Layer 4 — Method
How a room is tested
The console is a situation-aware evaluation instrument. It is not a ranking, a booking tool, or a substitute for a site visit. Pretty is invited. Operationally right gets the seat.
The five layers
- 01
Decision
What should I do with this room, against this evening?
- 02
Reason
Which inputs and rules produced that standing?
- 03
Evidence
What is actually on the record, and of what class?
- 04
Method
How the model fails closed, and what it refuses to invent.
- 05
Technical
Schemas, source versions, snapshot dates, edge cases.
Fail closed
If a capability you marked as required is not established on the record, the room is held back. Absence is never read as a pass. A posted capacity figure is treated as marketing until a usable figure exists. Headcount inside the last eight percent of a usable figure is flagged as tight, not as a hard block.
Evidence classes
- Documented — a first-party document. Strongest class in this instrument, still not a guarantee of the day.
- Stated — someone at the venue said it. It survives staff turnover only as memory until it is in writing.
- Pattern — typology behaviour or outside observation. Useful signal, not authority.
- Absent — nothing of any class addresses the point. Recorded as absence.
- Known
- Watch
- Blocking
- Unknown
What the numbers are not
“Answered” is the share of situation-weighted findings the record can currently speak to. “Still to confirm” is confirmation work, rising with unresolved weight and build level. Neither is a quality score. A room with fewer blockers may simply be a room with less evidence in it.
Snapshot
Catalog snapshot 2026-08-27 · 1110 snapshot venues · 9048 findings · 7763 unknowns carried rather than filled.
Read next
- The venue is pretty. But is it operationally right?
Start here if you have a photogenic shortlist and no operational test yet.
- The venue contract is part of the design
Read before you sign — exclusivity, overtime, and what appears later as a charge.
- The venue RFP should make pretty rooms comparable
When you need like-for-like written answers from more than one room.
- The curfew is an event design constraint
When amplified sound, neighbours, or a late finish is in play.
- The hidden cost of a beautiful remote venue
When the setting is remote enough that logistics start writing the budget.