Your file is not the Official Gazette
The client’s contract lives in its library. The law lives in the corpus. Mixing them strips a source of its character and dresses a private paper in public clothes.
In two lines
- The corpus is a public source you search. Matter uploads belong to the file and its members.
- A file sitting in the library does not mean its text is ready to read.
A contract is uploaded and, from familiarity, treated as if it had joined the legal library. It has not. It is a document on a matter, seen by those allowed, read by the assistant when processing allows.
The corpus is something else: legislation, decisions, regulations, Supreme Court rulings, Official Gazette issues. Its index is fed by ingest, not by the upload button in chat.
Three states after upload
- Ready: text is extracted and searchable.
- Processing: wait. Asking about content now is asking about a blank.
- Failed or no text: a tilted or faint scan does not yield doctrine. Upload again, or attach in chat to be read visually.
For scans: straight pages, even light, then review the extract. For long files: ask about a chapter, not “analyse everything.”
The guide covers upload. The rule is written here: do not dress a client paper as the gazette.