternatives it survived.
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