Verification shifts from forensic reconstruction to inspection query under Tier 3

C-0007 establishes the architectural property: Tier 3 generates verification evidence as a structural byproduct. C-0051 names the institutional consequence that property produces when Tier 3 is the operating standard rather than the architectural aspiration.

Audit requests become inspection queries rather than forensic reconstructions. Data management plan compliance is answerable on demand rather than defended after the fact. The regulatory convergence cataloged in C-0025 — funder verification policy, False Claims Act precedent, cross-industry verification mandates — stops being an escalating threat and becomes a compliance posture the institution has already met.

The competitive consequence is direct. Institutions competing for faculty, partnerships, and federal funding against a Tier 3 baseline either match it or absorb the differential cost of operating below it. The asymmetry compounds over time: the Tier 3 institution produces signed attestations on demand at near-zero marginal cost (C-0006); the non-Tier-3 institution funds discrete forensic reconstructions per audit request, defended after the fact, on infrastructure not designed to produce the evidence.

This is the §9 expression of the §8 architectural-verification argument and the §10 institutional-positioning argument. The architectural choice is also a posture, and the posture is what regulators, funders, and competing institutions read.