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# Outcome matching

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Match vendor-reported claims to buyer-side facts with deterministic, versioned, explainable rules.

## Rules are data

Rules declare fields, windows, tolerances, cardinality, priority, duplicate handling, and ambiguity behavior. Every result retains rule and fact references plus an explanation.

## Uncertainty stays visible

Mismatches and duplicates create discrepancies. Ambiguity remains uncertain. AI-assisted suggestions are disabled by default, cite known facts, run only after deterministic uncertainty, and never produce matched.

## Fact authority

Resolution policies declare source precedence, corroboration, freshness, and disagreement behavior. Adapters never hide conflicts.
