Draft, check, revise

Operating contract

Authority, evidence, and stopping conditions.

Job to control

High-stakes documents need both synthesis and disciplined completeness checks, without endless self-polishing.

Division of work

A drafter works from source evidence. A separate checker applies named criteria. The drafter revises only the identified gaps.

Control point

The checker applies named requirements independently and returns specific gaps rather than rewriting the draft.

Evidence retained

Sources used, requirement checklist, gap ledger, targeted revisions, unresolved items, and approval owner.

Human ownership

Own unresolved source gaps, the acceptance bar, and final approval for external use.

Trade-off

Another pass earns its place only while a named gap remains; the stopping rule prevents style-only revision.

Applied in Cadre

Packs using this operating design.

Each pack narrows the pattern to a specific financial-services decision and names the seam that remains under human review.