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Concordal four-framework methodology registry

This page permanently displays each framework’s source document, physical PDF pages, scope, hard gates and all submethods. In integrated analysis they run alongside original Concordal research and quant enhancement; deterministic synthesis explains agreement, conflicts and gaps without majority voting or averaging.

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Each framework keeps its own applicability, hard gate, conclusion and missing gates. Deterministic synthesis may explain agreements and conflicts, but cannot average four cards into four votes.

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Framework lineage · inspired by

Goldman Sachs / 高盛

Capital efficiency, valuation and conflict explanation

Source document and physical pages

Equity Valuation: Understanding What's Important

PDF physical pages p2; p4–38; p40–49; p51–63; p64–76

Applicability

Applies when financials, invested capital and valuation inputs are reproducible; banks switch to CROAE.

Method gate

Cash returns, accounting returns and valuation must reconcile; conflicts cannot be hidden by averaging.

  • Value-creation gate: growth creates value only when ROIC or CROCI exceeds the cost of capital (WACC; COE for banks); growth below that hurdle destroys value.
  • CROCI: cash operating return divided by cash invested capital, separating inflation, asset-life and accounting adjustments; decompose it into asset turnover × operating margin × cash conversion.
  • ROIC: NOPAT divided by average invested capital and compared with WACC; also test the cash-conversion cycle, working-capital efficiency and operating leverage.
  • CROCI valuation bridge: compare EV/GCI with CROCI/WACC and explain the relationship among capital efficiency, capital cost and market valuation.
  • Bank CROAE: attributable earnings divided by average adjusted common equity; compare MV/Adjusted Equity with CROAE/COE and link capital adequacy, credit cost and provisions.
  • P/E and P/B: normalize earnings, book value, cycle and peer definitions and use simple multiples only as a sanity check, never as a substitute for return-versus-cost and cash-flow analysis.
  • DCF / competitive-advantage period: expose WACC, growth, advantage duration, return fade, terminal-value share and sensitivity matrices; excessive terminal-value weight must downgrade the result.
  • Cross-method dispersion and conflicts: place CROCI, ROIC, DCF, multiples and bank-specific bridges side by side, explain valuation dispersion and never hide conflicts with an average.
Framework lineage · inspired by

Morgan Stanley / 摩根士丹利

Base rates, reference classes and statistical gates

Source document and physical pages

Bayes and Base Rates 2.0

PDF physical pages p1–6; p7–10 are notes / disclaimer

Applicability

Applies when historical reference classes can calibrate growth, capital returns and long-run outcomes.

Method gate

Reference class, sample size, time slice and interval are mandatory; insufficient samples cannot emit probabilities.

  • Base rate: start with what usually happens to comparable companies before arguing company-specific exceptionalism.
  • Broad reference classes and conjunction fallacy: retain market-wide, business-model, scale, profitability-stage and regional samples first; narrowing the class shrinks n and makes “more representative” easy to confuse with “more probable.”
  • Nominal / real: separate nominal revenue, return and valuation growth from inflation-adjusted real growth.
  • Full-sample and industry sensitivity: recompute the main result on the full sample, then show how industry filters change it.
  • Time slices: separate bull/bear, rate and technology regimes rather than selecting favorable years.
  • Distribution statistics: report mean, median, standard deviation, empirical percentiles, historical maximum and forecast distance instead of one point estimate.
  • Z-score boundary: a z-score only describes distance from the historical distribution; for non-normal data, a normal-tail probability cannot be presented as a true event probability.
  • Organic and M&A growth: separate organic growth, acquisition contribution, disposals and FX.
  • Intangibles / GPT / infrastructure constraints: make R&D, brand, data, general-purpose-technology diffusion and compute, energy, network, talent and capacity bottlenecks explicit instead of treating narratives as cash flow.
  • n / interval probability gate: probability_pct requires leakage-free n≥30 and a disclosed 95% interval.
Framework lineage · inspired by

J.P. Morgan / 摩根大通

Event-driven M&A structure and value bridge

Source document and physical pages

M&A Reference Manual

PDF physical pages p7–11, p12–28, p29–44, p52–61, p89–121, p142–144; 1998 rules are historical lineage only and require current-rule verification

Applicability

Applies only to a verifiable merger, tender, asset transaction or control event; otherwise explicitly N/A.

Method gate

Withhold when terms, share capital, sources and uses, current accounting/tax rules or approval chain are missing.

  • Structure / consideration: merger, stock, asset or tender; cash, shares, notes, exchange ratio, collar and contingent value.
  • Multi-window premium: one-day, five-day and 20/30-day unaffected prices with rumor-contamination sensitivity.
  • Comps / precedents / DCF / SOTP: separate equity and enterprise-value definitions and expose terminal-value/control-premium conflicts.
  • Synergies: cost, revenue, working-capital, capex and tax, including ramp, integration cost and premium coverage.
  • Accretion / dilution: net-income bridge, diluted shares, breakeven synergy and ROIC-WACC.
  • Sources and uses: cash, new debt, equity, preferred, refinancing, fees and minimum liquidity must balance.
  • Credit: net leverage, total debt/EBITDA, interest coverage, FCF/debt and covenant headroom.
  • Deal spread / approvals: current consideration, break price, risk/reward, shareholder and regulatory approvals, termination terms and defenses; no event means N/A.
Framework lineage · inspired by

Sequoia Capital · DTV / Don Valentine / 红杉资本

Market, customer pull and long-term leadership

Source document and physical pages

DTV – Michael Moritz

Key PDF physical pages p8, p14, p24, p41–46, p56, p60, p63, p66–67

Applicability

Applies when product, customer, channel and cash discipline can validate long-term competitiveness.

Method gate

Must answer why / so what and constrain founder narratives with customer pull, unit economics and runway evidence.

  • Why / so what: explain why the question matters now and what changes if the thesis is right.
  • Customer / market / product / management fit: all four must reinforce one another; serviceable demand, substitutes and winner scale matter more than a grand TAM.
  • Product discipline: seek proprietary, long-lived, high-gross-margin, hard-to-copy products and avoid fads or crusades; test critical capability, experience and iteration speed.
  • Customer pull: retention, expansion, repeat use, references and sales cycle should show growth without a massive sales force, while customer concentration remains monitored.
  • Gross margin / FCF / runway: margin quality, free-cash-flow conversion, burn and financing runway.
  • Channel, pricing and outsourcing: test acquisition efficiency, pricing power, realization, channel conflict, and whether outsourced non-core work leaves product, quality and customer control intact.
  • Independent debate and governance: directors form independent views and the leader speaks last; test capital allocation, related parties, key-person dependence and succession.
  • Focus discipline: pursue only two or three objectives at a time, with explicit milestones, budgets, stop rules, dilution and what management refuses to do.
  • Customer-led M&A: acquire only when customer demand and time-to-market clearly beat building internally, and test whether integration harms product or culture.
  • Long-term leadership: mission clarity, talent density, organizational learning and execution across cycles.
Machine result contract

Four result cards always remain separate

Even when structured backend results have not returned, the full definitions above remain visible and the affected card stays waiting / withheld. Static framework text never masquerades as a security-level conclusion.

Applicability

First decide whether the framework applies to this security and event; non-applicability is explicitly N/A.

Quality gate

Passes only when inputs are complete, reproducible and sufficiently sourced; otherwise PARTIAL, FAIL or withheld.

Conclusion

Each framework forms its own conclusion status; another framework cannot fill the gap or turn it into an institutional vote.

Missing gates

Lists blocking evidence item by item, keeping “waiting” distinct from “bearish.”

Deterministic synthesis boundary

  • The J.P. Morgan event framework must be N/A without a verified transaction; N/A is not a bearish view.
  • 1998 M&A rules in the historical document preserve lineage only; all accounting, tax, regulatory and market-practice claims require current-rule verification.
  • The final advice must preserve the evidence cutoff, trigger, invalidation, crowding risk and missing gates; insufficient evidence yields conditions or withholding only.