Sign off, and reopening if you have to

Zone first, space second

Sign-off happens twice, at two levels.

A zone is confirmed ready by its lead — the person who was actually in it. Its required work is finished, its required gear is confirmed, and they say so.

The space is confirmed by you, once all four checks pass across every required zone.

The order matters. The zone confirmation is someone standing in a room vouching for the room. The space confirmation is you vouching for the whole thing, largely on the strength of theirs.

Who can confirm a zone

Anyone with lead controls for it: a helper you promoted during setup, or a zone lead account assigned to that zone. See who leads a zone — the difference matters, and typing someone’s name into the plan does not give them this.

You can also confirm a zone yourself. Worth doing sparingly: a coordinator confirming every zone from the other side of the building is the habit this product exists to replace.

What can’t be confirmed

A zone with nothing planned in it. There’s nothing to confirm, so the control isn’t offered.

A zone with required work still open, or required gear not confirmed present. The zone tells you how many blockers are left.

A zone you switched off is exempt entirely — it isn’t a gap, it’s a decision you made when planning.

Confirming the space

When the four checks pass, Confirm ready becomes available. Do it and the readiness report exists, stamped with your name and the time.

If everything passes and nobody confirms, the report says exactly that: all checks passed — waiting on the coordinator’s sign-off. It doesn’t assume, and it doesn’t quietly sign off on your behalf.

Reopening

You can reopen a run after signing it off. Sometimes you have to — something breaks, something was missed, a room gets used for something else.

Here’s what it costs: the report permanently records both facts. It shows the space was signed off, then reopened, by whom and when, and lists what’s open now. The verdict changes to not ready — this space was signed off and then reopened.

The first sign-off isn’t erased. It happened, and the record says so.

That’s not a punishment. It’s the difference between a record and a draft: if signing off could be quietly undone, the sign-off would mean nothing, and neither would the report. A reopened run tells an honest story — we thought we were ready, then this happened — which is usually the story worth telling anyway.

Confirming late

Nothing stops you. The checks don’t expire at the ready time.

The report notes how late, in minutes, against the time you set. That’s a fact about the run, not a failure of it — and over a few runs those minutes are the most useful number you have for planning the next one.