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Challenge

Build a Frictionless Evidence Ledger and Provenance Hasher

Reconcile disparate investigator findings, transaction tracing sheets, and watchlist alerts into a unified case ledger. Track data provenance timestamps and explicit evidentiary gaps to prepare defensible case summaries.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Reconcile disparate investigator findings, transaction tracing sheets, and watchlist alerts into a unified case ledger. Track data provenance timestamps and explicit evidentiary gaps to prepare defensible case summaries.

Lead Financial Crime Investigator

Ingest tabular transaction logs and evidentiary finding notes using Frictionless Data resource schemas.

Reconcile contradictory data points, such as conflicting counterparty names or overlapping transaction dates.

Assign verifiable provenance hashes and source URIs to every accepted evidence statement.

Synthesize a chronological evidence ledger detailing verified facts, source origins, and unresolved data quality issues.

Audit ledger dashboard with side-by-side evidence source comparisons, data quality flags, and markdown export tools.

Synthesize normalized tabular CSV logs and accompanying Frictionless resource schema JSON descriptors stored locally. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

Frictionless data validation Uses Frictionless Data Python conventions to validate evidence tables, inspect field formats, and detect missing cells.

langgraph, frictionless, pydantic. LangGraph choreographs multi-stage evidentiary reconciliation, data quality gating, and provenance verification nodes. Requires context analysis and discrepancy detection capabilities; hosted Claude or local Qwen 2.5.

Submit runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, a working interface, example outputs, and a recorded end-to-end demo. Include tests and an action log.

Validates input transaction tables against Frictionless Data schema descriptors.

Flags and isolates rows containing missing identifiers or unparseable timestamps.

Attaches cryptographic hash provenance to each reconciled evidentiary line item.

Produces a standardized audit-ready evidence ledger exportable in Markdown and JSON formats.

```json [ { "input": { "case_id": "INV-3301", "evidence_rows": [ { "evidence_id": "E1", "date": "2023-08-01", "source": "Bank Statement A", "amount": 50000, "counterparty": "Apex Trading" }, { "evidence_id": "E2", "date": "2023-08-01", "source": "SWIFT MT103", "amount": 50000, "counterparty": "Apex Trading LLC" } ] }, "expected_output": { "reconciliation_status": "CONVERGENT", "reconciled_records": 1, "discrepancies": [], "provenance_hash": "a1b2c3d4e5f6", "summary": "Bank statement and SWIFT transmission agree on 50,000 USD transfer to Apex Trading LLC on 2023-08-01." } }, { "input": { "case_id": "INV-3302", "evidence_rows": [ { "evidence_id": "E3", "date": "2023-08-05", "source": "Bank Statement B", "amount": 12000, "counterparty": "Vanguard Logistics" }, { "evidence_id": "E4", "date": "2023-08-06", "source": "Customs Declaration", "amount": 95000, "counterparty": "Vanguard Logistics" } ] }, "expected_output": { "reconciliation_status": "DISCREPANT", "reconciled_records": 0, "discrepancies": [ { "field": "amount", "diff": 83000, "note": "Substantial valuation variance between declared customs and settled payment." } ], "provenance_hash": "f6e5d4c3b2a1", "summary": "Unresolved valuation discrepancy between customs declaration (95,000) and settled bank payment (12,000)." } } ] ```

Maintains an advisory case ledger; does not submit external Suspicious Activity Reports autonomously. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Maintains an advisory case ledger; does not submit external Suspicious Activity Reports autonomously. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Validates input transaction tables against Frictionless Data schema descriptors. Flags and isolates rows containing missing identifiers or unparseable timestamps. Attaches cryptographic hash provenance to each reconciled evidentiary line item. Produces a standardized audit-ready evidence ledger exportable in Markdown and JSON formats.

Submission format

Runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, working interface, example outputs, recorded demo, tests, and action logs.

Datasets

Challenge datasets

Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.

Evaluation rubric

How submissions are scored

These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.

Dimensions
4 scoring checks
Binary
1 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
3 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1

Complete workflow

Ingest tabular transaction logs and evidentiary finding notes using Frictionless Data resource schemas. Reconcile contradictory data points, such as conflicting counterparty names or overlapping transaction dates. Assign verifiable provenance hashes and source URIs to every accepted evidence statement. Synthesize a chronological evidence ledger detailing verified facts, source origins, and unresolved data quality issues.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 2

Correctness and evidence

Validates input transaction tables against Frictionless Data schema descriptors. Flags and isolates rows containing missing identifiers or unparseable timestamps. Attaches cryptographic hash provenance to each reconciled evidentiary line item. Produces a standardized audit-ready evidence ledger exportable in Markdown and JSON formats.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 3

Review interface

Audit ledger dashboard with side-by-side evidence source comparisons, data quality flags, and markdown export tools.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 4

Safe execution

Maintains an advisory case ledger; does not submit external Suspicious Activity Reports autonomously.

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Ingest tabular transaction logs and evidentiary finding notes using Frictionless Data resource schemas.

  • Reconcile contradictory data points, such as conflicting counterparty names or overlapping transaction dates.

  • Assign verifiable provenance hashes and source URIs to every accepted evidence statement.

  • Synthesize a chronological evidence ledger detailing verified facts, source origins, and unresolved data quality issues.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Synthesize normalized tabular CSV logs and accompanying Frictionless resource schema JSON descriptors stored locally. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

Input details are not configured.

LangGraph

Runtime for stateful agent workflows.

Evaluated output

No output checks are configured.

Evaluation checks
  • Ingest tabular transaction logs and evidentiary finding notes using Frictionless Data resource schemas. Rec...
  • Validates input transaction tables against Frictionless Data schema descriptors. Flags and isolates rows co...
  • Audit ledger dashboard with side-by-side evidence source comparisons, data quality flags, and markdown expo...
Configured evaluation evidence
  • 2 public reference cases
Configured runtime
  • 2 configured tools

Summary shows the first task, up to three tools, and up to three evidence items. Open the technical recipe to view all configured items.

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Configured tools

Action Space
  • LangGraph · Optional
Orchestration
  • LangGraph · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • Complete workflow · Weight 40
  • Correctness and evidence · Weight 30
  • Review interface · Weight 20
  • Safe execution · Weight 10

Reference cases

  • 2 public reference cases

Workflow tasks

No workflow tasks are configured.

Recipe freeze marker

No recipe freeze time is recorded.

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