He woke at 3:17 AM.

Structural integrity check. He laughed nervously. “It’s a program, not a bridge.”

The lawsuit settled out of court. Leo kept his license but lost his largest client.

He unplugged the hard drive, drove home, and smashed it with a sledgehammer on his driveway. Then he called his old mentor, borrowed money for a genuine SAFE v12 license, and re-analyzed the slab properly.

At 300 bags, a hairline crack appeared near column C3. At 400 bags, the crack widened. At 450 bags—before reaching the design load—the slab in a perfect circle, 18 inches in diameter, dropping a sandbag into the floor below.