# Invented game timetable

This worked example is fictional, not a service commitment, actual transaction or typical market duration. All prerequisites, durations and settlement terms are assumptions. Use it with the blank clock-and-payment-register.csv.

### Follow an invented game timetable through to owner receipt

Here is **an invented ready-pilot timetable**, not a typical game deal or a Rightmark service commitment. Assume one relevant buyer is available at the start, the owner already holds the required rights evidence, preparation is funded, the pilot passes without rework, and the final grant matches the tested scope. Every duration and payment term below is an assumption to make the sequence visible.

**Day 0 is a Monday**, when that buyer agrees to assess the candidate. Day numbers are elapsed calendar days, not inclusive date counts. A business day means Monday to Friday; this simplified example has no holidays. Each handoff happens immediately when its prerequisite finishes. The parties sign when evaluation and concurrent legal work finish, issue the invoice on acceptance, assume cleared buyer payment 30 calendar days later, then assume owner settlement 5 business days after that payment.

| Stage and responsible party                                      | Starting event and prerequisites                                                 | Assumed duration and elapsed window               | Completion event                                                                     |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Qualification and rights: owner, technical lead and buyer        | Day 0: buyer available; candidate description and existing rights records ready  | 5 business days; day 0 to day 7                   | Selected pilot scope, exclusions, permissions and funding agreed                     |
| Preparation: authorized preparer and owner                       | Day 7: scoped materials, permitted environment and funded work available         | 10 business days; day 7 to day 21                 | Identified prepared sample and setup/test evidence released for permitted evaluation |
| Evaluation: buyer technical team                                 | Day 21: complete authorized sample accessible                                    | 10 business days; day 21 to day 35                | Agreed pilot tests pass; final selected scope confirmed                              |
| Contracting: both parties and counsel                            | Day 7: scoped proposal available; draft while preparation and evaluation proceed | 20 business days **in parallel**; day 7 to day 35 | Final scope reconciled to the passing pilot and license signed on day 35             |
| Final delivery: authorized sender and recipient                  | Day 35: signed grant and unchanged evaluated scope                               | 5 business days; day 35 to day 42                 | Conforming version, manifest and access received and acknowledged                    |
| Acceptance and invoice: buyer reviewer and named invoicing party | Day 42: complete conforming delivery starts the agreed review clock              | 10 business days; day 42 to day 56                | Acceptance recorded and conforming invoice issued on day 56                          |
| Buyer payment: contractual payer                                 | Day 56: invoice issued under the assumed payment clause                          | 30 calendar days; day 56 to day 86                | Buyer's funds clear on day 86                                                        |
| Owner settlement: party owing the owner                          | Day 86: cleared buyer funds and valid payout details                             | 5 business days; day 86 to day 93                 | Owner receives the reconciled amount on day 93                                       |

Under these assumptions, **qualification to owner cash takes 93 calendar days, or 13 weeks and 2 days**. The weekday conversion is 7 + 14 + 14 + 7 + 14 calendar days through acceptance, then 30 calendar days for buyer payment and 7 calendar days for settlement. The 28 calendar days of legal work run alongside preparation and evaluation and are counted only once. This arithmetic explains the dependencies; it does not estimate the probability that the pilot passes or a buyer signs.

The example starts with an available buyer. Finding one, waiting for selection, additional procurement approvals and a negotiation that remains open have no bounded duration here. Missing rights, a failed build, a corrected sample, holidays or a different payment clause change the schedule. If those are unresolved, add an explicit wait or correction before the next event rather than leaving day 93 on the plan. Replace the assumptions in the worked timetable and blank clock register with the dates and obligations the actual parties accept.