{
  "registry_version": "2026.08.2",
  "data": {
    "title": "Distinct Closure Status for Unreviewed Applications",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [],
    "content": "# Distinct Closure Status for Unreviewed Applications\n\nGive the ATS a terminal status for an application closed without a human opening it, distinct from the one used for a reviewed decline, bind it into the notification template, and count it on the requisition.\n\n### Expected Effects\n- M-020 can no longer write the value used for a decision: the expiry job writes closed_unreviewed, and the notification template carries that status\n- The gap M-009 runs on becomes a figure on the requisition — applications closed unopened are counted where applications received already are\n- B-003 leaves a state that can be read from outside: not reached, reviewed and not advanced, or closed with the search\n\n### Measurements\n- `unreviewed_at_close_rate`\n- `time_to_first_human_open_days`\n- `closure_status_coverage`",
    "id": "I-010",
    "type": "intervention",
    "summary": "Give the ATS a terminal status for an application closed without a human opening it, distinct from the one used for a reviewed decline, bind it into the notification template, and count it on the requisition.",
    "targets": [
      "B-003",
      "M-009",
      "M-020"
    ],
    "actor": "ats-vendor",
    "scope": "ecosystem",
    "cost": "medium",
    "evidence_level": "supported",
    "expected_effects": [
      "M-020 can no longer write the value used for a decision: the expiry job writes closed_unreviewed, and the notification template carries that status",
      "The gap M-009 runs on becomes a figure on the requisition — applications closed unopened are counted where applications received already are",
      "B-003 leaves a state that can be read from outside: not reached, reviewed and not advanced, or closed with the search"
    ],
    "measurements": [
      "unreviewed_at_close_rate",
      "time_to_first_human_open_days",
      "closure_status_coverage"
    ],
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "ats",
        "label": "The status the batch writes, and where the count lands",
        "subject": "Requisition #4471 — queue closure",
        "lines": [
          {
            "at": "config",
            "text": "Terminal statuses: reviewed_advanced · reviewed_declined · closed_unreviewed · closed_with_requisition. A record does not leave the queue without one of them.",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "at": "02:00",
            "text": "Scheduled job expire_stale_applications — 312 matched; human_open recorded on 0 → status closed_unreviewed",
            "tell": true
          },
          {
            "at": "02:01",
            "text": "Notice sent, status bound into the template: \"Your application was not reviewed before this search closed. No assessment of your profile was made.\"",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "at": "requisition dashboard",
            "text": "Requisition #4471 — received 640 · opened 219 · closed unreviewed 421",
            "tell": true
          }
        ],
        "reading": "The batch is the same batch. What changed is that the status it writes separates a record nobody opened from one that was declined, and the count of the first sits on the same dashboard as applications received."
      }
    ],
    "perspectives": [
      {
        "actor": "ats-vendor",
        "sees": "A status vocabulary in which every way a record leaves the queue has its own terminal value, and the migration that splits the existing Rejected in two.",
        "reads": "The split is a schema change and a template variable; what it exposes — how much of the queue was never opened — becomes a figure in every customer's dashboard.",
        "does": "Ships the statuses and the counter, makes the terminal status a required variable in the notification template, and carries the customers whose reporting was built on a single Rejected value."
      },
      {
        "actor": "recruiter",
        "sees": "The requisition dashboard carrying received, opened and closed-unreviewed side by side, and the expiry batch landing in the third column.",
        "reads": "How far the queue ran past the week is a published figure on the requisition rather than a condition of the job. Time-to-fill is still what the report is read for.",
        "does": "Works the current inbound with the count standing next to it; where the count is argued about, it is argued about against the recruiting headcount that fixes review capacity."
      },
      {
        "actor": "candidate",
        "sees": "A notice naming the status the record ended in, and whether a person opened it.",
        "reads": "A record nobody reached and a record that was assessed and declined no longer arrive in the same words; only one of the two says anything about the profile.",
        "does": "Reads the message for the status rather than for an assessment it states is not there, and decides about reapplying on that."
      }
    ]
  }
}