How a mark is made
A mark is a reading rule applied to a piece of text, with the evidence on the page and a suggested next step. If it cannot show all three, it is not made.
Read
The document is split into lines, numbers and dates. Nothing is inferred from outside the document except settings the reader has chosen, such as a preferred payment term.
Apply a rule
Each rule is short and written down: for example "Printed subtotal compared with the sum of the lines" or "Deadline phrase resolved against the letter date".
Mark
Where a rule fires, the page gets one of four marks (Check, Risk, Missing, Fine) and a note of at most ten words in the margin.
Show the work
Each mark opens to the rule, the evidence from the page and a suggested next step. Computed numbers are shown with their arithmetic.
Hand over
A person reviews, accepts or ignores every mark. Nothing is sent, paid, signed or filed by the tool.
The four marks
| Mark | Drawn as | Means |
|---|---|---|
| Check | Underline or circle | Unclear, vague or worth confirming. |
| Risk | Highlight or circle | Costs money, time or options if left alone. |
| Missing | Bracket | Expected and not found on the page. |
| Fine | Tick | Checked and in order. |
And in this demo
No rule is executed. The three documents and every mark were written by hand and are replayed. The arithmetic you see (for example 980.00 + 672.00 + 45.00 = 1,697.00) is correct, and the reading rules are real descriptions of what a careful person checks, but no model is running.
Known limits of any tool like this
- A mark can be wrong. That is why a person decides.
- Scanned or low-quality pages would need their own checks.
- A rule reads text, not intent. It cannot know a verbal agreement.
- Reading rules would need testing on real documents, which this concept has not done.