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QEL Investment Memo Claim Firewall

A deal team uses AI to draft an investment memo for a synthetic company. The draft includes revenue growth, margin expansion, market leadership, customer concentration, ESG, non-GAAP, and forecast claims. QEL checks which statements can survive against filings, model tabs, reconciliations, market excerpts, and source assumptions.

Synthetic onlyNo file uploadNo external APIsLeakage 0Registry-governed output

The draft

AI-assisted investment memo / pitch book excerpt

The memo says Atlas grew revenue 18%, improved gross margin, has 21% adjusted EBITDA margin, is the market leader, has no meaningful customer concentration, is ESG-compliant, and offers downside-protected returns.

The risk

Confident language can outpace source support.

A polished memo can carry unsupported financial metrics, misleading superlatives, stale market claims, unqualified non-GAAP measures, or forecast language that should require review. QEL makes the admission record visible before those claims become final work.

What QEL controls

Claim admission before final output.

QEL extracts claims, maps evidence, applies the active rule pack, builds a registry, and compiles survived output only from admitted or caveated records.

Why QEL is needed

This workflow needs a claim firewall before final text is trusted.

A polished memo can carry unsupported financial metrics, misleading superlatives, stale market claims, unqualified non-GAAP measures, or forecast language that should require review. QEL makes the admission record visible before those claims become final work.

Confident draft language

The draft reads polished before its material claims are qualified.

Evidence mapping gap

Some claims need exact source spans, not just a credible nearby document.

Final-output risk

Unsupported or review-required claims can be copied forward unless a firewall stops them.

Synthetic Draft Preview

The draft looks polished before QEL inspects it.

The memo says Atlas grew revenue 18%, improved gross margin, has 21% adjusted EBITDA margin, is the market leader, has no meaningful customer concentration, is ESG-compliant, and offers downside-protected returns.

admitted: Revenue grew 18 percent when the financial statement table supports the calculation.needs caveat: Adjusted EBITDA margin depends on non-GAAP reconciliation definitions.contradicted: No meaningful customer concentration conflicts with a 31 percent top-customer source.unsupported: Market leader is not supported by the market report.blocked: Downside returns are guaranteed is guarantee-like promotional language.

Full synthetic source document

Open full synthetic investment memo PDF

Synthetic source document inspected by QEL.

Synthetic QEL demonstration material - not investment advice - not securities offering material - not compliance certification.

What to look for

  • polished draft language
  • embedded risky claims
  • source references that may or may not support the claim
  • statements QEL will later admit, caveat, block, or route to review
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Evidence Packet

What QEL will inspect

Financial statement table

Type: synthetic financial table

Supports: Revenue growth, margin movement, debt line.

Cannot support: Market leadership, ESG methodology, or investment recommendation.

Non-GAAP reconciliation

Type: calculation support

Supports: Adjusted EBITDA margin and adjustment line.

Cannot support: Unqualified audited/GAAP claims.

Market report excerpt

Type: market source

Supports: Market size, source date, rank.

Cannot support: Current leadership without caveat.

Customer concentration excerpt

Type: risk support

Supports: Top customer and top-three concentration.

Cannot support: Diversification or no-concentration claims.

Configurable Rule Pack

Rule Pack Preview

The active synthetic investment memo pack requires metric-level source support, non-GAAP reconciliation, market-source dates, peer-set caveats, and review gates for projections and recommendations.

Pack
Synthetic SEC / Investment Memo Claim Support Pack
pack_id
synthetic_sec_investment_memo_claim_support_pack_v0
Domain
financial_services
Workflow
investment_memo_pitch_book_claim_review
Version
0.1.0
synthetic_demo_only
True
not_official
True
Final-output policy
Final output allowed only for admitted or admitted_with_caveat registry records.
View rule pack controls

Required evidence types

  • filing excerpt
  • financial statement table
  • model extract
  • non-GAAP reconciliation
  • market report
  • peer comps
  • ESG policy

Human review gates

  • forecast/projection claim
  • ESG methodology claim
  • investment recommendation
  • non-GAAP presentation

Blocked language patterns

  • guaranteed returns
  • downside protected
  • market leader
  • best-in-class
  • no meaningful concentration

Caveat triggers

  • derived calculation
  • non-GAAP reconciliation
  • outdated source date
  • partial peer set

Source-span requirements

  • source name
  • period
  • unit/currency
  • line item
  • calculation formula
  • assumption

Synthetic sample rule pack only. Not official, not endorsed, not securities guidance, not accounting advice, and not a substitute for qualified human review.

View rule_pack.json preview
{
  "pack_id": "synthetic_sec_investment_memo_claim_support_pack_v0",
  "display_name": "Synthetic SEC / Investment Memo Claim Support Pack",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "domain": "financial_services",
  "workflow": "investment_memo_pitch_book_claim_review",
  "status": "synthetic_demo_only",
  "not_official": true,
  "synthetic_demo_only": true,
  "intended_users": [
    "investment banking",
    "private equity",
    "corporate development",
    "investor relations",
    "research compliance",
    "audit"
  ],
  "compatible_outputs": [
    "pitch book",
    "investment memo",
    "transaction deck",
    "ESG summary",
    "IC memo"
  ],
  "required_evidence_types": [
    "filing excerpt",
    "financial statement table",
    "model extract",
    "non-GAAP reconciliation",
    "market report",
    "peer comps",
    "ESG policy"
  ],
  "decision_states": [
    "admitted",
    "admitted_with_caveat",
    "blocked",
    "review_required"
  ],
  "rule_categories": [
    "GAAP metric claims",
    "non-GAAP metric claims",
    "market claims",
    "customer concentration claims",
    "peer comparisons",
    "ESG claims",
    "forecast claims",
    "investment recommendation language",
    "promotional claims"
  ],
  "human_review_gates": [
    "forecast/projection claim",
    "ESG methodology claim",
    "investment recommendation",
    "non-GAAP presentation"
  ],
  "blocked_language_patterns": [
    "guaranteed returns",
    "downside protected",
    "market leader",
    "best-in-class",
    "no meaningful concentration"
  ],
  "caveat_triggers": [
    "derived calculation",
    "non-GAAP reconciliation",
    "outdated source date",
    "partial peer set"
  ],
  "freshness_requirements": [
    "current filing period",
    "model date",
    "market report date",
    "peer comp date"
  ],
  "source_span_requirements": [
    "source name",
    "period",
    "unit/currency",
    "line item",
    "calculation formula",
    "assumption"
  ],
  "audit_artifacts_generated": [
    "claim map",
    "evidence/source-span map",
    "admission decision table",
    "registry view",
    "blocked/review appendix",
    "survived output",
    "provenance/audit summary"
  ],
  "final_output_policy": "Final output allowed only for admitted or admitted_with_caveat registry records.",
  "disclaimer": "Synthetic sample rule pack only. Not official, not endorsed, not securities guidance, not accounting advice, and not a substitute for qualified human review."
}
Ready to run locally
Pre-run state shows the story, evidence packet, and active rule pack. Results stay hidden until QEL runs.

Claim Firewall Process

Staged local review

Results dashboard

Claim Admission Report generated

QEL separated admitted, caveated, blocked, and review-required claims before compiling survived output.

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Top findings

What QEL caught

admitted

Revenue grew 18 percent year over year.

Why it matters: Core financial metrics can survive when values, period, and calculation match.

Evidence / rule reason: FY25 118.0 versus FY24 100.0 supports the calculation.

Survived final output: yes

admitted_with_caveat

Adjusted EBITDA margin was 21 percent.

Why it matters: Non-GAAP statements need reconciliation and scope language.

Evidence / rule reason: Reconciliation exists, but the rule pack requires a caveat.

Survived final output: yes, with caveat

blocked

Atlas is the market leader.

Why it matters: Unsupported superlatives can create buyer, board, and review risk.

Evidence / rule reason: Market report ranks Atlas third.

Survived final output: no

blocked

There is no meaningful customer concentration.

Why it matters: Concentration risk should not be erased by confident memo language.

Evidence / rule reason: Top customer is 31 percent of revenue.

Survived final output: no

review_required

FY26 forecast revenue assumes 12 percent growth.

Why it matters: Forecast claims need assumptions, sensitivity context, and reviewer gates.

Evidence / rule reason: Model input exists but final forecast language requires review.

Survived final output: no

blocked

Downside returns are guaranteed.

Why it matters: Guarantee-like investment language should not survive a governed memo.

Evidence / rule reason: Blocked language pattern in the active rule pack.

Survived final output: no

Claim Admission Report

The registry is the final-output gate.

QEL does not compile final output from raw AI text, unchecked draft language, or a final model polish step. Survived output is compiled only from registry records with admitted or admitted_with_caveat decisions and final_output_allowed = true.

Rule Pack Marketplace Preview

Future rule-pack ecosystem preview

This synthetic pack previews how QEL could support industry-specific admission controls. In a future rule-pack ecosystem, teams could configure, review, version, and govern packs for their own workflows.

This is a synthetic preview only. The pack is not official, certified, endorsed, or a production claim.