What gets recorded
Both directions. A record that only carries the good weeks is not a record, and the person it is about is told about every entry and can contest any of them.
Creative project delivered and accepted
Kept its wordThe agreed creative deliverable was delivered and accepted by the client.
- Who confirms it
- The clientCustomer or client
- How they confirm
- Confirmed by the client via a confirmation link.
- Due
- the agreed delivery date on the brief
- Done
- the date the client accepted the deliverable
Milestone paid
Kept its wordA client paid for a completed creative milestone or deliverable.
- Who confirms it
- The paying client (as recorded by the marketplace/processor)Payment or marketplace
- How they confirm
- Auto-verified when the payer is a third party (marketplace or settled invoice).
- Due
- the milestone due date
- Done
- the settlement date the processor recorded
Client reference confirmed
Kept its wordA past client confirmed the creative delivered reliably.
- Who confirms it
- The past clientCustomer or client
- How they confirm
- Requested via a reference link the client responds to.
- Due
- the end of the project being confirmed
- Done
- the date the reference was given
Deliverable disputed
Fell shortThe client disputed the deliverable (not delivered, or not to the agreed brief).
- Who confirms it
- The clientCustomer or client
- How they confirm
- Raised by the client; resolution follows the dispute flow.
- Due
- the agreed delivery date
- Done
- If nothing was accepted there is no completion time to compare against.
Due and done are the pair that decide whether something counts as delivered on time rather than merely delivered. Send one without the other and the outcome can only ever read as finished.
Who counts as a witness here
2 kinds of third party confirm work in this trade. None of them outranks another. The formula does not read this at all. What varies is how hard each one is for either side to lean on, which is a fact worth knowing and not a weighting.
- Customer or client
- The party the work was done for, or who took delivery of it: a homeowner, a patient, a client, a consignee, a family. They know first hand whether it happened.
- Payment or marketplace
- A processor or marketplace that independently recorded a payer other than the worker. Money moving from a third party is evidence somebody else was involved. It is never, on its own, evidence that the work was good.
What is not recorded against the person
A client who did not attend, work the business itself pulled or rescheduled, conditions nobody controls, time off taken with notice, and an opinion about the person. None of it belongs on the record of whoever showed up to do the work.
The full list is on the index, and it is the same list for every trade.
How a confirmed outcome reaches a score
A confirmed outcome becomes evidence in a published formula, version 5.6, with five weights and six bands running from Distinguished down to At Risk. An outcome nobody else confirmed is still recorded, and it shows on the record as a claim rather than as evidence. No plan and no payment moves a score.
The record belongs to the person, not to the business that recorded the work. They take it with them. The model is published in full, and what an employer records covers the recording side.
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