PMO Weekly Status-Report Claim Autopsy Ledger for Multi-Vendor Programs

A claim-autopsy ledger for the PMO / program ops lead at a 100-500 person org running 3-8 active strategic programs delivered by external consultancies, SI partners, or contractor pods (£50-500k each). Each Monday the PMO enters the substantive claims from that week's vendor status reports as structured tuples — 'milestone X on track because dependency Y cleared', 'scope still feasible given assumption Z', 'blocker resolved via mitigation M' — typically 10-20 claims per week across the portfolio. AE runs each claim through the 6-pattern autopsy: Concession Laundering on 'on track*' hedges, Cosmetic Confidence on team-vibes justifications, Premise-Conclusion Severing on dependency-to-milestone logic, Temporal & Transmission Blindness on roll-forward dates. Resolution is the next milestone gate, slip notice, or change-order within 2-6 weeks, logged back. Over 1-2 quarters the PMO has a per-vendor, per-pattern, per-project-type ledger that defends renew/scope-down/replace decisions to the exec sponsor. £600-1200/month. Volume is low enough that entry is justified; each claim is multi-variable enough that AE's taxonomy bites on real substance, not pedantic flags on 'will sign'.

PMO weekly claim-autopsy ledger lands AE's taxonomy on the densest natural stream of laundered vendor claims, with externally-validated demand, defensible £600-1200/mo pricing, and async delivery that fits a solo UK operator.

Killed: fatal_objection_both_confirm.