What the documents look like
Franchise filing management works from the commercial franchise information management system, enterprise licences, store lists and contract ledgers. The documents handled day to day are the franchise contract, the operations manual, filing materials and information disclosure documents. This category deals with legal disclosure and the commerce department system; site selection and store engineering belong to headquarters location work. The most time-consuming steps are preparing filing materials, checking the two-stores-one-year condition and updating franchise information. Errors can lead to an order to file, franchise contract disputes and administrative penalties. The subject of copy review is these materials themselves. Material updates are irregular and annual, and this page does not cover batch synchronization or real-time triggers.
For copy drafting, the relevant facts are that filing materials describe a submission stage rather than a completed approval, that the same filing item can appear in several documents with different wording, and that the drafting task is to check whether a proposed sentence is supported by the material on hand. The two-stores-one-year condition and the disclosure file are checked as their own items, not merged into one claim.
Constraints at the model connections step
Model connections depend on AI Proxy. Both App and Admin must set AIPROXY_API_ENDPOINT and a non-empty AIPROXY_API_TOKEN; missing either one causes startup validation to fail. Legacy OpenAI environment variables or a single-model custom request address cannot replace these two settings. The endpoint takes the service root address and does not append /v1. The system needs at least one language model and one index model. Model capabilities are checked against the input the application requires, and multimodal input, tool calling and thinking configuration are verified separately. Application parameters are set in the application or node configuration, and a same-named field on a compatible chat interface cannot be assumed to override orchestration.
Hypothetical paper exercise: a franchisor headquarters legal team holds two sentences from filing material. Sentence one: "This franchisor has submitted filing materials for this franchise to the competent commerce department, with a submission date of 10 March 2026." Sentence two: "As of 10 March 2026, the competent commerce department has not issued a filing completion receipt." The proposed copy sentence is: "This brand has completed commerce department filing, so franchisees can sign with confidence." The question is whether the proposed sentence is supported by the two source sentences. The material records submission and the absence of a receipt; it does not record completion of filing.
Configuration and implementation checks
The table lists documented settings or implementation checks tied to this page's documents and primary task, using the hypothetical exercise above.
| Configuration item | Hypothetical starting value for this exercise | Reason and comparison method |
|---|---|---|
AIPROXY_API_ENDPOINT | Assume http://aiproxy:3000 | Documentation requires the service root address without /v1; compare against a value that appends /v1 |
AIPROXY_API_TOKEN | Assume a non-empty administrator token | Documentation requires a non-empty token consistent with the server; compare against an empty value, which fails startup validation |
| Language model | Assume one language model is enabled | Documentation requires at least one language model; compare against no language model enabled |
| Index model | Assume one index model is enabled | Documentation requires at least one index model; compare against no index model enabled |
| Model capability | Assume text input is checked for copy drafting | Documentation requires checking capability against the input the application needs; compare against a multimodal input requirement |
| Application parameters | Assume parameters are set in the application or node configuration | Documentation states parameters are set in the application or node; compare against a same-named field on a compatible interface |
Three common errors
- Treating "has submitted filing materials" as "has completed filing." Input: the two source sentences in the hypothetical exercise. Comparison: the proposed sentence "has completed commerce department filing" against the source wording, which records submission and the absence of a receipt. The material does not state completion, so the proposed sentence is unsupported and the evidence gap is recorded.
- Replacing
AIPROXY_API_ENDPOINTandAIPROXY_API_TOKENwith legacy OpenAI environment variables. Input: a configuration using the legacy variables. Comparison: the documented requirement for the two named settings, where missing either one causes startup validation to fail. The legacy variables do not satisfy the requirement. - Assuming a same-named field on a compatible chat interface overrides application orchestration parameters. Input: a same-named interface field. Comparison: the application or node configuration, where documentation states parameters are set. The interface field does not override the orchestration setting.
How to verify the setup
- Input the two source sentences and the proposed sentence from the hypothetical exercise. Compare whether "has submitted filing materials" and "has completed commerce department filing" are mutually exclusive values of the same field for the same subject and the same period. The material does not state completion, so the proposed sentence is unsupported and the evidence gap is recorded.
- Input the
AIPROXY_API_ENDPOINTandAIPROXY_API_TOKENconfiguration. Compare whether the endpoint is the service root address and the token is a non-empty administrator token. Missing either one causes startup validation to fail, which confirms the connection condition. - Input the enablement state of the language model and the index model. Compare whether at least one of each is enabled. When one is not enabled, the documented requirement is to add it. This check does not claim that deployment or testing has been completed.