Operational Manual

Using Exit Protocol

A bounded guide to authorized source records, reviewed financial relationships, Money Flow, deterministic analysis, and professional review.

Organize the Production First

Supported paths are distinct. Accepting a file does not establish recognition support for its layout or document family.
Input / workflowWhat to expect
Native-text mixed PDFsReviewable document-boundary and metadata proposals for supported patterns. Human approval is required; uncertain labels remain for review.
Image-only production pagesImage-only production pages remain unresolved in this workflow. Manual review is needed; document organization does not run OCR.
Separate transaction extractionConfigured OCR may apply through the separate financial extraction path, with its own provider controls. Extracted candidates are not automatically approved ledger records.
From mixed files to an account-and-period inventory

Start with Document Review when a delivery contains mixed accounts, statement periods, or document types. Organization is a separate task from transaction extraction.

  • Record the delivery and inspect its sources
    Create a production batch with files you are authorized to process. Original source files and page references remain available for inspection.
  • Review document boundaries and metadata
    Inspect proposed page ranges, correct boundaries, and explicitly review document type, institution, account identifier, and represented dates. Unknown details stay unresolved; organization labels do not establish account ownership.
  • Inspect the inventory and export the organization
    Filter by account and period, return to unfinished review, and inspect the source. A reviewer-confirmed chronological export retains originals and includes eligible reviewed document segments plus a manifest of unresolved or excluded items.
Recognition Boundary
Production recognition uses native text and does not run OCR. Image-only pages remain unresolved. Separate PDF/image transaction extraction may use configured OCR and requires its own review. An organized inventory is not proof of discovery completeness or a reconciled financial record.

Document & Evidence Review

Processing Authorized Source Records

Transcribing fragmented PDF bank statements is a common review bottleneck. Exit Protocol attempts native PDF extraction first and can use configured OCR paths to produce candidate rows for human review.

  • Upload Discovery Files
    Navigate to the Evidence Vault and upload only a supported document you are authorized to process. Degraded or scanned pages may require configured OCR, provider consent where applicable, and manual reconciliation.
  • Integrity Reference
    Upon upload, the system records a SHA-256 integrity reference for the received bytes. A later hash comparison can detect byte changes; the hash does not authenticate origin, prove completeness, or establish legal chain of custody by itself.
  • Candidate Row Extraction
    Native PDF extraction runs first. A configured OCR path may attempt to identify candidate dates, descriptions, and amounts from scanned pages. Candidate rows are not final transactions and must be reviewed against the source page before import.
Verification Requirement
Extraction can omit, merge, duplicate, or misread rows. Review every candidate row, confirm statement coverage, and reconcile opening and closing balances before importing transactions or relying on a calculation.

Reviewed Financial Foundation

Ledger, Statement Periods, and Coverage

Financial extraction candidates require review before they become ledger records. Reviewed StatementPeriod records then qualify represented coverage, gaps, overlaps, continuity, and reconciliation context without claiming discovery completeness.

  • Review Financial Rows
    Confirm candidate dates, descriptions, amounts, balances, account identity, and source relationships before approval. Automated extraction does not create authoritative financial facts.
  • Review Statement Periods and Coverage
    Confirm represented periods, gaps, overlaps, continuity, and reconciliation state for the selected account. Coverage qualifies the represented record; it does not prove disclosure sufficiency.
  • Inspect Source Relationships
    Use authorized source drill-down to compare reviewed ledger rows with their Evidence Anchors and exact source pages. Evidence access remains permission-scoped.

Transfer & Money Flow Review

Proposals, Reviewer Decisions, and Projection

TransferCandidates are system proposals. Only an explicit reviewer decision records a ReviewedTransfer, and Money Flow is a read-only projection of those reviewed relationships across represented accounts.

  • Review Possible Relationships
    Compare candidate dates, amounts, directions, evidence support, and coverage qualifications. A proposal is not a reviewed movement.
  • Record the Reviewer Decision
    Confirm supported outgoing and incoming legs, fees, split or merge structure, and exact Decimal conservation before the relationship becomes a ReviewedTransfer.
  • Inspect Money Flow
    Use Graph, Table, or Split review to inspect reviewer-confirmed movements, coverage and reconciliation context, and authorized evidence drill-down. Money Flow does not determine source-value ancestry, ownership, purpose, concealment, or fraud.

Deterministic Analysis & Value Lineage

Separate Contracts, Explicit Boundaries

Use the analysis that fits the reviewed matter. LIBR remains a current single-claim workpaper method. Value Lineage separately conserves one explicitly modeled source inside one account and can reach an outgoing reviewed transfer boundary.

  • Run Deterministic LIBR Where Appropriate
    Select an explicit source transaction and reviewed account rows, disclose calculation settings, and inspect the current single-claim workpaper and exact-file integrity reference.
  • Build Explicit Value Lineage Where Appropriate
    Select one evidence-supported positive source, explicitly allocate analytical value, verify exact conservation, and finalize an immutable tracing run. A TraceLot is analytical value, not physically identifiable dollars. The run may reach an outgoing reviewed transfer boundary, but it creates no destination TraceLot and does not propagate source value into another account.

Account Safety Limitations

Do Not Rely on Interface Concealment

High-conflict matters can involve coercion or device surveillance. Interface behaviors do not replace a personal safety plan, device security, counsel guidance, or emergency services.

Control Boundaries
  • Duress Password: Do not treat the alternate-login behavior as a guaranteed covert, deletion, or forensic-resistance control. A server session, browser history, network log, notification, or other device artifact may remain.
  • Quick Exit: A redirect or screen change does not erase browser history, server logs, downloaded files, notifications, or device-level evidence.

System familiarization complete.

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