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Reading a review area

What the status colors mean, what a rating asserts, and why "Not Assessed" is not a bad score.

Updated August 19, 2026
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A project's overview is a card per review area — architecture, security, delivery, people, product, and the others your template includes. Each card carries a status, and each opens into the findings behind it.

The ratings

RatingWhat it asserts
GoodExamined, and the evidence supports a sound position
WarningExamined, and something needs attention or a condition
CriticalExamined, and there is a material problem
InfoContext worth recording that is not itself a risk
In ProgressBeing examined now
Not AssessedNo evidence was retrievable, so there is nothing to grade

Not Assessed is not a low score. It is the honest answer when the material does not cover an area, and it is deliberately left out of the overall roll-up. Grading an unexamined area red would assert "we looked and it failed", which is false — and an empty project would read as a damning report rather than an empty one.

Levels of detail

Depending on your plan you see:

  • Status colors across the areas — the at-a-glance read.
  • Summary cards for every area — the finding count and headline per area.
  • Detailed line items — each individual finding, its rating, its evidence and its citations.

If a level is not part of your plan, the card says so rather than showing an empty panel. Nothing is hidden silently.

What a finding contains

  • A title and an assessment, in the language of a diligence report.
  • A rating, chosen against the rating contract for that area.
  • Citations — the document, page and passage the statement rests on.
  • A review state: Draft until an analyst has read it, then Reviewed or Revised.

When an area says there is no evidence

That is usually a fact about the material, not a fault in the analysis: the question was asked and the documents do not answer it. Check the request list — the unanswered question should be on it. If you believe the answer is in a document you uploaded, see When a section says there is no evidence.

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