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 The sole local project environment is `$HOME/.local/share/accountpulse/project-venv`;
 GPU stages fail closed without one visible CUDA GPU. See `BLOCKERS.md`,
-`SOURCE_MANIFEST.yaml`, `SPLIT_MANIFEST.yaml`, and the reports under `reports/`.
+`SOURCE_MANIFEST.yaml`, `SPLIT_MANIFEST.yaml`, the reports under `reports/`,
+and [research decisions and limitations](docs/RESEARCH_DECISIONS.md).
 The frozen scientific checkpoint is `accountpulse-v1.0-complete`. Subsequent slicing,
 calibration and drift analysis, GPU TreeSHAP, grouped permutation, PDP/ICE, and AP-EV
 component diagnostics are preserved separately on branch
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-# Resume Evidence
-
-Use only the bullets below, preserving their benchmark boundaries.
-
-- Built a resume-safe predictive decision-science pipeline spanning 8,800 fictitious Maven CRM opportunities, 8,000 Olist leads, and 824K customer-identified UCI transaction lines, with point-in-time contracts, maturity embargoes, DuckDB/Parquet evidence, MLflow tracking, and fail-closed CUDA execution.
-- Executed a preregistered, one-shot Maven LOCKED evaluation after freezing source/split/model/code hashes; retained the business heuristic when AP-EV captured 24.2% versus 29.2% ValueCapture@10% (difference −5.0 points, 95% CI [−14.5, 8.1]).
-- Benchmarked RFM, Logistic/XGBoost, Cox, a three-seed BF16 Transformer, PIT GraphSAGE, cached MiniLM text embeddings, and multimodal fusion on an RTX 4090 Laptop GPU; retained RFM because fusion's +0.30-point ValueCapture@10% estimate had a 95% CI crossing zero.
-- Detected and corrected a temporal label-overlap defect through adversarial review, issued a new protocol identity, invalidated prior external-track results, and reran the full model ladder without opening protected CRM outcomes.
-- Demonstrated a negative external result on sparse Olist data (AP-EV 10.4% versus CUDA XGBoost 17.4% ValueCapture@10%) and separately showed on verified randomized Criteo evidence that response and uplift top-decile lists overlapped only 64.2%, without claiming cross-domain transportability.
-
-Do not claim production deployment, enterprise CRM lift, AP-EV improvement, cold-account validation, or causal outreach impact outside the released Criteo benchmark.
diff --git a/INTERVIEW_NOTES.md b/docs/RESEARCH_DECISIONS.md
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-# Interview Notes
+# Research Decisions and Limitations
 
-## Track-A A1 update
+## Maven Track A: frozen evaluation
 
 The complete official Maven source contains 8,800 opportunities and passed all five frozen hashes. A1 uses a 60-day horizon with three 60-day purge gaps (FIT 1,670; VALIDATION 434; POLICY 273; LOCKED 403). PREASSIGN excludes assignment fields and historical aggregates use only outcomes resolved strictly before engagement. Model choice used VALIDATION; calibration and bounded AP-EV selection used POLICY.