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Executive search mandate and approval data for AI
A search firm can test whether a model identifies the authoritative version of a brief when board comments and consultant working notes disagree.
NAICS 561312 · Executive Search Services
A search firm can test whether a model identifies the authoritative version of a brief when board comments and consultant working notes disagree. Scale AI lists staffing and recruiting as a category in its public data partnerships program. Its program seeks real operational workflows. The fictional exercise below shows how to score an evidence task before discussing whether any authorized operating records fit an active specification. Scale AI Data Partnerships
Invent a leadership mandate with a draft reporting line, a committee note that proposes a change, and a final approval memo that adopts only part of that change. Ask what can be published in a role briefing. Add an unsigned substitute memo so the expected answer includes an unresolved state instead of inferring approval from a newer date.
Use independently written documents and synthetic organizations. Omit candidates, board identities, hiring plans and real compensation. Keep candidate ranking outside the task and document who owns the original materials.
Describe an original search-brief sample
Original Fiund exercise
A final mandate can adopt one committee proposal while rejecting another
A fictional leadership brief uses synthetic organizations and abstract reporting roles. No candidate, board member, hiring plan, compensation or confidential search is involved.
| Record | Source | What it records |
|---|---|---|
| EX1 | Draft mandate | Role R reports to Lead A, location North. Draft state; not approved for circulation. |
| EX2 | Committee proposal | Suggests reporting to Lead B and moving location to South. Proposal only. |
| EX3 | Final approval and substitute | Signed memo adopts Lead B but explicitly retains North. Later unsigned substitute says Lead C/South, no adoption record. |
Question for the model
Which reporting line and location can the practice role briefing quote, and what status belongs to the later substitute?
Show the reference answer and checks
EX3's signed final memo supports reporting to Lead B at North. It adopts only the reporting-line part of EX2 and explicitly retains the original location. The later Lead C/South substitute remains unsigned and cannot supersede that approval. Preserve proposal, partial adoption and unresolved substitute states rather than combine every committee suggestion into the final brief or infer approval from a newer timestamp.
- Treating a partial approval as adoption of every proposed change.
- Selecting the latest unsigned substitute as the authoritative role brief.
Fields to preserve
- Mandate and document state
- Defines the brief.
- Proposed field and adopted value
- Shows partial approval.
- Approval authority and substitute status
- Limits supersession.
Test another case
Add an approved South relocation effective after the briefing cutoff. Require North at the earlier date and the future change separately.
Use independently written materials and synthetic roles. Exclude candidates and actual search information; ranking and hiring decisions remain outside the task.
Discuss a contribution
Describe the sources you control, the task they could support and what has already been checked. Use the existing-data assessment for an archive or the collection brief for a new recording project. The contributor agreement defines Fiund’s licensing authority and compensation. A guide or fictional exercise does not establish an accepted collection or a sale.