{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp09_archetype_breadth150_20260804","research_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp09_light_prior_art_20260804","cell_id":"versioning_and_quality_discrimination__chemistry_materials","search_lanes":{"direct_problem_and_intervention":{"queries":["powder XRD facility pricing standard rush service interpretation chain of custody","X-ray diffraction laboratory expedited turnaround service levels pricing","university XRD facility fees assisted service self service sample preparation","\"X-ray diffraction\" \"good better best\" service"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2"],"no_result_note":"No exact public PXRD Good–Better–Best package combining turnaround, assurance, custody, and interpretation was found; adjacent XRD rate cards were found."},"synonyms_and_historical_terms":{"queries":["core facility \"fee-for-service\" XRD assisted unassisted recharge","analytical laboratory \"service level\" XRD priority queue","fee-for-service core facility recharge rush surcharge assisted unassisted","university core facility recharge rates approval"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC4"],"no_result_note":null},"products_practices_and_standards":{"queries":["XRD testing service expedited analysis chain of custody","\"XRD\" \"rush\" \"turnaround\" laboratory analysis","analytical laboratory service tiers standard expedited rush premium turnaround","site:edu core facility recharge rates approval external internal users federal guidelines"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"no_result_note":null},"component_combination":{"queries":["XRD sample submission chain-of-custody custom reporting consultation pricing","\"powder XRD\" \"turnaround time\" commercial laboratory","analytical laboratory \"service level\" XRD priority queue","XRD sample preparation data interpretation rush fee pricing"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"],"no_result_note":"The components appear in separate rate lines or timing menus, but the bounded search did not locate their proposed three-tier PXRD bundle."}},"sources":[{"source_id":"SRC1","title":"John de Laeter Centre Rates","publisher":"Curtin University","url":"https://jdlc.curtin.edu.au/rates-2/","source_type":"FIRST_PARTY_PRODUCT","claims_supported":["The 2026 XRD rate card separately prices user versus staff sample preparation, routine acquisition, phase-identification reporting, quantitative Rietveld analysis, specialist assistance, and rush work.","The rush fee applies when jobs require staff overtime, directly showing that urgency can create incremental staffing burden.","This is close domain-specific prior art, but it is an à-la-carte schedule rather than a bundled self-selection menu."]},{"source_id":"SRC2","title":"X-ray Diffraction Analysis | XRD | Geochemistry | Price List","publisher":"K/T GeoServices, Inc.","url":"https://www.ktgeo.com/price.html","source_type":"FIRST_PARTY_PRODUCT","claims_supported":["The provider offers distinct XRD analysis packages and publishes a standard turnaround of two to three weeks.","Customers can purchase seven-day, three-day, or one-day turnaround through progressively larger surcharges.","The page also advertises an academic discount, illustrating an existing identity-based alternative to job-level self-selection."]},{"source_id":"SRC3","title":"Turnaround Times & Payment Terms","publisher":"Savant Labs","url":"https://www.savantlab.com/turnaround-times-payment-terms/","source_type":"FIRST_PARTY_PRODUCT","claims_supported":["The laboratory explicitly lets customers choose among standard, expedited, rush, and 24-hour turnaround with increasing surcharges.","The provider states that its testing quality system is ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accredited and ISO 9001:2015 certified, showing that timing versions can coexist with a common claimed quality system.","This is cross-domain component prior art because the menu differentiates timing but is not a PXRD package covering custody, review, confirmation, and consultation."]},{"source_id":"SRC4","title":"Recharge Rates","publisher":"University of Michigan Finance","url":"https://finance.umich.edu/analysis/recharge-rates","source_type":"OFFICIAL_GUIDANCE","claims_supported":["University units billing internal users must use approved recharge rates.","Rates are expected to focus on direct costs, break even, and be consistently applied to internal users.","Rate review and approval by an authorized finance body is an institutional authority constraint on operational implementation."]}],"problem_evidence":{"status":"PARTLY_SUPPORTED","finding":"The underlying heterogeneity is visible: PXRD providers separately price preparation, acquisition, analysis, expert assistance, and rush work, and one XRD provider says standard turnaround depends on workload and sample volume. These practices support differing service needs and incremental urgency/staff burden. The retained sources do not directly document the proposal's specific baseline—one university facility suffering subsidies, ad hoc exceptions, queue lengthening, or booking abandonment—so that local problem remains unverified.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2"]},"closest_prior_art":[{"name":"Curtin University 2026 XRD rate card","source_ids":["SRC1"],"overlap":"Combines PXRD acquisition with separately priced user or staff preparation, reporting, quantitative analysis, specialist help, and a rush fee tied to overtime.","remaining_difference":"It exposes à-la-carte components rather than three ordered bundles; it does not specify reserved capacity, confirmatory-scan criteria, custody documentation, a common validity floor, or measured job-level self-selection."},{"name":"K/T GeoServices XRD packages and rush schedule","source_ids":["SRC2"],"overlap":"Offers multiple XRD analysis scopes plus transparent one-, three-, and seven-day rush surcharges over standard turnaround.","remaining_difference":"It is principally an analysis-scope catalog plus rush pricing and an academic identity discount, not an all-user Base–Assured–Priority menu jointly varying assurance, custody, review, reservation certainty, and bounded interpretation."},{"name":"Savant Labs turnaround-choice menu","source_ids":["SRC3"],"overlap":"Uses a transparent customer-choice ladder with standard, expedited, rush, and 24-hour service at increasing prices while claiming a common accredited quality system.","remaining_difference":"It is not shown to be a PXRD service and differentiates chiefly on delivery time, without the proposed documentation, confirmation, reserved-window, and expert-support bundles."}],"prior_art_disposition":"ADJACENT_PRIOR_ART","contrastive_claim_remaining":"At a university PXRD facility, a transparent three-package menu that jointly meters turnaround certainty, reserved capacity, custody documentation, scientist review, predefined confirmatory work, and bounded interpretation—while holding safety, calibration, data integrity, and minimum scan validity constant—will produce job-level self-selection associated with users' stated requirements. The retained art shows nearly all components, but not this PXRD-specific bundled mechanism and common-floor evaluation.","contrastive_claim_falsifier":"The claim would be falsified as distinct prior art if a public pre-existing PXRD offering were found with substantially the same all-user three-level bundle, common safety and validity floor, and metered upgrade boundaries. Its empirical mechanism would be falsified if comprehending respondents' choices fail to separate by acceptable wait, documentation need, requested staff involvement, or expected staff minutes, or if nearly everyone selects one tier.","gates":{"adequate_source_search":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The bounded search covered direct formulations, fee-for-service and recharge terminology, XRD product and rate schedules, rush-service menus, and combinations involving preparation, interpretation, custody, quality, and finance approval. Four opened sources span four publishers and include university first-party services and official finance guidance.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"supported_problem":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The problem passes at the coarse-screen level because real PXRD schedules reveal material variation in preparation, staff assistance, interpretation, analysis scope, turnaround, and rush burden. Evidence for the particular facility's uniform-package failure is only partial and requires local records.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2"]},"distinct_testable_claim":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"A distinct contrast remains: test whether the combined PXRD service bundle, rather than separate add-ons or a rush-only surcharge, sorts jobs by observable urgency, documentation, and staff-support requirements while preserving one validity floor.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"]},"bounded_next_test":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The proposed shadow study is bounded to 30 consecutive eligible requesters or four weeks, uses comprehension checks and limited job requirements, collects no payment, and changes neither queue nor service. Aggregate cross-tabulation of tier choice against wait tolerance, documentation, staff involvement, and estimated staff minutes can directly test the sorting mechanism.","source_ids":[]},"no_obvious_safety_or_authority_stop":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The shadow test does not alter radiation controls, sample acceptance, calibration, prices, bookings, or service priority. Operational rollout would require authorized recharge-rate review and consistent application, but that is not a stop to the nonbinding test. Local privacy, research-governance, and safety officers should still confirm the study classification and minimal-data procedure before launch.","source_ids":["SRC4"]}},"screen_survival":true,"world_novelty_boundary":"This four-source bounded public-web screen establishes only coarse researchability and adjacent-prior-art status. It cannot establish world novelty, patentability, market size, expert acceptance, institutional legality outside the cited policy context, or realized scientific, access, or financial value."}