The executive director stood in the basement of the community services building, her phone's flashlight cutting through the dimness as she traced the dark stain spreading across the concrete block wall. Above her, the sounds of the morning drop-in program filtered down through the floor joists—chairs scraping, voices murmuring, the familiar rhythm of vulnerable clients arriving for the day's services. She had been meaning to investigate this corner of the basement for weeks, ever since a maintenance volunteer mentioned a musty smell, but the demands of running programs for at-risk youth and families in crisis had pushed the concern to the margins of her attention. Now, pressing her palm against the wall and feeling the unmistakable dampness seeping through, she understood that what she was looking at represented something far more serious than a simple maintenance issue. The renovation of this facility had been completed three years ago. The general contractor had handed over the keys, the board had celebrated, the government funder had issued its final grant disbursement, and everyone had moved on. Standing in that basement with water infiltrating the foundation, the executive director realized she had no clear recollection of whether anyone had ever formally inspected this work during construction, no memory of sign-off documents, no record of who might have raised concerns and when. What she did not yet understand, but would soon discover, was that the absence of those records would prove as damaging to the organization's interests as the water damage itself.