How the checklist is built, and how you can check it
The only objection that matters is "how do I know it did not miss one?" Here is the honest answer, including what it does not prove.
1. Nothing is paraphrased
Every row is the government's own sentence, copied word for word, with the file it came from and the page number. There is no summarising step in which a requirement could quietly change meaning.
2. Every citation is verified before you see it
When the files are read, each page's text is stored separately. Before a row is saved, BidShred goes back to the page that row claims to come from and checks the sentence is really on it. A row that fails is thrown away rather than shown to you. So a made-up citation cannot reach your checklist — the worst case is a missing row, never an invented one.
For example, this row says page 5: “Initial training shall be completed within 60 days of contract award and refresher training shall be completed every 2 years thereafter.” Open that page of the file and it is there, in those words.
3. The whole document is read, not skimmed
Long bundles are split into pieces with a little overlap so nothing falls down the join, and each piece is read in full. Rows that appear twice because of the overlap are merged. The release test specifically checks that requirements are found in the last quarter of a long document as well as the first — quietly losing the tail is the classic failure and it is tested for.
4. It is measured against pages counted by hand
A set of real solicitations has been read by a person, page by page, and the mandatory sentences counted. Every change to BidShred is scored against those counts, and the build fails if it finds fewer than 95 out of every 100 sentences that were counted by hand. That number is published in the product's own repository rather than kept quiet.
What this does not prove
It does not prove the checklist is complete. A sentence the model does not recognise as an obligation is simply not there, and the citation check cannot tell you about a row that was never created. That is why the hand-counted measurement exists, why the number is published, and why every row has a "this is wrong" button — corrections go straight into the record that drives the next improvement.
It is a tool for reading a solicitation faster and more completely than you would by hand. It is not a guarantee, and it is not legal advice about your bid.