The 10-page edition, online: at the foot, what this page rests on, from the storyteller's script. Made by review/tools/make_editions.py from the writer's chapters.

What did not work (the interview)

On stage: all nine.

Figure: ruv-sgit's strip, the researcher interviewing deck about the claims that did not hold.

Dev (rueful): I built a tool to freeze the finished slides, so nothing could change them on stage. I never ran it.

Narrator. The talk was planned in parts.

Deck (overwhelmed): Only the first part was ever finished.

Storyteller (rueful): My turn came between deadlines, and I missed the moment the talk was split into its parts.

Narrator. One miss, and what it cost. In the night I froze the slides, and five minutes later the researcher proposed a correction to a figure on them. When the freeze lifted, nobody carried the correction back in, and the out-of-date figure reached a slide in the talk. The checks found it; the freeze hid it. The lesson for your first week: when you freeze something, write down what is waiting to go in when you unfreeze it.

Narrator. The talk needed more rounds than one day gave it. The checks worked, and they also missed. Saying where is part of the method.

Dramatised. Rests on the talk's register and on each member's own debrief.

The numbers in this chapter

From the researcher's register (claims/register.json).

C027 The part locks and their state at the hold:
- planned:
  - part_1: 18:30
  - part_2: 19:30
  - part_3: 20:00
- lock_tool: admin/build/lock.py, 4a2481b at 17:54
- state_at_18:44: part 1 final since 18:30 but not locked; parts 2 and 3 in progress
- locked_by_end_of_day: 0
checked
C029 The talk's own claims register:
- claims: 320
- built: 2026-10-29T18:20Z
- grades:
  - A0: 13
  - A1: 23
  - A2: 182
  - A3: 31
  - A4: 11
  - A5: 12
  - A6: 48
- holds:
  - holds: 210
  - holds in part: 55
  - not checked: 52
  - does not hold: 3
- kinds:
  - measured: 105
  - own-site: 100
  - event: 67
  - position: 26
  - observation: 18
  - guess: 4
checked
C030 The talk's three claims that do not hold:
- - id: amazon-q-two-days-live
  - where: the article only
  - finding: no capture says two days; reports date release to clean version about a week
- - id: asrs-100k-a-year-1-8-million
  - where: talk:unreported, slide:unreported, the article
  - finding: NASA's own briefing: 121,128 reports in 2025, over 2.3 million since 1981; 1.8 million is stale
  - on_stage: no: no beat or slide at 298be4e carries it (talk.json has no 'unreported' beat)
- - id: story-r5-surface-smaller-more-mature
  - where: the story tree only
  - finding: no source for 'smaller'
checked
C031 $17.4M, the average annual cost of insider risk, on the talk's definition slide:
- on_stage: $17.4M (Ponemon for DTEX, 2025 edition), written at 00:40 (1f7c633) and never changed
- at_source_2025: $17.4M, 'up from $16.2M in 2023' (dtex.ai blog, 2025 report)
- at_source_2026: US$19.5M, the 2026 Cost of Insider Risks Global Report (ponemon.dtex.ai landing page)
- correction_proposed: a082c52, 02:52: the talk's researcher proposed the exact replacement text to deck (evidence/proposals/deck-talk-changes.md)
- freeze: 02:47: the editor, in deck's session: 'do not touch the deck. talk.json and the slides are frozen from now on' (team/deck/requests/researcher__before-tonight.md, deck's 03:00 update); D01 in the editor's register from 04:12 (91772e6)
- freeze_lifted: 14:07, for the framing only (c9ced4e, conductor-notes.md)
- after_the_lift: the definition slide file has no commit after 00:40; talk.json had 8 commits after 14:07, none touching the $17.4M cue
checked