This entry describes the registered oversight boundary, not a product-wide rule.

On the attended registry path, the 10 consequential registered drafting, filing and signing skills pause for confirm, reject or modify; an unattended request requiring review is refused. Direct and unregistered paths are outside that guarantee.

What "consequential" means here

There is a clear line between the assistant thinking and the assistant doing. Reading a matter, summarising a document, proposing a draft: that is thinking, and it happens freely inside your browser. But the moment an action would have an effect beyond the screen, the rule changes.

The implemented gate covers the registered drafting, filing and signing skills listed above. You see the proposed action and can confirm, reject or modify it before execution. This does not cover every write, send, direct call or unregistered path.

Why this is a design choice, not a limitation

It would be easy to build a tool that files the form for you, sends the letter for you, saves you the click. Some tools do. The reason we do not is that a solicitor's professional judgement is not a bottleneck to be automated away: it is the thing the client is paying for and the thing the regulator holds you to. A tool that acts autonomously on a matter has quietly assumed a responsibility that is yours and cannot be delegated to software.

So the gate is not friction we regret. It is the shape of the product. The assistant does the work that is tedious and mechanical; you keep the decisions that are yours to keep.

The safeguard this provides

This is a deliberate safety and professional-supervision control. Our pre-action gate makes human oversight concrete: a person sees the proposed action, decides whether to rely on it, and can amend or reject it. You are never presented with a fait accompli. You are presented with a proposal.

On for everyone, from day one

The registered gate is not described as a universal audit of every decision. It is the implemented control on the covered attended skill path.

Covered confirm, reject and modify decisions are written to the matter-side record. That record is best-effort and reports known write failures; it does not prove that every decision was captured.

That is what building for solicitors means in practice. On the attended registry path, the 10 consequential registered skills, 8 drafting, 1 filing and 1 signing, pause for confirm, reject or modify; an unattended request that requires review is refused. Direct and unregistered paths are outside that guarantee, so we do not describe human review as universal across the product.

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