C.17:10 - Manager quick start

1. Name the bearer, comparison corpus, objective, and must-criteria.
2. State the smallest supported difference and consequence; stop if that answers the question.
3. When numbers matter, select the space and specification and build each coordinate through C.16 or C.2.1.
4. Compare with declared gates and a partial order; keep incomparability visible. When a retained set matters, report its declared Diversity_P or other needed set reading without turning that reading into selection policy.
5. Pass generation or retention questions to C.18, pool-policy questions to C.19, selector-facing declarations to G.5, and choice questions to C.11, with the result references each needs.

C.17:10.1 - Optional one-page comparison brief

When several people must reuse the same comparison, publish one short view containing only the fields they need:

• the working question, bearer, intended use, and stop;
• the finite corpus or reference set, inclusion rule, source editions, and window;
• the selected Characteristics, Scales, polarities, admissible operations, and missingness rules;
• the objective, must-criteria, eligibility consequence, and their sources;
• the Methods, models or priors actually used, with calibration, uncertainty, and evidence;
• the coordinate-result references and any declared set, frontier, or incomparability statement;
• the applicable C.19 policy, G.5 declaration, or C.11 choice reference when later work relies on one; and
• the basis-change and reopen condition when editions or evidence change.

This brief is a representation of the selected configuration and results. It does not create a result, policy, choice, WorkPlan, prior, or domain default. Put a reusable transform or objective form in the pattern that defines it and cite that definition here; do not make the brief a second source of the rule.