{"cases":[{"alternative_route_blocks":[],"case_id":"E15A020__DIRECT","case_type":"DIRECT_POSITIVE","domain":"Custom commercial metal fabrication","intended_route_id":"B1","omitted_condition_id":null,"remedy_leakage_audit":"The statement reports operating symptoms and unsuccessful past local improvements but proposes no corrective action or intervention.","route_evidence":[{"condition_id":"b007_a13_c1","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"Each order passes through drawing release, cutting, bending, welding, coating, inspection, and shipping in a fixed dependency chain."},{"condition_id":"b007_a13_c2","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"Unfinished work, expediting, late orders, and downstream inactivity cluster at the laser-cutting step."},{"condition_id":"b007_a13_c3","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"Faster bending, welding, and coating have not increased shipments or shortened total elapsed time."},{"condition_id":"b007_a13_c4","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"Departments disagree about the limiting point and continue pursuing their own visible utilization measures."},{"condition_id":"b007_a13_c5","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"One certified operator-machine pairing repeatedly sets the plant's completed-order rate."}],"scenario_text":"A custom metal fabricator produces small batches of architectural panels. Every order passes from drawing release to laser cutting, bending, welding, powder coating, inspection, and shipping; later crews cannot begin until the preceding work is complete. Each morning, carts of released sheet stock surround the only high-power cutter, and supervisors repeatedly expedite jobs awaiting that machine. Bending and welding crews often exhaust their ready work by midshift, while promised ship dates are missed for orders still awaiting cut parts. The cutter can run certain alloys only when its sole certified operator is present, and the number of orders shipped each week closely follows that pairing's available hours. Meanwhile, departments disagree about why delivery is slipping. Welding tracks arc-on time, coating celebrates faster color changes, and engineering emphasizes drawing volume. Recent gains in bending speed, weld setup, and coating turnaround raised those departments' reported utilization but did not increase weekly shipments or reduce the elapsed time from order release to dispatch.","scenario_title":"Architectural Panels Missing Ship Dates","vocabulary_separation_audit":"The direct case uses factory-specific language such as sheet stock, laser cutting, bending, welding, powder coating, and shipping; the transfer case uses investigative-audio language and contains no manufacturing terminology."},{"alternative_route_blocks":[],"case_id":"E15A020__TRANSFER","case_type":"TRANSFER_POSITIVE","domain":"Investigative public-radio production","intended_route_id":"B1","omitted_condition_id":null,"remedy_leakage_audit":"The statement describes observed delays and previously attempted local changes without recommending any future action.","route_evidence":[{"condition_id":"b007_a13_c1","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"Episodes move dependently through reporting, transcription, fact-checking, legal review, sound editing, and scheduling."},{"condition_id":"b007_a13_c2","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"Waiting drafts, deadline pressure, escalations, and idle downstream capacity concentrate around legal review."},{"condition_id":"b007_a13_c3","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"Faster transcription and expanded editing capacity did not improve release volume or end-to-end duration."},{"condition_id":"b007_a13_c4","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"Groups attribute the delays to different visible activities and optimize their own dashboards without a common diagnosis."},{"condition_id":"b007_a13_c5","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"A single attorney's review availability determines how many episodes reach publication."}],"scenario_text":"A regional public-radio network develops long-form investigations for weekly release. An episode moves from reporting and transcription through fact-checking, legal review, sound editing, standards clearance, and scheduling; a later group cannot finalize material that the prior group has not released. Drafts routinely accumulate in the shared folder awaiting the network's sole media attorney, whose outside commitments make review hours scarce. Producers escalate approaching air dates around that review, while sound editors sometimes have open studio time because no cleared script is ready. Across two quarters, the number of investigations published has closely tracked the attorney's available review sessions. Automatic transcription shortened interview processing, and an additional freelance editor increased mixing capacity, yet neither change raised the release count or reduced total development time. The newsroom has no common account of the constraint: reporters blame slow fact checks, editors point to late narration, and operations focuses on studio occupancy. Each group continues improving its own dashboard, even as most overdue episodes remain gathered at the same clearance point.","scenario_title":"Investigations Stalling Before Broadcast","vocabulary_separation_audit":"This case is substantially separated from the fabrication case through its public-media setting and vocabulary: interviews, scripts, attorney review, narration, studios, air dates, and publication replace machines, materials, and shipping."},{"alternative_route_blocks":[],"case_id":"E15A020__NEAR_MISS","case_type":"ONE_LITERAL_NEAR_MISS","domain":"Investigative podcast production","intended_route_id":"B1","omitted_condition_id":"b007_a13_c2","remedy_leakage_audit":"The statement presents operating facts and ineffective historical optimizations only; it does not propose, name, or imply a remedy.","route_evidence":[{"condition_id":"b007_a13_c1","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"Accepted episodes still proceed through a dependent sequence of reporting, verification, counsel sign-off, editing, and publication."},{"condition_id":"b007_a13_c2","intended_status":"CONTRADICTED","scenario_evidence":"The statement explicitly says that queues, waiting time, missed dates, downstream inactivity, and escalations do not cluster at any single step or handoff."},{"condition_id":"b007_a13_c3","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"Improvements in transcription, verification, and editing have not changed publication volume or overall cycle time."},{"condition_id":"b007_a13_c4","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"Teams lack a shared explanation and continue optimizing salient local measures."},{"condition_id":"b007_a13_c5","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"The number of counsel sign-off appointments available from one specialist fixes the maximum publication count."}],"scenario_text":"An investigative podcast studio accepts a fixed slate of episodes each month. Every accepted episode proceeds from reporting to transcript verification, source corroboration, counsel sign-off, sound design, platform review, and publication, with each group dependent on the preceding release. The studio has one specialist qualified to assess defamation exposure, and the number of available sign-off appointments sets the maximum number of episodes that can be published monthly. Faster transcription, added fact-checking hours, and more editing capacity have not changed that publication count or shortened average end-to-end duration. Managers nevertheless disagree about what governs performance: editorial tracks verified claims, production emphasizes editing hours, and audience staff concentrates on platform metadata. Crucially, operating records explicitly show no concentration of unfinished work, waiting time, missed dates, downstream inactivity, or escalations at counsel sign-off—or at any other single step or handoff. Starts are timed to the established release cadence, appointments are filled without a visible pileup, editors remain occupied with cleared material, and the few schedule slips and escalations are dispersed across reporting, recording, artwork, and platform checks.","scenario_title":"A Fixed Release Cadence Without a Local Pileup","vocabulary_separation_audit":"The near miss retains the transfer case's investigative-audio difficulty and vocabulary while using distinct details about podcast platforms and defamation assessment. It does not introduce manufacturing language or reuse the direct case's surface framing."}],"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp15_route_aware_retrieval40_20260814","sample_id":"E15A020","schema_version":1}