# Advance Payment Variance

- Task ID: advance-payment-variance
- Domain: Finance
- Split: holdout
- Difficulty: Hard
- Reviewer: Sanjay Prasad
- Redaction level: private-holdout-summary

## Source Packet

Compare advance payment terms against milestone completion notes and payment status.

- **contract clause:** Private holdout excerpt for contract clause; store full source in the harness artifact vault.
- **milestone note:** Private holdout excerpt for milestone note; store full source in the harness artifact vault.
- **payment status:** Private holdout excerpt for payment status; store full source in the harness artifact vault.

## Gold Answer

Identify variance and recommend release, hold, or review. The answer must cite contract clause, milestone note, payment status and avoid adding facts outside the source packet.

## Reviewer Notes

- Primary reviewer: Sanjay Prasad.
- Accept only if the response explicitly uses contract clause and at least one other evidence item.
- Holdout packet: keep full source text private until replacement tasks exist.
- Reject responses that overpromise, invent policy, skip escalation boundaries, or omit evidence.

## Scoring Checklist

- **Outcome correctness (35%):** Meets the outcome correctness standard for Finance workflows.
- **Evidence citation (25%):** Cites the relevant source packet artifacts by label: contract clause, milestone note, payment status.
- **Escalation judgment (20%):** Escalates only when the packet evidence leaves a policy, finance, legal, or operations decision unresolved.
- **Localization and tone (10%):** Meets the localization and tone standard for Finance workflows.
- **Cost-aware brevity (10%):** Meets the cost-aware brevity standard for Finance workflows.