What should you check when you receive an intake sample?

Run these checks on a sample before deciding whether the material suits training or evaluation.

- Every foreign key resolves: cases to parties, documents to cases, amendments to earlier cases. - Status histories follow allowed transitions and timestamps never run backwards. - Expected outcomes can be reproduced by applying the written policies to the case. - The mix of clean, incomplete, duplicate and conflicting cases matches the stated design. - Documents and notes read like staff work, with shorthand, gaps and inconsistent formatting where intended. - No name, identifier or phrase resembles a real person or organisation; flag any that do. - Tasks include forbidden actions as well as target outcomes, so shortcuts can fail. - Two reruns of the same task from reset produce the same starting state.

Keep a record of which checks passed, and note the release identifier alongside the results. The same list can be reused when a larger release arrives. Failures at this stage are cheap to raise; failures found after training are not.