Milestone 4 — Analysis & Production

Milestone 4 — ADA 12,000

The fourth milestone covers the analytical and drafting phase. The full suite of ten core decision outputs is submitted in draft form. This is the point at which the CPC can review the full substance of the research findings before final delivery — identifying any areas where findings require additional justification, where confidence levels need to be adjusted, or where the scope of a playbook section needs revision. The revision brief produced at this checkpoint governs the final delivery in Milestone 5.

This two-stage delivery structure — draft review followed by final delivery — is standard practice in institutional research commissioning. It prevents a situation in which the CPC receives a final report that it cannot meaningfully influence, and it ensures that the final deliverables genuinely serve the CPC’s decision-making needs rather than being technically complete but practically misaligned.