FROM SOURCE TO BRIEFING
What happens before the answer appears?
Follow a contract question through the preparation work that makes a grounded answer possible.
Skip the guided view01Question
Start with the decision someone needs to make.
An operations lead asks whether invoice 4482 follows the current payment terms. The question defines the task before any source is retrieved.
- Question
- Does invoice 4482 match the active Vendor X agreement?
- Owner
- Operations lead
ResultA bounded question with a named owner.
ILLUSTRATIVE WORKFLOW
02Sources
Gather the files that could govern the answer.
The invoice, master agreement, amendment, and current vendor record enter the candidate set with dates and source identity intact.
- Invoice PDF
- 2024 MSA amendment
- Current vendor record
ResultA traceable source set before relevance is decided.
04Briefing
Select current evidence and expose conflicts.
Retrieval ranks relevant passages, resolves the governing agreement, and surfaces the amendment that replaces an older term.
- Included
- Current amendment section 7.2
- Flagged
- Older net-30 reference
ResultA compact briefing that shows why each fact was included.
05Cited answer
Return an answer that a person can check.
The response states the mismatch and points back to the governing clause. The operations lead keeps the decision to approve the correction.
- Finding
- Invoice says net-30; current agreement says net-45
- Citation
- MSA amendment, section 7.2
ResultA reviewable answer and a clear human next step.