Make delivery stages clear — from work in progress to accepted evidence.
Structure each delivery stage around the current scope, expected evidence, review authority and acceptance record, while keeping payment and governance state connected but distinct.
Clarity and traceability — not certainty of outcome.
Clear delivery stage
Know what this stage expects and which work definition governs.
Evidence attached to the stage
Submissions and supporting evidence stay connected to the milestone under review.
Explicit decision authority
Acceptance is made by the permitted actor, against the current version.
Durable history
Changes, submissions and decisions remain traceable in the engagement record.
Six stages, three perspectives.
Submit
RECEIVE A REVIEW-READY SUBMISSION.
One milestone, annotated.
Select a region of the example card to see what it holds and where its boundary sits.
Submit once. Keep it traceable.
Try it: add evidence, simulate a definition change, then submit an immutable review target.
The right person, the right version.
Decide on the example. A stale review target disables acceptance.
3 items · descriptions, timestamps and visibility shown for each.
Criteria reference from SOW v4 · no unresolved warnings. No pass score is invented.
Finance Lead · acceptance authority for MS-02 under the engagement configuration.
Version, authority, hold/dispute and policy state revalidated before recording.
Accept and Request changes — other outcomes appear only when configured.
Stale state is shown, never hidden.
Changed while submitted for review
The review context is marked stale and acceptance against the obsolete target is disabled until the authoritative workflow resolves the change.
Added / Changed / Removed are labelled in text. A compare view is informative — it never approves the change itself.
Connected, never conflated.
Milestone acceptance and payment status are separate. Where supported, payment workflows can use milestone and approval state as inputs. The current financial state is shown in the authoritative payment record.
Clear stages, on both sides.
For buyers
For professionals & firms
Clear stages. Accepted evidence.
Find expertise, join as a professional, or govern milestones across your organization.
Milestones provide clarity and traceability, not certainty of outcome. Acceptance is not payment, legal completion or a dispute waiver; availability depends on engagement configuration.