An insurance document assistant summarizes every page it sees but misses an absent attachment. Design the check.
Extraction accuracy cannot reveal a document that never arrived. Reconcile expected evidence with received and parsed artifacts, and keep completeness separate from any claim decision.
Updated Sep 2026 · Grounded in real Forward Deployed Engineer interview loops and written to a senior-engineer editorial bar.
Extraction accuracy cannot reveal a document that never arrived. Reconcile expected evidence with received and parsed artifacts, and keep completeness separate from any claim decision.
Lead with where the obvious approach breaks, because that is the judgment they are screening for — most candidates jump straight to the happy path and lose the room.
Then walk the failure back through the pipeline in order, naming the one metric the customer's exec sponsor actually cares about before you propose the fix.