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PSD.1:4.2 - Separate performer, recipient, holder, and choice owner

Name each position separately even when one System may occupy two positions:

  1. who is expected to prepare the decision-support return;
  2. who will receive it and for what use;
  3. which exact holder or subject is under consideration; and
  4. who owns the later choice, deferral, probe, or reroute.

State any coincidence explicitly. A manager can receive advice without owning the board’s later decision. A team can perform analysis for its own authorized choice, but the analysis Work, recommendation result, and later ChoiceResult remain distinct. A tool, document, score, model, department, job title, or meeting creates none of these positions by visibility alone.

Recover assignment, capability, permission, responsibility, conflict, commitment, or authority only to the extent that the current use relies on it. Use their direct patterns for consequential claims. If the required choice owner or authority basis cannot be recovered, return that exact gap.