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Perspective · Oversight
Anyone who has to approve or examine a structural decision sees only the outcome. The reasoning sits elsewhere.
In the groundwork, in people’s heads, in documents that show the result and leave out the path to it.
Approving then means trusting.
For decisions of this magnitude that is an uncomfortable basis — for both sides.
A body that cannot assess the case has two options: delay or wave it through. Both are expensive.
An instrument for structural decisions has to carry its reasoning so that others can assess it: which alternatives were examined, the criteria they were weighed by, and why the rest were rejected. And it has to record which version of the structure all of that applied to. And everyone involved judges the same version, not curated extracts.
Above all, the person who signs. A body that can assess it approves, or states its conditions. It does not hold things up.
What is assessed is the decision, not the person who makes it.
This does not give you more control. Something else does: a basis on which approval is a decision and not a gesture.
Bring us the decision you still have open.