{
  "_about": "Every question the interviewer asked, what it was about, and which evidence it produced. This is the answer to 'not discussed != does not exist': you can only distinguish 'asked and denied' from 'never asked' if you know what was asked. It also exposes leading questions so downstream readers can discount answers that inherited their framing.",
  "_probe_types": "open | clarifying | leading | hypothetical | closing",
  "transcript_id": "tx_001",
  "probes": [
    {
      "id": "pr_01",
      "turn": 1,
      "sentence": 1,
      "text": "Could you start by telling me what your role is?",
      "type": "open",
      "topic": "role",
      "answered_by": [
        "ev_001",
        "ev_002",
        "ev_003"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "pr_02",
      "turn": 3,
      "sentence": 0,
      "text": "How does your team prepare the weekly report?",
      "type": "open",
      "topic": "report_prep_process",
      "answered_by": [
        "ev_004",
        "ev_005"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "pr_03",
      "turn": 5,
      "sentence": 0,
      "text": "Is that per analyst or across the team?",
      "type": "clarifying",
      "topic": "effort_scope",
      "answered_by": [
        "ev_005",
        "ev_006"
      ],
      "note": "Good clarification - without it ev_005 would be ambiguous by a factor of three."
    },
    {
      "id": "pr_04",
      "turn": 7,
      "sentence": 0,
      "text": "Where do the exports come from?",
      "type": "open",
      "topic": "data_sources",
      "answered_by": [
        "ev_007",
        "ev_008"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "pr_05",
      "turn": 9,
      "sentence": 0,
      "text": "What makes it take six hours?",
      "type": "open",
      "topic": "effort_drivers",
      "answered_by": [
        "ev_009",
        "ev_010",
        "ev_011"
      ],
      "note": "Presupposes six hours is notable. Speaker did not push back on that, unlike pr_07."
    },
    {
      "id": "pr_06",
      "turn": 11,
      "sentence": 0,
      "text": "Have you tried automating that?",
      "type": "open",
      "topic": "previous_attempts",
      "answered_by": [
        "ev_012",
        "ev_013",
        "ev_014"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "pr_07",
      "turn": 13,
      "sentence": 0,
      "text": "So the manual process is pretty painful for you, then?",
      "type": "leading",
      "topic": "severity",
      "answered_by": [
        "ev_015",
        "ev_016"
      ],
      "note": "Framing rejected by the speaker. The rejection is more informative than agreement would have been."
    },
    {
      "id": "pr_08",
      "turn": 15,
      "sentence": 0,
      "text": "How often is it late?",
      "type": "open",
      "topic": "lateness_frequency",
      "answered_by": [
        "ev_017",
        "ev_018",
        "ev_019"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "pr_09",
      "turn": 17,
      "sentence": 0,
      "text": "If a tool could handle the column remapping automatically, would that be something you'd buy?",
      "type": "hypothetical",
      "topic": "purchase_intent",
      "answered_by": [
        "ev_020",
        "ev_021",
        "ev_022",
        "ev_023"
      ],
      "note": "Also leading (proposes the solution). Speaker answered a weaker question (interest) than the one asked (buy)."
    },
    {
      "id": "pr_10",
      "turn": 19,
      "sentence": 0,
      "text": "Would security need to review it?",
      "type": "open",
      "topic": "security_process",
      "answered_by": [
        "ev_024",
        "ev_025"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "pr_11",
      "turn": 21,
      "sentence": 0,
      "text": "Would you be open to trying a pilot?",
      "type": "hypothetical",
      "topic": "pilot_willingness",
      "answered_by": [
        "ev_026",
        "ev_027"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "pr_12",
      "turn": 23,
      "sentence": 1,
      "text": "Anything else about the report process I should know?",
      "type": "closing",
      "topic": "open",
      "answered_by": [
        "ev_028",
        "ev_029"
      ],
      "note": "Produced the only fully volunteered content in the interview."
    }
  ],
  "topics_probed": [
    "role",
    "report_prep_process",
    "effort_scope",
    "data_sources",
    "effort_drivers",
    "previous_attempts",
    "severity",
    "lateness_frequency",
    "purchase_intent",
    "security_process",
    "pilot_willingness"
  ],
  "topics_not_probed": [
    {
      "topic": "what the report actually contains",
      "why_it_matters": "Cannot judge what 'gaps' (ev_018) means without it."
    },
    {
      "topic": "what else the analysts do / what fraction of their week reporting is",
      "why_it_matters": "Six hours across a team of three is meaningless without a denominator."
    },
    {
      "topic": "the 'worse parts of the week' implied in ev_015",
      "why_it_matters": "Speaker volunteered that something else is worse. Never followed up."
    },
    {
      "topic": "the size threshold at which the script failed (ev_013)",
      "why_it_matters": "Directly determines whether any new tool faces the same failure."
    },
    {
      "topic": "who on the warehouse side edits the template (ev_010)",
      "why_it_matters": "The only cause hypothesis on the table is unverified."
    },
    {
      "topic": "whether other teams produce similar reports",
      "why_it_matters": "Bears on scope: one team's problem vs. an org pattern. No evidence either way."
    },
    {
      "topic": "cost of current tooling / what they pay for today",
      "why_it_matters": "Budget context for the 5k ceiling."
    },
    {
      "topic": "what the directors do with the daily version they asked for",
      "why_it_matters": "The request (ev_028) was recorded but its motivation was not explored."
    }
  ],
  "_reading_note": "An empty entry in topics_not_probed is an ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE. It never licenses the claim that the thing does not exist."
}