{
  "id": "RVMR-001",
  "version": "2.0.0",
  "published": "2026-10-15",
  "language": "en",
  "status": "proposed-recruiting",
  "results": null,
  "title": "Does AI save companies time?",
  "question": "What is the difference in completed time per approved content delivery between comparable tasks done with and without generative AI?",
  "registration": "Public protocol versioned on the Rovemark website. It is not OSF registration, institutional ethics assessment or peer review.",
  "population": "Professionals from voluntary companies who produce and review corporate content. Convenience sample; not representative of the market.",
  "design": "Feasibility pilot with pairs of different tasks, of similar difficulty, performed by the same participant. The order of conditions is drawn before registration. Briefs, reference materials, deadline and approval criteria must be defined before execution. Do not repeat the same text in both conditions.",
  "conditions": {
    "with-ai": "Authorized and documented use of generative AI; register model/version and tools.",
    "without-ai": "No generative AI; Allowed non-generative tools must be the same and recorded in the company plan."
  },
  "primary": {
    "name": "Full minutes per approved delivery",
    "formula": "Sum of production, review and rework minutes of ALL attempts for the condition / deliveries approved in that condition. Rejected attempts also consume time. No approval, result unavailable, never zero.",
    "scope": "Report by company and condition. The tool summary is descriptive and does not replace paired analysis or collection validation."
  },
  "guardrails": [
    "Approval: factual correction, adherence to the briefing, clarity and verifiability of sources; all criteria must be met.",
    "Rejected attempts, incomplete pairs, hours of review/rework, critical errors, and protocol deviations must be reported.",
    "Full cost per approval: human labor + recorded API costs. Missing cost does not equal zero.",
    "Reviewer must receive deliveries with code, without condition/model/time. The application exports the form; blinding needs to be carried out by the coordinator, outside the tool."
  ],
  "secondary": "Median percentage change in time with AI versus without AI in the complete pairs with the two approved deliveries. Report how many pairs were excluded from this selection and why. This cut can introduce selection by quality and does not represent all attempts.",
  "sample": "Number of companies, participants and peers, duration, stopping criteria and selection criteria will be agreed with the companies before the collection begins. There is no power calculation or sufficient size for inference defined in this version; the initial objective is viability.",
  "analysis": "Separate companies and participants; show base size, distributions, absences, deletions and failures. Do not combine the results as an average effect for the entire economy. Do not calculate significance or automatic confidence intervals in the collector. Further inference, if justified, must respect the pairing and dependence per person/company.",
  "exclusions": "Negative, non-finite or unregistered times, duplicate conditions in the same pair and inconsistent codes are invalid. Interruptions and condition contamination must be recorded by the coordinator; substantive exclusions need justification and disclosure, without selecting results for convenience.",
  "data": "Only operational codes and measurements on the collector. Do not insert names, emails, customer content or confidential documents. Records are stored in this browser and are exported by the operator; they are not automatically sent to Rovemark or published. The registration separately contains the contact details necessary to organize the pilot.",
  "publication": "Positive, null or negative results must be presented with limitations and the protocol used. Company data will only be published after review and authorization, with anonymization. The availability of the tool does not mean that companies have already participated.",
  "changes": "Changes to hypotheses, samples, metrics or analysis must receive a new version before the corresponding collection. Further exploration will be identified as exploratory. Material adjustments cannot silently rewrite the original protocol.",
  "conflict": "Rovemark sells AI solutions and has a commercial interest in the topic. Sponsorship, tools and involvement in the operation will be declared when publishing results.",
  "references": [
    {
      "title": "Center for Open Science — Preregistration",
      "url": "https://www.cos.io/initiatives/prereg"
    },
    {
      "title": "NIST AI RMF — Measure",
      "url": "https://airc.nist.gov/airmf-resources/airmf/5-sec-core/"
    },
    {
      "title": "METR — 2025 study",
      "url": "https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/"
    },
    {
      "title": "METR — selection limitations, 2026 update",
      "url": "https://metr.org/blog/2026-02-24-uplift-update/"
    }
  ],
  "dictionary": {
    "company": "Company code; not corporate reason.",
    "participant": "Participant code; not name/email.",
    "pairId": "Comparable task pair code.",
    "taskA/taskB": "Codes different from briefs, established before execution.",
    "first": "Condition drawn for task A; task B receives the other condition.",
    "production/review/rework": "Minutes of active work in the three phases, not counting the same interval twice.",
    "hourly": "Cost per hour in USD recorded by the company; inform if estimated. Absent = null.",
    "apiCost": "Cost of API and tools attributable to trying on USD. No charge must be registered explicitly as 0. Absent = null.",
    "model": "Declared name and version of the tool; it is not automatic verification.",
    "gates": "Human evaluation of the four criteria; It is not an AI-generated grade.",
    "createdAt": "Date/time the operator saved the record, not proof of the start or end of the task."
  },
  "editorialRevision": "2026-10-15: version 2.0.0 adopts USD in new collections. BRL records from the previous version are preserved, without automatic conversion. The design, criteria and time calculations remain.",
  "currency": "USD",
  "previousVersion": "/data/research/pilot-protocol-v1.json",
  "translationOf": "/data/research/pilot-protocol-v2.json"
}