Plain-language answer
Which strategic assumptions remain current and which must be tested or retired?
Reality Audit compares evidence date and type with review interval, ownership, volatility, contradiction, and material change.
Short answer
Use evidence that can survive a second reader.
- Current means dated direct or supporting evidence is inside the review interval, has an owner, and has no contradiction or material change.
- Aging begins at 75% of the review interval.
- Exposed includes overdue, weak, undated, future-dated, unowned, or materially changed evidence.
- Expired includes contradiction, no evidence, or an overdue assumption still in use without an owner.
Worked example
See the decision in a fictional case.
- Statement
- Mid-market buyers choose us because implementation is faster than the alternatives.
- Decision Affected
- Whether to lead the next campaign with speed to value.
- Gap Type
- belief-truth
- Evidence Type
- direct-observation
- Evidence Age Days
- 12
- Review Interval Days
- 90
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What this answer cannot establish
- Pressure order is a work queue, not a benchmark or probability.