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Training-Vendor Retention Challenge Pack for Corporate Heads of L&D

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What is this?
A pre-contract gate that intercepts training-vendor pitches before signature. The Head of L&D at a 200-2000 person UK employer pastes the vendor's stated retention/transfer claim ('learners apply skill X at 90% rate at 90 days', '92% retention at 6 months', '70% completion') and AE runs an adversarial multi-model debate that scores: (a) whether the claim is structurally resolvable against the buyer's existing LMS + performance-review cadence, (b) whether the vendor offers cohort-specific evidence or generic industry numbers, (c) which behavioural commitments the vendor must make for the claim to be falsifiable. Output: a one-page challenge pack the buyer brings to vendor negotiations, plus a private ledger where the buyer later records yes/no resolution per shipped claim. AE's 6-pattern autopsy taxonomy (especially Cosmetic Confidence and Temporal & Transmission Blindness) maps directly onto how training vendors smuggle short-term fluency wins past buyers. L&D budgets are tightening; the head needs defensible renewal evidence without uploading sensitive employee data.
Why did we consider it?
AE weaponises its autopsy taxonomy as a pre-contract challenge pack that lets L&D heads force training vendors into falsifiable retention claims — defensible renewal evidence without uploading sensitive employee data, sized for solo £100-300K ARR.
What breaks?
  • Incentive misalignment: L&D Heads are evaluated on training deployment and completion; exposing vendor failure exposes their own department's lack of ROI.
  • Feedback loop violation: AE requires <24h resolution, but training retention claims take 90-180 days to grade, starving the engine of signal.
  • Go-to-market mismatch: Selling combative procurement tools to HR requires high-touch enterprise sales, directly violating the introverted/evenings-only founder constraint.
What did we learn?
Killed: move_cap_reached.

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