The standards we hold ourselves to. The conditions under which we would shut Hireposture down.

These are the behavior thresholds Hireposture is built to. A miss against any of them is a defect, tracked publicly in the integrity report.

• Trail integrity: Zero UPDATE or DELETE on audit-trail rows from feature code, ever. Enforced by CI rule on every commit. A merge that introduces either pattern is blocked.
• Retention floor: 7-year minimum retention on audit trail and records. Customer offboarding does not delete trail rows. Statutory purges beyond 7 years are a scheduled job, not customer-initiated.
• Disclaimer presence: Every record carries the current disclaimer language. Disclaimer is version-tracked; prior records keep the version they were issued under.
• Rule library versioning: Every audit row stamps the rule library version it ran against. A re-run under a new rule library version is a new audit row, never a re-stamp.
• No silent pass: A pipeline failure (triage, extraction, record generation) records the failure in the trail. No code path defaults an audit status to clean / passed / compliant from a catch block. Enforced by CI rule.
• Multi-tenant isolation: Every database query against a Hireposture_* table includes a workspaceId filter. A query without one is blocked at code review.
• Methodology transparency: The methodology page is published, versioned, and updated when the pipeline changes. CI rule enforces version + changelog headers when the page exists.

Hireposture would be sunset, with customer notice and reasonable wind-down, under any of the following conditions. The criteria are written down so the product cannot be quietly continued past the point where its premise no longer holds.

• Category competitor lands the wedge. If a major compliance-tech vendor (ComplianceHR, JDXpert, or similar) ships an ADA Title I qualification-standard JD module with mid-market traction within six months of Hireposture's public launch, and Hireposture cannot articulate a defensible distinction within an additional two quarters, the product would be wound down rather than competed against on someone else's field.
• EEOC enforcement priority shifts. If the EEOC formally deprioritizes ADA Title I qualification-standard enforcement in a future Strategic Enforcement Plan, the product's buyer-pull premise weakens. The team would re-evaluate scope; if the re-evaluation does not produce a defensible new wedge within one quarter, Hireposture would be wound down.
• Litigation environment normalizes downward. If federal ADA Title I charge volume falls materially below recent baselines for two consecutive fiscal years, the product's urgency premise weakens.
• Trail integrity violation in production. If a production trail row is ever found to have been altered or deleted outside of the statutory purge job, the product would be paused, the cause investigated publicly, and the trust violation disclosed to all customers. If the cause is structural rather than incidental, Hireposture would be sunset rather than continued under a compromised premise.
• Counsel review fails. The rule library is undergoing employment-counsel review before public availability. If counsel review surfaces unresolvable substantive defects in the library design, the product would be wound down rather than launched.

If Hireposture is sunset, customers receive:

• Minimum 90 days notice before service ends, communicated by email and in-app.
• Full export of every audit row, finding, and record produced under their workspace, in CSV and PDF.
• Continued read-only access to trail and records during the wind-down window.
• Pro-rated refund of any prepaid period after the wind-down date.
• A retention extension option (paid, at cost) for customers who need trail rows held beyond the wind-down date for active EEOC matters.

The standards on this page are operational commitments, not legal warranties or service-level agreements. Customer contracts (MSA, DPA, BAA where applicable) are the binding documents. This page is the public version of how the product is built and the conditions that would make us stop building it.