Canonical corpus manifest · v2026.09.3

How source files, public claims and calculation rules fit together.

The six research files remain useful appendices. They are not six equal public authorities. This manifest records what each file contributes, which older methods are superseded, which formulas control the live tools, and which ideas cannot launch without additional infrastructure and review.

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Source control

The original files are preserved—but their older rules no longer control.

A research appendix can generate a question or supply background. Public text and calculations must resolve through current claim, glossary, formula, privacy, and product records.

CORPUS-SRC-01 · partially-verified

Buildout, operations, and revenue-cycle library

Startup, buildout, equipment, revenue-cycle, and operating research appendix

Public use: Internal research appendix
Product status: research only
Keep: Integrated buildout controls, contingency and change control, bank-cleared cash discipline, accessibility, infection prevention, and operating failure modes.
Superseded: [A]–[E] evidence labels; single production-to-cash tree; aggregate equipment and payer scores; repeated product roadmaps
Next action: Migrate individual claims and formulas into canonical records before public reuse.

CORPUS-SRC-02 · partially-verified

Dental knowledge library master

Research repository, source notes, definitions, and product concepts

Public use: Internal research appendix
Product status: research only
Keep: Multidimensional evidence thinking, observation-versus-interpretation separation, source records, glossary ambition, and transaction-system history.
Superseded: standalone master-library authority; small transaction glossary; global source grades; approved-for-AI-retrieval without privacy and publication review
Next action: Use as a research appendix; current public claims must resolve through the claim register and canonical glossary.

CORPUS-SRC-03 · partially-verified

Practice acquisition and independent-growth library

Acquisition, buyer-repeatability, purchasing, and independent-practice infrastructure research

Public use: Internal research appendix
Product status: research only
Keep: Buyer-repeatability, separation of clinical compensation from ownership return, evidence-led diligence, purchasing transparency, and owner-controlled infrastructure.
Superseded: [A]–[E] evidence labels; multiplicative portable-collections formula; weighted opportunity and accounts-receivable scores; working-capital valuation shortcut
Next action: Use the versioned acquisition and purchasing formula contracts before reusing calculations.

CORPUS-SRC-04 · rejected

The Endangered Private Dental Practice article

Founder narrative and preliminary ownership-system argument

Public use: Do not publish as written
Product status: research only
Keep: Founder motivation, succession urgency, patient-continuity concerns, transaction-incentive questions, and the need to expose independent buyers.
Superseded: generalized broker, lender, and DSO allegations; weakly sourced prevalence claims; moralized participant categories; raw-link citation structure
Next action: Split into a consented first-person founder essay and a separately sourced system analysis before publication.

CORPUS-SRC-05 · partially-verified

Patient growth, associates, and specialty-acquisition library

Patient access, capacity, associates, specialty transition, and operating analytics research

Public use: Internal research appendix
Product status: research only
Keep: Denominator discipline, access funnels, capacity constraints, mentorship, specialty handoff, and referral closure.
Superseded: mixed evidence labels; specialty earnings shortcut; recommended scheduling-control tiers; hidden employee and patient surveillance concepts
Next action: Use only aggregate, transparent capacity measures and the canonical specialty-earnings bridge.

CORPUS-SRC-06 · partially-verified

Transaction stack, lenders, brokers, and independent-ownership library

Representation, market/site, finance, succession, and independent-infrastructure research

Public use: Internal research appendix
Product status: research only
Keep: Representation and compensation disclosure, information-flow mapping, site and occupancy questions, succession alternatives, and hypothetical shared-infrastructure boundaries.
Superseded: broker scores; moralized owner classifications; point-estimate market capacity; unspecified nominal-versus-present-value occupancy comparisons
Next action: Convert participant claims into observable disclosures and use ranges for market, occupancy, and downtime scenarios.

CORPUS-SRC-07 · partially-verified

Practice Flow staffing scheduling and marketing calculator plan

July 24, 2026 product specification for aggregate staffing, rooms, access, training, and staged scheduling support

Public use: Internal research appendix
Product status: research only
Keep: Separate resource loads, service access, licensed judgment, patient time, training prerequisites, and staged implementation.
Superseded: A product requirement is not proof of a shipped capability; Service openings cannot override required shared-resource constraints
Next action: Map each requirement to implemented, partial, deferred, or superseded status with formula version and test evidence. Full scheduling automation, maintained state-duty authorization, and PMS integration remain outside the current planner.

Claim-level evidence

Evidence is described on independent axes—not one grade.

A source’s authority, recency, commercial interest, and relationship to one claim answer different questions. None should be smuggled into a single letter or confidence score.

Source kindWhat is the source?

Statute or regulation, court, government agency, professional association, peer-reviewed research, trade press, firsthand account, forum, vendor, target record, or DenQAI method.

Support relationshipHow does it relate to this exact claim?

Directly supports, partially supports, context only, contradicts, or does not support.

Verification stateWhat has actually been checked?

Verified, partially verified, unverified, or disputed.

Authority for this claimWhat weight can it carry for this question?

Binding, official nonbinding guidance, professional guidance, research evidence, target record, experience, opinion, or method.

JurisdictionWhere does it apply?

Federal, state, locality, payer, contract, target, or not applicable.

RecencyWhen was the source issued and reviewed?

Source date, reviewed-on date, effective period, and next-review date are separate fields.

Commercial interestWhat financial or institutional interest is visible?

Disclosed, identified, none identified in the disclosed source after review, or unknown.

Publication useHow may DenQAI use it?

Public fact, bounded example, internal research, design hypothesis, or do not publish.

Formula repairs

Every consequential number has a visible bridge, unit, timing rule, and failure mode.

FML-ACQ-REPEATABLE-COLLECTIONS · shipped

Buyer-repeatable collections and owner-cash bridge

v2.1.0

Decision purpose: Separate historical collections from collections and cash this buyer can reproduce.
Unit: Annual U.S. dollars; aggregate, non-overlapping adjustment lines; separate first-year timing dollars.
Timing: Historical service periods support steady-state collections; first-year deferrals and prior-service receipts affect only the first-year cash view.
Controlling bridge: Seller history − seller-only/nonrecurring − clinical exclusions − patient/referral loss ± buyer fee effect − collection loss = steady-state buyer-repeatable collections. First-year cash then adjusts for timing only.
Excluded: No valuation, tax, purchase-price allocation, patient-level prediction, or automatic retention estimate.
Known failure modes: Double-counting the same units, treating fee effects as retention, applying a timing haircut permanently, or using seller production as a buyer forecast.

FML-RCM-PERIOD-CASH · shipped

Revenue-cycle event, receipt, deposit, and operating-cash bridge

v2.2.0

Decision purpose: Reconcile care delivered, receivables, receipts, deposits, bank-cleared cash, and operating cash without equating them.
Unit: Aggregate U.S. dollars plus separately reported claim counts, administrative hours, and days.
Timing: Service date, posting date, receipt date, deposit date, bank-clear date, and payment date remain distinct.
Controlling bridge: Net production + opening receivables − closing receivables = receipts expected from the receivable bridge. Receipt channels and prior-period attribution reconcile to total receipts; deposit-in-transit changes reconcile net receipts to bank-cleared cash; the cash roll-forward separates operations, clinical compensation, debt, capital, tax, reserve transfers, distributions, and outside funding.
Excluded: No claim submission, posting approval, patient collection action, accounting opinion, or payer recommendation.
Known failure modes: Mixing counts with dollars, comparing current production directly with bank cash, omitting prior-period receipts, treating deposits as distributions, hiding reserve draws, flooring a negative derived bridge to zero, or treating an unresolved difference as cleared because it is below $500. Input receipts and balances remain nonnegative; a negative net-bank period or overdraft requires separate ledger reconciliation.

FML-SPECIALTY-EARNINGS · shipped

Specialty or seller earnings bridge

v3.2.0

Decision purpose: Translate historical collections into practice return before financing and tax.
Unit: Annual U.S. dollars.
Timing: One stated historical or forward annual period; financing and household effects are modeled elsewhere.
Controlling bridge: Seller reported collections − seller-only/nonrecurring activity − buyer clinical-model exclusions − patient/referral loss ± buyer payer/fee effect − collection loss = buyer-repeatable collections. First-year receipts then adjust for prior-service receipts and current-service deferral. Recurring operating cost, market clinical compensation, replacement management, and recurring capital are deducted before debt sizing.
Excluded: Prior-service receipts, current-service deferral, prepayments, credit balances, acquisition debt, interest, buyer tax, household spending, working-capital funding, and practice reserves remain separate timing, closing, financing, or household lines.
Known failure modes: Stacked retention percentages, putting A/R timing or prepayments in steady-state revenue, subtracting selected add-backs without ordinary expenses, omitting market clinical compensation, or mixing affordability with operating value.

FML-PURCH-LANDED-COST · shipped

Documented landed cost per usable unit

v2.0.0

Decision purpose: Compare the documented invoice economics of genuinely comparable offers.
Unit: Annual U.S. dollars and dollars per defined usable unit.
Timing: One stated quote and purchasing period; optional scenario costs use the same disclosed horizon.
Controlling bridge: (Invoice cost + shipping + documented fees − rebates actually received) ÷ usable units received.
Excluded: Receiving labor, waste, stockout exposure, service access, downtime, authenticity, traceability, and exit restrictions remain separate scenario or evidence lines.
Known failure modes: Undefined usable units, deducting promised rebates, pricing uncertain downtime as an invoice fact, double-counting waste, or comparing different configurations.

FML-SUCCESSION-PV · shipped

Succession and sale present-value bridge

v2.2.0

Decision purpose: Compare succession paths over one dated horizon while separating ownership value from clinical employment.
Unit: Nominal and present-value U.S. dollars with explicit timing, probability, tax, and sale-cost assumptions.
Timing: Cash at closing, each contingent component, annual ownership cash, clinical compensation, and terminal value retain separate timing. Nonzero terminal or contingent amounts dated beyond the comparison horizon withhold results until the horizon or input is corrected; their receipt dates are never accelerated.
Controlling bridge: Net cash at closing + present value of seller note, holdback, earnout, rollover, ownership cash, and net terminal proceeds − transition, friction, and expected guarantee loss. Clinical compensation is shown separately.
Excluded: No buyer recommendation, valuation opinion, tax conclusion, enforceability finding, or monetary conversion of autonomy and patient stewardship.
Known failure modes: Adding rollover face value to closing cash, forcing nonzero contingent value, mixing clinical pay with price, omitting terminal sale costs, using unlike horizons, or treating a documented status without supporting terms, records and accountable owners as resolved.

FML-ENTRY-DIMENSIONS · shipped

Entry-path evidence dimensions

v3.2.0

Decision purpose: Keep the owner’s nine factual or preference dimensions visible without averaging them into a recommendation.
Unit: User-described 1–5 evidence or fit states plus separate pass/fail safety checks.
Timing: Current owner review; every dimension needs its own source and recheck date outside this quick worksheet.
Controlling bridge: No aggregate score. Display each dimension, the lowest entered states, and every unresolved safety check.
Excluded: No build/buy recommendation, probability of success, market forecast, or validated psychometric interpretation.
Known failure modes: Equal-weight averages, preference values changing evidence status, or a favorable total hiding an unresolved gate.

FML-TEAM-CONTINUITY · shipped

Team coverage and learning controls

v3.2.0

Decision purpose: Expose staffing coverage, backups, departures, vacancies, documented procedures, training, and queues without grading employees.
Unit: People, roles, percentages, hours, and days.
Timing: One stated staffing and workflow review period.
Controlling bridge: Report each natural-unit exposure separately: uncovered key roles, disclosed exits, open roles, verified competency, documented procedures, training hours, first-touch days, and unworked receivables. Staff and role percentages are unavailable when the relevant denominator is zero.
Excluded: No employee score, hiring or termination recommendation, hidden surveillance, or production quota.
Known failure modes: Weighted scores that disguise a single point of failure, treating tenure as competence, or using administrative queues as individual performance ratings.

FML-MARKET-CAPACITY · specified

Local provider-capacity range

v2.0.0

Decision purpose: Translate named providers into observed clinical capacity and a bounded patient-segment access range.
Unit: Provider clinical days, full-time-equivalent capacity, percentages, and ranges.
Timing: Source-vintage and observation date must be stated for each provider or aggregate.
Controlling bridge: Confirmed clinical days ÷ full-time-day definition = observed physical FTE. Scope, new-patient status, payer access, and probable additions are displayed as separate assumptions and ranges.
Excluded: No inferred retirement based on age, no local demand conclusion from statewide counts, and no false point estimate of accessible capacity.
Known failure modes: Treating names as FTEs, multiplying weak assumptions without ranges, or mixing specialties and payer segments.

FML-OCCUPANCY-CAPITAL · specified

Occupancy and capital comparison

v2.0.0

Decision purpose: Compare equivalent site alternatives in both nominal cash and present value.
Unit: Dated U.S. dollar cash flows and present value.
Timing: Annual dated cash flows over one common horizon.
Controlling bridge: Rent or debt, escalation, maintenance, tenant improvements, financing, taxes/accounting assumptions, residual value, and sale costs remain explicit before nominal and present-value totals are compared.
Excluded: Owner stress tolerance remains a separate preference, not a numeric evidence score.
Known failure modes: Comparing unlike scopes, omitting residual value or sale costs, and presenting an undisclosed nominal total as present value.

Capability boundary

Research ideas are not automatically safe product features.

Local educational worksheet

Runs in the user’s browser without an account, upload, or server copy. It still blocks unnecessary personal, patient, employee, credential, and confidential transaction data.

Hypothetical educational ideal

Describes what transparent governance or infrastructure should look like. It is not a current service, legal safe harbor, membership program, or authorization to operate.

Future secure service

Cannot launch until security, contracts, access, retention, deletion, incident response, privacy, and applicable business-associate duties are designed and independently reviewed.

Professional workflow

Requires licensed or otherwise qualified legal, tax, accounting, lending, clinical, employment, privacy, security, construction, or valuation judgment.

Prohibited input

Patient-identifiable records, unredacted agreements or financial records, live credentials, unnecessary employee personal data, or recordings without a lawful and disclosed workflow do not belong in the public tools.

Canonical language

Owner-facing words describe the task, not DenQAI’s internal system.

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DenQ AI / DenQai / DENQAI

Use: DenQAI

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Patient engine

Use: Patient access and continuity pathway

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Controlling record

Use: Supporting document

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Non-averaged gate

Use: Safety check

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Strict bundle

Use: Validated local project file

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Schema

Use: Required file structure

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Break condition

Use: When to pause, renegotiate, or walk away

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Portable collections

Use: Buyer-repeatable collections

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Normalized cash

Use: Buyer-repeatable owner cash, with the exact bridge shown