PSD.13:4 - Solution
Compose the recommendation at the strength and scope of its decision-bearing premises, then return it for the agreed use. The following moves express information dependencies, not a compulsory sequence of meetings or documents. Adequate existing results may close several needs at once.
PSD.13:4.1 - Recover the receiving use and the right to provide this advice
State who receives the answer, the exact subject or holder, the horizon, the question and the later decision or other Work that will use it. Recover the actual choice owner separately. A recipient may also be the choice owner when that authority is established; receiving an answer does not establish it.
Use an adequate PSD.1 engagement result for the same subject and decision. Otherwise obtain the qualified direct facts or return the exact missing recipient, question, scope or authority premise. Do not infer the engagement from a title, course, department or tool output.
For development-direction advising, distinguish the recommending performer from the recipient at the grain of this application. The client, sponsor, holder, recipient and chooser may coincide in some respects and differ in others; recover only the differences that affect the advice, disclosure or later choice. A larger organization may contain both adviser and recipient. Merely naming two roles of one self-advisory actor does not create the distinct-performer engagement; direct domain and C.11 guidance remain available.
Establish applicable professional scope, competence, material conflicts and permitted reliance before offering positive advice. For example, management-consultancy engagement and conflict conditions are informed by the ICMCI competence framework v4.0, C.1.1–2, C.2.1 and E.3.5. Human career-service consent and assessment limits come from the applicable professional source, such as the NCDA 2024 Code of Ethics, A.2 and E.2. These are different service conditions, not one universal profession or evidence that a proposed intervention works.
If a material mandate, competence, conflict or admissibility condition cannot be satisfied, return the scoped blocker or appropriate referral. A persuasive presentation cannot repair that condition. Existing emergency, safety or legal response duties retain their own direct authority and must not wait for completion of a PSD account.
PSD.13:4.2 - Recover what the available premises actually support
For every premise that can change the disposition, recover its claim, exact subject and configuration, source or supplier, applicable window, intended use, uncertainty and reliance limit. Inspect available results first; use A.15.9 to reuse an adequate result, retain its useful limit, or select a worthwhile obtainable missing contribution, and A.10 to qualify the actual reliance. This pattern adds no second specialist-acquisition Method.
Read a comparison as a result over particular alternatives under particular values, evidence and assumptions. A PSD.12 robustness result contributes only where it can change this recommendation for the same configuration and horizon. It neither entails the whole recommendation nor authorizes the later decision. Preserve the PSD.9–PSD.11 comparison basis needed to interpret it.
Keep the live set and the compared subset explicit. A result about internal development and one mixed human–AI arrangement does not dispose of an external provider or a materially different probe. A gap about one candidate can prevent ranking that candidate while leaving an independent comparison usable. Do not narrow the set simply because evidence is easier to obtain for the familiar option.
Preserve material agreement, disagreement and affected-party concerns from PSD.7 or a qualified direct account. Distinguish a factual objection, a value conflict, an authority condition and a question about representation; they call for different responses. Give the objection and its consequence enough prominence to survive the return. Attribution and disclosure must respect the applicable protection and confidentiality conditions.
For development opportunities, consume a qualified opportunity result: the problem or promise, dependencies, bounded reachability, uncertainty and next question. A search/archive entry, a fashionable technology or a candidate label supplies none of those by itself. Opportunity construction is a separate Method with an independently useful result; composing advice does not complete missing search, dependency or reachability work.
PSD.13:4.3 - Select the warranted recommendation disposition
Ask what the recipient can responsibly consider now, given the question, alternatives, protected conditions, comparison and consequence of delay. Explain the inference from the relied-on premises to the disposition. The six forms below are result branches, not stages to complete.
| Disposition | Positive basis and useful return | Boundary |
|---|---|---|
| Retained or ranked set | Several directions remain live. Return the warranted order, partial order or trade-offs and the unresolved distinction that could narrow it. | A retained set is not consensus; an order valid under one scheme is not a universal ranking. |
| Supported direction | Qualified premises and a declared decision-support rule justify preferring one direction for this use. State the advantage and the conditions under which it holds. | Other candidates need an explicit disposition; protected conditions cannot disappear into a compensating score. |
| Bounded information-gaining probe | A specified uncertainty could change the advice, and a qualified probe is feasible and proportionate to the delay, burden and risk it introduces. Name the question, bounded exposure, useful evidence and stop. | Thin evidence alone does not justify a probe. The probe’s authorization, WorkPlan and execution remain separate. |
| Smallest-result request or handoff | A named practice can supply a missing comparison, feasibility, interpretation, or other result whose obtainable contribution warrants the full formulation, qualification, delivery, performance, interpretation, delay, and displaced work for this receiving question. Use A.15.9 and C.11.DUA for that selection. | Request the bounded premise; the supplier keeps its Method and does not take over the recommendation or choice. A missing premise alone can remain a limitation. |
| Blocker | A missing, stale, incompatible, inadmissible or unauthorized premise prevents the requested responsible recommendation. Name the premise, affected use and what would resolve or reroute it. | State any still-usable partial result; do not convert uncertainty into either a confident negative or a positive recommendation. |
| Abstention | The recommendation premise itself fails, or the requested kind of advice cannot responsibly be supplied within the engagement. State the failed premise and the correct receiving account where one exists. | An abstention is not an adverse factual finding about the subject and is not abandonment of any obtaining professional duty. |
A mixed answer can be useful if its scopes are unmistakable: retain two directions and block a stronger ranking, with a comparison request only when selected for its attainable value. Do not present these as contradictory overall statuses.
The strength of each claim stays inside the narrowest material limit of the premises on which that claim depends. If one input supports only a particular AI configuration, the recommendation cannot silently extend it to another. If an unused source expires, it does not invalidate unrelated claims merely by appearing in the same bibliography.
When a total order is unwarranted, prefer an explicit partial answer to invented weights or probabilities. When the declared scheme does support one direction, do not conceal that conclusion behind an uninformative list. Explain why a serious remaining alternative loses for this use, and what would reverse that judgement.
PSD.13:4.4 - Make the recommendation account inspectable at the smallest useful size
The account is a claim-bearing result, not a mandatory template or new record kind. A short message may carry it; a consequential institutional matter may need a larger package and protected annex. Keep the following content recoverable wherever it can change reliance.
| Position | Decision-useful content |
|---|---|
| Receiving frame | Recipient, recommending performer, holder or subject, question, horizon, choice owner, receiving decision and next Work. |
| Candidate domain | Considered alternatives, compared subset, exclusions with their basis, retained alternatives and any candidate gap. |
| Relied-on premises | Exact results and relevant source editions or dates, configurations, qualification windows, evidence limits and supplying owners. |
| Comparison and inference | Scheme, material trade-offs, protected conditions, robust regions or reversals, and the reasoning that supports the disposition. |
| Unresolved content | Material uncertainty, dissent, evidence losses, unsupported extensions and what each prevents. |
| Return | One or more explicitly scoped dispositions and the next consideration, request, reroute or separately governed choice they support. |
| Reconsideration | The source, observation, configuration, threshold, authority, horizon or candidate change that could alter a specified claim or disposition. |
Put the disposition and its most important limit first. Keep the evidence and reasoning reachable without requiring the recipient to reconstruct the entire analysis. Where a protected annex limits access, the accessible return must still state the resulting reliance restriction; it must not hide that a decisive premise is unavailable to the recipient.
A threshold in this account needs a source and an owner for its meaning. “Reconsider when recovery evidence no longer supports the continuity condition” is useful only if the named evidence, condition and receiving question can be recovered. PSD.14 designs how such evidence will be obtained and interpreted. If a positive recommendation depends on ongoing observation, an unassigned or infeasible observation obligation is a material limit now, not an administrative detail to repair after handoff.
PSD.13:4.5 - Return the advice without taking the later choice
Make the result available to the actual recipient in a form suited to the agreed use. For a receiving-use question, apply A.2.9: what should the recipient understand or do, what evidence is enough to judge that, and what smallest repair or stop follows? Explaining the conditional nature of a ranking may be necessary; obtaining agreement with it is not the same task.
Keep the communicative Work, recommendation content, carrier, recipient response and later effect distinct. Delivery establishes neither understanding nor reliance, consent, choice, implementation or effectiveness. A recorded acknowledgement may support receipt; it does not establish an authorized decision. A communication can perform an authorization only under its own actual performer, authority and institutional conditions.
The authority-holding System may later choose, reject, retain alternatives, commission a probe or reroute under C.11 or its direct domain rule. A corporate organ may consume the recommendation and unresolved disagreement through CGOV.11; that organ, not this account, performs the authorization Work. Do not require a corporate-governance framework where the actual decision is personal or otherwise outside its subject.
Returning the advice closes this recommendation application, including an honest stop branch. Later premise refresh and a newly composed recommendation are later work. Any promised professional contact, referral or service closure remains governed by the actual relationship; closing this application neither invents nor cancels those duties.