# LotTrail handbook

Investigate declared evidence with exact identities, reviewed links and explicit coverage limits.

Source: https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/lottrail

Review edition: 25 October 2026



## Guides and help pages

- [Start here: Owner](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/lottrail/owner): Prepare access and site controls without assuming evidence access.
- [Start here: Author](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/lottrail/author): Prepare bounded investigation policies from permitted saved evidence.
- [Start here: Reviewer](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/lottrail/reviewer): Independently review policy evidence and read permitted investigations.
- [Start here: Supervisor](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/lottrail/supervisor): Declare sources, admit files and manage local review cases.
- [Start here: Operator](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/lottrail/operator): Save bounded investigations using exact recorded identities.
- [Start here: Viewer](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/lottrail/viewer): Read permitted investigations, cases and decisions without changing evidence.
- [Roles and actions: who can do what](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/lottrail/roles-and-actions): Find the authority, authentication and review conditions for a task, with links to the working procedure.
- [Investigation input reference: exact identities and history cutoffs](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/lottrail/input-reference): Choose exact identities, direction and local evidence boundaries using the enforced formats.
- [Prepare people and source responsibilities](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/lottrail/site-setup): Keep product access, dataset disclosure and source authority distinct.
- [Declare a dataset and its readers](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/lottrail/declare-datasets): Record exact source coverage responsibilities and captured relationship types.
- [Review and accept a declared evidence file](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/lottrail/review-and-accept-files): Check exact source, coverage, duplicates and conflicts before admission.
- [Save a bounded investigation](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/lottrail/run-an-investigation): Choose exact identities, relationship meaning, direction and evidence cutoff.
- [Interpret coverage and related records](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/lottrail/read-coverage-and-results): State what the evidence supports and what remains unknown.
- [Review an exact same-identity link](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/lottrail/review-identity-links): Bridge two declared sources only with supporting human evidence.
- [Handle corrections, conflicts and late arrivals](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/lottrail/corrections-and-late-evidence): Admit explicit notices without rewriting saved investigations.
- [Manage a local investigation case](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/lottrail/investigation-cases): Attach immutable runs and record review without implying source containment.
- [Prepare and review investigation policies](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/lottrail/policies-and-review): Use exact saved queries and independent native proof through connected Automation.
- [Read saved runs and download permitted evidence](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/lottrail/saved-history-and-downloads): Keep the original question and cutoff with every retained report.
- [Restrict disclosure during an operational problem](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/lottrail/protective-controls): Use permitted reader removal and restrictive notices without admitting new facts.
- [Export permitted records and review closure or recovery](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/lottrail/exports-closure-and-recovery): Preserve a source-scoped archive and keep unresolved datasets sealed.
- [Resolve missing identities, stale reviews and uncertainty](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/lottrail/investigation-problems): Investigate the reason without guessing links or duplicating accepted work.
- [Worked example: two source names and a corrected shipment](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/lottrail/worked-lot): Preserve source identity, gaps and earlier reports through an investigation.