---
type: project
venture: rivet-yard
status: active
outcome:
owner: Rowan
due:
updated: 2026-09-23
---

# The $84,000 change order

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**[[Dario Pineda]] is 20% over with no signed change order.** The change order is
**$84,000** and it is unsigned on Rowan's desk.

## The age, derived and not decremented

**"Five weeks" as of 5 September**, which is Rowan's own count and the only count
anyone has stated. **Re-derived against 2026-09-23 from that figure and that
date: roughly seven and a half weeks.** The figure is derived from his statement,
not from a fresh one — nobody has asked Dario or Rowan for a current count
(SL-01: a count is transcribed from a source, never carried forward from the last
time it was written).

## The decision, and where the line is

`hobbs-7op`, P1: **sign it, or send Dario the reduced scope Rowan will accept.**
Those are the two options and there is no third that is not the current state.

**Hobbs never signs and never spends.** Authority row 12 names this change order
explicitly, alongside the Tessellate pro-rata and every capital call. **What
Hobbs can do is put it in front of him with the two options named, which is what
this note is.**

## What is not known
- **Whether Dario has moved since the change order landed.** Unknown, and open
  since 5 September.
- What the 20% overrun buys, and whether the reduced scope is a real option or a
  sentence. **Never established.**

## The thing behind it that is not this project

Rowan **personally guaranteed part of the Rivet Yard loan.** [[Bea Nkemelu]]
knows; [[Maya]] does not. That is **ADR-17**, it lives in `Atlas/decisions.md`
because it binds four ventures, and it is named here because an $84,000 decision
on this property is not fully legible without it. **The task attached to it —
tell Maya — is explicitly not urgent, not this week, does not expire, and is not
chased into the daily brief.** `hobbs-e1y`.