What counts as evidence at Vidalion

Evidence is not a decoration added after the work. It determines what Vidalion can responsibly recommend, publish, repeat, or scale.

Start with the baseline.

A baseline establishes the relevant condition before a change. It may be quantitative, qualitative, or mixed, but it must be defensible. If the available information is incomplete, the record must say so.

Name the intervention and period.

The record should state what changed, who controlled it, who was affected, and over what period. Without a bounded intervention, improvement may be real while its cause remains unclear.

Use a measure that matters.

Activity is not automatically an outcome. Meetings, reports, enrollments, or dollars spent may describe effort. The measure must connect to the decision the intervention was meant to improve.

State attribution limits.

Regional and organizational systems contain many moving causes. Vidalion should distinguish what the evidence supports from what is merely plausible. A clear limitation makes a claim more useful, not less serious.

Publish status, including failure.

A pilot can be completed, active, revised, discontinued, or inconclusive. If the result does not justify scaling, the record should say so and explain what was learned.

The purpose of evidence is to improve the next decision, not to protect the last idea.