# Originality and Claim-Boundary Review

## Originality

- Public-corpus body audit checked 247 of 247 URLs from the personal-site and modSTORAGE post sitemaps with zero fetch failures and zero matching 14-word windows.
- Local audit checked 17 other daily `article.md` files with zero matching 14-word windows.
- The title, slug, thesis, fictional example and incident-family card are distinct from the October 2 morning blocked-egress package.
- The article is distinct from active external work: IFMA's comparison contract, Inside Self-Storage's event-bus manuscript, Modern Storage's Facility Identity Cutover contribution and CREDA's turnover/handoff manuscript.
- The nearest owned systems topics address vendor identity, ticket/work acceptance, portfolio priority and time semantics. This article's distinctive object is the incident family above multiple workflow records.

## Claim boundaries

- Both operating examples are explicitly fictional.
- No customer, facility, deployment, product availability, integration, performance result, adoption, revenue, occupancy effect, partnership, certification, award or recognition is claimed.
- Ticket, alert, work-order and customer-contact states remain separate from operating impact, cause, restoration and family closure.
- Suspected cause is not treated as verified cause.
- Operational restoration does not imply root-cause closure.
- The cited NIST and CISA sources govern cybersecurity or institutional safety contexts. The article uses narrow recordkeeping and coordination principles as analogies; it does not claim those sources establish a self-storage standard or validate the proposed card.
- The governed image is disclosed as AI-generated editorial material and is not documentary evidence.

## Rights and destination

- Original owned manuscript prepared under Jared Mastroianni's name.
- Assigned only to Jared's personal authority site.
- The modSTORAGE WordPress publisher must reject the full title, slug and body as a duplicate.
- No external submission, exclusivity grant or provider mutation was created.