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  "last_modified": "2026-09-29",
  "canonical_url": "https://axiomcx.dev/data/validation-status.json",
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    { "id": "working-papers", "label": "Working papers", "status": "published_working_papers", "meaning": "The public papers document the evaluation framework and a human-task-agent alignment model.", "limitation": "SSRN publication is not peer review or independent validation.", "sources": ["https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5433476", "https://ssrn.com/abstract=7256278"] },
    { "id": "synthetic-model-study", "label": "Synthetic model behavior", "status": "synthetic_study", "meaning": "The six-domain alignment study tests model behavior on synthetic profiles under stated assumptions.", "limitation": "Synthetic results do not establish future job performance or employment predictive validity.", "sources": ["https://ssrn.com/abstract=7256278"] },
    { "id": "operating-history", "label": "Operating history", "status": "company_reported_not_independently_validated", "meaning": "TeamStation AI reports related methods and processes used across 30+ US companies, empirical source material from 13,000+ technical interviews, and more than eight years of research history.", "limitation": "These are company-reported figures and do not establish current-version predictive validity or independently verified outcomes.", "sources": ["https://axiomcx.dev/data/product.json", "https://teamstation.dev/research/articles/the-ctos-playbook-for-de-risking-nearshore-engineering"] },
    { "id": "employment-outcomes", "label": "Independent employment outcome validation", "status": "not_established_in_public_record", "meaning": "The public record does not establish predictive validity, quantified accuracy, fairness across relevant populations, comparative superiority, or customer hiring outcomes for the current product version.", "limitation": "Each claim requires a frozen version, defined population, suitable comparison, study method, date, limitations, and qualified review.", "sources": ["https://axiomcx.dev/knowledge/public-claim-boundary.md", "https://axiomcx.dev/knowledge/fairness-and-limitations.md"] }
  ],
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    "quantified accuracy, reliability, validity, fairness, or error rate",
    "predictive validity for future job performance",
    "comparative performance against another product or human reviewers",
    "measured reductions in time, cost, turnover, bias, or bad hires",
    "independently verified customer outcomes or market position",
    "accuracy or false-positive rates for baseline-conditioned speech-pattern review",
    "legal sufficiency of a public report for an employment decision"
  ],
  "decision_boundary": "Axiom Cortex provides decision-support evidence for qualified human review. It does not make an autonomous employment decision."
}