# Tailor

> Also known as TailorAU, tailor.au, and the `tailor-app` platform. Tailor builds sovereign intelligence systems for regulated organisations: evidence in, accountable action out, your people in authority. Documents, conversations, images and system events go in; Tailor reasons over them and produces work a named person reviews, approves and signs. Multiple AI agents collaboratively review and edit documents using PACT, the Protocol for Agent Consensus and Truth, an open MIT-licensed protocol ([github.com/TailorAU/pact](https://github.com/TailorAU/pact)). Tailor is the reference implementation. For vendor-neutral PACT tooling, see `@pact-protocol/cli`.

## Quick Auth (for AI agents, no interactive login needed)

```bash
export TAILOR_API_KEY=tailor_sk_YOUR_KEY
npm install -g @tailor-app/cli
tailor list   # works immediately
```

Do NOT run `tailor login` without flags: it is interactive and will hang.
Use `tailor login --key <key>` to store a key, or just set the env var above.

## What Tailor Does

Tailor senses, understands and acts, with a person in authority at the point of consequence. It takes in documents, conversations, images and system events, reasons over them, and produces work a named person reviews, approves and signs. Parallel review, structured proposals and AI-assisted resolution close the gap between "the document is written" and "everyone agrees on it", and every decision keeps its record: who proposed, who consented, who approved.

**PACT v1.1** is the protocol that makes this work. Agents join a document, declare intents, publish constraints, propose edits, and negotiate alignment, with humans in the loop when needed.

## Solution Pages

- [AI Document Review](https://tailor.au/solutions/ai-document-review): Parallel review, AI-assisted conflict detection, proposed merges, and audit trails
- [Document Consensus Platform](https://tailor.au/solutions/document-consensus-platform): Move reviewer comments, AI assistance, approvals, and rationale into one decision workflow
- [AI Document Approval Workflow](https://tailor.au/solutions/ai-document-approval-workflow): Review-to-approval workflows with AI-assisted conflict detection, human sign-off, and retained audit trails
- [AI Contract Review](https://tailor.au/solutions/ai-contract-review): Contract risk, proposed wording, reviewer decisions, objections, approvals, and retained audit trails
- [Sovereign AI Document Review](https://tailor.au/solutions/sovereign-ai-document-review): Australian-oriented AI review for regulated data, procurement, and security needs
- [Government Document Review](https://tailor.au/solutions/government-document-review): Policy, briefing, procurement, and council review workflows
- [AI Policy Review](https://tailor.au/solutions/ai-policy-review): Stakeholder feedback, policy conflicts, final wording, and decision rationale

## Comparison and Procurement Resources

- [AI Document Review vs Word Comments](https://tailor.au/compare/ai-document-review-vs-word-comments): When Word comments stop being enough for regulated review
- [Tailor vs Generic AI Tools](https://tailor.au/compare/tailor-vs-generic-ai-tools): Why prompt boxes are not the same as governed review workflows
- [AI Document Review vs SharePoint Approval Workflows](https://tailor.au/compare/ai-document-review-vs-sharepoint-approval-workflows): Why approval routing alone does not resolve complex review decisions
- [AI Document Review vs Email Attachments](https://tailor.au/compare/ai-document-review-vs-email-attachments): Why inbox-based review loops lose version control and decision history
- [Government AI Document Review Procurement Checklist](https://tailor.au/resources/government-ai-document-review-procurement-checklist): Public-sector evaluation questions for security, governance, and auditability
- [AI Tender Evaluation Software Australia](https://tailor.au/resources/ai-tender-evaluation-software-australia): Buyer-side guide for tender evaluation, procurement document review, assessor moderation, and audit evidence
- [AI Document Review Implementation Plan](https://tailor.au/resources/ai-document-review-implementation-plan): A controlled first-rollout plan for AI-assisted document review
- [AI Document Review Business Case Template](https://tailor.au/resources/ai-document-review-business-case-template): ROI, pilot scope, approval evidence, and risk gates for budget owners
- [AI Contract Review Risk Checklist Australia](https://tailor.au/resources/ai-contract-review-risk-checklist-australia): Risk, reviewer accountability, security, and audit-trail questions for AI contract review buyers
- [AI Construction Contract Review Software Australia](https://tailor.au/resources/ai-construction-contract-review-software-australia): Buyer guide for notices, variations, delay, payment exposure, reviewer decisions, approvals, and retained evidence
- [AI Contract Redlining Software Australia](https://tailor.au/resources/ai-contract-redlining-software-australia): Buyer guide for Word redlines, playbook context, fallback clauses, reviewer approval, and negotiation evidence
- [AI Contract Negotiation Software Australia](https://tailor.au/resources/ai-contract-negotiation-software-australia): Buyer guide for contract playbooks, fallback positions, redline rounds, approvals, version history, and audit evidence
- [AI Legal Document Review Software Australia](https://tailor.au/resources/ai-legal-document-review-software-australia): Buyer guide for source verification, human oversight, secure access, review decisions, and audit evidence
- [AI Due Diligence Document Review Software](https://tailor.au/resources/ai-due-diligence-document-review-software): Buyer guide for data-room document review, source-linked findings, reviewer approvals, materiality decisions, and audit trails
- [Best Document Review AI Australia](https://tailor.au/resources/best-document-review-ai-australia): Buyer guide for comparing Australian document review AI options by workflow proof, security, and auditability
- [AI Document Automation vs AI Document Review](https://tailor.au/resources/ai-document-automation-vs-ai-document-review): Buyer guide separating extraction, templates, routing, review, approval, and audit evidence workflows
- [AI Governance Software vs Review Evidence](https://tailor.au/resources/ai-governance-software-vs-document-review-evidence): Buyer guide separating AI governance platforms, risk assessment tools, assurance frameworks, and document review evidence
- [Critical Infrastructure Risk Management Program Document Review](https://tailor.au/resources/critical-infrastructure-risk-management-program-document-review): SOCI/CIRMP document review evidence checklist for critical-industry teams without legal-advice or compliance-platform claims
- [Policy Management Software Australia Review Workflow](https://tailor.au/resources/policy-management-software-australia-review-workflow): Buyer guide separating policy registers, acknowledgements, GRC suites, approval routing, and Tailor's review-to-decision evidence layer
- [Secure AI Document Review Data Residency Australia](https://tailor.au/resources/secure-ai-document-review-data-residency-australia): Security and Australian data residency questions for AI document review buyers
- [AI Document Review Evidence Pack](https://tailor.au/resources/ai-document-review-evidence-pack): Procurement, security, pilot proof, and audit evidence for AI document review buyers
- [AI Policy Review Audit Trail Template](https://tailor.au/resources/ai-policy-review-audit-trail-template): Fields to capture for traceable AI-assisted policy review
- [AI Compliance Document Review Software](https://tailor.au/resources/ai-compliance-document-review-software): Buyer guide for compliance document review, human approvals, exceptions, and retained audit evidence

## Case Studies

- [Document Review Cycle Time Case Study](https://tailor.au/case-studies/document-review-cycle-time): Customer-safe workflow proof for reducing manual consolidation and measuring AI document review outcomes
- [Government Policy Review Case Study](https://tailor.au/case-studies/government-policy-review): Public-sector policy review proof covering governance controls, data residency questions, and retained decision evidence

## Proof Assets Buyers Should Inspect

Tailor evaluation pages map each high-intent workflow to proof requirements: source-linked workflow screenshots, reviewer approval records, audit-trail exports, security and data-residency one-pagers, AI assurance/procurement packs, pilot outcome evidence, and short review-to-decision demo videos.

## Integration Paths

| Path | Install | Best for |
|------|---------|----------|
| CLI | `npm i -g @tailor-app/cli` | Shell scripts, CI/CD, testing |
| REST API | `POST /api/pact/{docId}/...` | Python, custom frameworks |
| MCP (stdio) | `npx -y @tailor-app/cli mcp serve` | Cursor, Claude Desktop, Windsurf, local Codex, LangChain, CrewAI |
| MCP (remote HTTP) | `https://api.tailor.au/mcp` (Authorization: Bearer ...) | Claude remote connectors, hosted agents (partial parity, see below) |
| AI Gateway (OpenAI-compatible) | point any OpenAI SDK at `https://api.tailor.au/v1` (Bearer or `X-Api-Key: tailor_sk_...`) | LLM-agnostic chat/embeddings/vision/consensus: swap your `base_url`, keep your code |
| SignalR | `tailor tap watch <docId>` | Real-time event streaming |

## AI Gateway (api.tailor.au/v1)

A sovereign, LLM-agnostic, **OpenAI-compatible** API. Point an unmodified
OpenAI SDK at `https://api.tailor.au/v1` with a `tailor_sk_*` key, no code
change beyond the base URL. Endpoints: `POST /v1/chat/completions` (stream +
non-stream), `POST /v1/embeddings`, `POST /v1/vision/analyze`,
`POST /v1/consensus` (multi-model agreement + dissent surface),
`POST /v1/audio/transcriptions`, `GET /v1/models`. Capability aliases
(`tailor-smart`, `tailor-fast`, `tailor-sovereign`) route to a vendor behind
config, with automatic failover. Australian data residency on demand via
`X-Tailor-Residency: au-only`. Guide: [ai-gateway.md](https://github.com/TailorAU/tailor-app/blob/main/docs/integrations/ai-gateway.md).

## Connector Surfaces

Tailor is a connector platform across Cursor, Claude Desktop / remote,
Codex / OpenAI, Microsoft 365 / Copilot, and any MCP-capable runtime.
Canonical playbook: [TAILOR_CONNECTORS.md](https://github.com/TailorAU/tailor-app/blob/main/docs/agents/TAILOR_CONNECTORS.md).
CLI vs HTTP MCP tool parity: [mcp-tool-parity.md](https://github.com/TailorAU/tailor-app/blob/main/docs/agents/mcp-tool-parity.md).
Tailor MCP, PACT MCP (`@pact-protocol/mcp`), and the PACT knowledge-graph
MCP (`@source-tailor/mcp`, formerly "Source MCP"; package rename pending,
served at `pact.tailor.au`) are distinct surfaces: pick the one that
matches your runtime, do not conflate them. The PACT knowledge graph is
independent infrastructure Tailor consumes, not a Tailor product.
The HTTP MCP discovery endpoint is anonymous (no key needed):
`https://api.tailor.au/.well-known/mcp.json`.

## Docs

- [Docs Overview](https://tailor.au/docs): API, CLI, MCP, Microsoft 365, security, PACT, and real-time event documentation
- [Quickstart](https://tailor.au/docs/quickstart): Install CLI, upload a doc, share it in 2 minutes
- [Agent Integration](https://tailor.au/docs/agents): Connect via CLI, REST API, or MCP tools
- [CLI Reference](https://tailor.au/docs/cli): 27 command groups for documents, reviews, and PACT
- [PACT Protocol](https://tailor.au/docs/pact): Full spec: entities, proposals, ICS, barriers, trust
- [API Reference](https://tailor.au/docs/api): REST endpoints with schemas and examples
- [Real-Time Events](https://tailor.au/docs/webhooks): SignalR WebSocket events and payloads
- [Microsoft 365](https://tailor.au/docs/m365): Add Tailor to Word, Outlook, Teams, Copilot
- [Security](https://tailor.au/docs/security): Auth, encryption, BYOK, data residency
- [Changelog](https://tailor.au/docs/changelog): Version history
- [PACT Specification](https://github.com/TailorAU/pact): Standalone, vendor-neutral protocol spec

## Complete Reference

- [Full Documentation (llms-full.txt)](https://tailor.au/llms-full.txt): Complete reference in plain text: CLI commands, PACT protocol, REST API, integration examples