Timeline

Lay the material out along a time or process axis, so you can see order, phases, handoffs, and where the waiting happens. Choose it when the question is "what came before what" or "where does this stall," not "which option scores higher."

Lay the material out along a time or process axis, so you can see order, phases, handoffs, and where the waiting happens. Choose it when the question is "what came before what" or "where does this stall," not "which option scores higher."

Example

From the same vendor thread, plot dates instead of options: demo Mar 3, security review Mar 6, legal redlines Mar 9 to Mar 27. The 18-day legal gap, invisible in prose and invisible in your comparison table, becomes the thing to fix.