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# Simulating the generated contractor site, 2026-09-21
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Ten personas, three runs each, on ergo. Version A is the site as
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generated (`enquiries: open -> quoted`). Version B adds the stage the
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owner described and the generator dropped (`open -> surveyed -> quoted`).
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## What held up
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- **The simulation found a defect the verifier could not.** Reading
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the first run's records next to the intake showed the generated
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machine had skipped "we go and look at the building". That became
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the `stages` field in needs.yaml, which the lint now enforces, so
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the same omission fails deterministically from here on.
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- **Routing and form-filling are stable.** 0 misroutes and 0 abandoned
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forms in 60 cases, once choices were matched by heading (the first
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run's "100% misrouted" was the model answering "Heading: description").
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- **One recurring question is a real gap.** Handlers asked about
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arranging a site visit seven times. The enquiry forms collect an
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email address and nothing about access or when someone can come,
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for a business whose first step is a visit.
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## What did not
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- **Letting a model decide outcomes is worthless.** In the first
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design qwen3:8b sent every case to its success state; after one
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sentence telling it that losing is normal, every enquiry was "lost"
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in one touch (`first-design-qwen3-8b/`). Routes are now scripted and
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who wins is left to the live bucket.
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- **The ask-back rate does not discriminate yet.** With
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nemotron-3.5-lightning:30b-a3b as handler, nearly every button drew
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a question (4 of 4), including nonsense (a title deed; an email
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address the form already requires). A measure stuck at its maximum
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cannot rank version A against version B: the A -> B rise in
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ask-backs per case (1.7 -> 2.3) is just B having one more button.
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## What it needs before its numbers mean anything
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A control for the instrument: run the handler on a record that is
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deliberately complete and on one deliberately stripped. A usable judge
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asks on the stripped record and stays quiet on the complete one. Until
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a prompt and model pass that, read the questions, not the rates.
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Speed: nemotron on both sides took about nine minutes per 30 cases;
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qwen3:8b about two.
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