Category: Forensic laboratory tooling | Status: Functional demo
A read-only conformance checker that scans finished laboratory reports and flags administrative, formatting, and lightweight technical defects before the report goes out — inconsistent headers, formatting and font problems, invalid or unapproved statements, and missing or malformed required fields.
What it does — and deliberately does not do
It flags. It never edits. The tool produces a list of things a human reviewer should look at, and makes no changes to the report itself. For a tool operating inside an accredited quality system that distinction is not a limitation, it is the entire design premise.
It is also strictly deterministic and rule-based: the same report always produces the same findings. Nothing about the output depends on a model's mood, which is what makes it defensible in an accredited environment.
Key design principles
- Rules grouped by discipline, with the rule definitions moving into configuration files so technical leadership owns their own rules without needing a developer to change them.
- The controlling document wins. Where a procedure document defines a requirement, the tool follows the document. Where a remembered convention conflicts with the written procedure, the tool surfaces the conflict rather than silently picking a side.
- Flag, never fix — findings feed the existing human review process.
Why it earns its place
Administrative and small Technical Review defects consume a disproportionate share of reviewers' attention and are a recurring source of improperly-released laboratory reports and accreditation findings. A reviewer reading their fortieth report of the week will miss a wrong header; a linter will not, and it does it on every report without fatigue — leaving the human reviewer's attention for the technical content, which is where it belongs.
Current status
It runs end to end on real reports and produces genuinely useful output.
The engine is done. The remaining work is domain input, not code. Test fixtures are synthetic and redacted by design — real reports never enter version control.