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How to scope your first corpus

The first corpus determines whether the trial produces useful evidence. Choose a team or function boundary that is painful, repeated, source-backed, and reviewable.

You should leave with one corpus candidate and a clear reason it is worth processing first.

Use this filter

  • It contains recurring work where better guidance would matter.
  • The process is spread across several source files or people's memory.
  • There is a reviewer with authority to approve or reject the output.
  • The team would use a good SOP, decision tree, macro, or gap report this week.
  • The corpus boundary can be described in one sentence.

Good first corpora

  • Support refund and replacement escalation artifacts.
  • Onboarding handoff notes, records, and transcripts.
  • Billing dispute tickets, policy notes, and macros.
  • Account access helpdesk corpus.
  • Implementation blocker records.
  • Bug-report triage examples.
  • Escalation path threads.

Avoid these first

  • Whole-company knowledge cleanup.
  • Generic document search.
  • A process with no source material.
  • A politically sensitive policy area with no reviewer commitment.
  • A request for autonomous decisions or workflow execution.

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