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# Author notes: Corvid Labs, Research Scientist, Agent Evaluation

## [ASK JORDAN] placeholders

Cover letter
1. Header: email, phone, city and state. The record has none. jordanhale.example is used because the record names it.
2. Relay paragraph: what you did with the qualification codes after the judges agreed poorly (hand-coded, dropped, or reported with a caveat). Brief question 2.
3. Approach paragraph: whether agreement between you and the research assistant was measured in Relay. Brief question 3. Delete the placeholder if it was not.

Résumé
4. Header: email, phone, city and state.
5. Start month, Independent Researcher (2024).
6. Start and end months, Kestrel Media (2022 to 2024).
7. Start and end months, Parcel (2018 to 2022).
8. Start and end months, Ridgeview Decision Lab postdoc (2016 to 2018).
9. Start month, Relay (2024).
10. Start and end months, pricing-experiment rehearsal (2025).

## Judgment calls

- AoM 2019 (brief question 4): the record answers it. It says "Paper session, competitively selected, not an invited keynote," but files it under an "Invited:" label. I listed it as "Paper presentation ... Competitively selected paper session" and did not call it invited. Please confirm.
- Education dates are years of degree only (2016, 2010), with no month placeholders. A completion year is the standard form for degrees and parses cleanly.
- The Kestrel satisfaction rebuild appears under the Kestrel position with "in 2023", not as a separate project, so the work is not listed twice.
- "Building an agent testbed" is listed under "Other work" as a self-produced recorded walkthrough, not under Talks.
- Teaching (TA role and guest lecture) left out, as the brief allows.
- No summary or profile section, to avoid statements of fit.
- The letter names Corvid's public grader statement and its 2025 human-baseline limitation only as the brief reports them, without the "about a third" figure or the count of ten employees. I did not open the employer file.
- The letter mentions the invited Varrow talk by title only. The record does not say what the talk covered, so the letter does not claim it presented the Relay validation.
- The letter is dated October 12, 2026. Change it to the submission date.
- Résumé job titles keep the capitalization the record uses (for example "Research Lead, Measurement"). Section headings are sentence case.
- Date ranges use "to" instead of a dash.
- render.py uses Times-Roman with Times-Bold for the name, headings, and entry lines (one serif family). Text is black only.

## Page counts (verified after rendering)

- cover-letter.pdf: 1 page
- resume.pdf: 2 pages (the second page is about half full)

Both .txt files were scanned. They contain no em dashes, no semicolons, and no contractions. The only apostrophes are possessives.