{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp12_substrate_denial72_20260805","cell_id":"versioning_and_quality_discrimination__accounting_auditing","arm":"CONSTRAINED_HIGH","candidate_id":"versioning_and_quality_discrimination__accounting_auditing__CONSTRAINED_HIGH","decision":"ABSTAIN","abstention_reason":"The archetype’s indispensable causal mechanism is a priced quality menu that induces buyers to reveal willingness-to-pay through incentive-compatible self-selection. Physical audit instruments could be offered as differentiated tiers, but their metrological action would address measurement quality independently of the archetype, while removing prices, incentives, and menu enforcement would eliminate the self-selection and discrimination effect. Treating the instruments themselves as the intervention would therefore fail to preserve the archetype’s causal structure; treating pricing and tier choice as essential would violate the substrate counterfactual.","proposal":null}