How should complaint histories represent events that arrive out of order?
Separating when an event occurred from when it became visible lets model labs test reasoning about delayed records without granting access to future evidence.
A complaint history benefits from separate fields for `occurred_at`, `recorded_at` and `visible_from`. The first records when an action happened, the second when a system captured it, and the third when the acting role could access it. These times need not match.
A call note may be entered after a complaint has already moved to investigation. If the note confirms that an acknowledgement was delivered earlier, it changes the known history without making that evidence available retrospectively to the model.
A generated event stream could link each event through `case_id`, `event_id` and `source_record_id`. An observation builder can filter on `visible_from` before producing each task input. JSONL suits ordered event replay; a Parquet export can support analysis across event types and visibility delays.
An evaluation hook can record the evidence visible at the moment of each action. This allows reviewers to distinguish a poor decision from a reasonable decision made before a delayed record arrived. It also supports training on revision: the model should update its assessment when newly visible evidence changes what can be established.
Represent temporal visibility explicitly so models learn to make defensible decisions from the information available at each step.
- Audience:
- Model labs
- Content type:
- Integration
- Buyer question:
- What it is and why it matters
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