Pilot Use Guidelines

Suitable Public Form Requests

• Interest in pre-submission manuscript QC workflows.
• Questions about figure, statistics, or source-data consistency checks.
• Institutional, lab, journal, or publisher discovery conversations.
• Use cases involving synthetic, public, de-identified, or already-submitted materials.

Do Not Submit Through the Public Website

• Confidential manuscripts or reviewer materials.
• Identifiable patient, participant, student, or personnel information.
• Unpublished source datasets or files that require restricted access.
• Public accusations or claims of misconduct about named people or organizations.
• Passwords, API keys, authentication tokens, or private system details.

Pilot Review Process

Pilot requests are screened first. If a request appears suitable, a controlled pilot workflow can be discussed separately. Any file review should occur only after scope, consent, data boundaries, security expectations, and retention expectations are clear.

Output Interpretation

QC reports are intended to help authors and research teams find correctable issues. Findings should be reviewed by qualified humans and should not be treated as final determinations.