Claims Tribunal

Chairs go into a horseshoe, one seat faces the rest, and you sit in it and read your own claims out to a room that has been told to ask for receipts. Sunil Raman designed this format and enjoys it more than he will admit.

The procedure#

You read one claim. Any peer may say “receipt”. You have ninety seconds to name the thing a stranger could check without you in the room — not to describe it persuasively, to name it. If ninety seconds passes without one, the claim is struck through on the spot and the tutorial moves on.

Three rules keep it a tribunal rather than a pile-on.

• The claim is on trial, never the person. You challenge a sentence, and you say which word in it you are challenging.
• Struck is not deleted. A struck claim goes into your ledger with the receipt it would need. Most of them are true and merely unevidenced, which is receipt debt, not dishonesty.
• Everybody sits in the chair. Nobody observes their way through this week.

Expect to lose between a third and half of what is on your current materials. That is the median and it is not a bad afternoon.

What counts as a receipt in your room#

• Technical Practice — a commit, a thing that runs at a URL, or a measurement with a before and an after. “Familiar with” is not a receipt for anything.
• Creative and Communications Practice — a piece somebody other than you has seen, used, published, or paid for. Work seen only by your assessor and your flatmate has one receipt, not none, but say which.
• Commercial and Public Practice — a number, a decision you can name and date, or a stakeholder who would remember you. An outcome with no named decision inside it belongs to whoever ran the project.

Two things you write before you leave#

Your Receipt Ledger is the tribunal’s transcript, formalised: each claim, its verdict, and for anything struck, the specific artefact that would restore it. Some of those artefacts take an hour to make, and you should make them before Friday.

Your rewritten Baseline Inventory is Dossier §1 with the struck claims removed rather than softened. Softening is the habit this week is built to break: an unevidenced claim hedged into “some exposure to” is still spending plausibility budget, and it now reads as though you know it is thin.

Leaving with#

Dossier §5, the Receipt Ledger, and Dossier §1 rewritten clean. Together with §§2–4 those are the whole of Assessment 1, due 5pm Friday 19 March 2027 (2027-03-19) — the Friday of this week, deliberately, while the tribunal is still fresh enough to sting.

Nothing you submit is expected to be gap-free. It is expected to be honest about where the gaps are, which is a thing you can finish by Friday.