The answer depends on the permitted counting method. Direct employment may need payroll and worker records; an economic model needs reliable documentation of the expenditure or activity assumptions used to calculate qualifying jobs.
Ask for evidence beneath the total
Request a reconciliation showing what exists now, what is projected and which records will substantiate completion. Identify who controls the original documents and how the investor obtains them later. A business-plan paragraph or economic report conclusion should not be the only material available.
Keep the evidence consistent with the enterprise structure and the individual investor’s job allocation. Decide what will be kept before deciding what will be shown. Records substantiating a job count are generated as the business operates and are difficult to reconstruct afterwards, so the sequence that works is to identify the required evidence at the outset, assign responsibility for retaining it to the party controlling it, and only then build the presentation.
Ask for a reconciliation in three columns: what exists now, what is projected, and which specific record will substantiate each projected item when it occurs. Identify who holds the originals and by what mechanism the investor obtains them later, since an investor with no contractual route to the records is relying on goodwill at the point of greatest need. A business-plan paragraph or the conclusion of an economic report summarises evidence without being the evidence itself.