The Provenance Panel

CareerForge's oldest promise is that it never invents experience. The Provenance panel is where you can check that promise, application by application, instead of taking it on trust.

It lives inside an application's detail drawer: open a row in the applications table and the Provenance panel sits alongside the record. It lays out every claim the tailored CV makes and, next to each, the profile source that backs it.

What it shows

Each line pairs a claim with its origin:

• The claim — a skill, a result, a responsibility, exactly as it appears on the generated CV.
• Its source — the profile file that claim was drawn from, so you can see why the document is allowed to say it.
• A flag, when there isn't one. Any claim /apply couldn't trace back to your real profile is highlighted for review rather than hidden. That's the whole point: an unbacked claim is something to look at, not something to ship silently.

A mirror, like the rest of the dashboard

The panel is read-only. It doesn't edit your CV, your profile, or your tracker — it only reflects the audit /apply already produced. It reads from a plain file written alongside the application's documents:

documents/applications/<company>_<role>/provenance.json

That's file-as-DB again: the ledger is a human-readable file on your machine, generated once when the documents were, and never phoned home. If the file is missing — say for an application added by hand — the panel simply shows nothing to audit rather than failing.

Why it's worth a look

A flagged claim isn't an accusation; it's an invitation. Maybe the profile is just missing something you genuinely did — fix the profile and re-run. Maybe a phrasing drifted past what you can comfortably defend — soften or cut it before you send. Either way, the Provenance panel turns "trust me, nothing's made up" into something you can verify line by line.

Related: /apply is where the ledger is produced; this panel is where you read it back.