Week 10 Audit: Auditing a naming dispute

The most strained audit in the course --- where the disagreement is about what a word means, not what the facts are

10 May 2027

This week’s notice doesn’t dispute the pitch’s facts — it disputes whether “companionship” is the right word for what’s on offer. That’s the hardest kind of audit: no number to check, no timeline to verify, just a claim about what a word is doing in the pitch versus what it’s doing in the audit.

Before the session#

Bring one word from this week’s pitch you think is carrying more weight than the facts underneath it can support.

In the session#

We build, as a group, a short list of what evidence — interviews, longitudinal studies, resident and family accounts — would actually settle this week’s dispute, since the notice itself can’t.

Afterwards#

This is the session to revisit if your own Sunset Review Board defence turns on a naming dispute rather than a factual one — the standard of evidence is different, and worth being explicit about.