Evidence sufficiency is the volume-and-coverage question: is there enough material here to say anything responsible at all?
Where evidence strength grades a single signal, sufficiency grades the corpus. A read can be built from strong signals and still be insufficient if there are only one or two of them, or if they all speak to the same narrow aspect.
Recommendation Withheld. When sufficiency falls below the threshold, Perscivo returns Recommendation Withheld. This is a distinct state, not a tier on the scale. It means:
- It is not a negative verdict. Withheld never implies a problem with the person.
- It is not an error. The pipeline ran correctly and reached the honest conclusion that it should not answer.
- It is actionable: the fix is more evidence.
When a recommendation is withheld you are shown the reason — what is missing, not merely that something is.
Raising sufficiency
- Add the full profile rather than a single screenshot.
- Add a real conversation with several exchanges in it.
- Add material that covers a different dimension than what you already uploaded.
Perscivo would rather withhold than guess. A confident-sounding answer built on two data points is worse than no answer, because you would act on it.