Track a project
Keep a record of what was decided, review it, sign it off, export it.
You ask your agent fifteen questions, you get fifteen cited answers, you close the tab. The next day, on the same project, it all has to be done again.
The dossier is what remains. Your agent writes down what was retained while it works; you reopen it at stratta.ch/dossiers to review, annotate, sign off and export.
Open a dossier
Just tell your agent:
open a dossier for Villa Morges, roof
It creates one, then records each question and each decision as the work goes. You can also create one by hand from the Dossiers page if you would rather start there.
The name matters: it is what you will use to resume the project. Use your own words rather than a code you will not remember.
What goes in it
A dossier follows a project one question at a time. Each question gathers evidence, names options, and ends with a decision that keeps its proof.
What is left to settle on the project. "Can pile P38 be kept despite the construction joint at 25 m?" A question is followed by someone, carries a due date, and is decided or closed.
What the question rests on. Three kinds: a reference (what the norm says, with its section and page), an assumption (the value you retain, and the reasoning behind it), an observation (what a borehole, a site visit or a test showed).
The ways of settling it, named before choosing: abandon the pile, recast the concrete, redistribute onto P37 and P39.
The option retained, the value, and the article it rests on. It is the most visible block of the question: what a reviewer comes to read.
Every value carries a confidence: established, judgement, or to confirm. A computed settlement and a friction angle chosen between three boreholes are not read the same way.
What a dossier looks like
One question, as it fills up over a real job. A four-storey building on fill, uneven boreholes.
Question: which friction angle to retain for the fill on the north side?
| Evidence | Entry | Value | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reference | Design approach and partial factors, SIA 267 § 6.3, p. 28 | - | - |
| Assumption | Friction angle of the fill. S2 gives 32°, S4 gives 28°; the lower value is retained given the lateral variability and the absence of a borehole at the north corner. | 30° | Judgement |
| Observation | Water seeping at the toe of the slope during the 12.03 visit, absent from all three boreholes. | - | - |
Options: 32° (S2), 28° (S4), 30° (weighted low value). Decision: 30°, retained on 14.03, on SIA 267 § 6.3.
What the dossier makes possible: a reader sees why 30° and not 32°, and where the value rests. Two months later the extra test comes back, the evidence is added, the confidence moves to Established, and the decision stays traced.
A dossier picked up six months later by a colleague reads the other way round: what matters is not what was decided, it is what was not. The questions still to settle open the list, the bar at the top of the dossier says how many remain, and every value marked "to confirm" is flagged as such.
None of this is typed by hand. Your agent opens the question, records each piece of evidence as it reads it, with the article that justifies it, and records the decision once you have confirmed it. You review, correct, sign off.
Read the dossier
A dossier page has four tabs.
- Questions, the working view. On the left, the questions grouped to settle, decided, closed, each with what backs it or the decision taken. On the right, the chosen question in reading order: its state, what is at stake, who follows it and by when, the decision or the Trancher (decide) button, the options, the evidence, the remarks. The ↑ ↓ keys move from one to the next. Past eight questions, a search appears.
- Matrice: the articles the dossier cites, against the questions they serve. An empty row is an article cited for nothing; an empty column, a question nothing backs. The view to open the day a norm changes edition.
- Fil: what happened, day by day, agent and application alike. What a reviewer reads before signing off.
- Pièces: the project's documents, see below.
Evidence the agent recorded without a question is folded under the list, in À classer; the menu of a piece of evidence files it under a question in one click.
Read the norm text
Click the title of a piece of evidence that cites an article: the section unfolds from your own corpus without leaving the dossier. The text, with its symbols and formulas typeset as the norm prints them, its numbered formulas, its tables.
Everything you are about to reuse copies in one click: the retained value, the citation ("SIA 267 § 6.3, p. 28"), the LaTeX of a formula, every cell of a table. The copy icon appears under the pointer, and stays visible on a phone.
That is what separates a verifiable answer from a trusted one. Opening a PDF and finding page 42 takes three seconds nobody takes; the text next to the citation does not.
Attach the project documents
A dossier also holds the project's own documents: the site report, the borehole log, the
meeting minutes, a supplier's data sheet. Open the Pièces tab and add them (PDF, Word,
Excel, images, plain text; 25 MB per file, 20 per dossier). Stratta extracts the text page by
page, and the agent reads it with read_attachment, searches it with search_in_dossier,
and cites a page like a clause: "PV du 14.08.2026, p. 3". A scanned PDF without a text layer
is flagged as such: run it through OCR first.
From the local server, an agent can also upload a file you name with add_attachment.
Resume a project
This is where the dossier earns its place:
pick the Villa Morges dossier back up
Your agent reloads the questions with their evidence, options and decision, and above all what is still open. It builds on what was decided instead of deciding it again.
Get it reviewed
A second engineer checking the first one's work is a quality requirement, and it is the one part an agent cannot do.
- Move the dossier to En revue (in review) from the status selector at the top of the page.
- Your colleague leaves a remark on a specific piece of evidence, on a question, or on the dossier from the Fil tab.
- Once you agree, move it to Visé (signed off). The name and date stay attached.
A signed-off dossier takes no further edits to questions or evidence. Remarks stay open.
Share for reading
An external reviewer, the client's engineer, an insurer: people who need to read what was decided and what it rests on, without an account.
- In the dossier's ⋯ menu, pick Lien de lecture (read link).
- Say who it is for, and a duration: 7, 30 or 90 days.
- Copy the link right away: it is shown once.
The page shows the questions, their options, the evidence with its citation and the decisions. It shows neither the remarks, nor the attachments, nor the exports, and offers nothing to edit. The link is revoked from the same dialog; an expired, revoked or made-up link answers the same thing: "invalid link".
The Monday digest
Every Monday morning, one e-mail per person: the open questions assigned to you or living in a dossier you opened, the decisions taken during the week, and the norm editions that changed on a clause cited by a dossier in progress. Nothing is sent when there is nothing to say. Turn it off under Settings, Profile tab.
Export
In the dossier's ⋯ menu, Exporter en Markdown produces a file structured by question: what is at stake, the options, the evidence with its citations, the decision, the remarks; the questions still to settle first.
It pastes into Word with its structure intact, and it is the record of which article justified which value, on which date: what you show an insurer or a colleague taking the file over.
Checklists by type of structure
A retaining wall, a pile foundation, a slope: the questions are the same from one project to
the next, and so are the clauses. Save a dossier that went well as a template (its ⋯ menu,
Enregistrer comme gabarit: questions, options and cited clauses, without the values), or
write one at the bottom of the Organization page, one question per line with an optional clause
after a pipe. A new dossier can start from a template: its questions open with the clauses that
resolve in your corpus filed as references, and the ones your corpus lacks written as gaps.
An agent does the same with list_templates and apply_template.
The verification note
In the same ⋯ menu, Note de vérification renders the dossier as a PDF for a reviewer: one section per question (context, requirement, evidence, decision, what is still open), each paragraph ending with the identifier of the entry it rests on, every gap written as a gap, and an annex quoting the clauses cited. The footer carries the SHA-256 of the file and the time a public timestamp authority (RFC 3161) saw that hash; the token is kept so the timestamp can be checked offline. Timestamped is not signed: the note is to be validated and signed by the responsible engineer. Generated notes are listed in the Fil tab with their hash.
An agent can draft the same note in the conversation with the verification-note skill of
the local server; the two should agree line by line.
What Stratta does not do
The dossier documents your reasoning; it does not replace it. Stratta never concludes that a structure is compliant, and your agent should not write down an assumption you have not validated.