You describe the downside of the manual reproduction paradigm, namely that it requires expertise and a high degree of labor to implement. You propose the automated audit method as a response to this. Do you see these two methods as two ways of measuring the same thing / answering the same question, or do they come apart somewhere? To me, it looks like the latter because I don't think we can make the same claims about "propensity under a fixed / known condition" given the automated audit results, but I could be missing something in how you intend the results to be read.
You describe the downside of the manual reproduction paradigm, namely that it requires expertise and a high degree of labor to implement. You propose the automated audit method as a response to this. Do you see these two methods as two ways of measuring the same thing / answering the same question, or do they come apart somewhere? To me, it looks like the latter because I don't think we can make the same claims about "propensity under a fixed / known condition" given the automated audit results, but I could be missing something in how you intend the results to be read.