# Onboard Stage — Elaboration

## Criteria Guidance

### Good criteria — concrete and verifiable

- "Onboarding checklist confirms account setup, access provisioning, data migration, and integration testing are complete"
- "Integration validation includes end-to-end data flow testing with error handling verification"
- "Escalation paths are documented with named contacts, response time expectations, and severity definitions"

### Bad criteria — vague (no clear check)

- "Vendor is onboarded"
- "Setup is complete"
- "Integration works"

