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Collecting data is not the same as creating evidence.
Notes on proving attendance, and on what a record needs before somebody outside your company will accept it.
4 piecesOne argument each
Why this exists
Every product here collects the same data.
The interesting question is not what gets collected but what survives being questioned: by a client who says nobody came, an employee disputing an hour, a commissioner auditing a package, or a tribunal reading a timesheet two years later. Most systems are built for the first reader and fall apart in front of the second.
The gap these pieces are about
Data is not evidence
A reading becomes evidence when somebody can say where it came from, why it should be believed, and what would have happened if it were wrong. Very little field software can answer the third one.
- What a checkpoint scan actually proves, and what it only implies.
- Why a position is worth nothing without a trust verdict attached to it.
- What has to be true of a record before somebody else will accept it.
The third question is the one that separates a dashboard from a record somebody else will accept.
All 4 pieces
One argument each.
No news, no roundups, no reposting of somebody else’s list.
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The argument, built.
The per-day seal, the trust verdict on every reading, and what happens when somebody edits one afterwards.
Read ProductHow a stop becomes a visitThe mechanism the rest of it rests on: a stay inside a boundary, derived rather than declared.
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15 pagesTry it on one van for a week.
Put it on one phone, run a normal week, and see what comes out the other end. That answers more than any page here.
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