Stan.
The Check

You walked through seven things.
Here is the list.

If one landed, three paths make sense from here. None of them require deciding today.

  1. Four specialists, four jurisdictions, zero coordinator.
  2. Four correct answers to four different questions.
  3. One filing assumption compounding across five years.
  4. A cost that only surfaces when money moves.
  5. Specialists doing their narrow jobs correctly.
  6. One outside seat that speaks all four languages.
  7. More proof before the first conversation.

Three honest questions. Then we are done.

So: what is the right next step for how you research?