The definition

What a held meeting is

A held meeting is one where both parties are present, on the calendar link, at the scheduled time, for at least fifteen minutes.

A meeting rescheduled once by either side, and then held within seven days, is a held meeting. Rescheduled twice, it is not — it starts again.

What is not a meeting

A booking is not a meeting. A reply is not a meeting. A call that did not happen is not a meeting. A call that reached a gatekeeper and went no further is not a meeting.

None of those are billed, however they were arranged, and however promising they looked.

The no-show rule

A no-show is not billed.

It is chased once, in writing, by the same gate every other letter passes through — a human approves it, and it carries the same way out. Once. If there is no answer, that is the answer.

The dispute window

You have five business days from the calendar's record of the meeting to dispute that it was held.

The calendar's record decides. It is the same record for both of us, and neither of us edits it after the fact.

A disputed meeting is never billed while it is disputed.

The way out

Reply "stop" to any letter and it is the last one.

Suppression is permanent and it is made by a person, not by a rule that expires. It is not a preference we re-ask about later, and it is not scoped to one campaign.

What we read

Filed sources only: SEC EDGAR filings; federal bankruptcy court dockets, which are public; state WARN notices as each state publishes them. Every figure we deliver is a filed fact on the record. We read it and organize it; we do not create it, estimate it, or characterize anyone.

Never social media. Never scraped lists. Never bought intent data. If a sentence we write cannot be traced to a filing, it does not get written.

Who we are

Conduit Ventures LLC, PO Box 1117, Madison, NJ 07940.

Terms for the watch are reviewed by counsel before the first watch is provisioned.