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Where models help and where they must not decide

Language models are useful for extraction and drafting. They are unfit for calculation and signoff.

Appropriate use

Extraction from unstructured documents, timeline assembly and narrative drafting are all tasks where a model accelerates a named analyst who remains responsible for the output.

Every such use is logged: the task, the inputs, the model, and the analyst who accepted or rejected the result.

Withheld tasks

Final exposure calculation, finding substantiation and report approval are withheld from models entirely. A number that cannot be reproduced deterministically cannot be defended.

PERISCOPE briefings describe investigative principles. They do not disclose detection logic, thresholds, formulas, weighting or rules.

If the numbers have stopped agreeing with each other, that disagreement is evidence.

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