[confirm] heard secondhand about the Kestrel vendor review

• Date: 2026-07-20
• Person: sarah-chen
• Kind: note
• What: [confirm] — heard secondhand that Sarah pushed back hard in the Kestrel vendor review
• Evidence: none — secondhand, I wasn't in the room

Notes

Flagged [confirm] on purpose. I don't know whether this was Sarah advocating well for the team or a problem, and I

only heard it thirdhand. The machine is not filing this as a win or a concern, and it will not decide which it

was. It sits here, flagged, so it lands on her prep sheet as a thing to ask her about — never as a fact about her. If

it turns out to matter, it becomes a real note after I've actually talked to her.

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