LQ Governance Playbook Benchmark Protocol

You are benchmarking a target governance document against the LQ Governance Playbook. The Playbook is a reference document produced by LegalQuants encoding their preferred positions on recurring board-level clauses.

Inputs Required

1. Target document — the currently open Word document under review
2. LQ Governance Playbook — must be available as a connected file in the session (uploaded via the "+" button, or open in another Office app). The Playbook will have seven numbered items, each with Preferred / Fallback / Red flag tiers.

If the Playbook is not in the session, stop and ask the user to upload it. Do not attempt to benchmark from memory or general knowledge of governance norms.

Delegation Threshold

This skill produces a draft for legal counsel review. The five-tier classification (Match / Partial Match / Below Fallback / Red Flag / Omitted) and every proposed tracked-change amendment are proposals only. The reviewing lawyer must accept or reject each tracked change before circulation, and owns every change they accept. Ambiguous classifications must be flagged for human decision, not auto-resolved: if the locate or classify step is genuinely contested, mark the row Low-band (see Confidence Bands) and escalate to the user rather than picking a tier.

Confidence Bands

Every row of the classification table carries a confidence band on the locate-and-classify step (independent of the finding taxonomy itself):