Records to inspect
Signed payment term, authorised milestone, acceptance evidence, invoice and bank/ledger receipt.
C3 · DEL.6 → FIN.2 · Example design
Keep accepted work, agreed payment terms, invoice authority and actual collection in one auditable path.
Typical sponsor: Finance owner and managing partner. This is an illustrative route. It is not an installed workflow or a promise that this path is one of your three Blueprint designs.
Select any stage to inspect what it receives and produces, which specialist role might assist, what it may access, and who makes the human decision.
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Engagement lead owns this step.
Return path: Amount mismatch / invoice hold sends work from Invoice decision to Invoice basis.
A client dispute at collection returns to the account partner (REL.2), engagement lead (DEL.6) and finance owner to reconcile acceptance, scope and signed payment terms before any action.
A partial payment remains an open receivable until finance records the remaining balance or an authorised resolution; invoice issue alone is not cash.
Fewer missing invoice prerequisites and avoidable delays may improve collected contribution; an invoice is not cash.
Signed payment term, authorised milestone, acceptance evidence, invoice and bank/ledger receipt.
Missing acceptance, amount mismatch, duplicate attempt or dispute blocks issue and returns to delivery, relationship or finance.
Test accepted/unaccepted milestones, changed terms, duplicate retry, dispute and partial payment; reconcile IDs and cash.
These roles are candidate responsibilities in the reference architecture. They are not prebuilt products or active agents in your systems.
Show the next owner, dependency or proposed follow-up.
Boundary: One current case state; routine effects require separate delegation and receipt.
Reconcile scope and cost, or signed milestone and invoice evidence.
Boundary: Sales and finance have separate identities, corpora and minimal authorised fields.
Compare a draft with the original permitted evidence and exact request.
Boundary: Read-only comparison; a discrepancy report is never professional sign-off.
A Blueprint starts with a service the firm already sells, examines permitted records and measures the constrained work. It selects three connected boundaries, designs each to the same depth and ranks the first installation. A reference path may change, narrow or be rejected when the evidence is different.
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