Retention is a governance decision

Scheduled · Week 3

A retention window is not a storage setting. It is the outer bound of what an incident review can ever reconstruct, chosen by whoever priced the tier.

Scheduled. The essay reads BAND's tier gates as policy choices and sets Buzz's 365-day hosted line beside them, with the retention diagram, and ends with the questions a platform owner should put in the procurement thread.

• band.ai/pricing · 2026-08-19
• buzz.xyz/support · 2026-08-19

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