{
  "registry_version": "2026.08.2",
  "data": {
    "title": "Dated Funding Certification Before the Final Round",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [],
    "content": "# Dated Funding Certification Before the Final Round\n\nCarry a funding-certified-through date on every requisition, refuse to schedule a final round unless that date covers the expected start, and release the countersignature on a live certification rather than on a second approval.\n\n### Expected Effects\n- B-010 is passed before the final round is scheduled: the certification date is in the requisition before the panel sits, rather than after it recommends\n- M-007 meets a requisition whose funded-through date is either live or lapsed; where a freeze lands mid-loop the requisition changes to a dated state and every candidate in flight is written to on that date\n- B-012 stops carrying a funding decision: the countersignature is blocked while the certification has lapsed and released while it is live\n\n### Measurements\n- `panel_to_offer_latency_days`\n- `requisition_funding_lapse_rate`\n- `countersignature_latency_days`",
    "id": "I-015",
    "type": "intervention",
    "summary": "Carry a funding-certified-through date on every requisition, refuse to schedule a final round unless that date covers the expected start, and release the countersignature on a live certification rather than on a second approval.",
    "targets": [
      "B-010",
      "B-012",
      "M-007"
    ],
    "actor": "employer-policy",
    "scope": "organizational",
    "cost": "medium",
    "evidence_level": "hypothesis",
    "expected_effects": [
      "B-010 is passed before the final round is scheduled: the certification date is in the requisition before the panel sits, rather than after it recommends",
      "M-007 meets a requisition whose funded-through date is either live or lapsed; where a freeze lands mid-loop the requisition changes to a dated state and every candidate in flight is written to on that date",
      "B-012 stops carrying a funding decision: the countersignature is blocked while the certification has lapsed and released while it is live"
    ],
    "measurements": [
      "panel_to_offer_latency_days",
      "requisition_funding_lapse_rate",
      "countersignature_latency_days"
    ],
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "ats",
        "label": "The requisition, with the funding date in it",
        "subject": "req #5120 · Senior Backend Engineer",
        "lines": [
          {
            "text": "funding_certified_through: 30 November · certified by finance 12 August",
            "tell": true
          },
          {
            "at": "d0",
            "text": "Final round requested — the scheduler reads the field: the certified date covers the expected start date. Round booked.",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "at": "d0",
            "text": "Scheduling message to the candidate: this requisition is funded through 30 November, and that is the date the approval behind it expires.",
            "tell": true
          },
          {
            "at": "d21",
            "text": "Contract issued · countersignature released on a live certification, with no second approval step.",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "text": "Where a division freeze revokes the certification: req #5120 flips to a dated paused state and every candidate in flight is written to on that date.",
            "tell": false
          }
        ],
        "reading": "The date is one field. What it does is move the approval from after the panel to before the scheduler, and give the recruiter a date to quote where the pending row had none."
      }
    ],
    "perspectives": [
      {
        "actor": "employer-policy",
        "sees": "A certification with an expiry on every requisition, and a quarterly review in which each line already carries the date it runs out.",
        "reads": "Optionality narrows: a requisition can no longer sit in pending while the quarter is decided, because pending now blocks the scheduler rather than the offer.",
        "does": "Sets the certification horizon and who may re-certify, and decides whether a lapsed date pauses the requisition or closes it."
      },
      {
        "actor": "recruiter",
        "sees": "The funded-through date as a field in the requisition, and a scheduler that refuses a final round when the date does not cover the expected start.",
        "reads": "A date exists to quote where the pending row had none; the cost is that some final rounds cannot be booked at all.",
        "does": "Quotes the date when scheduling, and where the certification lapses mid-loop, sends the dated notice instead of waiting for the row to move."
      },
      {
        "actor": "candidate",
        "sees": "A scheduling message naming the date the funding behind the requisition expires, and, where it lapses, a dated notice saying paused or closed.",
        "reads": "The interval after a panel that went well has a stated cause and a boundary: the wait turns on a certification date rather than on the rounds already completed.",
        "does": "Weighs that date against the other processes in flight, and stops holding capacity for this one once the notice says closed."
      }
    ]
  }
}