For decision-makers with a vendor call or board meeting already on the calendar. Send one quantum claim — a sentence, a slide, a vendor email. Within 48 hours you get a one-page first read: the failure mode this claim is most exposed to, three questions to ask on your next call, and a straight recommendation — full audit, or none needed.
$500 flat · 48 hours from receipt of materials · 5 triage slots/month
Credited 100% toward a Claim Audit commissioned within 30 days.
The triage is conducted on the materials you provide and on public information. No null tests are run, no pipelines are re-executed, and no scorecard grades are issued. It answers one question: is this claim worth testing to destruction, or can it be resolved from the evidence already on the table?
Sometimes the honest answer at triage is "no audit needed" — the claim resolves on inspection, in either direction. That recommendation costs us a $5,000 engagement and is issued anyway. A triage that always recommends the audit would be a sales funnel, not an instrument.
Read the triage. If it doesn't change what you ask the vendor, the PoC team, or the board on your next call, say so within 7 days and the invoice is voided — no justification required, no questions asked. We can offer this because a first read that changes nothing is a triage that failed at its one job.
If the recommendation is escalate and you commission the Claim Audit within 30 days, the full $500 is credited against the $5,000 fee. If you escalate, the triage was free.
48 hours runs from receipt of materials after the conflict check — two business days, not two calendar days spanning a weekend. If a deadline is closer than that, say so at intake and we'll tell you honestly whether it can be met.
A vendor claim in an inbox with a call already scheduled. A "quantum safe" line in an RFP response. A PoC result someone wants to present upward. A board question that landed on your desk this week. A claim you suspect doesn't need a $5,000 answer — and want confirmed cheaply.
A decision that needs a defensible verdict on paper — that's the Claim Audit. A full PoC methodology review. Multiple claims in one submission — each claim is its own triage. Anything requiring null tests, re-execution, or scorecard grading. The triage tells you whether that depth is warranted; it doesn't substitute for it.
No. The audit runs the six-stage method — null tests, failure-mode analysis, five scorecard grades, board memo. The triage is the experienced first read that tells you whether that machinery is worth pointing at this claim. Different instruments, different jobs.
That's a valid outcome and it comes with specifics: exactly what information is missing and what to request from the vendor to make the claim assessable. The guarantee still applies — if the read doesn't change what you ask next, you don't pay.
Yes — within your organization, same terms as the audit's board memo. External publication requires written agreement. Note that a triage is marked as a preliminary read; if something is going in a board pack, escalate to the audit.
The triage is done by the same person who runs the audits, and audit engagements are capped at 3 concurrent. The slot limits protect turnaround on both. When triage slots are full, intake responses say so and offer the next opening.
Nothing. The vendor is not contacted, and per standing policy, triage findings are never published with identifying details. The read is yours.