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Review
By Stephen Brownell
The document · the position

Review: the document, and the position it supports.

Two tools that find what fails before someone else does. Witness puts a document on the stand and lets it narrate its own failure at the moment that matters. Proof assembles the evidence that a project began construction in time, with the clocks that decide it. Both compute a register in your browser before any AI is asked anything, and both leave you a file you own.

The document

Find what fails, not just what is missing

Witness — The Document Takes the Stand

Answer which provisions the document contains, pick the stress moment, and read what happens to it in its own words. The gap register is computed before anything is sent; the testimony is written by an AI briefed by Stephen Brownell.

Live so far
Two document types: the SNDA on a solar lease, from foreclosure to the fire, and the C&I PPA on a host’s roof, from the host’s bankruptcy to the roof coming off. Seventeen provisions and four stress moments each.
What leaves your browser
Only your yes, no, or unsure answers and the ids of the document type and the moment. No text is uploaded, anywhere in the tool.
The AI step
One call, the testimony. Usually under a minute. Nothing is stored.
You take away
The testimony, what the document wishes it had said, the questions to ask the counterparty, a Word export, and a share card.
The position

Prove the project began construction in time

Proof — Safe Harbor Evidence Engine

Configure the project and its beginning-of-construction path and get the requirement set, the deadline clocks, the material-assistance cost ratio, the wage and apprenticeship conditions, and the evidence binder an exam team will ask for.

Live so far
Both beginning-of-construction paths, six diligence overlays, and the material-assistance calculator under Notice 2026-15. Current as of July 2026.
What leaves your browser
Nothing, unless you run the GC Review. That sends the codename, technology, capacity, credit, method, dates, clock statuses, ratio percentages, and overlay toggles. No documents.
The AI step
GC Review, optional. Usually under a minute, sometimes two. Nothing is stored.
You take away
A Word audit binder with every requirement and its status, the clocks, and the ratio table.

What review means here

Three rules both tools keep, so that what they say can be checked and what they produce can be filed.

When each one earns its place

Before the lease is signed, and again before the financing

Witness

A clause checklist finds what is missing. A document narrating a foreclosure finds what fails. The four stress moments are the events a lender, a buyer, or a tax equity investor will test the SNDA against, so the second reading belongs in diligence, not after it.

From the day construction begins until the credit is monetized

Proof

The beginning-of-construction position is made on a date and defended for years: at the tax equity committee, at a transfer, and at exam. The binder is built the way an agent will ask for it, and the clocks keep running after the deadline is met.

Words used here

Each word is marked in the tools with a dotted underline; hover or tap it there for the same one-line meaning.

The vocabulary loads with the page.

Witness and Proof are drafting aids and organizational templates, not legal advice, and no attorney-client relationship is formed by using them. The testimony and the GC Review are generated from structural selections only and are not advice on any actual document or transaction; tax positions must be reviewed by qualified tax counsel. Built and maintained by Settingstone Legal, the operational tool chest for energy attorneys. See the Terms of Use.