Redline desk: capabilities and limits

A walkthrough (fictional)

Fictional matter — demonstration: Invented names and facts; nothing here is a real client, party, court or filing.

Every name, party, court and matter below is invented for illustration.

1. A fictional paralegal, D. Mbeki, uploads version A (the firm's draft) and version B (the counterparty's markup) of a services agreement for an invented client, Northlight Studios.
2. The desk reads both, pins five exemplar agreements, and reports each change with its effect and how it sits against practice: a widened indemnity, a shortened cure period, a deleted limitation of liability.
3. The supervising attorney adjudicates the comparison's findings; the redline export marks every accepted change.

Mechanisms

• —Deterministic text diff for the mechanics of the change
• —The exemplar spine for the practice comparison
• —The same integrity guards as the draft and review desks

Limits

• —Two readable documents are required; a scanned image without text is refused
• —The desk reports effects; it does not choose a position

What this desk refuses

From the refusals catalogue (15 rows apply); the full catalogue is at /refusals.

• Running a paid desk without an active session, a trial allotment or a covering purchase.

  Sign in, use the trial allotment, or purchase the matter.

• Representation of any kind: filing, service, negotiation with a party, or appearance, for anyone.

  A licensed attorney represents; the platform prepares.

• Drafting, reviewing or redlining a document for which no lawful exemplar lane is live.

  Choose a document type with a lane, or wait on the named owner item (a keyed connector or a reviewed pack).

• Output that lifts verbatim runs, or too much scattered overlap, from the exemplar filings.

  The run is refused and reported; the engine drafts afresh on the same pinned exemplars.

• Output that carries the exemplar filings' party names into the matter.

  The run is refused and reported; the attorney never sees a foreign party in the draft.

• A dual-engine consensus that swallows a material disagreement between the engines, or names it without binding a disposition to its issue id (a missing, duplicated or unknown id, a bare marker, or a conflict marked decided).

  The divergence is carried as a decision card bound to its issue id; the attorney adjudicates it.

• Delivering single-engine output when a dual run was purchased and one engine failed.

  Retry, or run the standard lane knowingly.

• Grounding a matter on a same-named county of another state.

  The matter's own county tops the ladder; the run searches when the lane is thin.

• Reaching a matter, review, draft, comparison or governed version that belongs to another tenant, or through a removed membership.

  Work inside an active membership of the matter's tenant.

• Reaching a matter the user is screened from, on any surface, including background execution.

  The firm lifts the wall in the record; authorized colleagues keep their work.

• Sending a byte to a vendor outside the permitted list, over a non-https scheme, to a private network, or with a data class the vendor is not cleared for.

  The owner reviews the constant; the surface reports the refusal instead of substituting a vendor.

• Parsing an upload whose bytes do not match its declared type, whose archive expands beyond the fixed limits, or whose "text" is not text.

  The receipt names the failed check; attach a genuine PDF, Word file or plain text.

• A request path carrying a literal or encoded backslash, an invalid escape, double encoding or a control character.

  Request the route as published.

• Running on a document that names none of the matter's parties, or only a namesake, before the attorney decides whether it belongs.

  Decide each flagged source by name (belongs to this matter, or exclude it from the run) and send the run again.

• A dual-engine run whose second provider is missing, disallowed, or times out mid-run.

  The typed failure carries the partial stage receipt (which branch ran, which did not, why); the fee was charged once at most; the attorney may separately elect a single-engine tier.

Inputs

• —Two versions as files or pasted text
• —The document type and governing state
• —The purchased matter, carried in the link and the browser context from the last desk

Outputs

• —The comparison report
• —The marked redline export
• —The adjudication trail