Verdict: Minor Revision (corroborates codex round-7).
Convergence with codex: all 4 spot-checked round-26 Major findings
confirmed CLOSED in current drafts; all 5 numerical provenance
spot-checks VERIFIED against named scripts (Spearman 0.879 / S38;
Firm A doc 0.62 / S45; byte-identical 145/8/107/2 / S40; dip
p_median=0.35 / S39e; logistic OR 0.053/0.010/0.027 / S44).
Net-new findings beyond codex round-7:
- Empirical blocker: partner's "statistically insignificant" framing
of firm heterogeneity (raised 2026-05-13) is explicitly unsupported
— OR of 0.053/0.010/0.027 means 19x-100x lower odds for B/C/D vs
Firm A even after pool-size control. Gemini recommends explicit
rejection in any partner-side response.
- Net-new minor: §IV "Table XV-B" should be renumbered to "Table XIX"
for IEEE Access sequential-integer style.
- Net-new minor: Table XV (150,442 descriptor-complete) and §III-L.2
ICCR analyses (150,453 vector-complete) need a footnote pointing
back to §III-G's sample-size reconciliation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
