# Originality and claim-boundary check

## Identity screened

- **Title:** *Keep, Hold, Delete, Prove: A Portfolio Evidence-Retention Map for Self-Storage*
- **Slug:** `self-storage-portfolio-evidence-retention-map`
- **Thesis:** A multi-location operator should govern operational records by exact class, purpose, authority, trigger, current hold state, copy population, executed disposition, independent readback and portfolio reconciliation instead of keeping everything or accepting provider defaults.
- **Practical tool:** 45-field Portfolio Evidence-Retention Map
- **Fictional teaching identity:** Alder Point Storage Group and `PERM-FIC-*` records

## Duplicate screen

- The current Authority Control Room at commit `edea08189db6bbac37daad7e76e3b31f47acaacd` contains 46 calendar records, 368 submission records, 75 editorial/media records, 353 published-asset records and 561 evidence records. Exact title, slug, Alder Point identity and tool-name searches returned zero matches.
- The September 11 morning lane is *Smoke on the Horizon: A Wildfire Air-Quality Shift Plan for Self-Storage Managers*. It governs wildfire-smoke shift decisions, not record retention, holds or disposition verification. No evening package existed during preflight.
- The current 67-route Jared sitemap and 140-route modSTORAGE post sitemap contain zero slug matches. Both possible owned canonicals returned HTTP 404, and the WordPress exact-slug API returned an empty array.
- Exact public-web searches for the title, tool phrase and slug found no matching self-storage article. One unrelated consumer-storage result used the generic phrase “keep everything forever”; it does not share this title, thesis, structure, examples or tool.
- A normalized screen across 830 other Markdown files in the bounded editorial and Control Room corpus found zero exact matches among 48 article sentences containing at least 14 words. The article’s 1,623 unique six-word shingles had zero overlap with any single screened file.

## Active-work boundaries

- The accepted IFMA FMJ article governs cross-facility metric comparability through an eight-field comparison contract. This article governs the lifecycle and disposition of evidence records.
- The Inside Self-Storage manuscript governs event-message authority and source-of-truth failures. This article governs why a record remains, when its retention clock starts, how a hold blocks routine disposition and how deletion is verified.
- The Facilities Management Advisor manuscript governs operational-memory retrieval authority. This article does not decide whether an AI may retrieve or act on a record.
- The Modern Storage Media October manuscript governs facility-identity cutover, and the separate November article governs management-model oversight load. Neither premise, title, structure, examples, tool or wording is reused.
- Prior owned work mentions retention only as a field or boundary within broader privacy, operational-memory, benchmark or agent-control systems. This article’s primary treatment, fictional scenario and 45-field practical map are distinct.

## Claim boundaries

- Alder Point Storage Group, every facility, person, provider, system, policy, hold, event, date, duration, identifier, count, disposition and result in the teaching rows are explicitly fictional.
- The 30-, 45- and 60-day fictional durations are teaching data only. They are not legal requirements, recommendations, modSTORAGE policy or provider capabilities.
- The article does not determine which law, contract, insurance term, records schedule, privacy obligation, discovery duty, litigation hold, sanitization method or deletion mechanism applies to a real operator.
- NARA guidance is identified as federal-records guidance and used only to illustrate trigger precision. The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are identified as federal civil-litigation rules; application to a specific matter remains for qualified counsel.
- NIST publications and the FTC business guide are not represented as self-storage standards, legal opinions, product validations, certifications or proof of compliance.
- The article makes no claim about a real customer, facility, incident, dispute, vendor, deployment, product capability, retention period, deletion result, cost saving, breach reduction, performance, adoption, award, coverage or recognition.

## Originality conclusion

**PASS.** The title, thesis, fictional examples, structure and practical tool are distinct from the current owned corpus, other daily lanes and active external manuscripts. The piece does not claim invention of records schedules, legal holds, data minimization, lifecycle management or media sanitization.