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Challenge

Build a Frictionless Tabular Transaction Ledger Validator

Validate investigative financial transaction spreadsheets using Frictionless Data schemas. Detect corrupted tabular headers, missing currency cell values, and out-of-bounds dates prior to ingestion.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Validate investigative financial transaction spreadsheets using Frictionless Data schemas. Detect corrupted tabular headers, missing currency cell values, and out-of-bounds dates prior to ingestion.

Financial intelligence unit case supervisor

Load raw financial transaction spreadsheets submitted by field investigators.

Apply a strict Frictionless Data schema to validate column headers, data types, and required fields.

Identify row-level errors such as blank currency cells or malformed ISO date strings.

Generate a structured validation report detailing tabular anomalies and necessary field corrections.

Master case ledger view with side-by-side reconciliation panels, discrepancy flags, and narrative synthesis controls.

Construct synthetic multi-source case folders containing CSV transaction logs, JSON alerts, and markdown analyst notes. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

Frictionless data validation Applies Frictionless Data validation principles to audit tabular transaction logs and ensure schema compliance.

mastra-ai, frictionless, pydantic-ai. Coordinates asynchronous document ingestion, Frictionless table validation, and timeline generation tasks. Context-aware LLM capable of chronologically resolving overlapping narrative notes and ledger records.

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 tabular transaction records against a strict Frictionless table schema.

Highlights conflicting dates or amounts across disparate case documentation sources.

Produces a chronological sequence of proven facts with supporting evidence IDs.

Exports a defensible case handover ledger suitable for supervisory audit.

```json [ { "input": { "schema": { "fields": [ { "name": "amount", "type": "number" }, { "name": "date", "type": "date" } ] }, "rows": [ { "row_number": 2, "amount": null, "date": "2024-01-15" } ] }, "expected_output": { "validation_passed": false, "error_count": 1, "errors": [ { "row": 2, "field": "amount", "code": "missing-cell", "message": "Row 2 has a missing cell in field amount" } ] } }, { "input": { "schema": { "fields": [ { "name": "amount", "type": "number" }, { "name": "date", "type": "date" } ] }, "rows": [ { "row_number": 3, "amount": 2500, "date": "2024-02-10" } ] }, "expected_output": { "validation_passed": true, "error_count": 0, "errors": [] } } ] ```

Maintains an unalterable audit ledger without modifying underlying bank records or executing transactions. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Maintains an unalterable audit ledger without modifying underlying bank records or executing transactions. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Validates tabular transaction records against a strict Frictionless table schema. Highlights conflicting dates or amounts across disparate case documentation sources. Produces a chronological sequence of proven facts with supporting evidence IDs. Exports a defensible case handover ledger suitable for supervisory audit.

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

Load raw financial transaction spreadsheets submitted by field investigators. Apply a strict Frictionless Data schema to validate column headers, data types, and required fields. Identify row-level errors such as blank currency cells or malformed ISO date strings. Generate a structured validation report detailing tabular anomalies and necessary field corrections.

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 tabular transaction records against a strict Frictionless table schema. Highlights conflicting dates or amounts across disparate case documentation sources. Produces a chronological sequence of proven facts with supporting evidence IDs. Exports a defensible case handover ledger suitable for supervisory audit.

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

Master case ledger view with side-by-side reconciliation panels, discrepancy flags, and narrative synthesis controls.

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 unalterable audit ledger without modifying underlying bank records or executing transactions.

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

  • Load raw financial transaction spreadsheets submitted by field investigators.

  • Apply a strict Frictionless Data schema to validate column headers, data types, and required fields.

  • Identify row-level errors such as blank currency cells or malformed ISO date strings.

  • Generate a structured validation report detailing tabular anomalies and necessary field corrections.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Construct synthetic multi-source case folders containing CSV transaction logs, JSON alerts, and markdown analyst notes. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

Input details are not configured.

Mastra AI

TypeScript agent framework.

Evaluated output

No output checks are configured.

Evaluation checks
  • Load raw financial transaction spreadsheets submitted by field investigators. Apply a strict Frictionless D...
  • Validates tabular transaction records against a strict Frictionless table schema. Highlights conflicting da...
  • Master case ledger view with side-by-side reconciliation panels, discrepancy flags, and narrative synthesis...
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
  • Mastra AI · Optional
Orchestration
  • Mastra AI · 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

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Recipe freeze marker

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