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HOW IT WORKS

How the clerk files, checks and fetches.

One connector, added to the assistant you already use. Every response says how far the record goes, and a figure arrives with its page or not at all.

CONNECTING

One connector, added once.

Corpus is added the same way any other connector is added to Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot or Gemini. Nobody on the district side installs anything.

A line elevation of the one connector path. At the left, the assistant the district already runs, holding the Corpus address in its connector settings. One line leaves it through an opening in its wall and runs right, passing through a freestanding threshold where each person signs in, to the district's own records at the right, standing on open shelves that run off the drawing because they are public. The threshold closes nothing: it writes each crossing into the register drawn beneath it, one line per question and who asked it.ASSISTANTCORPUSSIGN-INRECORDS

  1. In Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot or Gemini, open connector settings and add the district's Corpus address.

  2. Sign in. Access is granted per person against a list the district controls.

  3. Ask a question in plain language. The assistant calls Corpus when it needs a record or a figure.

Request access

COVERAGE AND ABSTENTION

Every response says how far the record actually goes.

A response without passages is never reported as a clean answer, and a response that cannot judge absence never claims it.

OK
The record covers the question and the passages returned are the ones that answer it.
NO MATCHING DOCUMENTS
The store holds documents of this kind, but none that match the filters as asked.
NOT IN THE RECORD
The subject is outside what this district's compiled record covers. Where that district has recorded the surfaces it publishes on, the verdict carries that list.
INCONCLUSIVE
Absence cannot be judged from this result. Passages may still come back, but nothing here supports the claim that the record is silent.

When a question cannot be embedded, search falls back to keyword ranking alone. The response says so, and its verdict drops to inconclusive: passages are still served, absence is never claimed on a degraded run.

Abstention is a designed behavior, not a failure state. A figure outside the verified registry comes back as not verified rather than read out of a passage, and a request whose filters match no document is answered as absence rather than with the nearest thing to hand.

PROVENANCE

What an answer looks like when it arrives already citable.

Two responses, side by side. One is a figure with its page. The other is Corpus declining to guess, which is the same feature working.

ASKED

What has the district's overall fee collection rate done since FY24?

RETURNED

Three verified figures from two board memos, each with its own unit, period, page, and the printed figure it was checked against.

  • FY24 (year-end)87.52%Fee Collection Rates, FY24-25 (year-end)2025-06-03p. 1
  • FY25 (year-end)71.10%Fee Collection Rates, FY24-25 (year-end)2025-06-03p. 1
  • FY26 (end-of-year update)65.47%Fee Collection Rates, FY25-262026-06-08p. 1
Verified factpercentFee Collection Rates, FY25-262026-06-08p. 165.47%

Corpus calculated nothing here. The trend is the district's own published numbers placed side by side.

ASKED

What is the starting teacher salary under the current agreement?

NOT IN THE RECORD

No starting salary is in the verified registry, so no figure is returned. Corpus does not read one out of the closest passage.

WHAT COMES BACK INSTEAD

Your assistant says the record is silent on it, points to where the district publishes the agreement, and hands back the passages that mention it, each cited to the page it sits on — so everything around it can still be quoted.

Two pages side by side: one carrying a verified tick, the other hatched over to mark a question the record does not cover.

Absence is an answer, never a weaker one.

Illustrative. Figures from the pilot record; district not named.