OBJECTIVE: Check whether a shortened account preserves the distinctions needed for one review question. Work on paper or in an authorized test environment with invented documents. Do not use private case files or submit test disputes to a live service.
1. Build a Small Source
Create a three-row reservation table with columns for date, destination and status. Include one completed journey, one cancelled booking and one pending reservation. Add a note that the table records bookings and does not independently establish a person’s location.
Write the review question: which entries, if any, support a claim of completed travel? Record the expected limits before looking at the summary.
2. Compare Claims, Not Just Words
Prepare a deliberately incomplete summary containing only dates and destinations. Compare it with a second version that preserves status and the source note. A human reader can perform this exercise without an extraction service.
For each statement, record its source location, relevant qualification and what a reviewer could reasonably conclude. Mark unsupported implications separately from transcription errors. Correct spelling does not compensate for a missing status.
3. Test the Return Route
Ask another reviewer to locate the basis of one claim using only the summary’s references. Can they find the row, its headings and the note without guessing? If not, improve the reference rather than adding an unexplained confidence score.
Keep the comparison inside the authorized test space. A usable reference must not give a reader access to unrelated material.
4. Follow a Correction
Model a decision that relied on the incomplete version. Replace the unsupported claim with a bounded statement, identify the affected decision and assign its review to a named role. Record what remains unknown; do not convert the absence of proof of travel into proof of another location.
Completion criterion: decisive qualifications survive, material statements have usable source references, processing and verification remain distinct, and a correction reaches the decision that used the earlier account. This exercise tests those scenarios only, not every possible document layout.
Read A Summary Is Not Its Source and the fictional Missing Column for context.