Residual Logic Scanner
v1.0 | Published by Reality & Reason
The Tool
Identify where an AI model introduced its own reasoning into your document.
Two analysis modes:
Drafting.
Paste the brief you gave the AI and the draft it produced. The scanner identifies reasoning, framing, structure, or assumptions the AI introduced beyond what the brief specified. Use this before editing begins.
Traceability.
Paste the brief, the AI's first draft, and your final edited version. The scanner identifies where the AI's original reasoning survived through human editing into the finished document. Use this to produce a Residual Logic Report for inclusion in a Traceability Record under the Framework.
Two free scans per account.
Access
Relationship to the Framework
The Residual Logic Scanner operationalises one of the core controls in the Management Information Integrity Framework. The Framework requires that AI-assisted management information be traceable. The scanner provides the analytical layer for identifying where AI reasoning has entered a document, producing evidence suitable for a Traceability Record.
View the FrameworkWhat Residual Logic Is
When AI generates a first draft, it makes structural choices: what to include, what to exclude, how to frame the problem, what causal relationships to imply. Human editors typically revise at the surface level. They rarely dismantle the underlying architecture. The bones of the document remain the model's bones.
The term "Residual Logic" was introduced in the MKAI Structural Dynamics research programme. It describes the persistence of AI-originated reasoning in documents that have been edited by humans.
Open Source
Build your own
The source code for the Residual Logic Scanner is freely available. Any organisation may use, modify, and deploy it for any purpose, including commercial use, without fee or licence restriction.
This is not a product and not a service. Reality & Reason does not provide support, maintenance, updates, or any warranty in connection with the source code. Organisations that deploy it do so entirely at their own risk and under their own technical responsibility.
The code is provided as-is. Reality & Reason accepts no liability for the outputs of any instance deployed by a third party, and makes no representation about the accuracy, completeness, or fitness for purpose of the analysis it produces.
Attribution to Reality & Reason is appreciated but not required.
To request the source code, contact [email protected].