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Notes from inside the cycle

What we have learned watching accreditation reviews go well and go badly. Written for the person who has to run one.

Practice · Jul 27, 2026 · 6 min readThe evidence you forgot to collectMost accreditation trouble is not bad writing. It is evidence that was never gathered, discovered too late to gather it.Read the post

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