A clause checklist finds what is missing. A document narrating a foreclosure finds what fails. Pick a document, tell Witness which provisions your form contains, pick the moment it comes under stress, and the document tells you in the first person what happens to it: what it has, what it lacks, and what it wishes it had said.
Pick the document type. Every type carries its own provision inventory and its own stress moments. Nothing you type is uploaded; the only thing sent to the engine is which provisions you marked yes, no, or unsure.
Personal analogy is the second of the four analogy types in William J. J. Gordon's Synectics (1961): identify with the thing itself and ask how it would feel. Synectics sessions used it to get engineers to stop describing a mechanism from the outside and start living inside it, because the inside view surfaces the constraints the outside view files under "assumed."
Applied to a contract, the inside view is a sequence of events. Gary Klein's pre-mortem is the nearest cousin: imagine the failure has happened and explain why. Witness adds the narrating document, and derives the gaps from a structural inventory rather than guessing them. It is a companion to Excursion, which applies Gordon's direct analogy to a stuck term.
Witness is a drafting aid and a review discipline, not legal advice, and no attorney-client relationship is formed by using it. The testimony step sends only your yes, no, or unsure answers and the ids of the document type and moment to Settingstone's service, which is rate-limited and stores nothing. There is no free-text field anywhere in this tool. Marking a provision "no" discloses that some document lacks a clause, and nothing else.
Read your form and answer for each provision. "Unsure" is a legitimate answer and is treated as a gap with a question attached, because a provision you cannot confirm is not protecting anyone. Everything starts as unsure on purpose; the point is the reading.
Pick the stress. Each moment runs a script: the sequence of events, roughly when they happen, and which provisions each event needs. The script runs here in your browser and produces the gap register before anything is sent anywhere.
The document's own account of the moment, then what it wishes it had said and the questions to put to the counterparty before signing. The gap register beneath is the deterministic version of the same story.
The site lease. The PPA at offtaker insolvency. The EPC at contractor default. One email when each lands — nothing else.
The testimony is generated from your yes, no, or unsure answers against a fictional stress script and is a drafting aid, not legal advice or an analysis of any actual agreement. No attorney-client relationship is formed. The provisions listed are general market practice for solar site-control documents; your own agreement, your financing documents, and the law of the property's jurisdiction govern. Built and maintained by Settingstone Legal — the operational tool chest for energy attorneys.