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Conduct Win/Loss Analysis

A study manager takes the deals that closed over a period, draws a sample of the ones the organization won and a sample of the ones it lost, and interviews the buyers in both groups about how they decided. Every closed deal already carries a reason in the organization's own record, and that reason was written by somebody who works there. This process asks the buyer. The run gets the samples and the questions signed before anybody is approached, holds the interviews, sorts what was said into themes, sets those themes against what the record says, and delivers the themes with what each one asks somebody to change. The buyers who did not buy are the harder half to reach, and that is the half most organizations end up skipping, so the report says how many of each half answered.

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21 activities from a period of deals closes to the themes and the recommendations are delivered, one of them a gate a person has to sign. Drag the diagram to move along it.

Conduct Win/Loss Analysisa period of deals closes → the themes and the recommendations are delivered
too few may be approachedchanges requestedchanges requestedone half is filling shorta half fell short of its counta deal has to be read againa figure does not followa period of deals closes1Take in the Periodwhich closed deals the runcovers, and by when2Pull the Closed Dealsevery deal that closed, and thereason the record gives3Brief the Studyevery agent hears the periodand the question at once4Say How Many Interviews I…how many each half needs,before any are held5Draw Both Sampleswho bought and who did not,drawn to match each other6Check Who May Be Approach…consent applied, and eachaccount's standing checked7Arrange the Outside Inter…buyers say more to somebodyoutside the deal8Cover What It Coststhe interviewer and theincentives, against what is…9Write the Interview Guidethe questions both halves areasked, at a version10Get Sign-Offslegal and the owner sign beforeanybody is approacheda person signs · never an agent11Invite the Buyersthe same ask goes to bothhalves12Hold the Interviewswhat each buyer said, takendown as they said it13Watch Both Halves Fillhow many of each half haveanswered so far14Close the Interviewsasking stops and the responsesare fixed15Sort What Was Said into T…every remark filed under atheme, at a version16Work out the Figureshow often each theme appears,with its range17Set the Themes against th…where the buyers and the recorddisagree18Write the Findingseach theme with what it askssomebody to change19Check the Findings Holdevery figure read against itsdata and its method20Deliver the Themes and Re…the themes go to the people whodecide and act21Record What Was Learnedwhat to repeat, what to avoidthe themes and the recommendations are delivered
The roster this process needs

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The document

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PROCESS: win/loss analysis            id: <team>/win-loss-analysis   v1
from: ref/mkt/win-loss-analysis v1
owner: <who>                          effective: <date>
trigger: a period closes in <your revenue reporting>, or a run of
         losses in one segment is raised
         watch: record=<closed deals> system=<your revenue reporting>
                change=<a period of deals closes>
         or watch: record=<lost deals in one segment>
                system=<your revenue reporting>
                change=<a run of losses in one segment is raised>
concurrency: one run at a time over the same period of deals. Runs for
             different periods or different segments overlap - <how
             many> at once
goal: the themes behind the period's wins and losses, each carrying
      the interviews it rests on, delivered with what each theme asks
      somebody to change
phases:
  take-in-period      - human: read which deals the run covers, what
                        the run has to settle, and by when
                        owner: study-manager     after: trigger
                        automation: <level>
  pull-the-deals      - runs collect-and-report: every deal that closed
                        in the period, its value, its segment, its
                        stage at close and the reason recorded on it
                        owner: analytics         after: take-in-period
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  brief-the-study     - convenes briefing: the period, the question and
                        the due date, heard by every agent at once
                        owner: study-manager     after: pull-the-deals
                        automation: <level>
  size-interviews     - human: how many interviews each half needs, and
                        what those numbers were computed from
                        owner: statistician      after: brief-the-study
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  draw-samples        - human: the won deals and the lost deals sampled
                        separately, drawn to match each other on the
                        traits that would otherwise explain the result
                        owner: study-manager     after: size-interviews
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  check-the-sample    - runs assessment: every drawn buyer scored
                        against the consent rules in force, and every
                        account read for whether it may be approached
                        owner: consent-manager   after: draw-samples
                        automation: <level>
  outside-interviewer - runs assessment: the requirements written down
                        first, then every candidate scored against them
                        owner: supplier-manager  after: draw-samples
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  cover-the-cost      - runs allocate-and-reconcile: the interviewer
                        and the incentives, drawn against <which
                        allocation>
                        owner: budget-keeper
                        after: outside-interviewer
                        automation: <level>
  write-the-guide     - human: the questions both halves are asked, in
                        the order they are put, at a version
                        owner: study-manager     after: brief-the-study
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  get-sign-offs       - convenes approval: legal and the named owner
                        sign, as named signers, against a version of
                        the samples and a version of the guide
                        owner: <your legal role>
                        after: check-the-sample + cover-the-cost +
                               write-the-guide
                        by: <days>               automation: never
  invite-the-buyers   - human: the same ask goes to both halves, saying
                        what the interview is for and what happens to
                        what the buyer says
                        owner: audience-operator after: get-sign-offs
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  hold-interviews     - human: the interview runs to the guide, and
                        what the buyer said is taken down as they said
                        it
                        owner: study-manager
                        after: invite-the-buyers
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  watch-both-halves   - runs roll-call: how many of each half have
                        answered, and what each half is waiting on
                        owner: study-manager     after: hold-interviews
                        every: <cadence>         automation: <level>
  close-interviews    - human: asking stops on the date or on the
                        count, and the interviews are fixed at a
                        version
                        owner: study-manager
                        after: watch-both-halves
                        automation: <level>
  sort-into-themes    - human: every remark filed under a theme, with
                        the theme list held at a version
                        owner: study-manager
                        after: close-interviews
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  work-out-figures    - human: how often each theme appears in each
                        half, each figure with its method, its
                        exclusions and the range around it
                        owner: statistician
                        after: sort-into-themes
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  set-against-record  - human: each theme set beside the reason the
                        record gives, deal by deal, with every place
                        the two disagree written down
                        owner: study-manager
                        after: work-out-figures
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  write-findings      - human: each theme with the interviews recorded
                        under it, and what the theme asks somebody to
                        change
                        owner: study-manager
                        after: set-against-record
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  check-findings      - runs layered-passes: the numbers pass, every
                        figure against the data and the method beside
                        it
                        owner: statistician      after: write-findings
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  deliver-themes      - convenes decide-and-announce: the themes and
                        what each one asks for, heard at the same time
                        by everybody who has to act on them
                        owner: decision-coordinator
                        after: check-findings
                        automation: <level>
  record-learnings    - convenes debrief: what to repeat, what to avoid
                        owner: study-manager     after: deliver-themes
                        automation: <level>
run-scoped:
  spend  - runs allocate-and-reconcile        owner: budget-keeper
           from: cover-the-cost   until: run close
  status - runs roll-call                     owner: study-manager
           every: <cadence>
           from: brief-the-study   until: deliver-themes
handoffs:
  take-in-period -> pull-the-deals [period-in-scope]: which deals the
    run covers, said as a period and a segment somebody can select on
  pull-the-deals -> brief-the-study [closed-deals]: every closed deal
    in the period with its value, its segment, its stage at close and
    the reason recorded on it, and every deal whose reason was left
    empty
  brief-the-study -> size-interviews [study-question]: the question,
    the size of the difference that would matter, and the confidence
    the study is being run to
  brief-the-study -> write-the-guide [question-for-the-guide]: the
    question as every agent heard it, and the guide the last run of
    this study used
  size-interviews -> draw-samples [counts-each-half-needs]: how many
    interviews each half needs and what those numbers were computed
    from
  draw-samples -> check-the-sample [both-samples]: both samples, buyer
    by buyer, with the deal each buyer came from
  draw-samples -> outside-interviewer [interviewer-requirements]: what
    the interviews need somebody outside the organization to do,
    written as requirements before any candidate is looked at
  check-the-sample -> get-sign-offs [approachable-buyers]: the buyers
    who may be approached, the count removed from each half, and the
    rule behind each removal
  outside-interviewer -> cover-the-cost [candidate-quotes]: what each
    candidate would charge and what it would do
  cover-the-cost -> get-sign-offs [what-the-run-draws]: what the run
    will draw, and the allocation it draws against
  write-the-guide -> get-sign-offs [interview-guide]: the guide at a
    version, in the order the questions are put
  get-sign-offs -> invite-the-buyers [signed-samples-and-guide]: the
    approved samples and the approved guide at their signed versions. A
    later change voids the approval and sign-offs run again
  invite-the-buyers -> hold-interviews [who-accepted]: who accepted,
    from which half, and what each of them was told the interview is
    for
  hold-interviews -> watch-both-halves [what-was-said]: what each buyer
    said, as they said it, marked with the version of the guide it
    answered
  watch-both-halves -> close-interviews [counts-so-far]: the count held
    in each half set against the count that half planned for, said on
    the day asking stops
  close-interviews -> sort-into-themes [fixed-interviews]: the
    interviews fixed at a version, with every one that was left out and
    the rule that left it out
  sort-into-themes -> work-out-figures [theme-list]: the theme list at
    a version, and every remark under the theme it was filed under
  work-out-figures -> set-against-record [theme-figures]: how often
    each theme appears in each half, with the method, the exclusions
    and the range
  set-against-record -> write-findings [themes-beside-the-record]: each
    theme beside the reason the record gives, and every deal where the
    two disagree
  write-findings -> check-findings [draft-findings]: the findings at a
    version, each theme carrying the interviews it rests on
  check-findings -> deliver-themes [checked-findings]: the findings
    with every figure checked against the data and the method beside
    it, and every figure that could not be computed marked as such
  deliver-themes -> record-learnings [delivered-themes]: the themes and
    the recommendations, as delivered, and who took each one
deviations:
  check-the-sample -> draw-samples [too-few-approachable]: too few of
    the drawn buyers may be approached, so the samples are drawn again
    to make up the count
  get-sign-offs -> draw-samples [sample-changes-asked-for]: a signer
    asks for changes to the samples, so they are drawn again
  get-sign-offs -> write-the-guide [guide-changes-asked-for]: a signer
    asks for changes to the guide, so it is written again
  watch-both-halves -> invite-the-buyers [one-half-filling-short]: one
    half is filling short of the count it needs, so more buyers in that
    half are invited
  work-out-figures -> invite-the-buyers [half-fell-short]: a half
    closed short of its count, so the run either asks again or <who>
    decides to report with the shortfall named against every theme that
    half fed
  set-against-record -> pull-the-deals [deal-read-again]: a deal has to
    be read again from the record before the themes can be set beside
    it
  check-findings -> write-findings [figure-does-not-follow]: a figure
    does not follow from the data or the method, so the findings are
    written again
bindings:
  roster:  <who holds each role - agents claiming the abstract agents
           above, and named people for the requester, legal, finance
           and the expert>
  systems: the study record (write), the interview guide (write),
           the response record (write), the calculation record (write),
           the survey and interview system (trigger),
           the CRM (read), the customer and revenue record (read),
           the contact database (read), the consent record (read),
           the sending system (write), the meeting calendar (write),
           the supplier record (write), the budget record (write),
           the decision record (write), analytics platforms (read)
  data:    <your consent rules> <version>, the period the run covers,
           the guide the last run of this study used, the reasons the
           record carries at the versions they were recorded under
policy:
  the run covers the deals that were won and the deals that were lost,
    and every report says how many of each half answered against how
    many that half needed
  nobody is approached until the samples and the guide have been signed
  sign-off is a human gate and is never delegated to an agent
  the person who owned the deal does not hold the interview about it
  both halves are asked the same questions, so what one half said can
    be set beside what the other half said
  what a buyer said is attributed to that buyer inside the organization
    only when the buyer agreed to it, and the buyer is told that before
    the interview starts
  an incentive offered to a participant is approved by a person before
    anything is offered to anybody
  the reason on the record and what the buyer said are both reported
    when they disagree, and neither is edited to match the other
  every theme carries the interviews it rests on, and a theme resting
    on fewer interviews than the study needed says so
  every figure carries its method, its exclusions and the range around
    it
  a question in the guide is reworded only when <who> agrees, because
    the readings before and after the change stop being comparable
  a finding is never removed from the report because somebody asked.
    <who> decides, and the decision is recorded with the findings
measures:
  cycle time: <target> from the close of the period to the delivered
              themes
  coverage: <share> of the period's closed deals interviewed, said for
            each half on its own
  volume: <runs per period>
  quality gate: no theme is delivered without the interviews under it,
                and no report goes out without the count each half
                reached
Take it somewhere

Use this process in LangGraph

Paste this into an assistant that can read the web, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. It reads the specification and the current LangGraph documentation, then writes two files: the graph, and a note on what did not survive the translation. Read the note first. What a runtime cannot express is the part worth arguing about, and this process is a draft to argue with.

381 lines · the document is inside it, so nothing else is needed
Convert the business process below into a runnable LangGraph graph:
one Python file with a TypedDict state, a StateGraph, nodes, edges,
conditional edges and a checkpointer.

The document is a reference process written to the Agent Processes
specification. Read the specification before you start, because it defines
terms that look ordinary and are not:

  https://agentcatalog.com/spec/agent-processes

Sections 6 (the phase graph), 6.5.1 (exception edges), 6.7.1 (deviations),
7 (automation) and 8 (handoffs) are the ones this conversion turns on.

Then read the current documentation for the primitives you will need, rather
than relying on what you remember of the API:

  https://docs.langchain.com/oss/python/langgraph/interrupts
    interrupt() and Command(resume=), which is how a gate stops a run
  https://reference.langchain.com/python/langgraph/graph/state/StateGraph
    StateGraph, add_edge, add_conditional_edges, defer

WHAT THE DOCUMENT ASKS FOR

These hold wherever the process lands, and they matter more than style.

1. Each phase under `phases:` becomes one step, and keeps its name.

2. `after:` gives the edges. `after: a + b` is a join and waits for BOTH.
   Reading it as "either" is the defect the specification calls out by name.

3. Every handoff carries a key in square brackets. Each key becomes one field
   on the run's state, named exactly as the key with hyphens turned into
   underscores, and the sentence beside it becomes that field's comment. The key
   is the stable name; the sentence is prose that may be rewritten.

4. A phase MUST NOT begin before its inbound handoff exists. Where that is
   checkable, check it in the step rather than assuming it.

5. `automation: never` is a gate a person signs. The run stops there and does
   not continue until a person's decision comes back. Do not turn one into a
   notification, a log line, or an automatic transition, whatever the queue
   looks like.

6. Each line under `deviations:` is a backward or sideways edge, returning to
   the phase named on the right. The key in brackets names it, and that name
   belongs in the code.

7. A phase whose `after:` reads like "X or Y, whichever could not finish" is an
   exception edge: it is entered when those phases FAIL, not when they succeed.
   Do not wire it as an ordinary successor.

8. Anything in angle brackets is a blank the adopting organization fills in.
   Leave each one as a named constant at the top of the file with a TODO. Do not
   invent a value, a threshold or a date.

9. Record the document's `from:` line at the top of the file, so it says which
   reference process and which version it was generated from.

10. Run-scoped lines under `run-scoped:` are work that runs alongside the whole
    process rather than at one point in it, and a run may not close while one is
    unfinished. Say in the code what you did about them, including if the answer
    is that the runtime has nowhere to put them.

HOW THAT LOOKS IN LANGGRAPH

11. A phase is a node added with `add_node`, under the phase's own name.

12. The state is a TypedDict. Each handoff key is one field on it.

13. A join is the trap. `add_edge(["a", "b"], "c")` looks right and releases
    once: when a backward edge re-enters ONE arm, the joined node never runs
    again, and the run ends early reporting success rather than raising. Mark the
    joined node `defer=True` and re-check inside it that both inbound handoffs
    exist.

14. A gate is `interrupt()` inside the node, resumed with `Command(resume=...)`.
    The platform lets anything at all call resume, so require the resumed value to
    name a person and a date and refuse anything else. Say in the fidelity note
    that this proves only that whoever resumed typed a name, because
    `Command(resume=True)` from a scheduled job is indistinguishable from a person
    signing.

15. A deviation is `add_conditional_edges` with a routing function named after
    the key in brackets.

16. Pass a durable checkpointer rather than taking the in-memory default. The
    gates wait days, and the default loses every paused run on restart.

17. Leave every phase body unimplemented, raising until somebody registers an
    implementation. The automation level is a blank, so writing a body would
    answer on the adopter's behalf whether an agent may do that work.

Produce a second file alongside it, `FIDELITY.md`, and treat it as the more
important of the two. The code is for whoever builds this. The fidelity note
is for whoever has to decide whether this platform suits the process at all,
and that is usually a different person who will never read the code.

It has three parts.

**What came across.** Briefly: how many phases became steps, how many handoff
keys became state fields, which gates stop the run, which deviations became
edges. Counts and names, not reassurance.

**What did not, and what was done instead.** One entry per gap. For each one,
say what the document requires, what the platform can actually express, what
you did in its place, and what breaks if somebody later removes your
workaround. This last part matters most: a workaround nobody understands is a
workaround somebody deletes.

**What a person still has to decide.** The blanks are not a translation
failure, they are the point of a reference process, so list what has to be
filled in before this could run against anything real, and say which of those
choices the platform constrains.

Write it in plain English for somebody who has not read the specification, and
do not soften it. A translation of a reference process is a draft to argue
with, not a build artifact, and the honest account of what was lost is the most
useful thing you will produce.

Here is the process document.

```
PROCESS: win/loss analysis            id: <team>/win-loss-analysis   v1
from: ref/mkt/win-loss-analysis v1
owner: <who>                          effective: <date>
trigger: a period closes in <your revenue reporting>, or a run of
         losses in one segment is raised
         watch: record=<closed deals> system=<your revenue reporting>
                change=<a period of deals closes>
         or watch: record=<lost deals in one segment>
                system=<your revenue reporting>
                change=<a run of losses in one segment is raised>
concurrency: one run at a time over the same period of deals. Runs for
             different periods or different segments overlap - <how
             many> at once
goal: the themes behind the period's wins and losses, each carrying
      the interviews it rests on, delivered with what each theme asks
      somebody to change
phases:
  take-in-period      - human: read which deals the run covers, what
                        the run has to settle, and by when
                        owner: study-manager     after: trigger
                        automation: <level>
  pull-the-deals      - runs collect-and-report: every deal that closed
                        in the period, its value, its segment, its
                        stage at close and the reason recorded on it
                        owner: analytics         after: take-in-period
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  brief-the-study     - convenes briefing: the period, the question and
                        the due date, heard by every agent at once
                        owner: study-manager     after: pull-the-deals
                        automation: <level>
  size-interviews     - human: how many interviews each half needs, and
                        what those numbers were computed from
                        owner: statistician      after: brief-the-study
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  draw-samples        - human: the won deals and the lost deals sampled
                        separately, drawn to match each other on the
                        traits that would otherwise explain the result
                        owner: study-manager     after: size-interviews
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  check-the-sample    - runs assessment: every drawn buyer scored
                        against the consent rules in force, and every
                        account read for whether it may be approached
                        owner: consent-manager   after: draw-samples
                        automation: <level>
  outside-interviewer - runs assessment: the requirements written down
                        first, then every candidate scored against them
                        owner: supplier-manager  after: draw-samples
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  cover-the-cost      - runs allocate-and-reconcile: the interviewer
                        and the incentives, drawn against <which
                        allocation>
                        owner: budget-keeper
                        after: outside-interviewer
                        automation: <level>
  write-the-guide     - human: the questions both halves are asked, in
                        the order they are put, at a version
                        owner: study-manager     after: brief-the-study
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  get-sign-offs       - convenes approval: legal and the named owner
                        sign, as named signers, against a version of
                        the samples and a version of the guide
                        owner: <your legal role>
                        after: check-the-sample + cover-the-cost +
                               write-the-guide
                        by: <days>               automation: never
  invite-the-buyers   - human: the same ask goes to both halves, saying
                        what the interview is for and what happens to
                        what the buyer says
                        owner: audience-operator after: get-sign-offs
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  hold-interviews     - human: the interview runs to the guide, and
                        what the buyer said is taken down as they said
                        it
                        owner: study-manager
                        after: invite-the-buyers
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  watch-both-halves   - runs roll-call: how many of each half have
                        answered, and what each half is waiting on
                        owner: study-manager     after: hold-interviews
                        every: <cadence>         automation: <level>
  close-interviews    - human: asking stops on the date or on the
                        count, and the interviews are fixed at a
                        version
                        owner: study-manager
                        after: watch-both-halves
                        automation: <level>
  sort-into-themes    - human: every remark filed under a theme, with
                        the theme list held at a version
                        owner: study-manager
                        after: close-interviews
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  work-out-figures    - human: how often each theme appears in each
                        half, each figure with its method, its
                        exclusions and the range around it
                        owner: statistician
                        after: sort-into-themes
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  set-against-record  - human: each theme set beside the reason the
                        record gives, deal by deal, with every place
                        the two disagree written down
                        owner: study-manager
                        after: work-out-figures
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  write-findings      - human: each theme with the interviews recorded
                        under it, and what the theme asks somebody to
                        change
                        owner: study-manager
                        after: set-against-record
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  check-findings      - runs layered-passes: the numbers pass, every
                        figure against the data and the method beside
                        it
                        owner: statistician      after: write-findings
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  deliver-themes      - convenes decide-and-announce: the themes and
                        what each one asks for, heard at the same time
                        by everybody who has to act on them
                        owner: decision-coordinator
                        after: check-findings
                        automation: <level>
  record-learnings    - convenes debrief: what to repeat, what to avoid
                        owner: study-manager     after: deliver-themes
                        automation: <level>
run-scoped:
  spend  - runs allocate-and-reconcile        owner: budget-keeper
           from: cover-the-cost   until: run close
  status - runs roll-call                     owner: study-manager
           every: <cadence>
           from: brief-the-study   until: deliver-themes
handoffs:
  take-in-period -> pull-the-deals [period-in-scope]: which deals the
    run covers, said as a period and a segment somebody can select on
  pull-the-deals -> brief-the-study [closed-deals]: every closed deal
    in the period with its value, its segment, its stage at close and
    the reason recorded on it, and every deal whose reason was left
    empty
  brief-the-study -> size-interviews [study-question]: the question,
    the size of the difference that would matter, and the confidence
    the study is being run to
  brief-the-study -> write-the-guide [question-for-the-guide]: the
    question as every agent heard it, and the guide the last run of
    this study used
  size-interviews -> draw-samples [counts-each-half-needs]: how many
    interviews each half needs and what those numbers were computed
    from
  draw-samples -> check-the-sample [both-samples]: both samples, buyer
    by buyer, with the deal each buyer came from
  draw-samples -> outside-interviewer [interviewer-requirements]: what
    the interviews need somebody outside the organization to do,
    written as requirements before any candidate is looked at
  check-the-sample -> get-sign-offs [approachable-buyers]: the buyers
    who may be approached, the count removed from each half, and the
    rule behind each removal
  outside-interviewer -> cover-the-cost [candidate-quotes]: what each
    candidate would charge and what it would do
  cover-the-cost -> get-sign-offs [what-the-run-draws]: what the run
    will draw, and the allocation it draws against
  write-the-guide -> get-sign-offs [interview-guide]: the guide at a
    version, in the order the questions are put
  get-sign-offs -> invite-the-buyers [signed-samples-and-guide]: the
    approved samples and the approved guide at their signed versions. A
    later change voids the approval and sign-offs run again
  invite-the-buyers -> hold-interviews [who-accepted]: who accepted,
    from which half, and what each of them was told the interview is
    for
  hold-interviews -> watch-both-halves [what-was-said]: what each buyer
    said, as they said it, marked with the version of the guide it
    answered
  watch-both-halves -> close-interviews [counts-so-far]: the count held
    in each half set against the count that half planned for, said on
    the day asking stops
  close-interviews -> sort-into-themes [fixed-interviews]: the
    interviews fixed at a version, with every one that was left out and
    the rule that left it out
  sort-into-themes -> work-out-figures [theme-list]: the theme list at
    a version, and every remark under the theme it was filed under
  work-out-figures -> set-against-record [theme-figures]: how often
    each theme appears in each half, with the method, the exclusions
    and the range
  set-against-record -> write-findings [themes-beside-the-record]: each
    theme beside the reason the record gives, and every deal where the
    two disagree
  write-findings -> check-findings [draft-findings]: the findings at a
    version, each theme carrying the interviews it rests on
  check-findings -> deliver-themes [checked-findings]: the findings
    with every figure checked against the data and the method beside
    it, and every figure that could not be computed marked as such
  deliver-themes -> record-learnings [delivered-themes]: the themes and
    the recommendations, as delivered, and who took each one
deviations:
  check-the-sample -> draw-samples [too-few-approachable]: too few of
    the drawn buyers may be approached, so the samples are drawn again
    to make up the count
  get-sign-offs -> draw-samples [sample-changes-asked-for]: a signer
    asks for changes to the samples, so they are drawn again
  get-sign-offs -> write-the-guide [guide-changes-asked-for]: a signer
    asks for changes to the guide, so it is written again
  watch-both-halves -> invite-the-buyers [one-half-filling-short]: one
    half is filling short of the count it needs, so more buyers in that
    half are invited
  work-out-figures -> invite-the-buyers [half-fell-short]: a half
    closed short of its count, so the run either asks again or <who>
    decides to report with the shortfall named against every theme that
    half fed
  set-against-record -> pull-the-deals [deal-read-again]: a deal has to
    be read again from the record before the themes can be set beside
    it
  check-findings -> write-findings [figure-does-not-follow]: a figure
    does not follow from the data or the method, so the findings are
    written again
bindings:
  roster:  <who holds each role - agents claiming the abstract agents
           above, and named people for the requester, legal, finance
           and the expert>
  systems: the study record (write), the interview guide (write),
           the response record (write), the calculation record (write),
           the survey and interview system (trigger),
           the CRM (read), the customer and revenue record (read),
           the contact database (read), the consent record (read),
           the sending system (write), the meeting calendar (write),
           the supplier record (write), the budget record (write),
           the decision record (write), analytics platforms (read)
  data:    <your consent rules> <version>, the period the run covers,
           the guide the last run of this study used, the reasons the
           record carries at the versions they were recorded under
policy:
  the run covers the deals that were won and the deals that were lost,
    and every report says how many of each half answered against how
    many that half needed
  nobody is approached until the samples and the guide have been signed
  sign-off is a human gate and is never delegated to an agent
  the person who owned the deal does not hold the interview about it
  both halves are asked the same questions, so what one half said can
    be set beside what the other half said
  what a buyer said is attributed to that buyer inside the organization
    only when the buyer agreed to it, and the buyer is told that before
    the interview starts
  an incentive offered to a participant is approved by a person before
    anything is offered to anybody
  the reason on the record and what the buyer said are both reported
    when they disagree, and neither is edited to match the other
  every theme carries the interviews it rests on, and a theme resting
    on fewer interviews than the study needed says so
  every figure carries its method, its exclusions and the range around
    it
  a question in the guide is reworded only when <who> agrees, because
    the readings before and after the change stop being comparable
  a finding is never removed from the report because somebody asked.
    <who> decides, and the decision is recorded with the findings
measures:
  cycle time: <target> from the close of the period to the delivered
              themes
  coverage: <share> of the period's closed deals interviewed, said for
            each half on its own
  volume: <runs per period>
  quality gate: no theme is delivered without the interviews under it,
                and no report goes out without the count each half
                reached
```
Take it somewhere

Use this process in Microsoft Agent Framework

Paste this into an assistant that can read the web, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. It reads the specification and the current Agent Framework documentation, then writes two files: the workflow, and a note on what did not survive the translation. Read the note first. What a runtime cannot express is the part worth arguing about, and this process is a draft to argue with.

436 lines · the document is inside it, so nothing else is needed
Convert the business process below into a runnable Microsoft Agent Framework workflow:
one Python file with Executor classes, a WorkflowBuilder, typed edges,
request_info gates and durable checkpoint storage.

The document is a reference process written to the Agent Processes
specification. Read the specification before you start, because it defines
terms that look ordinary and are not:

  https://agentcatalog.com/spec/agent-processes

Sections 6 (the phase graph), 6.5.1 (exception edges), 6.7.1 (deviations),
7 (automation) and 8 (handoffs) are the ones this conversion turns on.

Then read the current documentation for the primitives you will need, rather
than relying on what you remember of the API:

  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/agent-framework/workflows/human-in-the-loop
    ctx.request_info, @response_handler, and answering a parked run later
  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/agent-framework/workflows/checkpoints
    what a checkpoint holds, and allowed_checkpoint_types
  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/agent-framework/concepts/workflows/edges
    add_edge with condition, add_fan_in_edges, add_switch_case_edge_group
  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/agent-framework/concepts/workflows/state
    ctx.set_state and ctx.get_state as they actually are today

WHAT THE DOCUMENT ASKS FOR

These hold wherever the process lands, and they matter more than style.

1. Each phase under `phases:` becomes one step, and keeps its name.

2. `after:` gives the edges. `after: a + b` is a join and waits for BOTH.
   Reading it as "either" is the defect the specification calls out by name.

3. Every handoff carries a key in square brackets. Each key becomes one field
   on the run's state, named exactly as the key with hyphens turned into
   underscores, and the sentence beside it becomes that field's comment. The key
   is the stable name; the sentence is prose that may be rewritten.

4. A phase MUST NOT begin before its inbound handoff exists. Where that is
   checkable, check it in the step rather than assuming it.

5. `automation: never` is a gate a person signs. The run stops there and does
   not continue until a person's decision comes back. Do not turn one into a
   notification, a log line, or an automatic transition, whatever the queue
   looks like.

6. Each line under `deviations:` is a backward or sideways edge, returning to
   the phase named on the right. The key in brackets names it, and that name
   belongs in the code.

7. A phase whose `after:` reads like "X or Y, whichever could not finish" is an
   exception edge: it is entered when those phases FAIL, not when they succeed.
   Do not wire it as an ordinary successor.

8. Anything in angle brackets is a blank the adopting organization fills in.
   Leave each one as a named constant at the top of the file with a TODO. Do not
   invent a value, a threshold or a date.

9. Record the document's `from:` line at the top of the file, so it says which
   reference process and which version it was generated from.

10. Run-scoped lines under `run-scoped:` are work that runs alongside the whole
    process rather than at one point in it, and a run may not close while one is
    unfinished. Say in the code what you did about them, including if the answer
    is that the runtime has nowhere to put them.

HOW THAT LOOKS IN MICROSOFT AGENT FRAMEWORK

11. Write for Python, and read those pages before writing a line. This API has
    moved: `set_shared_state`, `RequestInfoExecutor`, `RequestInfoMessage` and
    `send_responses_streaming` are all in the training data and none of them exist
    any more. The .NET workflow API differs in kind rather than in spelling, so a
    file written for one does not port by renaming.

12. A phase is a class deriving from `Executor` whose `super().__init__(id=...)`
    takes the phase name verbatim. The id is not cosmetic: a checkpoint stores a
    signature over the topology and the executor ids, so an id built from a run, a
    timestamp or a counter cannot be resumed into.

13. Give each phase a `@handler` method and move work on with
    `await ctx.send_message(...)`. A handler that returns without sending is a dead
    end: the branch stops, the run converges, and it reports success. So a phase
    you are deliberately leaving unimplemented must still send a placeholder
    onward. Do not stub with `raise NotImplementedError`, which fails the run
    instead of leaving it runnable.

14. `after: a` is `builder.add_edge(a, b)`. `after: a + b` is
    `builder.add_fan_in_edges([a, b], target)`, and the target's handler must be
    annotated `list[T]`, because a fan-in delivers one aggregated list rather than
    the separate messages. A handler typed for the single value is dropped as a
    mismatch with nothing raised.

15. The join is the trap here, and it is the opposite of LangGraph's. The
    barrier re-arms: it clears its buffer when it fires and then demands a fresh
    message from every source. So a deviation that re-enters ONE arm parks the
    run forever waiting for an arm that will not run again, and the workflow ends
    IDLE reporting success. Wherever a deviation re-enters one arm of a join,
    replace the barrier with an ordinary edge from each arm into a small executor
    that records each arrival with `ctx.set_state` and only forwards when every
    expected key is present, and say in a comment that putting `add_fan_in_edges`
    back reintroduces the stall.

16. A phase that is both a join target and a deviation target needs two
    handlers, one annotated `list[T]` for the barrier and one annotated `T` for the
    backward message. Write only the list handler and every backward edge into it
    is discarded as a type mismatch, silently.

17. `automation: never` is `await ctx.request_info(request_data=...,
    response_type=...)` inside the phase, answered by a `@response_handler` on the
    same executor whose annotations match those exact types. The run parks at
    `IDLE_WITH_PENDING_REQUESTS` and the host answers with
    `workflow.run(stream=True, responses={request_id: value})`. If no handler
    matches the pair, the framework logs a warning and parks anyway, so the gate
    reads as working right up until somebody asks why the approval did not take.

18. A gate is only a gate if the wait survives a restart, so pass
    `checkpoint_storage=FileCheckpointStorage(...)` to the builder. Checkpointing
    is off by default and `InMemoryCheckpointStorage` reads as configured while
    persisting nothing. Register every handoff payload type in
    `allowed_checkpoint_types`, or the first restore raises. Anything an executor
    keeps as an instance attribute is absent after a restore unless you export it
    from `on_checkpoint_save` and read it back in `on_checkpoint_restore`, and it
    comes back empty rather than missing.

19. Each line under `deviations:` is `builder.add_edge(source, earlier,
    condition=fn)` with `fn` named after the key. Cycles are legal and unchecked,
    but raise `max_iterations` well above its default of 100, because several live
    cycles will exhaust a budget sized for a straight line and fail with a message
    about convergence that reads like a broken graph. Keep the ordinary forward
    edge unconditional and add each deviation beside it: a condition that returns
    false is dropped with no event, so a forward path expressed as a condition
    dies silently on every normal run, which is most of them.

20. Handoff values go in `ctx.set_state(key, value)` and come back from
    `ctx.get_state(key)`, untyped and unchecked. A write is visible to its writer
    at once and to everyone else only in the next superstep, and two writers of one
    key in a superstep keep the last write. Never read a key in the same superstep
    another phase wrote it.

21. There are no timers, no deadlines and no scheduled wakes. Nothing in
    `run-scoped:` becomes an executor and `by:` has no expression at all, so write
    them as comments naming where they start and stop, and say plainly in the
    fidelity note that a run can close over an unfinished run-scoped line. Do not
    fake a deadline with a sleep inside a handler, which blocks the whole superstep
    barrier, and never let an expiring wait release a gate.

Produce a second file alongside it, `FIDELITY.md`, and treat it as the more
important of the two. The code is for whoever builds this. The fidelity note
is for whoever has to decide whether this platform suits the process at all,
and that is usually a different person who will never read the code.

It has three parts.

**What came across.** Briefly: how many phases became steps, how many handoff
keys became state fields, which gates stop the run, which deviations became
edges. Counts and names, not reassurance.

**What did not, and what was done instead.** One entry per gap. For each one,
say what the document requires, what the platform can actually express, what
you did in its place, and what breaks if somebody later removes your
workaround. This last part matters most: a workaround nobody understands is a
workaround somebody deletes.

**What a person still has to decide.** The blanks are not a translation
failure, they are the point of a reference process, so list what has to be
filled in before this could run against anything real, and say which of those
choices the platform constrains.

Write it in plain English for somebody who has not read the specification, and
do not soften it. A translation of a reference process is a draft to argue
with, not a build artifact, and the honest account of what was lost is the most
useful thing you will produce.

Here is the process document.

```
PROCESS: win/loss analysis            id: <team>/win-loss-analysis   v1
from: ref/mkt/win-loss-analysis v1
owner: <who>                          effective: <date>
trigger: a period closes in <your revenue reporting>, or a run of
         losses in one segment is raised
         watch: record=<closed deals> system=<your revenue reporting>
                change=<a period of deals closes>
         or watch: record=<lost deals in one segment>
                system=<your revenue reporting>
                change=<a run of losses in one segment is raised>
concurrency: one run at a time over the same period of deals. Runs for
             different periods or different segments overlap - <how
             many> at once
goal: the themes behind the period's wins and losses, each carrying
      the interviews it rests on, delivered with what each theme asks
      somebody to change
phases:
  take-in-period      - human: read which deals the run covers, what
                        the run has to settle, and by when
                        owner: study-manager     after: trigger
                        automation: <level>
  pull-the-deals      - runs collect-and-report: every deal that closed
                        in the period, its value, its segment, its
                        stage at close and the reason recorded on it
                        owner: analytics         after: take-in-period
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  brief-the-study     - convenes briefing: the period, the question and
                        the due date, heard by every agent at once
                        owner: study-manager     after: pull-the-deals
                        automation: <level>
  size-interviews     - human: how many interviews each half needs, and
                        what those numbers were computed from
                        owner: statistician      after: brief-the-study
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  draw-samples        - human: the won deals and the lost deals sampled
                        separately, drawn to match each other on the
                        traits that would otherwise explain the result
                        owner: study-manager     after: size-interviews
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  check-the-sample    - runs assessment: every drawn buyer scored
                        against the consent rules in force, and every
                        account read for whether it may be approached
                        owner: consent-manager   after: draw-samples
                        automation: <level>
  outside-interviewer - runs assessment: the requirements written down
                        first, then every candidate scored against them
                        owner: supplier-manager  after: draw-samples
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  cover-the-cost      - runs allocate-and-reconcile: the interviewer
                        and the incentives, drawn against <which
                        allocation>
                        owner: budget-keeper
                        after: outside-interviewer
                        automation: <level>
  write-the-guide     - human: the questions both halves are asked, in
                        the order they are put, at a version
                        owner: study-manager     after: brief-the-study
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  get-sign-offs       - convenes approval: legal and the named owner
                        sign, as named signers, against a version of
                        the samples and a version of the guide
                        owner: <your legal role>
                        after: check-the-sample + cover-the-cost +
                               write-the-guide
                        by: <days>               automation: never
  invite-the-buyers   - human: the same ask goes to both halves, saying
                        what the interview is for and what happens to
                        what the buyer says
                        owner: audience-operator after: get-sign-offs
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  hold-interviews     - human: the interview runs to the guide, and
                        what the buyer said is taken down as they said
                        it
                        owner: study-manager
                        after: invite-the-buyers
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  watch-both-halves   - runs roll-call: how many of each half have
                        answered, and what each half is waiting on
                        owner: study-manager     after: hold-interviews
                        every: <cadence>         automation: <level>
  close-interviews    - human: asking stops on the date or on the
                        count, and the interviews are fixed at a
                        version
                        owner: study-manager
                        after: watch-both-halves
                        automation: <level>
  sort-into-themes    - human: every remark filed under a theme, with
                        the theme list held at a version
                        owner: study-manager
                        after: close-interviews
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  work-out-figures    - human: how often each theme appears in each
                        half, each figure with its method, its
                        exclusions and the range around it
                        owner: statistician
                        after: sort-into-themes
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  set-against-record  - human: each theme set beside the reason the
                        record gives, deal by deal, with every place
                        the two disagree written down
                        owner: study-manager
                        after: work-out-figures
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  write-findings      - human: each theme with the interviews recorded
                        under it, and what the theme asks somebody to
                        change
                        owner: study-manager
                        after: set-against-record
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  check-findings      - runs layered-passes: the numbers pass, every
                        figure against the data and the method beside
                        it
                        owner: statistician      after: write-findings
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  deliver-themes      - convenes decide-and-announce: the themes and
                        what each one asks for, heard at the same time
                        by everybody who has to act on them
                        owner: decision-coordinator
                        after: check-findings
                        automation: <level>
  record-learnings    - convenes debrief: what to repeat, what to avoid
                        owner: study-manager     after: deliver-themes
                        automation: <level>
run-scoped:
  spend  - runs allocate-and-reconcile        owner: budget-keeper
           from: cover-the-cost   until: run close
  status - runs roll-call                     owner: study-manager
           every: <cadence>
           from: brief-the-study   until: deliver-themes
handoffs:
  take-in-period -> pull-the-deals [period-in-scope]: which deals the
    run covers, said as a period and a segment somebody can select on
  pull-the-deals -> brief-the-study [closed-deals]: every closed deal
    in the period with its value, its segment, its stage at close and
    the reason recorded on it, and every deal whose reason was left
    empty
  brief-the-study -> size-interviews [study-question]: the question,
    the size of the difference that would matter, and the confidence
    the study is being run to
  brief-the-study -> write-the-guide [question-for-the-guide]: the
    question as every agent heard it, and the guide the last run of
    this study used
  size-interviews -> draw-samples [counts-each-half-needs]: how many
    interviews each half needs and what those numbers were computed
    from
  draw-samples -> check-the-sample [both-samples]: both samples, buyer
    by buyer, with the deal each buyer came from
  draw-samples -> outside-interviewer [interviewer-requirements]: what
    the interviews need somebody outside the organization to do,
    written as requirements before any candidate is looked at
  check-the-sample -> get-sign-offs [approachable-buyers]: the buyers
    who may be approached, the count removed from each half, and the
    rule behind each removal
  outside-interviewer -> cover-the-cost [candidate-quotes]: what each
    candidate would charge and what it would do
  cover-the-cost -> get-sign-offs [what-the-run-draws]: what the run
    will draw, and the allocation it draws against
  write-the-guide -> get-sign-offs [interview-guide]: the guide at a
    version, in the order the questions are put
  get-sign-offs -> invite-the-buyers [signed-samples-and-guide]: the
    approved samples and the approved guide at their signed versions. A
    later change voids the approval and sign-offs run again
  invite-the-buyers -> hold-interviews [who-accepted]: who accepted,
    from which half, and what each of them was told the interview is
    for
  hold-interviews -> watch-both-halves [what-was-said]: what each buyer
    said, as they said it, marked with the version of the guide it
    answered
  watch-both-halves -> close-interviews [counts-so-far]: the count held
    in each half set against the count that half planned for, said on
    the day asking stops
  close-interviews -> sort-into-themes [fixed-interviews]: the
    interviews fixed at a version, with every one that was left out and
    the rule that left it out
  sort-into-themes -> work-out-figures [theme-list]: the theme list at
    a version, and every remark under the theme it was filed under
  work-out-figures -> set-against-record [theme-figures]: how often
    each theme appears in each half, with the method, the exclusions
    and the range
  set-against-record -> write-findings [themes-beside-the-record]: each
    theme beside the reason the record gives, and every deal where the
    two disagree
  write-findings -> check-findings [draft-findings]: the findings at a
    version, each theme carrying the interviews it rests on
  check-findings -> deliver-themes [checked-findings]: the findings
    with every figure checked against the data and the method beside
    it, and every figure that could not be computed marked as such
  deliver-themes -> record-learnings [delivered-themes]: the themes and
    the recommendations, as delivered, and who took each one
deviations:
  check-the-sample -> draw-samples [too-few-approachable]: too few of
    the drawn buyers may be approached, so the samples are drawn again
    to make up the count
  get-sign-offs -> draw-samples [sample-changes-asked-for]: a signer
    asks for changes to the samples, so they are drawn again
  get-sign-offs -> write-the-guide [guide-changes-asked-for]: a signer
    asks for changes to the guide, so it is written again
  watch-both-halves -> invite-the-buyers [one-half-filling-short]: one
    half is filling short of the count it needs, so more buyers in that
    half are invited
  work-out-figures -> invite-the-buyers [half-fell-short]: a half
    closed short of its count, so the run either asks again or <who>
    decides to report with the shortfall named against every theme that
    half fed
  set-against-record -> pull-the-deals [deal-read-again]: a deal has to
    be read again from the record before the themes can be set beside
    it
  check-findings -> write-findings [figure-does-not-follow]: a figure
    does not follow from the data or the method, so the findings are
    written again
bindings:
  roster:  <who holds each role - agents claiming the abstract agents
           above, and named people for the requester, legal, finance
           and the expert>
  systems: the study record (write), the interview guide (write),
           the response record (write), the calculation record (write),
           the survey and interview system (trigger),
           the CRM (read), the customer and revenue record (read),
           the contact database (read), the consent record (read),
           the sending system (write), the meeting calendar (write),
           the supplier record (write), the budget record (write),
           the decision record (write), analytics platforms (read)
  data:    <your consent rules> <version>, the period the run covers,
           the guide the last run of this study used, the reasons the
           record carries at the versions they were recorded under
policy:
  the run covers the deals that were won and the deals that were lost,
    and every report says how many of each half answered against how
    many that half needed
  nobody is approached until the samples and the guide have been signed
  sign-off is a human gate and is never delegated to an agent
  the person who owned the deal does not hold the interview about it
  both halves are asked the same questions, so what one half said can
    be set beside what the other half said
  what a buyer said is attributed to that buyer inside the organization
    only when the buyer agreed to it, and the buyer is told that before
    the interview starts
  an incentive offered to a participant is approved by a person before
    anything is offered to anybody
  the reason on the record and what the buyer said are both reported
    when they disagree, and neither is edited to match the other
  every theme carries the interviews it rests on, and a theme resting
    on fewer interviews than the study needed says so
  every figure carries its method, its exclusions and the range around
    it
  a question in the guide is reworded only when <who> agrees, because
    the readings before and after the change stop being comparable
  a finding is never removed from the report because somebody asked.
    <who> decides, and the decision is recorded with the findings
measures:
  cycle time: <target> from the close of the period to the delivered
              themes
  coverage: <share> of the period's closed deals interviewed, said for
            each half on its own
  volume: <runs per period>
  quality gate: no theme is delivered without the interviews under it,
                and no report goes out without the count each half
                reached
```
Take it somewhere

Use this process in CrewAI Flows

Paste this into an assistant that can read the web, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. It reads the specification and the current CrewAI documentation, then writes two files: the flow, and a note on what did not survive the translation. Read the note first. What a runtime cannot express is the part worth arguing about, and this process is a draft to argue with.

441 lines · the document is inside it, so nothing else is needed
Convert the business process below into a runnable CrewAI Flow:
one Python file with a Pydantic state model, one Flow subclass, @start,
@listen, @router and a durable human feedback provider.

The document is a reference process written to the Agent Processes
specification. Read the specification before you start, because it defines
terms that look ordinary and are not:

  https://agentcatalog.com/spec/agent-processes

Sections 6 (the phase graph), 6.5.1 (exception edges), 6.7.1 (deviations),
7 (automation) and 8 (handoffs) are the ones this conversion turns on.

Then read the current documentation for the primitives you will need, rather
than relying on what you remember of the API:

  https://docs.crewai.com/en/concepts/flows
    Flow, @start, @listen, @router, and_, or_, state, kickoff, plot
  https://docs.crewai.com/en/learn/human-feedback-in-flows
    @human_feedback, the provider protocol, from_pending and resume
  https://docs.crewai.com/en/guides/flows/mastering-flow-state
    @persist and what persistence actually promises, which is less than it sounds

WHAT THE DOCUMENT ASKS FOR

These hold wherever the process lands, and they matter more than style.

1. Each phase under `phases:` becomes one step, and keeps its name.

2. `after:` gives the edges. `after: a + b` is a join and waits for BOTH.
   Reading it as "either" is the defect the specification calls out by name.

3. Every handoff carries a key in square brackets. Each key becomes one field
   on the run's state, named exactly as the key with hyphens turned into
   underscores, and the sentence beside it becomes that field's comment. The key
   is the stable name; the sentence is prose that may be rewritten.

4. A phase MUST NOT begin before its inbound handoff exists. Where that is
   checkable, check it in the step rather than assuming it.

5. `automation: never` is a gate a person signs. The run stops there and does
   not continue until a person's decision comes back. Do not turn one into a
   notification, a log line, or an automatic transition, whatever the queue
   looks like.

6. Each line under `deviations:` is a backward or sideways edge, returning to
   the phase named on the right. The key in brackets names it, and that name
   belongs in the code.

7. A phase whose `after:` reads like "X or Y, whichever could not finish" is an
   exception edge: it is entered when those phases FAIL, not when they succeed.
   Do not wire it as an ordinary successor.

8. Anything in angle brackets is a blank the adopting organization fills in.
   Leave each one as a named constant at the top of the file with a TODO. Do not
   invent a value, a threshold or a date.

9. Record the document's `from:` line at the top of the file, so it says which
   reference process and which version it was generated from.

10. Run-scoped lines under `run-scoped:` are work that runs alongside the whole
    process rather than at one point in it, and a run may not close while one is
    unfinished. Say in the code what you did about them, including if the answer
    is that the runtime has nowhere to put them.

HOW THAT LOOKS IN CREWAI FLOWS

11. Build a Flow, not a Crew. A Crew is a team of roles with no graph, no join,
    no persistence handle and no gate, and cannot express this document at all.
    Each phase is one method on a single `Flow` subclass, keeping its name with
    hyphens turned into underscores. A phase that genuinely needs role-based agents
    builds its own Crew inside its own method body, and the Flow stays the graph.

12. Declare the state as a Pydantic model bound as the type parameter,
    `class NegotiateTheAgreement(Flow[NegotiationState])`, and read and write
    `self.state.field`. Never use the untyped dict form: the handoff keys are this
    process's memory, and an untyped dict turns a misspelt key into a handoff that
    is silently absent. Keep the auto-injected `id` field, which is what every
    resume depends on.

13. `after: a` is `@listen(a)`. `after: a + b` is `@listen(and_(a, b))`. Never
    write `or_` where the document writes `+`.

14. Check every inbound handoff at the top of the method and raise if one is
    missing. `@listen` says when a method may run and says nothing about what is
    in hand when it does.

15. The join is the trap, and it is proven rather than theoretical. `and_()`
    empties its accumulator the moment it fires, so re-entering BOTH arms works
    forever, and re-entering ONE arm after it has fired leaves it holding a single
    trigger and waiting for the other for good. The cascade drains, CrewAI prints
    that the flow completed, and `kickoff()` returns normally. So for any joining
    phase that a deviation can send work back into, do not use `and_()` at all:
    make the join a `@router` that both arms trigger, which reads the state fields
    and emits its label only when every inbound handoff is present. A router is
    re-evaluated against durable state every time and is never suppressed by the
    once-fired set.

16. Do not write a phase as `@listen(or_(and_(a, b), "some_label"))`. There is
    one accumulator per listener, shared across every branch of its condition and
    wiped when any branch satisfies, so the label firing while the join is half
    full erases the arm that had already arrived.

17. `automation: never` is `@human_feedback(message=..., provider=...)` stacked
    under the method's `@listen`, with a provider whose `request_feedback` raises
    `HumanFeedbackPending`. The run then persists, returns that object from
    `kickoff()`, and a different process answers later with `from_pending(flow_id,
    persistence)` and `resume(text)`. Do not take the default `ConsoleProvider`,
    which calls `input()`: that gate exists only while somebody is watching a
    terminal, and a run started by a scheduler either hangs or takes an empty
    string.

18. Silence must not approve, and the platform's default is that it does. With
    `emit=[...]` set, an empty resume collapses to `default_outcome`, or to the
    first label when that is unset, with no model consulted and nobody named. Treat
    an empty or unrecognised answer as a refusal in your own router. And write the
    approver's name and the time onto the state yourself, because
    `HumanFeedbackResult` carries the text, the outcome and a timestamp but has no
    field for the person, which the specification requires.

19. Each line under `deviations:` is a `@router` named after the key, returning
    a label named after the same key, with the target subscribing as
    `@listen(or_(normal_trigger, "the_label"))`. Route rather than listen
    directly, because a router is re-evaluated on every cycle while a top-level
    `or_` listener is suppressed after it first fires.

20. An exception edge is a `try` and `except` around the failing phase's body,
    recording the failure on the state and emitting an exception label from a
    router. Wiring it as `@listen(or_(x, y))` fires when those phases SUCCEED, so
    the clearing phase would run on every healthy run.

21. An unimplemented phase is a method with the document's own sentence as its
    docstring and a bare `pass`, which is safe because listeners still fire on a
    `None` return. An unimplemented `@router` is not safe: returning `None` emits
    no label, every phase below it disappears from the run including the gates, and
    the flow reports success. A stub router must return a hard-coded label with a
    TODO beside it, or raise.

22. Turn persistence on with `@persist(SQLiteFlowPersistence(...))`, then treat
    every phase that performs a real act as something that will run twice.
    Persistence saves the state fields and nothing else, so a restart rehydrates
    the data and runs the graph again from `@start`: a flow that had already sent a
    written refusal sends a second one. Guard each acting phase with a state field
    it checks and sets.

23. There are no timers, no deadlines and no cadences, and `run-scoped:` has no
    counterpart at all. Put each `by:` value as a named constant, name the
    run-scoped lines in the module docstring as unimplemented obligations, and say
    in the fidelity note that no deadline in this document is enforced by anything.
    These absences produce no diagnostic whatsoever, which is exactly why they have
    to be written down.

Produce a second file alongside it, `FIDELITY.md`, and treat it as the more
important of the two. The code is for whoever builds this. The fidelity note
is for whoever has to decide whether this platform suits the process at all,
and that is usually a different person who will never read the code.

It has three parts.

**What came across.** Briefly: how many phases became steps, how many handoff
keys became state fields, which gates stop the run, which deviations became
edges. Counts and names, not reassurance.

**What did not, and what was done instead.** One entry per gap. For each one,
say what the document requires, what the platform can actually express, what
you did in its place, and what breaks if somebody later removes your
workaround. This last part matters most: a workaround nobody understands is a
workaround somebody deletes.

**What a person still has to decide.** The blanks are not a translation
failure, they are the point of a reference process, so list what has to be
filled in before this could run against anything real, and say which of those
choices the platform constrains.

Write it in plain English for somebody who has not read the specification, and
do not soften it. A translation of a reference process is a draft to argue
with, not a build artifact, and the honest account of what was lost is the most
useful thing you will produce.

Here is the process document.

```
PROCESS: win/loss analysis            id: <team>/win-loss-analysis   v1
from: ref/mkt/win-loss-analysis v1
owner: <who>                          effective: <date>
trigger: a period closes in <your revenue reporting>, or a run of
         losses in one segment is raised
         watch: record=<closed deals> system=<your revenue reporting>
                change=<a period of deals closes>
         or watch: record=<lost deals in one segment>
                system=<your revenue reporting>
                change=<a run of losses in one segment is raised>
concurrency: one run at a time over the same period of deals. Runs for
             different periods or different segments overlap - <how
             many> at once
goal: the themes behind the period's wins and losses, each carrying
      the interviews it rests on, delivered with what each theme asks
      somebody to change
phases:
  take-in-period      - human: read which deals the run covers, what
                        the run has to settle, and by when
                        owner: study-manager     after: trigger
                        automation: <level>
  pull-the-deals      - runs collect-and-report: every deal that closed
                        in the period, its value, its segment, its
                        stage at close and the reason recorded on it
                        owner: analytics         after: take-in-period
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  brief-the-study     - convenes briefing: the period, the question and
                        the due date, heard by every agent at once
                        owner: study-manager     after: pull-the-deals
                        automation: <level>
  size-interviews     - human: how many interviews each half needs, and
                        what those numbers were computed from
                        owner: statistician      after: brief-the-study
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  draw-samples        - human: the won deals and the lost deals sampled
                        separately, drawn to match each other on the
                        traits that would otherwise explain the result
                        owner: study-manager     after: size-interviews
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  check-the-sample    - runs assessment: every drawn buyer scored
                        against the consent rules in force, and every
                        account read for whether it may be approached
                        owner: consent-manager   after: draw-samples
                        automation: <level>
  outside-interviewer - runs assessment: the requirements written down
                        first, then every candidate scored against them
                        owner: supplier-manager  after: draw-samples
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  cover-the-cost      - runs allocate-and-reconcile: the interviewer
                        and the incentives, drawn against <which
                        allocation>
                        owner: budget-keeper
                        after: outside-interviewer
                        automation: <level>
  write-the-guide     - human: the questions both halves are asked, in
                        the order they are put, at a version
                        owner: study-manager     after: brief-the-study
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  get-sign-offs       - convenes approval: legal and the named owner
                        sign, as named signers, against a version of
                        the samples and a version of the guide
                        owner: <your legal role>
                        after: check-the-sample + cover-the-cost +
                               write-the-guide
                        by: <days>               automation: never
  invite-the-buyers   - human: the same ask goes to both halves, saying
                        what the interview is for and what happens to
                        what the buyer says
                        owner: audience-operator after: get-sign-offs
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  hold-interviews     - human: the interview runs to the guide, and
                        what the buyer said is taken down as they said
                        it
                        owner: study-manager
                        after: invite-the-buyers
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  watch-both-halves   - runs roll-call: how many of each half have
                        answered, and what each half is waiting on
                        owner: study-manager     after: hold-interviews
                        every: <cadence>         automation: <level>
  close-interviews    - human: asking stops on the date or on the
                        count, and the interviews are fixed at a
                        version
                        owner: study-manager
                        after: watch-both-halves
                        automation: <level>
  sort-into-themes    - human: every remark filed under a theme, with
                        the theme list held at a version
                        owner: study-manager
                        after: close-interviews
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  work-out-figures    - human: how often each theme appears in each
                        half, each figure with its method, its
                        exclusions and the range around it
                        owner: statistician
                        after: sort-into-themes
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  set-against-record  - human: each theme set beside the reason the
                        record gives, deal by deal, with every place
                        the two disagree written down
                        owner: study-manager
                        after: work-out-figures
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  write-findings      - human: each theme with the interviews recorded
                        under it, and what the theme asks somebody to
                        change
                        owner: study-manager
                        after: set-against-record
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  check-findings      - runs layered-passes: the numbers pass, every
                        figure against the data and the method beside
                        it
                        owner: statistician      after: write-findings
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  deliver-themes      - convenes decide-and-announce: the themes and
                        what each one asks for, heard at the same time
                        by everybody who has to act on them
                        owner: decision-coordinator
                        after: check-findings
                        automation: <level>
  record-learnings    - convenes debrief: what to repeat, what to avoid
                        owner: study-manager     after: deliver-themes
                        automation: <level>
run-scoped:
  spend  - runs allocate-and-reconcile        owner: budget-keeper
           from: cover-the-cost   until: run close
  status - runs roll-call                     owner: study-manager
           every: <cadence>
           from: brief-the-study   until: deliver-themes
handoffs:
  take-in-period -> pull-the-deals [period-in-scope]: which deals the
    run covers, said as a period and a segment somebody can select on
  pull-the-deals -> brief-the-study [closed-deals]: every closed deal
    in the period with its value, its segment, its stage at close and
    the reason recorded on it, and every deal whose reason was left
    empty
  brief-the-study -> size-interviews [study-question]: the question,
    the size of the difference that would matter, and the confidence
    the study is being run to
  brief-the-study -> write-the-guide [question-for-the-guide]: the
    question as every agent heard it, and the guide the last run of
    this study used
  size-interviews -> draw-samples [counts-each-half-needs]: how many
    interviews each half needs and what those numbers were computed
    from
  draw-samples -> check-the-sample [both-samples]: both samples, buyer
    by buyer, with the deal each buyer came from
  draw-samples -> outside-interviewer [interviewer-requirements]: what
    the interviews need somebody outside the organization to do,
    written as requirements before any candidate is looked at
  check-the-sample -> get-sign-offs [approachable-buyers]: the buyers
    who may be approached, the count removed from each half, and the
    rule behind each removal
  outside-interviewer -> cover-the-cost [candidate-quotes]: what each
    candidate would charge and what it would do
  cover-the-cost -> get-sign-offs [what-the-run-draws]: what the run
    will draw, and the allocation it draws against
  write-the-guide -> get-sign-offs [interview-guide]: the guide at a
    version, in the order the questions are put
  get-sign-offs -> invite-the-buyers [signed-samples-and-guide]: the
    approved samples and the approved guide at their signed versions. A
    later change voids the approval and sign-offs run again
  invite-the-buyers -> hold-interviews [who-accepted]: who accepted,
    from which half, and what each of them was told the interview is
    for
  hold-interviews -> watch-both-halves [what-was-said]: what each buyer
    said, as they said it, marked with the version of the guide it
    answered
  watch-both-halves -> close-interviews [counts-so-far]: the count held
    in each half set against the count that half planned for, said on
    the day asking stops
  close-interviews -> sort-into-themes [fixed-interviews]: the
    interviews fixed at a version, with every one that was left out and
    the rule that left it out
  sort-into-themes -> work-out-figures [theme-list]: the theme list at
    a version, and every remark under the theme it was filed under
  work-out-figures -> set-against-record [theme-figures]: how often
    each theme appears in each half, with the method, the exclusions
    and the range
  set-against-record -> write-findings [themes-beside-the-record]: each
    theme beside the reason the record gives, and every deal where the
    two disagree
  write-findings -> check-findings [draft-findings]: the findings at a
    version, each theme carrying the interviews it rests on
  check-findings -> deliver-themes [checked-findings]: the findings
    with every figure checked against the data and the method beside
    it, and every figure that could not be computed marked as such
  deliver-themes -> record-learnings [delivered-themes]: the themes and
    the recommendations, as delivered, and who took each one
deviations:
  check-the-sample -> draw-samples [too-few-approachable]: too few of
    the drawn buyers may be approached, so the samples are drawn again
    to make up the count
  get-sign-offs -> draw-samples [sample-changes-asked-for]: a signer
    asks for changes to the samples, so they are drawn again
  get-sign-offs -> write-the-guide [guide-changes-asked-for]: a signer
    asks for changes to the guide, so it is written again
  watch-both-halves -> invite-the-buyers [one-half-filling-short]: one
    half is filling short of the count it needs, so more buyers in that
    half are invited
  work-out-figures -> invite-the-buyers [half-fell-short]: a half
    closed short of its count, so the run either asks again or <who>
    decides to report with the shortfall named against every theme that
    half fed
  set-against-record -> pull-the-deals [deal-read-again]: a deal has to
    be read again from the record before the themes can be set beside
    it
  check-findings -> write-findings [figure-does-not-follow]: a figure
    does not follow from the data or the method, so the findings are
    written again
bindings:
  roster:  <who holds each role - agents claiming the abstract agents
           above, and named people for the requester, legal, finance
           and the expert>
  systems: the study record (write), the interview guide (write),
           the response record (write), the calculation record (write),
           the survey and interview system (trigger),
           the CRM (read), the customer and revenue record (read),
           the contact database (read), the consent record (read),
           the sending system (write), the meeting calendar (write),
           the supplier record (write), the budget record (write),
           the decision record (write), analytics platforms (read)
  data:    <your consent rules> <version>, the period the run covers,
           the guide the last run of this study used, the reasons the
           record carries at the versions they were recorded under
policy:
  the run covers the deals that were won and the deals that were lost,
    and every report says how many of each half answered against how
    many that half needed
  nobody is approached until the samples and the guide have been signed
  sign-off is a human gate and is never delegated to an agent
  the person who owned the deal does not hold the interview about it
  both halves are asked the same questions, so what one half said can
    be set beside what the other half said
  what a buyer said is attributed to that buyer inside the organization
    only when the buyer agreed to it, and the buyer is told that before
    the interview starts
  an incentive offered to a participant is approved by a person before
    anything is offered to anybody
  the reason on the record and what the buyer said are both reported
    when they disagree, and neither is edited to match the other
  every theme carries the interviews it rests on, and a theme resting
    on fewer interviews than the study needed says so
  every figure carries its method, its exclusions and the range around
    it
  a question in the guide is reworded only when <who> agrees, because
    the readings before and after the change stop being comparable
  a finding is never removed from the report because somebody asked.
    <who> decides, and the decision is recorded with the findings
measures:
  cycle time: <target> from the close of the period to the delivered
              themes
  coverage: <share> of the period's closed deals interviewed, said for
            each half on its own
  volume: <runs per period>
  quality gate: no theme is delivered without the interviews under it,
                and no report goes out without the count each half
                reached
```
Take it somewhere

Use this process in Google ADK

Paste this into an assistant that can read the web, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. It reads the specification and the current ADK documentation, then writes two files: the workflow, and a note on what did not survive the translation. Read the note first. What a runtime cannot express is the part worth arguing about, and this process is a draft to argue with.

432 lines · the document is inside it, so nothing else is needed
Convert the business process below into a runnable Google ADK workflow:
one Python file with a Workflow, nodes, routed edges, a JoinNode,
RequestInput gates and a persisting session service.

The document is a reference process written to the Agent Processes
specification. Read the specification before you start, because it defines
terms that look ordinary and are not:

  https://agentcatalog.com/spec/agent-processes

Sections 6 (the phase graph), 6.5.1 (exception edges), 6.7.1 (deviations),
7 (automation) and 8 (handoffs) are the ones this conversion turns on.

Then read the current documentation for the primitives you will need, rather
than relying on what you remember of the API:

  https://adk.dev/graphs/routes/
    nodes, tuple chains, Event(route=), JoinNode, back-edges
  https://adk.dev/graphs/human-input/
    RequestInput and the rerun_on_resume handoff
  https://adk.dev/runtime/resume/
    ResumabilityConfig, resuming by invocation id, at-least-once tools
  https://adk.dev/graphs/data-handling/
    Event.output against state, and the selector syntax in instructions

WHAT THE DOCUMENT ASKS FOR

These hold wherever the process lands, and they matter more than style.

1. Each phase under `phases:` becomes one step, and keeps its name.

2. `after:` gives the edges. `after: a + b` is a join and waits for BOTH.
   Reading it as "either" is the defect the specification calls out by name.

3. Every handoff carries a key in square brackets. Each key becomes one field
   on the run's state, named exactly as the key with hyphens turned into
   underscores, and the sentence beside it becomes that field's comment. The key
   is the stable name; the sentence is prose that may be rewritten.

4. A phase MUST NOT begin before its inbound handoff exists. Where that is
   checkable, check it in the step rather than assuming it.

5. `automation: never` is a gate a person signs. The run stops there and does
   not continue until a person's decision comes back. Do not turn one into a
   notification, a log line, or an automatic transition, whatever the queue
   looks like.

6. Each line under `deviations:` is a backward or sideways edge, returning to
   the phase named on the right. The key in brackets names it, and that name
   belongs in the code.

7. A phase whose `after:` reads like "X or Y, whichever could not finish" is an
   exception edge: it is entered when those phases FAIL, not when they succeed.
   Do not wire it as an ordinary successor.

8. Anything in angle brackets is a blank the adopting organization fills in.
   Leave each one as a named constant at the top of the file with a TODO. Do not
   invent a value, a threshold or a date.

9. Record the document's `from:` line at the top of the file, so it says which
   reference process and which version it was generated from.

10. Run-scoped lines under `run-scoped:` are work that runs alongside the whole
    process rather than at one point in it, and a run may not close while one is
    unfinished. Say in the code what you did about them, including if the answer
    is that the runtime has nowhere to put them.

HOW THAT LOOKS IN GOOGLE ADK

11. Build a `Workflow` from `google.adk.workflow`, and pin `google-adk>=2.0` in
    a comment. Do not use `SequentialAgent`, `ParallelAgent` or `LoopAgent`: they
    are deprecated in favour of the graph, and they carry their own defects around
    state and control flow. The documentation moved to adk.dev, and anything you
    remember about nesting agents rather than drawing a graph is out of date.

12. Each phase is one node keeping its name. Take the node kind from how the
    phase resolves rather than from taste: a `human:` or `system:` phase is a plain
    Python function node, and a `runs` or `convenes` phase is an `Agent`.

13. `after:` gives the edges, written as tuple chains in `edges=[...]`, and the
    trigger is the `"START"` keyword. Take the order only from `after:` lines and
    never from the order the phases are listed in.

14. `after: a + b` is a `JoinNode`, and it must be guarded, because this is the
    worst trap of any runtime here. The join fires when every static predecessor is
    marked COMPLETED, nothing ever un-completes a node, and stored outputs are
    never cleared. So after a deviation re-runs one arm, the join fires the instant
    that arm finishes and hands the next phase LAST PASS'S value for every arm that
    did not re-run. It does not stall, it proceeds with stale data, and nothing
    logs. Stamp each arm's output with a pass counter or a content hash, and have
    the phase after the join compare the stamps and refuse to run when they
    disagree.

15. Each line under `deviations:` is a routed back-edge: a router after the
    phase on the left returning `Event(route=...)`, named after the key in
    brackets, with one arm going back to the phase on the right and one going
    forward. An unconditional cycle raises at construction, which is the one place
    this model checks your work. Nothing budgets a routed cycle, so add your own
    count and stop rather than looping forever.

16. Give every router an explicit `DEFAULT_ROUTE` arm, and route it to a phase
    that stops and asks a person. A route value matching no key writes a log
    warning, ends that branch, and lets the run finish reporting success with the
    rest of the process never having happened.

17. `automation: never` is a `RequestInput` node of its own, never an `Agent`
    asking a question. Decorate it `@node(rerun_on_resume=False)` and yield
    `RequestInput(message=..., payload=..., response_schema=...)`, so the run
    stops, persists, and delivers the person's answer to the node's successor as
    its typed input. A resumed workflow runs its tools at least once, so any
    irreversible act needs its own duplicate guard.

18. Make the gates durable or say plainly that they are not. Wrap the graph in
    `App(..., resumability_config=ResumabilityConfig(is_resumable=True))` and pass
    a persisting session service, never the in-memory one. Note in the file that
    the command line and the web UI cannot resume a run, so whoever releases these
    gates needs an operator surface that somebody has to write.

19. Every `Agent` in the graph gets `mode="single_turn"` and no `sub_agents`.
    A non-empty `sub_agents` list silently adds a transfer tool, and a model that
    uses it runs a different agent in this node's place while the graph's outgoing
    edge fires on schedule regardless: the topology is honoured perfectly and the
    work belongs to somebody else.

20. Model failure as a route, not as an exception. A node that raises does not
    propagate: the failure is caught, recorded, and shuts the workflow down without
    raising to the caller. So a phase that can fail catches its own failure and
    returns `Event(route="could-not-finish")`, and the exception phase hangs off
    that arm.

21. Keep every blank as a named module-level constant and never interpolate one
    into an `instruction=` string. Angle brackets and curly braces are ADK's own
    data selector syntax inside instructions, so a blank pasted verbatim stops
    being a blank and becomes a selector.

22. `by:` and `not-before:` have no expression, and `@node(timeout=)` is not
    one: it is an in-process wall clock that cancels the node and, because failures
    are swallowed, ends the run silently rather than recording a missed deadline.
    Nothing in `run-scoped:` has an expression either, and it must not be faked as
    an ordinary node, because a node has to be reached and has to finish before
    anything downstream starts, which is the opposite of what those lines mean.
    Leave both out of the graph and name them in the fidelity note.

Produce a second file alongside it, `FIDELITY.md`, and treat it as the more
important of the two. The code is for whoever builds this. The fidelity note
is for whoever has to decide whether this platform suits the process at all,
and that is usually a different person who will never read the code.

It has three parts.

**What came across.** Briefly: how many phases became steps, how many handoff
keys became state fields, which gates stop the run, which deviations became
edges. Counts and names, not reassurance.

**What did not, and what was done instead.** One entry per gap. For each one,
say what the document requires, what the platform can actually express, what
you did in its place, and what breaks if somebody later removes your
workaround. This last part matters most: a workaround nobody understands is a
workaround somebody deletes.

**What a person still has to decide.** The blanks are not a translation
failure, they are the point of a reference process, so list what has to be
filled in before this could run against anything real, and say which of those
choices the platform constrains.

Write it in plain English for somebody who has not read the specification, and
do not soften it. A translation of a reference process is a draft to argue
with, not a build artifact, and the honest account of what was lost is the most
useful thing you will produce.

Here is the process document.

```
PROCESS: win/loss analysis            id: <team>/win-loss-analysis   v1
from: ref/mkt/win-loss-analysis v1
owner: <who>                          effective: <date>
trigger: a period closes in <your revenue reporting>, or a run of
         losses in one segment is raised
         watch: record=<closed deals> system=<your revenue reporting>
                change=<a period of deals closes>
         or watch: record=<lost deals in one segment>
                system=<your revenue reporting>
                change=<a run of losses in one segment is raised>
concurrency: one run at a time over the same period of deals. Runs for
             different periods or different segments overlap - <how
             many> at once
goal: the themes behind the period's wins and losses, each carrying
      the interviews it rests on, delivered with what each theme asks
      somebody to change
phases:
  take-in-period      - human: read which deals the run covers, what
                        the run has to settle, and by when
                        owner: study-manager     after: trigger
                        automation: <level>
  pull-the-deals      - runs collect-and-report: every deal that closed
                        in the period, its value, its segment, its
                        stage at close and the reason recorded on it
                        owner: analytics         after: take-in-period
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  brief-the-study     - convenes briefing: the period, the question and
                        the due date, heard by every agent at once
                        owner: study-manager     after: pull-the-deals
                        automation: <level>
  size-interviews     - human: how many interviews each half needs, and
                        what those numbers were computed from
                        owner: statistician      after: brief-the-study
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  draw-samples        - human: the won deals and the lost deals sampled
                        separately, drawn to match each other on the
                        traits that would otherwise explain the result
                        owner: study-manager     after: size-interviews
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  check-the-sample    - runs assessment: every drawn buyer scored
                        against the consent rules in force, and every
                        account read for whether it may be approached
                        owner: consent-manager   after: draw-samples
                        automation: <level>
  outside-interviewer - runs assessment: the requirements written down
                        first, then every candidate scored against them
                        owner: supplier-manager  after: draw-samples
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  cover-the-cost      - runs allocate-and-reconcile: the interviewer
                        and the incentives, drawn against <which
                        allocation>
                        owner: budget-keeper
                        after: outside-interviewer
                        automation: <level>
  write-the-guide     - human: the questions both halves are asked, in
                        the order they are put, at a version
                        owner: study-manager     after: brief-the-study
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  get-sign-offs       - convenes approval: legal and the named owner
                        sign, as named signers, against a version of
                        the samples and a version of the guide
                        owner: <your legal role>
                        after: check-the-sample + cover-the-cost +
                               write-the-guide
                        by: <days>               automation: never
  invite-the-buyers   - human: the same ask goes to both halves, saying
                        what the interview is for and what happens to
                        what the buyer says
                        owner: audience-operator after: get-sign-offs
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  hold-interviews     - human: the interview runs to the guide, and
                        what the buyer said is taken down as they said
                        it
                        owner: study-manager
                        after: invite-the-buyers
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  watch-both-halves   - runs roll-call: how many of each half have
                        answered, and what each half is waiting on
                        owner: study-manager     after: hold-interviews
                        every: <cadence>         automation: <level>
  close-interviews    - human: asking stops on the date or on the
                        count, and the interviews are fixed at a
                        version
                        owner: study-manager
                        after: watch-both-halves
                        automation: <level>
  sort-into-themes    - human: every remark filed under a theme, with
                        the theme list held at a version
                        owner: study-manager
                        after: close-interviews
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  work-out-figures    - human: how often each theme appears in each
                        half, each figure with its method, its
                        exclusions and the range around it
                        owner: statistician
                        after: sort-into-themes
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  set-against-record  - human: each theme set beside the reason the
                        record gives, deal by deal, with every place
                        the two disagree written down
                        owner: study-manager
                        after: work-out-figures
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  write-findings      - human: each theme with the interviews recorded
                        under it, and what the theme asks somebody to
                        change
                        owner: study-manager
                        after: set-against-record
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  check-findings      - runs layered-passes: the numbers pass, every
                        figure against the data and the method beside
                        it
                        owner: statistician      after: write-findings
                        by: <days>               automation: <level>
  deliver-themes      - convenes decide-and-announce: the themes and
                        what each one asks for, heard at the same time
                        by everybody who has to act on them
                        owner: decision-coordinator
                        after: check-findings
                        automation: <level>
  record-learnings    - convenes debrief: what to repeat, what to avoid
                        owner: study-manager     after: deliver-themes
                        automation: <level>
run-scoped:
  spend  - runs allocate-and-reconcile        owner: budget-keeper
           from: cover-the-cost   until: run close
  status - runs roll-call                     owner: study-manager
           every: <cadence>
           from: brief-the-study   until: deliver-themes
handoffs:
  take-in-period -> pull-the-deals [period-in-scope]: which deals the
    run covers, said as a period and a segment somebody can select on
  pull-the-deals -> brief-the-study [closed-deals]: every closed deal
    in the period with its value, its segment, its stage at close and
    the reason recorded on it, and every deal whose reason was left
    empty
  brief-the-study -> size-interviews [study-question]: the question,
    the size of the difference that would matter, and the confidence
    the study is being run to
  brief-the-study -> write-the-guide [question-for-the-guide]: the
    question as every agent heard it, and the guide the last run of
    this study used
  size-interviews -> draw-samples [counts-each-half-needs]: how many
    interviews each half needs and what those numbers were computed
    from
  draw-samples -> check-the-sample [both-samples]: both samples, buyer
    by buyer, with the deal each buyer came from
  draw-samples -> outside-interviewer [interviewer-requirements]: what
    the interviews need somebody outside the organization to do,
    written as requirements before any candidate is looked at
  check-the-sample -> get-sign-offs [approachable-buyers]: the buyers
    who may be approached, the count removed from each half, and the
    rule behind each removal
  outside-interviewer -> cover-the-cost [candidate-quotes]: what each
    candidate would charge and what it would do
  cover-the-cost -> get-sign-offs [what-the-run-draws]: what the run
    will draw, and the allocation it draws against
  write-the-guide -> get-sign-offs [interview-guide]: the guide at a
    version, in the order the questions are put
  get-sign-offs -> invite-the-buyers [signed-samples-and-guide]: the
    approved samples and the approved guide at their signed versions. A
    later change voids the approval and sign-offs run again
  invite-the-buyers -> hold-interviews [who-accepted]: who accepted,
    from which half, and what each of them was told the interview is
    for
  hold-interviews -> watch-both-halves [what-was-said]: what each buyer
    said, as they said it, marked with the version of the guide it
    answered
  watch-both-halves -> close-interviews [counts-so-far]: the count held
    in each half set against the count that half planned for, said on
    the day asking stops
  close-interviews -> sort-into-themes [fixed-interviews]: the
    interviews fixed at a version, with every one that was left out and
    the rule that left it out
  sort-into-themes -> work-out-figures [theme-list]: the theme list at
    a version, and every remark under the theme it was filed under
  work-out-figures -> set-against-record [theme-figures]: how often
    each theme appears in each half, with the method, the exclusions
    and the range
  set-against-record -> write-findings [themes-beside-the-record]: each
    theme beside the reason the record gives, and every deal where the
    two disagree
  write-findings -> check-findings [draft-findings]: the findings at a
    version, each theme carrying the interviews it rests on
  check-findings -> deliver-themes [checked-findings]: the findings
    with every figure checked against the data and the method beside
    it, and every figure that could not be computed marked as such
  deliver-themes -> record-learnings [delivered-themes]: the themes and
    the recommendations, as delivered, and who took each one
deviations:
  check-the-sample -> draw-samples [too-few-approachable]: too few of
    the drawn buyers may be approached, so the samples are drawn again
    to make up the count
  get-sign-offs -> draw-samples [sample-changes-asked-for]: a signer
    asks for changes to the samples, so they are drawn again
  get-sign-offs -> write-the-guide [guide-changes-asked-for]: a signer
    asks for changes to the guide, so it is written again
  watch-both-halves -> invite-the-buyers [one-half-filling-short]: one
    half is filling short of the count it needs, so more buyers in that
    half are invited
  work-out-figures -> invite-the-buyers [half-fell-short]: a half
    closed short of its count, so the run either asks again or <who>
    decides to report with the shortfall named against every theme that
    half fed
  set-against-record -> pull-the-deals [deal-read-again]: a deal has to
    be read again from the record before the themes can be set beside
    it
  check-findings -> write-findings [figure-does-not-follow]: a figure
    does not follow from the data or the method, so the findings are
    written again
bindings:
  roster:  <who holds each role - agents claiming the abstract agents
           above, and named people for the requester, legal, finance
           and the expert>
  systems: the study record (write), the interview guide (write),
           the response record (write), the calculation record (write),
           the survey and interview system (trigger),
           the CRM (read), the customer and revenue record (read),
           the contact database (read), the consent record (read),
           the sending system (write), the meeting calendar (write),
           the supplier record (write), the budget record (write),
           the decision record (write), analytics platforms (read)
  data:    <your consent rules> <version>, the period the run covers,
           the guide the last run of this study used, the reasons the
           record carries at the versions they were recorded under
policy:
  the run covers the deals that were won and the deals that were lost,
    and every report says how many of each half answered against how
    many that half needed
  nobody is approached until the samples and the guide have been signed
  sign-off is a human gate and is never delegated to an agent
  the person who owned the deal does not hold the interview about it
  both halves are asked the same questions, so what one half said can
    be set beside what the other half said
  what a buyer said is attributed to that buyer inside the organization
    only when the buyer agreed to it, and the buyer is told that before
    the interview starts
  an incentive offered to a participant is approved by a person before
    anything is offered to anybody
  the reason on the record and what the buyer said are both reported
    when they disagree, and neither is edited to match the other
  every theme carries the interviews it rests on, and a theme resting
    on fewer interviews than the study needed says so
  every figure carries its method, its exclusions and the range around
    it
  a question in the guide is reworded only when <who> agrees, because
    the readings before and after the change stop being comparable
  a finding is never removed from the report because somebody asked.
    <who> decides, and the decision is recorded with the findings
measures:
  cycle time: <target> from the close of the period to the delivered
              themes
  coverage: <share> of the period's closed deals interviewed, said for
            each half on its own
  volume: <runs per period>
  quality gate: no theme is delivered without the interviews under it,
                and no report goes out without the count each half
                reached
```
One run

A simulation of one run

The activities are on the left, whoever is doing the active one is on the right, and the record of the run builds up as it goes.

This run is built from the same rows as the diagram above: the left column is the activity list, the captions are the activity lines, the cast is the roster, and the labels on the wires are what the handoffs say actually passes.

Adoption

What you fill in

54 blanks to fill. Everything else is the process.

this process from: ref/mkt/win-loss-analysis v1 Copy this line into your own document. It never claims this process is running anywhere; it records which draft yours started from, and it is what lets the catalog tell you when this one changes.

The header. Your own id, an owner, and the date it takes effect. One line records where it came from, and that line is what lets the catalog tell you when this reference process changes.

The roster. Which agent takes each activity, and which person takes each of the human ones. The process already names what it needs, so this is a lookup rather than a design exercise.

The numbers. Dates, budgets, cadences, and the targets in the measures block. Nothing here can be a reference value, because a target nobody chose is a target nobody meets.