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Continue Planning

Stateful progression instead of funnel reset.

What This Is

Continue Planning is the mechanism that preserves intent as a durable system state.

It allows partially formed decisions, scoped work, and in-progress planning to remain active without collapsing back into intake or restarting a flow.

Planning exists as an object, not a moment.

What Makes This Different

Most platforms treat planning as disposable.

If a session ends, the system forgets.
If time passes, intent decays.
If someone else joins, context fractures.

Continue Planning treats planning as a persistent asset tied to the property and the project, not to a browser session or form completion.

What the System Remembers

Continue Planning maintains continuity across:

Defined scope and boundaries
Selected services and options
Measurements and assumptions
Uploaded media and notes
Draft or finalized pricing
Pending decisions and gates

Nothing is flattened into a summary. The full state remains addressable.

How Progress Actually Works

Planning is modeled as a series of explicit states.

Each state answers a real question:

What is being worked on
Where it applies in the property
What is known versus unresolved
What decision is required next

When planning resumes, the system surfaces the next unresolved decision, not the beginning of the process.

Why This Changes Behavior

This removes the psychological cost of “finishing everything now.”

Planning can pause without penalty.
Decisions can be staged.
Additional participants can join later.

Momentum is preserved without pressure.

System Level Effects

Because planning does not reset:

Quotes mature instead of restarting
Scopes tighten instead of drifting
Operational rework is reduced
Higher value projects survive longer decision cycles

This enables complex, multi-step work to exist naturally inside the system.

Relationship to the Broader Model

Continue Planning connects directly to:

Project definition
Measurement and estimation
Approvals and gating
Scheduling and execution
Lifecycle planning

It is the glue between intention and action.

Structural Importance

This is not a UX convenience.

Continue Planning is what allows Cohos to operate as an ongoing planning environment rather than a transactional marketplace.

Without it, everything downstream becomes reactive.

Resume Quote Review

Pricing evolution without restarting scope.

What This Is

Resume Quote Review is the layer that allows pricing to be revisited without undoing the work that produced it.

Quotes are not treated as static documents.
They are treated as living outputs tied to scope, measurements, materials, and decisions that already exist.

Review resumes from where pricing last stopped, not from zero.

What Makes This Different

In most systems, reviewing a quote means starting over.

Context is lost.
Assumptions are reintroduced.
Numbers change without explanation.

Resume Quote Review exists to keep pricing anchored to its original logic.

Nothing is regenerated blindly.

What the System Retains

When quote review resumes, the platform preserves:

Defined scope and boundaries
Underlying measurements
Material selections or allowances
Labor assumptions
Prior revisions and comparisons

Every number has lineage.

How Changes Are Handled

Adjustments do not overwrite the quote.

They branch from it.

Scope changes recalculate quantities.
Material changes update only affected lines.
Labor shifts remain traceable.

The impact of each change is visible instead of buried.

Comparison Without Confusion

Because quotes share the same underlying data, comparisons are meaningful.

Differences reflect real changes, not measurement drift or interpretation.

This enables true apples to apples evaluation across revisions or providers.

Operational Effects

This reduces pricing churn.

Fewer back and forth revisions
Less provider rework
Lower support involvement

Quotes converge instead of oscillate.

Relationship to Approvals and Scheduling

Resume Quote Review sits immediately upstream of commitment.

Once pricing is accepted, approvals and scheduling inherit the same data.

Nothing is retranslated downstream.

Structural Importance

Pricing is one of the highest friction points in home services.

Resume Quote Review lowers that friction by preserving context, exposing logic, and making change intentional.

Quotes stop being disposable PDFs and start behaving like system state.

Finish Intake Setup

Converting a property from unknown to operational.

What This Is

Finish Intake Setup is the step where a property becomes usable inside the Cohos system.

Until intake is complete, a home exists only as an address.
After intake, it becomes a structured asset with spatial data, measurements, context, and history.

This is the moment the system gains leverage.

What Intake Actually Accomplishes

Intake is not data collection for its own sake.

It establishes:

The property’s spatial framework
Room and system boundaries
Baseline measurements
Initial condition evidence
Material starting points

This creates a foundation that every other feature depends on.

Why Completion Matters

Partial intake limits what the system can do.

Estimates remain generic.
Projects require clarification.
Materials stay abstract.
Scheduling carries risk.

Finish Intake Setup exists to remove those constraints and unlock the full model.

How the System Uses Completed Intake

Once intake is finished, the platform can:

Generate location aware scopes
Calculate quantities consistently
Attach materials to real surfaces
Reduce discovery work during execution
Preserve context across future projects

The property stops being reinterpreted.

Relationship to Planning and Execution

Intake completion is the prerequisite for reliable planning.

Projects planned on completed intake are:

More accurate
More comparable
Less prone to change orders

Execution becomes confirmation instead of discovery.

Operational Impact

Finishing intake reduces downstream labor.

Fewer site visits just to measure
Less clarification back and forth
Lower provider uncertainty
Higher first visit completion rates

Work shifts from exploration to execution.

Long Term Effects

Intake is only done once, but its value compounds.

Every service updates the same foundation instead of recreating it.

Over time, the property becomes increasingly well defined instead of repeatedly rediscovered.

Structural Role

Finish Intake Setup is the gateway from address to asset.

It is the point where Cohos stops behaving like a directory and starts behaving like infrastructure.

Approvals Needed

Explicit gates that prevent silent drift.

What This Is

Approvals Needed is the system’s gating layer.

It surfaces decisions that must be made before anything else is allowed to move forward. No work advances implicitly and nothing proceeds on assumption.

If execution is blocked, the block is visible.

Why This Exists

Most service failures happen between agreement and execution.

Scope shifts quietly
Materials change informally
Timing adjusts without consent

Approvals Needed exists to force clarity at the exact points where ambiguity causes damage.

Nothing passes through unnoticed.

What Triggers an Approval

Approvals are generated only when the system detects a true decision point.

Common triggers include:

Final scope confirmation
Pricing acceptance
Material substitutions
Access permissions
Schedule commitment
Exceptions discovered during execution

If no approval is required, nothing is surfaced.

How Approvals Function

Approvals are not blanket confirmations.

Each approval is specific and scoped.

It references:

What is being approved
What it affects
What changes if approved
What remains locked if not

The system requires intent, not acknowledgment.

Relationship to Projects and Quotes

Approvals sit directly between planning and execution.

They freeze:

Scope boundaries
Pricing assumptions
Material expectations
Responsibility allocation

This prevents re interpretation once work begins.

Operational Effects

Clear approvals reduce downstream conflict.

Fewer disputes over what was agreed
Less mid job renegotiation
Lower provider risk absorption

Execution starts from alignment instead of optimism.

Accountability and Recordkeeping

Approved items become part of the permanent project record.

They are timestamped, associated with the property, and linked to execution outcomes.

Decisions are not reconstructed later. They already exist.

Structural Role

Approvals Needed is how the system enforces discipline without manual oversight.

It converts informal agreement into enforceable clarity and keeps execution honest.

Upload Photo/Video

Ground truth capture tied to location.

What This Is

Upload Photo and Video is how real world conditions enter the system.

Media is not treated as loose attachments or reference images.
Photos and video are structured inputs that attach to specific rooms, surfaces, systems, and projects inside the property model.

This is evidence, not decoration.

Why This Exists

Most service platforms rely on descriptions.

Descriptions are subjective.
They vary by person.
They miss details.

Upload Photo and Video exists to replace interpretation with visibility.

When the system can see the condition, assumptions drop out.

How Media Is Used

Uploaded media is parsed and anchored.

It is associated with:

Exact locations in the property
Specific projects or diagnoses
Before and after states
Exceptions discovered during work

Media is never orphaned. It always has context.

Role in Planning and Diagnosis

Photos and video reduce uncertainty before money moves.

They allow:

Remote scoping without blind estimates
Early identification of constraints
Better triage of issues
Fewer exploratory site visits

Problems are clarified earlier, not mid execution.

Role During Active Projects

During execution, media becomes documentation.

Progress updates
Condition changes
Completed work
Exceptions or damage

Everything is tied to where it occurred, not just when it was sent.

Accountability Effects

Media tied to location changes accountability.

Claims are verifiable.
Completion is provable.
Disputes are resolved with context.

The system remembers what people otherwise argue about.

Compounding Value

Uploaded media does not expire.

It strengthens:

Service history
Material records
Lifecycle planning
Future diagnosis

Each upload improves the fidelity of the property model.

Structural Role

Upload Photo and Video is how Cohos keeps the digital system aligned with physical reality.

It is the feedback loop that prevents drift between plan and condition.

Schedule Next Visit

Execution locking once uncertainty is gone.

What This Is

Schedule Next Visit is the moment the system commits real world resources with confidence.

It is not calendar selection layered on top of ambiguity.
It is the conversion of a resolved plan into a controlled execution event.

When this step appears, the system already understands what showing up means.

What Makes This Different

In most platforms, scheduling creates clarity later.

In Cohos, clarity is required first.

By the time a visit is scheduled, the system already knows:

The approved scope
The exact locations involved
The materials expected
The estimated duration
The access method and constraints

The visit is defined before it is booked.

How Timing Is Determined

Timing is not chosen in isolation.

It is selected against:

Scope size and complexity
Material readiness and lead times
Dependencies between services
Provider capability and proximity

This prevents under scoped visits, stacked assumptions, and return trips.

What Gets Locked at Scheduling

Scheduling freezes key variables.

Execution window
Expected work boundaries
Material assumptions
Oversight and documentation requirements

Once locked, execution proceeds from alignment, not interpretation.

Why This Reduces Failure

Most execution problems are coordination failures, not workmanship failures.

Scheduling without context creates:

Incomplete work
Mid visit renegotiation
Silent scope drift
Disputes after completion

Schedule Next Visit exists to collapse those failure modes before the crew arrives.

Relationship to Oversight

Once scheduled, oversight layers attach automatically.

Documentation expectations are set.
Verification requirements are known.
Exceptions have a defined path.

Execution becomes observable instead of anecdotal.

System Level Effect

Time becomes a governed resource.

Capacity is predictable.
Utilization improves.
Provider uncertainty is reduced.

The platform scales by reducing variance, not by adding complexity.

Structural Role

Schedule Next Visit is the handshake between the digital model and physical execution.

It is where planning stops being theoretical and becomes real, without chaos.

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Continue Planning

What This Is

What Makes This Different

What the System Remembers

How Progress Actually Works

Why This Changes Behavior

System Level Effects

Relationship to the Broader Model

Structural Importance

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