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Platform

A quote is found in the source, or it does not become an answer

This is the whole of it. There is no scoring model deciding whether a paraphrase is close enough, and no fallback that turns an unlocatable quote into a vaguer sentence that no longer needs one.

The three outcomes

Kept apart on purpose

Collapsing the third into the first is where confident nonsense comes from.

Located

The quote was found in the source text, character for character, after whitespace is normalised.

The span travels with it

Character offsets are recorded, so a reviewer opens the document and lands on the text.

So does the version

Offsets are meaningless without the version they refer to, so both are stored together.

It stays checkable later

Because the answer points at a version rather than at a file, it still resolves after the file changes.

Not located

The quote was looked for and was not in the source.

Flagged, not deleted

Removing it would hide that the system tried and failed, which is the thing a reviewer most needs to see.

Never softened

There is no path that rewrites an unsupported claim into something blander that escapes the check.

Counted on the run

The reviewer sees how many claims failed, not only the ones that passed.

Not checked

The source could not be read when the answer was produced.

Permissions move

A document readable on Monday can be walled on Tuesday, and the honest result is that nobody checked.

History expires

When a version has aged out of the provider's retention window, the system says so rather than reading a different version.

A limitation is a result

Typed limitations come back attached to the document, instead of disappearing into a confident answer.

What this costs you

Fewer answers, and that is the point

A system with this rule will decline to answer things a looser one would answer fluently. That is the trade, stated plainly rather than buried.

It will say it does not know

When the record does not contain the answer, nothing is produced. You get a gap rather than a plausible paragraph.

It cannot summarise what it cannot read

A scanned page with no usable text is a limitation the system reports, not a document it guesses at.

It does not argue

The platform locates and assembles. Judgment, strategy and the decision to send anything stay with your people.

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