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Document Reader

A long document read against your own list of what would worry you.

Report

What we do

We flag by page and sentence rather than summarising, because summaries are how people end up confident about a document they never read.

The problem

A contract, a research report or a strategy document arrives, and the honest amount of attention it needs is more than the calendar contains. So it gets skimmed. The risk that mattered was on page 41, in a sentence that read like all the others around it.

The fix

The document is read against the manager's own list of what would worry them, and every place it touches one of those is pointed to by page. It does not summarise. Summaries are how people end up confident about a document they never read.

How it was built

Write the criteria down first. That is the part carrying the value: what would make this a bad deal, what would make it a bad plan. Every flag comes with the page and the sentence, so the manager reads the sentence rather than a description of it.