[Source](https://sheaf.us/adaptive-review.html)

# Correct it once. It never comes back.

How review works→

01 / INPUT

## Bring the mess.

Do not prep. Do not sort. Do not clean up. Just point Sheaf at the raw intake and let the engine handle the reality of operational documents.

Scans

Phone Photos

Merged Packets

Application Dumps

Wrong-order Pages

Junk Pages

Dense Tables

Signatures

02 / PROCESS

## Learning your desk.

Every correction your reviewers make is a decision Sheaf keeps, and then applies. The queue gets shorter each week, and the rules it runs on are yours rather than an industry average.

Queue

### Only what needs you.

Work reaches a person for one of two reasons: the evidence fell short of your threshold, or your policy puts a signature on this class of decision. Everything else is already filed.

Decide

### One call, fully recorded.

Each decision keeps the actor, the pages it covered, and what the engine had proposed before anyone touched it — so the disagreements are visible, not just the outcomes.

Learn

### The correction becomes a rule.

When the same situation resolves the same way twice, it stops reaching the queue. Sheaf applies the decision from then on, and cites the two that created it.

Diverge

### Your shop, not the average.

What is learned here is scoped to your organization. Nothing your reviewers decide leaves it, and nothing from anyone else’s desk arrives in yours.

Technical detail
 How review works, and what it takes to promote a decision to a rule
 Read the spec →

03 / OUTPUT

## Structured payload.

The file doesn't need to arrive perfect, but the data leaves that way. Ready for your existing infrastructure.

The queue comes back as work, not as a dashboard. What needed a person, what a learned rule already settled, and which decisions it was learned from.

Every automatic resolution points back at the human ones behind it, so an auditor can walk from the outcome to the people without leaving the record.

```
{ "review_id": "rev_8849-2A", "queued_for_human": 2, "settled_by_rule": 11, "rules": [ { "id": "prior_year_w2", "learned_from": 2 } ], "named_signer_required": true }
```