Scrooge & Marley — The Counting Room — clerk dashboard and daily brief extension

Technical specification for The Counting Room — the Scrooge & Marley clerk dashboard and daily brief extension. Covers the business case, clerk authentication design, case assignment model, server-side data scoping requirements, daily brief generation via Vercel cron, database schema (4 new tables), new routes, and effort estimate. After reading, a developer can assess architectural fit and begin implementation within the Marley Next.js template.