A story about trial production, three departments, and three versions of the truth. It's 7am on the production floor. Three people are standing around a whiteboard. One is from QA. One is from Engineering. One is from Manufacturing. They are arguing about a number. The number is the yield rate for Product A, Batch 7, last Tuesday. QA says: 87%. Engineering says: 91%. Manufacturing says: "Depends on which shift." All three are holding laptops. All three are looking at Excel files. All three are right. Oran is an orange cat. No CS degree. He learned to code at night, online, on his own time, with AI tools and courses he bought on sale. He got hired anyway. It's that kind of year. His job title is IT. His actual job is: whatever nobody else wants to do. This week, his job is to reconcile the production data. He sits down. He opens all three Excel files. The columns have different names. The formulas have different logic. The defect definitions are different. QA counts a scratch as a defect.…