Getting an option in

Three routes onto one decision, and what separates them is not the input but how much the price can be trusted. A slab you photographed at a yard and a quote a supplier sent you are not the same kind of number, and the screen that pretends otherwise is the one that gets somebody hurt.

1 · Three ways in
From the decision, not from the room. You are already looking at the counter material, so nothing here asks which decision this is for.
A keep and an option are different acts

Mockup 44 draws the first: photograph a tap you liked, and it goes to the room you are standing in with no price and no obligation. This screen is the second, and it starts from a decision rather than from a room. Folding them into one flow would put a price field in front of somebody who is only saving a picture, which is exactly where people stop capturing.

It never asks which decision this is for

Because you opened it from the counter material and the eyebrow says so. A picker here would be a picker whose answer the product already had, and every one of those is a tax on the person who did the right thing by starting in the right place.

2 · A pasted link, and a price you typed
The picture and the page come across on their own. The price does not, because a slab yard's site quotes by the square foot and your kitchen is not a square foot.
The price is optional and the provenance is not

An option with no price is still a real option and gets added without one — it simply reads no price yet on the decision, which is honest and is a state somebody can act on. What can never happen is a price with no account of where it came from. That is the whole of G4 stated at the smallest scale the product has.

Amber for a typed figure, and it is not a scolding

Rung 1, in the user's own words, and it says what the consequence is rather than that something is wrong. Sam typing a number they worked out themselves is the ordinary case and frequently the most accurate one in the product. The tint marks that the number has one source and it is a person, which matters at the moment three of these sit side by side.

3 · A slab, photographed at the yard
The tag is in shot, so there is a number on the picture. We read it, show what we read, and never quietly adopt it.
Read, shown, and confirmed — never adopted

The same shape as recording something a person told you on 23: the machine produced the reading, so a human stands behind it before it becomes a fact. The confirm step is not ceremony here for the same reason it is not there — there is a genuine authority gap, and it is between a photograph and a price somebody will spend against.

And the correction is a first-class door

Let me correct it sits at the same level as accepting, not behind a pencil somewhere. When a product is confident enough to read a number off a photograph it owes the reader an equally easy way to say no, and burying that behind an edit affordance is how a misread tag becomes the price of a kitchen.

4 · A quote somebody sent you
The strongest of the three, and the only one where the number arrived with a name and a date attached to it. This is the shape the cabinet package already uses, one level down.
The file is the record and the reading is the convenience

Which is the same rule the trust ledger runs on and the same one 23 applies to a text: keep what actually arrived, beside the tidied version, because a year later the question is what the supplier actually said and a paraphrase is not an answer to it. Nothing in this product replaces a document with its own summary of it.

Good until is a fact, not a countdown

It is drawn as a date because that is what it is. The moment it becomes expires in 6 days it is pressure applied to somebody choosing a kitchen counter, and this product does not do that even when the deadline is real and somebody else set it.

5 · Correcting what we read
Behind Let me correct it on both of the read frames. Every value sits beside what it was read from, so the correction is a comparison rather than a form — and the file underneath never changes, because the file is the record.
Every hint is a provenance, not an instruction

Read off page 2, under Total. The reader is not learning how to fill in a field; they are checking a claim, and the only useful thing the screen can tell them is where to look to check it. A hint reading enter an amount would be the format rule forms.css forbids, one layer up.

Correcting is not re-reading

A corrected value is a decision somebody made, and re-running the extractor over the same file later must not quietly undo it. So the row changes what it says about itself — you set this — and that flag outranks anything a later pass produces.

Three fields, because three values were claimed

Not a general edit screen for the option. Everything on it is something the product asserted about a document, which is exactly the set a person might want to dispute. The name, the room and the price the option ends up carrying are edited where the option lives.

6 · Where they land, and what separates them
The payoff, and the reason the other four exist. Three prices in three different weights of certainty, said out loud, so that choosing between them is not choosing between three numbers that look identical.
Provenance under the figure, never a badge beside it

A badge is a status and would compete with the number it is qualifying; this is a qualifier on the number and sits in the metadata ramp under it, the way from QuickBooks, read this morning does on the builder's job screen. Same rule, same shape, two surfaces apart.

Nothing is recommended, and the order is the price

The product has no view about which counter somebody should have, and a best value chip here would be one invented out of two numbers it does not trust equally. So the list is ordered by price, which is at least an honest ordering, and the sentence underneath says plainly what that ordering does not capture.

This is the cabinet package, one level down

The same argument at a bigger number: three quotes for one package, compared on 18. What differs is that a cabinet package arrives as three quotes for the same scope and a counter arrives as three different materials, so one is a comparison and the other is a choice. They share the provenance rule and nothing else.

7 · How we work these out
Behind the one act on the frame before. The list there is ordered by price and says that price order is not the whole story; this is the rest of the story, one tier at a time, ending with what the product will not do with any of them.
The one screen on this page that is only words

No rows, no prices, no action. It exists because the frame before it makes a claim and then declines to act on it: the list stays in price order, and the reader is told that order is not the whole story without being told what the rest of it is. This is the rest of it.

Each tier ends with what it is not

A quote can expire; a checked tag is not an offer; a typed figure never firms up on its own. Those three sentences are the load-bearing ones, and each sits under the tier it qualifies rather than gathered into a disclaimer at the bottom where nobody reads them.

And the refusal is last, as it is everywhere else

Average them, mark one as the best value, or pick one for you. Same shape as the refusal on mockup 14 and on frame 5 — a sentence on the ground under a section header, since the un-carding pass of 2026-09-06 took the box off all three: the thing the product will not do, said as a decision rather than a gap, because all three are features somebody will propose and a best value chip is the one that looks most like a kindness.