[
  {
    "id": "DB01",
    "name": "Weekly quality-value accounts",
    "meaning": "Fund repeatable customer value",
    "business_decision": "Fund repeatable customer value",
    "formula": "COUNT(DISTINCT account_id)",
    "unit": "accounts",
    "grain": "account-week",
    "numerator": "Accounts with accepted, no-critical-error output and confirmed use",
    "denominator": "None; count",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "UTC Monday\u2013Sunday of confirmed_use_at; only complete weeks",
    "exclusions": "Internal/test/bot accounts in production; absent in fiction",
    "data_event_source": "v_task; review + use events",
    "owner": "Product",
    "leading_lagging": "lagging value",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "Incomplete confirmations undercount; large accounts have more opportunities",
    "guardrails": "DB07 coverage; DB09 errors; DB13 cost",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed metric definition; synthetic implementation only",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": "Q01"
  },
  {
    "id": "DB02",
    "name": "Confirmed quality-use tasks",
    "meaning": "Separate output volume from reach",
    "business_decision": "Separate output volume from reach",
    "formula": "COUNT(confirmed_quality_use=1)",
    "unit": "tasks",
    "grain": "task",
    "numerator": "Accepted/no-critical-error tasks confirmed used",
    "denominator": "None; count",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "Task created cohort, use observed by cutoff",
    "exclusions": "Same as DB01",
    "data_event_source": "v_task",
    "owner": "Product",
    "leading_lagging": "lagging value",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "One source may spawn many locale tasks; duplicates can inflate counts",
    "guardrails": "DB01 account reach",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed metric definition; synthetic implementation only",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": "Q01"
  },
  {
    "id": "DB03",
    "name": "Task milestone counts",
    "meaning": "Find the next handoff to investigate",
    "business_decision": "Find the next handoff to investigate",
    "formula": "COUNT(DISTINCT task_id) at each checkpoint",
    "unit": "tasks",
    "grain": "task-checkpoint",
    "numerator": "Tasks with selected recorded checkpoint",
    "denominator": "All created tasks for context",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "Task created date range; events observed by cutoff",
    "exclusions": "No removal of blocked created tasks",
    "data_event_source": "v_task / sim_outputs",
    "owner": "Product analytics",
    "leading_lagging": "leading",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "Missing telemetry differs from abandonment; review/export parallel",
    "guardrails": "Q24 flow conservation",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed metric definition; synthetic implementation only",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": "Q02"
  },
  {
    "id": "DB04",
    "name": "Render completion rate",
    "meaning": "Isolate backend reliability from use",
    "business_decision": "Isolate backend reliability from use",
    "formula": "SUM(render_success)/COUNT(tasks)",
    "unit": "fraction",
    "grain": "task",
    "numerator": "Created tasks with >=1 successful attempt",
    "denominator": "All created tasks",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "Created cohort and cutoff",
    "exclusions": "None; optionally publish eligible-attempt rate separately",
    "data_event_source": "v_task / sim_attempts",
    "owner": "Engineering",
    "leading_lagging": "leading",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "Entitlement/consent blocks lower all-task rate without being defects",
    "guardrails": "DB02 actual use",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed metric definition; synthetic implementation only",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": "Q02"
  },
  {
    "id": "DB05",
    "name": "Seven-day confirmed-value activation",
    "meaning": "Assess onboarding",
    "business_decision": "Assess onboarding",
    "formula": "SUM(activated7)/COUNT(mature7 users)",
    "unit": "fraction",
    "grain": "user signup cohort",
    "numerator": "Signups with quality-confirmed use in [signup,signup+7d)",
    "denominator": "All signups observed >=7 complete days",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "Individual UTC signup window, first 7 days",
    "exclusions": "Exclude immature users only; include zero activity",
    "data_event_source": "v_user_cohort",
    "owner": "Product analytics",
    "leading_lagging": "leading for return",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "Review must occur before day 7; reported use is incomplete",
    "guardrails": "DB07/09; account interference",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed metric definition; synthetic implementation only",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": "Q03"
  },
  {
    "id": "DB06",
    "name": "Days 28\u201341 confirmed-value return",
    "meaning": "Evaluate recurring need",
    "business_decision": "Evaluate recurring need",
    "formula": "SUM(return28_41)/COUNT(mature42 users)",
    "unit": "fraction",
    "grain": "user signup cohort",
    "numerator": "Signups with quality-confirmed use in [signup+28d,signup+42d)",
    "denominator": "All signups observed >=42 complete days",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "Full 42-day eligibility",
    "exclusions": "Exclude immature only; include unactivated and zero activity",
    "data_event_source": "v_user_cohort",
    "owner": "Product analytics",
    "leading_lagging": "lagging",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "Unconditional signup return is not activated-user retention; natural job frequency varies",
    "guardrails": "DB07 coverage by cohort",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed metric definition; synthetic implementation only",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": "Q04"
  },
  {
    "id": "DB07",
    "name": "Preview review coverage",
    "meaning": "Decide if quality inference is trustworthy",
    "business_decision": "Decide if quality inference is trustworthy",
    "formula": "COUNT(reviewed_at)/COUNT(preview_at)",
    "unit": "fraction",
    "grain": "task",
    "numerator": "Previewed tasks with a review",
    "denominator": "All previewed tasks",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "Created cohort; reviews by cutoff",
    "exclusions": "None; reviewers only after preview in this lab",
    "data_event_source": "v_task",
    "owner": "Domain quality",
    "leading_lagging": "measurement guardrail",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "Synthetic reviews sampled; real missingness could be selective",
    "guardrails": "Never impute missing as rejected",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed metric definition; synthetic implementation only",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": "Q06"
  },
  {
    "id": "DB08",
    "name": "Reviewed acceptance",
    "meaning": "Choose editing or quality improvements",
    "business_decision": "Choose editing or quality improvements",
    "formula": "SUM(accepted=1)/COUNT(reviewed_at)",
    "unit": "fraction",
    "grain": "reviewed task",
    "numerator": "Reviewed tasks accepted",
    "denominator": "Reviewed tasks",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "Created cohort; review observed",
    "exclusions": "Unreviewed remain NULL",
    "data_event_source": "sim_reviews / v_task",
    "owner": "Domain quality",
    "leading_lagging": "leading",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "Selected sample, not all-task acceptance",
    "guardrails": "DB07 and DB09",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed metric definition; synthetic implementation only",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": "Q06"
  },
  {
    "id": "DB09",
    "name": "Critical content failures",
    "meaning": "Hold unsafe or materially incorrect output",
    "business_decision": "Hold unsafe or materially incorrect output",
    "formula": "SUM(critical_error); rate=SUM/COUNT(reviewed)",
    "unit": "tasks and fraction",
    "grain": "reviewed task",
    "numerator": "Reviewed tasks with critical error",
    "denominator": "Reviewed tasks for rate; report counts too",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "Review cutoff; versioned rubric",
    "exclusions": "Unreviewed are unknown",
    "data_event_source": "sim_reviews",
    "owner": "Domain quality",
    "leading_lagging": "guardrail",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "Zero observed does not guarantee zero risk; labels fictional",
    "guardrails": "Numbers/names/rights slice review",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed metric definition; synthetic implementation only",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": "Q06"
  },
  {
    "id": "DB10",
    "name": "Ready latency p50/p95",
    "meaning": "Locate slow completed journeys",
    "business_decision": "Locate slow completed journeys",
    "formula": "Nearest-rank percentile(ready_at-created_at)",
    "unit": "seconds",
    "grain": "completed task",
    "numerator": "Ordered elapsed seconds at ceil(p*n)",
    "denominator": "Completed task count n",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "Task creation to visible-ready; created cohort",
    "exclusions": "Incomplete tasks excluded from percentile, reported separately",
    "data_event_source": "v_task ready_seconds",
    "owner": "Engineering",
    "leading_lagging": "leading",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "Completer bias; not full human-review turnaround",
    "guardrails": "Q02 noncompletion and Q23 review wait",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed metric definition; synthetic implementation only",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": "Q07"
  },
  {
    "id": "DB11",
    "name": "Failure recovery to value",
    "meaning": "Choose recovery work",
    "business_decision": "Choose recovery work",
    "formula": "COUNT(failed_attempts>0 AND confirmed_quality_use)/COUNT(failed_attempts>0)",
    "unit": "fraction",
    "grain": "task",
    "numerator": "Tasks with failed attempt then quality-use",
    "denominator": "Tasks with >=1 failed attempt",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "By fixed cutoff; disclose recovery observation time",
    "exclusions": "Pre-attempt entitlement blocks are separate",
    "data_event_source": "v_task",
    "owner": "Engineering/CS",
    "leading_lagging": "leading",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "Right censoring and recoverability mix; render recovery differs",
    "guardrails": "DB12 repeated work; DB16 debit correctness",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed metric definition; synthetic implementation only",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": "Q08"
  },
  {
    "id": "DB12",
    "name": "Task retry rate",
    "meaning": "Diagnose repeated work",
    "business_decision": "Diagnose repeated work",
    "formula": "COUNT(attempts>1)/COUNT(attempts>0)",
    "unit": "fraction",
    "grain": "task",
    "numerator": "Tasks with multiple render attempts",
    "denominator": "Tasks with any render attempt",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "Created cohort",
    "exclusions": "Pre-attempt blocks",
    "data_event_source": "v_task",
    "owner": "Engineering",
    "leading_lagging": "diagnostic",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "Helpful retry should not be suppressed just to reduce rate",
    "guardrails": "DB11 and total cost",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed metric definition; synthetic implementation only",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": "Q08"
  },
  {
    "id": "DB13",
    "name": "Direct vendor USD per confirmed-use task",
    "meaning": "Choose full task improvements",
    "business_decision": "Choose full task improvements",
    "formula": "SUM(direct_vendor_usd)/SUM(confirmed_quality_use)",
    "unit": "USD/task",
    "grain": "task cohort",
    "numerator": "Render/translation/delivery/vendor-review/support costs across all selected tasks",
    "denominator": "Confirmed quality-use tasks in selected cohort",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "Task costs allocated to task-created month",
    "exclusions": "Period idle/shared excluded here; shown in DB23; customer labor separate",
    "data_event_source": "sim_costs preaggregated in v_task",
    "owner": "Product/finance",
    "leading_lagging": "lagging efficiency",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "Low coverage raises denominator uncertainty; rates illustrative",
    "guardrails": "DB07, DB09, DB23 full cost",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed metric definition; synthetic implementation only",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": "Q09"
  },
  {
    "id": "DB14",
    "name": "Customer active review and repair",
    "meaning": "Avoid moving work to people",
    "business_decision": "Avoid moving work to people",
    "formula": "AVG(prep_minutes),AVG(review_minutes),AVG(repair_minutes)",
    "unit": "minutes/task",
    "grain": "reviewed task",
    "numerator": "Sum each time category",
    "denominator": "Reviewed tasks",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "Created cohort",
    "exclusions": "Unreviewed unknown",
    "data_event_source": "sim_reviews",
    "owner": "Product/CS",
    "leading_lagging": "guardrail",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "Self-report and selected reviews; customer labor distinct from vendor cost",
    "guardrails": "Quality and elapsed time",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed metric definition; synthetic implementation only",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": "Q10"
  },
  {
    "id": "DB15",
    "name": "Estimated net customer time",
    "meaning": "Form a time-saving hypothesis",
    "business_decision": "Form a time-saving hypothesis",
    "formula": "AVG(manual_baseline_estimate-prep-review-repair)",
    "unit": "minutes/task",
    "grain": "reviewed task",
    "numerator": "Estimated baseline less all measured customer task work",
    "denominator": "Reviewed tasks",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "Same reviewed cohort",
    "exclusions": "Does not include all downstream work; unknown becomes gap",
    "data_event_source": "sim_reviews",
    "owner": "Research",
    "leading_lagging": "proposed outcome proxy",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "Invented baseline is not a counterfactual or causal savings",
    "guardrails": "Matched task comparison; quality parity",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed metric definition; synthetic implementation only",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": "Q10"
  },
  {
    "id": "DB16",
    "name": "Entitlement outstanding",
    "meaning": "Find double charge/hold leakage",
    "business_decision": "Find double charge/hold leakage",
    "formula": "SUM(reserved-consumed-released) per meter",
    "unit": "meter units",
    "grain": "task-meter",
    "numerator": "Reserved minus consumed minus released",
    "denominator": "None; balance by distinct meter",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "Closed-task ledger at cutoff",
    "exclusions": "Never combine dubbing minutes, generative credits and video counts",
    "data_event_source": "sim_entitlements",
    "owner": "Billing engineering",
    "leading_lagging": "guardrail",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "Simplified reservation model; not public billing implementation",
    "guardrails": "Duplicate and failed-job contract tests",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed metric definition; synthetic implementation only",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": "Q12"
  },
  {
    "id": "DB17",
    "name": "Experiment assignment validity",
    "meaning": "Decide if comparison supports inference",
    "business_decision": "Decide if comparison supports inference",
    "formula": "Accounts with >1 assigned variant / assigned accounts",
    "unit": "fraction",
    "grain": "account",
    "numerator": "Accounts exposed to mixed variants",
    "denominator": "Assigned accounts",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "Same experiment and exposure period",
    "exclusions": "None; diagnose before ITT calculation",
    "data_event_source": "sim_users variant",
    "owner": "Analytics",
    "leading_lagging": "validity guardrail",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "Lab intentionally uses seat assignments; Q13 reveals interference",
    "guardrails": "Randomize at account; no treatment conclusion here",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed metric definition; synthetic implementation only",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": "Q13"
  },
  {
    "id": "DB18",
    "name": "Acquisition spend per activated mature user",
    "meaning": "Choose a channel test",
    "business_decision": "Choose a channel test",
    "formula": "SUM(acquisition_usd)/SUM(activated7)",
    "unit": "USD/user",
    "grain": "user/channel",
    "numerator": "Allocated signup costs in mature42 cohort",
    "denominator": "Activated users within that mature42 cohort",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "42-day mature signups in selected signup period",
    "exclusions": "Immature excluded equally from spend and denominator",
    "data_event_source": "v_user_cohort",
    "owner": "Growth",
    "leading_lagging": "diagnostic",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "Not paying-account CAC, no causal channel attribution",
    "guardrails": "Later return and commercial conversion",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed metric definition; synthetic implementation only",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": "Q14"
  },
  {
    "id": "DB19",
    "name": "Mature zero-task share",
    "meaning": "Study never-starting customers",
    "business_decision": "Study never-starting customers",
    "formula": "COUNT(no task)/COUNT(mature42 users)",
    "unit": "fraction",
    "grain": "user",
    "numerator": "Mature users with no created task by cutoff",
    "denominator": "All mature42 users",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "42-day eligible signup cohort; no-task evaluated to cutoff",
    "exclusions": "Immature users",
    "data_event_source": "sim_users LEFT/EXISTS tasks",
    "owner": "Research",
    "leading_lagging": "leading",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "No sessions or stated intent available; cannot assign cause",
    "guardrails": "Interview nonstarters",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed metric definition; synthetic implementation only",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": "Q16"
  },
  {
    "id": "DB20",
    "name": "Closing subscription MRR",
    "meaning": "Review recurring commercial value",
    "business_decision": "Review recurring commercial value",
    "formula": "Opening+new+expansion-contraction-churn",
    "unit": "USD/month",
    "grain": "account-month",
    "numerator": "Normalized monthly subscription value",
    "denominator": "None; amount",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "Full calendar months only",
    "exclusions": "Usage packs, add-ons and one-off cash not modeled as MRR",
    "data_event_source": "sim_billing",
    "owner": "Finance",
    "leading_lagging": "lagging business",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "Illustrative contracts; not GAAP revenue; no reactivation in lab",
    "guardrails": "DB21/22 and cash separately",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed metric definition; synthetic implementation only",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": "Q17"
  },
  {
    "id": "DB21",
    "name": "Gross revenue retention",
    "meaning": "Detect existing-value loss",
    "business_decision": "Detect existing-value loss",
    "formula": "(opening-contraction-churn)/opening",
    "unit": "fraction",
    "grain": "existing account-month",
    "numerator": "Retained opening MRR excluding expansion",
    "denominator": "Opening MRR",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "Full calendar months; mature contract population",
    "exclusions": "Exclude new revenue and expansion",
    "data_event_source": "sim_billing",
    "owner": "Finance/CS",
    "leading_lagging": "lagging",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "Plan mix/concentration can conceal logo churn",
    "guardrails": "DB22; account churn needs further instrumentation",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed metric definition; synthetic implementation only",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": "Q17"
  },
  {
    "id": "DB22",
    "name": "Net revenue retention",
    "meaning": "Assess expansion versus losses",
    "business_decision": "Assess expansion versus losses",
    "formula": "(opening+expansion-contraction-churn)/opening",
    "unit": "fraction",
    "grain": "existing account-month",
    "numerator": "Existing MRR after expansion and losses",
    "denominator": "Opening MRR",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "Full calendar months",
    "exclusions": "Exclude new accounts",
    "data_event_source": "sim_billing",
    "owner": "Finance/CS",
    "leading_lagging": "lagging",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "Expansion can hide lost accounts",
    "guardrails": "DB21 and customer reasons",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed metric definition; synthetic implementation only",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": "Q17"
  },
  {
    "id": "DB23",
    "name": "Full period service cash contribution",
    "meaning": "Understand sustained service exposure",
    "business_decision": "Understand sustained service exposure",
    "formula": "net cash-payment fees-direct costs-idle/shared",
    "unit": "USD",
    "grain": "period",
    "numerator": "Cash contribution after declared service scope",
    "denominator": "None; amount, margin=amount/net cash if >0",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "Whole calendar months; October partial excluded by default",
    "exclusions": "Acquisition/R&D/corporate overhead excluded from service proxy; R&D separately shown",
    "data_event_source": "sim_billing + preaggregated sim_costs + sim_period_costs",
    "owner": "Finance",
    "leading_lagging": "lagging",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "Not accounting gross profit; acquisition needs separate reconciliation",
    "guardrails": "Quality, vendor and customer workload",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed metric definition; synthetic implementation only",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": "Q18"
  },
  {
    "id": "DB24",
    "name": "Heldout task pass by slice",
    "meaning": "Select a candidate without averaging harm",
    "business_decision": "Select a candidate without averaging harm",
    "formula": "SUM(task_pass)/COUNT(heldout cases)",
    "unit": "fraction",
    "grain": "case-candidate-slice",
    "numerator": "Candidate passing task cases",
    "denominator": "Same independent heldout cases per candidate",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "Frozen development/heldout split",
    "exclusions": "Development cases excluded; repeats not independent samples",
    "data_event_source": "sim_eval_cases/results",
    "owner": "AI/domain evaluation",
    "leading_lagging": "pre-release",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Use paired case bootstrap; no real model benchmark.",
    "known_bias": "Fictional labels; no media or model runs; paired comparison needed",
    "guardrails": "Critical failures, reviewer disagreement, latency/cost",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed metric definition; synthetic implementation only",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": "Q19"
  },
  {
    "id": "DB25",
    "name": "Judge failure-detection recall",
    "meaning": "Choose the role of automatic checks",
    "business_decision": "Choose the role of automatic checks",
    "formula": "true_failure_detected/(true_failure_detected+missed_failure)",
    "unit": "fraction",
    "grain": "heldout case-candidate",
    "numerator": "Human-labeled failures detected by judge",
    "denominator": "All human-labeled failures",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "Same heldout set",
    "exclusions": "Undefined with no failures",
    "data_event_source": "sim_eval_results",
    "owner": "Evaluation",
    "leading_lagging": "guardrail",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "Synthetic judge; errors can correlate with the same model",
    "guardrails": "False alarms and critical misses by slice",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed metric definition; synthetic implementation only",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": "Q20"
  },
  {
    "id": "DB26",
    "name": "Engineering capacity demand",
    "meaning": "Choose bounded scope",
    "business_decision": "Choose bounded scope",
    "formula": "SUM(eng_weeks) of selected dependent opportunities",
    "unit": "person-weeks",
    "grain": "opportunity portfolio",
    "numerator": "Estimated engineering person-weeks",
    "denominator": "None; demand; compare to available capacity after reserve",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "Declared planning horizon, currently unapproved",
    "exclusions": "No conversion to calendar deadline",
    "data_event_source": "plan_opportunities",
    "owner": "Engineering/PM",
    "leading_lagging": "planning input",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "Low/high reach is scenario range; no causal effect estimate",
    "guardrails": "Design/reviewer capacity and dependencies",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed metric definition; synthetic implementation only",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": "Q21"
  },
  {
    "id": "DB27",
    "name": "Unresolved release gates",
    "meaning": "Hold launch until evidence exists",
    "business_decision": "Hold launch until evidence exists",
    "formula": "COUNT(gate state != verified)",
    "unit": "gates",
    "grain": "requirement-release",
    "numerator": "Unverified required gates",
    "denominator": "All required gates for context",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "Exact proposed release/version",
    "exclusions": "Do not equate test specification with passing result",
    "data_event_source": "plan_gates",
    "owner": "Engineering/PM/domain",
    "leading_lagging": "release guardrail",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "All are unverified; synthetic labels cannot approve real release",
    "guardrails": "Named approvals and rollback drill",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed metric definition; synthetic implementation only",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": "Q22"
  },
  {
    "id": "DB28",
    "name": "Time from creation to confirmed use",
    "meaning": "Balance machine and human waits",
    "business_decision": "Balance machine and human waits",
    "formula": "AVG(confirmed_use_at-created_at); percentile recommended",
    "unit": "hours",
    "grain": "completed useful task",
    "numerator": "Elapsed hours across confirmed-quality-use tasks",
    "denominator": "Confirmed quality-use tasks",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "Created cohort to use cutoff",
    "exclusions": "Unconfirmed excluded, report coverage",
    "data_event_source": "v_task",
    "owner": "Product operations",
    "leading_lagging": "lagging",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "Completer bias; mean hides tail; Q23 reports review wait separately",
    "guardrails": "Missing-use count and active workload",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed metric definition; synthetic implementation only",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": "Q23"
  },
  {
    "id": "DB29",
    "name": "Eligible payment success",
    "meaning": "Separate payment failure from product-value failure",
    "business_decision": "Separate payment failure from product-value failure",
    "formula": "successful unique payment intents / eligible submitted payment intents",
    "unit": "fraction",
    "grain": "payment intent",
    "numerator": "Eligible payment intents with confirmed successful settlement",
    "denominator": "Unique eligible submitted intents, including failed attempts under the same intent",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "Declared checkout cohort and settlement lag",
    "exclusions": "Internal tests, duplicate transport events; cancellations reported separately",
    "data_event_source": "PROPOSED payment intent and provider settlement events; absent from lab",
    "owner": "Billing/growth",
    "leading_lagging": "commercial leading",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "Retries/events are not separate buyers; asynchronous settlement can be delayed",
    "guardrails": "Refunds, duplicate debits, customer value",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed definition; not instrumented or implemented in this lab",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": null
  },
  {
    "id": "DB30",
    "name": "Mature account paid conversion",
    "meaning": "Test sustainable commercial adoption",
    "business_decision": "Test sustainable commercial adoption",
    "formula": "new accounts becoming net paying within 30 days / all new accounts observed 30 days",
    "unit": "fraction",
    "grain": "account signup cohort",
    "numerator": "Eligible new accounts with first settled non-refunded paid subscription in window",
    "denominator": "All eligible new accounts mature 30 days, including zero activity",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "[account creation, creation+30d), plus explicit refund-lag policy",
    "exclusions": "Internal/test accounts; exclude existing customers; no seat duplication",
    "data_event_source": "PROPOSED account signup, settlement, subscription and refund linkage; not implemented",
    "owner": "Growth/finance",
    "leading_lagging": "commercial lagging",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "Sales-led and self-service intent differ; invoice issue is not payment",
    "guardrails": "Quality use, refunds, service contribution and mature return",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed definition; not instrumented or implemented in this lab",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": null
  },
  {
    "id": "DB31",
    "name": "Stale approval prevention",
    "meaning": "Protect current-version distribution",
    "business_decision": "Protect current-version distribution",
    "formula": "blocked stale-version distribution attempts / all stale-version distribution attempts",
    "unit": "fraction",
    "grain": "distribution attempt",
    "numerator": "Stale approval attempts correctly blocked by server",
    "denominator": "All stale approval attempts, with audited detection coverage",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "Release/version test suite and production audit period reported separately",
    "exclusions": "Do not mix synthetic test and real operational populations",
    "data_event_source": "PROPOSED source/target hashes, approval and final distribution events; absent from lab",
    "owner": "Engineering/domain",
    "leading_lagging": "quality guardrail",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "No detected attempt does not prove no stale distribution; false blocks need auditing",
    "guardrails": "Unauthorized distribution and reviewer burden",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed definition; not instrumented or implemented in this lab",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": null
  },
  {
    "id": "DB32",
    "name": "Confirmed unauthorized disclosure",
    "meaning": "Keep privacy separate from usage growth",
    "business_decision": "Keep privacy separate from usage growth",
    "formula": "count of independently confirmed unauthorized content/data disclosures",
    "unit": "incidents",
    "grain": "incident",
    "numerator": "Confirmed incidents by severity and affected tenant",
    "denominator": "No rate denominator required; also report audit coverage and exposure",
    "eligible_cohort_window": "Declared incident detection/reporting period; revisions versioned",
    "exclusions": "False positives adjudicated separately; missing audit evidence unknown",
    "data_event_source": "PROPOSED access audit, incident and deletion evidence; absent from lab",
    "owner": "Security/privacy",
    "leading_lagging": "privacy guardrail",
    "uncertainty": "Real baseline/target unknown. Fictional outputs are descriptive practice; report n, coverage and slices. Do not interpret a selected cohort as population prevalence.",
    "known_bias": "Zero reported incidents is not proof of zero exposure; avoid invasive logging",
    "guardrails": "Permission canaries, consent/deletion tests and response workload",
    "evidence_status": "Proposed definition; not instrumented or implemented in this lab",
    "baseline": null,
    "target": null,
    "query": null
  }
]