Conduct Quotient

Definition and role

CQ MUST name its scope. A company-specific CQ, an industry CQ, and an overall CQ are different representations and MUST NOT be substituted for one another. The initial live sequence begins with company-specific CQ. Overall CQ remains outside the first live pilot even if its shadow research advances.

One score, two protected inputs

The private consumer surface leads with one contextual CQ. The consumer can open How your CQ was formed to inspect the human-experience and verified-customer-record inputs. Workers do not receive those values, and neither does any receiving business.

FIGURE 7.2-A The 4.81 value is a synthetic interface example. Under the standard the score would be visible to the consumer, while a receiving business would receive only the approved result needed for one benefit.

The cap is not a floor, and a floor is required. The capped mean limits how far a strong input can carry a weak one. It does not prevent it. At N = 100 and V = 60 the expression yields min(80, 70) = 70, a usable score containing a weak input. Non-compensation therefore requires a separate minimum below which no score is produced for any value of the other input. That minimum is unspecified, and until it is set the non-compensation property rests on the input gates rather than on this formula.

Worked example of the intended behavior: with a floor at 65, N = 100 and V = 60 would produce no score and a named non-score state, because V sits below the floor regardless of N.

K3 capped arithmetic is the provisional structural lead. K6 weakest-link anchored synthesis, a two-dimensional explanation, and proof-only output remain research controls. No coefficient, mapping, or score is authorized for production.

Evidence gates and non-score states

Each required input MUST separately pass its construct, provenance, attribution, sampling, sufficiency, independence, fairness, rights, and dispute gates. Confidence controls whether a score is available; it does not compensate for weak standing. Because confidence gates the display, it MUST also appear in it: a displayed CQ MUST be accompanied by a plain statement of the evidence behind it, such as the number of qualifying interactions and the number of distinct businesses they came from. A score shown without its evidence strength implies a precision the inputs cannot support.

Condition	Consumer result	Status
Eligible evidence has not reached the display threshold	Building history	REQUIRED
A material input or calculation is being challenged	Under review	REQUIRED
The result cannot currently be produced safely	Temporarily unavailable	REQUIRED
Evidence does not support the requested scope	Not available in this context	REQUIRED
The consumer has not enrolled or has withdrawn	Not participating	REQUIRED

These states are not low scores and MUST NOT reduce baseline service. Missing, invalid, disputed, corrected, or prohibited evidence MUST NOT be converted into adverse standing.

Consumer display and business disclosure

A consumer may see an available CQ, its scope, evidence state, last material update, input explanations, active records, and challenge route. The first-skim view MUST NOT lead with two competing input scores or a raw operational fraction.

Incentive-orchestration platforms are therefore a potential implementation-partner category rather than part of the Conduct standard itself. No provider is named, none is required, and none has been chosen, approached, or endorsed. The category is deliberately replaceable, and a standard that depended on one vendor would fail its own independence requirement.

Broader score sharing may be researched only when the consumer initiates it and the exact use independently passes necessity, comprehension, privacy, fairness, legal, and baseline-service review. Conduct does not create public profiles, leaderboards, searchable people ratings, or a way to deny ordinary service.

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