Maya stared at the green cell that now read .

She looked back at the XLS. The problem was the soil report. The clay here had more moisture than the samples showed. The spreadsheet didn't have a cell for soul —the gut feeling that the numbers were lying.

Inside was a single, brute-force formula. No safety factors. No cost optimization. It was the "Godzilla solution": double the rebar, add a 1m deep shear key into the bedrock, and increase the edge thickness to 2m.