How derivation works

Derivation reads a document clause by clause and proposes structured items (requirements, obligations, risks), each linked to its source.

What derivation does

A scope of works states requirements, duties and risks in prose. Derivation turns that prose into structured items. Engera processes the document's extracted sections one by one and proposes the items it finds in each. Every proposed item has typed fields and a stable ID and can be reviewed on its own.

Each item derivation proposes arrives as a suggestion. It is not added to the project model until a reviewer accepts it; see Reviewing AI suggestions.

Coverage tracking

Derivation runs track coverage. Each section of the document is marked as it is processed, so the run records which sections are done and which remain.

• Interrupted runs resume where they stopped instead of starting over.
• Re-running on the same document does not create duplicates: sections that were already derived are recognised.
• Run progress is visible while derivation is running. Long documents are processed in batches.

Provenance

Every derived item carries a link to the clause it came from. Open any requirement and you can jump to the sentence in the source document that produced it.