What changes when a Moral Alignment Audit has to clear a release branch instead of a roadmap review. The four probes still run; the timeline tightens, and the readout memos compress.

A note on the difference between scoring a system on a fixed rubric and answering the underlying question the rubric was written for. Reviewed two engagements this month where the latter moved the work forward; the former did not.

Annotated tour of the recently published redacted Moral Alignment Audit — how the four sections hold together, where the rubric lands hardest, and what to read first when you only have ten minutes.

A short defence of the unpaid thirty-minute conversation that precedes every engagement. The discovery call is not pre-sales theatre — it is the first probe, and skipping it is the most common way engagements start badly.