Interpret met, partial, missed, and inconclusive results

A recorded number is not a verdict. The verdict is the system's honest read of the number against the target, and verdicts are what the next plan learns from. Getting this right means respecting the five states and one hard rule: a completed task with no result proof is unmeasured, never met. Calling an unmeasured task "met" is how measurement stops being trustworthy.

After a result is final: the window closed, the number is recorded, and its source and date are shown.

• A target existed (from the task contract or the Plan's TARGETS section). If success was never defined, say so: "success is not defined" is a verdict about the contract, not the work.
• The result is final, not interim. Interim values are never presented as final.

1. 1Compare the final result to the target. Read the gap honestly: direction and size, without rounding the story.
2. 2Read the verdict the app assigns from the result and the expected lift: exceeded (reached or beat it), met (at least 80 percent of it), partial (at least half), missed (less than half), or inconclusive (no usable comparison, for example no baseline or a failed measurement). Pending is not a verdict: it is the state before a result is final.
3. 3Apply the hard rule: a task marked done with no result proof is unmeasured ("Task completed. Result still needed." or "Task completed. Measurement pending."), a statement about measurement that is separate from execution. It must never display as met. Done ≠ worked.
4. 4If the verdict is inconclusive, name what would make it conclusive: a longer window, a different metric, a fixed provider read. Vagueness here guarantees vagueness next time.
5. 5Keep the verdict paired with its number when you report it. The app shows the verdict next to the final result on the task card, and under "Recorded task results" when the plan has a change window. A number without its verdict is an unfinished thought.
6. 6Write the next decision the verdict implies: exceeded or met → keep or scale; partial → adjust and rerun; missed → fix the work or the contract; inconclusive → fix the measurement; not final yet → wait for the window, then read it.

Verdicts on final results: Exceeded, Met, Partial, Missed, or Inconclusive. Unmeasured completed tasks sit in their own state: complete, honest, and not labelled met.