MASCHINENRAUM
Does the whole machine produce a reliable result?
After this station you stop seeing five separate tasks and start seeing one machine — question, command, intake, verification, output — and you can judge whether it produces a result you can stand behind.
You have done the moves. Now open the machine room and look at the whole thing at once: the question, the commands, the sources, the checks, the output, the limits.
This is not about a bigger report. It is about whether your investigation machine actually works — and saying, honestly, where it does not.
You evaluate each component of the workflow against one question: is it reliable? Where it is weak, you fix it or you mark it.
Everything you already made — reviewed as a system, not as homework.
Assemble your four artifacts into one evidence machine — and ship a first responsible public summary.
Your method is ready when:
This is the machine room. Not the place where the truth is handed to you — the place where you learn what your method can and cannot carry.
A weak method makes strong claims dangerous. A strong method makes uncertainty useful.
You are not done when the output looks good. You are done when the evidence holds.
You are not an expert now. You are operational. Pick your line — K traces the watchers, R follows the money, B decodes the feed, V reads the long signal. Each one starts with exactly the method you just built.
The machine room is where confidence goes to be inspected.