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Card #c25IR // #c25Synthesis

a sentence that reaches the memo without one is not a stylistic lapse but a broken audit trail.

— In our words · Source: Large Language Models in Finance (Miquel Noguer i Alonso)

[Use when]

When a generated memo contains numbers, trace each one back to its source artifact before trusting it — a number without lineage is decoration.

[Why it matters]

The chain breaks at table extraction — where a structured number gets flattened into prose and loses its row, column, and timestamp. Once that happens the memo looks rigorous and is unauditable; the fix is provenance at the artifact level, not prettier writing.

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