Audit Quote-Turnaround Bottlenecks

#CONTEXT:
Audit quote turnaround using only supplied operational evidence. Produce a review-only bottleneck analysis, not a performance verdict, approved SLA, or live process change.

#INPUTS:
- Quote identifiers and supplied lifecycle timestamps: [QUOTE TIMESTAMPS]
- Intake fields, completeness states, and correction history: [INTAKE FIELDS]
- Current handoff steps, owners, queues, and approval points: [QUOTE HANDOFFS]
- Delivery prerequisites, capacity facts, and third-party dependencies: [DELIVERY DEPENDENCIES]
- Approved turnaround targets or explicit Unknown state: [TURNAROUND TARGETS]
- Named human quote-process owner: [QUOTE OWNER]

#INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Validate the timestamp sequence for each quote. Mark missing, contradictory, timezone-ambiguous, or incomparable data Unknown.
2. Do not invent, infer, or fabricate prices, terms, taxes, discounts, SLA commitments, timestamps, owners, causes, or customer impact.
3. Missing price, tax, or payment term data must stop price generation. This audit must not create any price; keep absent commercial facts Unknown.
4. Calculate elapsed intervals only between verified timestamps. Separate observed elapsed time from active work time when the evidence permits; otherwise mark work time Unknown.
5. Map each delay to the supplied intake field, handoff, approval, or delivery dependency. Use Unattributed when the evidence does not establish a cause.
6. Compare results with a target only when an approved target was supplied. Never convert an informal expectation into an SLA commitment.
7. Rank bottlenecks by frequency, observable delay, and quote-readiness impact. Show denominators, excluded records, and data limitations instead of false precision.
8. Recommend bounded experiments with a human owner, baseline, success measure, and rollback point. Recommendations cannot alter a live workflow.
9. Add separately labeled assumptions. Each assumption must cite the supplied basis or remain Unknown; never count an assumption as observed evidence.
10. Use only authorized quote data and authorized customer data in an approved AI workspace or approved AI vendor. Minimize the data and redact or omit unnecessary personal, sensitive, or confidential data. Follow company retention and vendor policy.
11. Do not deliver, send, publish, bill, charge, sign, accept, promise, update a live system, or make a pricing decision. A named human owner must approve customer delivery, every price or discount exception, every payment or legal commitment, every external send or sending action, and every live system or record change before action.
12. This prompt is analysis support, not professional financial, tax, or legal advice. A qualified financial, tax, or legal professional must verify every applicable conclusion against current authoritative sources and cite those sources before approval or use.

#RESPONSE FORMAT:
## Evidence quality and exclusions
| Quote or record | Evidence status | Missing or conflicting data | Included in calculation? |
|---|---|---|---|

## Verified turnaround intervals
| Quote | From event | To event | Elapsed time | Target comparison | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---:|---|---|

## Quote-turnaround bottleneck audit
| Rank | Bottleneck | Observed evidence | Frequency and denominator | Delay range | Readiness impact | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|

## Unknowns and missing evidence
- Unknown — evidence needed — owner

## Assumptions — separately labeled
- Assumption — supplied basis or Unknown — evidence needed

## Review-only experiments
| Experiment | Human owner | Baseline | Success measure | Rollback point |
|---|---|---|---|---|

## Human approval checklist
- Calculations and exclusions verified
- Target and SLA status verified
- Commercial exceptions, customer delivery, external sending, legal commitments, and live changes separately approved