> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.vinmake.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Guides

> Visual walkthroughs of the running GreatBook product, its document controls, and its accounting surfaces.

# Guides

Start with the product as it is: real screens, demo evidence, explicit unknowns, and refusals that explain themselves.

<Note>
  Every image in the new walkthroughs is an unretouched capture from a credential-free local demo build of the current default branch.
  The address bar is excluded, identities and values are synthetic, and no production system was used.
</Note>

## Start here

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="The product, screen by screen" icon="panels-top-left" href="/greatbook/guides/product-tour">
    Follow the running rail through Forms, Books, Accounting, Audit, Files, Actions, and Dev, including unavailable and inconclusive states.
  </Card>

  <Card title="The golden path" icon="route" href="/greatbook/guides/golden-path">
    The observed current-branch path from choosing a document through a separate approval, with the uncaptured handoff boundary stated plainly.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Refusals and revisions" icon="shield-alert" href="/greatbook/guides/refusals-and-revisions">
    See the blank-document gate, the maker approval refusal, and a real v1-to-v2 correction that preserves both versions.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Signing in and finding your way" icon="log-in" href="/greatbook/guides/sign-in">
    The workspace, rail, threads, and display controls.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## The document journey

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="1 · Compose the document" icon="keyboard" href="/greatbook/guides/compose-a-document">
    Pick a schema, fill the generated form, read the live preview, and save.
  </Card>

  <Card title="2 · Sign it" icon="signature" href="/greatbook/guides/approve-a-document">
    A designated approver signs; the author cannot approve their own work.
  </Card>

  <Card title="3 · Hand it to the Clerk" icon="send" href="/greatbook/guides/hand-off-to-clerk">
    The reference for the handoff boundary.
  </Card>

  <Card title="4 · Intake gate" icon="inbox" href="/greatbook/guides/intake-gate">
    The reference for the first human accounting decision.
  </Card>

  <Card title="5 and 6 · Draft and posting gate" icon="stamp" href="/greatbook/guides/posting-gate">
    The reference for the draft and the distinct posting decision.
  </Card>

  <Card title="See it in the ledger" icon="landmark" href="/greatbook/guides/see-it-in-the-ledger">
    How a posted entry is identified and traced.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Other workflows

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="GreatBook workspaces" icon="layout-panel-left" href="/greatbook/guides/greatbook-workspaces">
    The native Books families and the Accounting desk.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Upload a document" icon="upload" href="/greatbook/guides/upload-a-document">
    The second intake lane for documents that were not composed in the Typewriter.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Work the review inbox" icon="list-checks" href="/greatbook/guides/review-inbox">
    Reject, send back, and revise as distinct decisions.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Match evidence" icon="git-compare-arrows" href="/greatbook/guides/matching-workflow">
    Follow independent evidence through the matching workflow.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Follow accounting lineage" icon="waypoints" href="/greatbook/guides/accounting-lineage">
    Trace evidence, workpapers, subledger facts, and journal entries without conflating them.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Read the General Ledger" icon="book-open" href="/greatbook/guides/read-the-ledger">
    The event book, legacy balances, reconciliation, and statements.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Ask the Auditor" icon="search" href="/greatbook/guides/audit-your-books">
    Independent assurance from a read-only agent.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Work the exception register" icon="siren" href="/greatbook/guides/work-the-exception-register">
    Scheduled checks and the findings they leave for people.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Close a period" icon="calendar-check" href="/greatbook/guides/close-a-period">
    The close checklist and its blocking results.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Reference

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Reference" icon="table" href="/greatbook/guides/reference">
    Statuses, permissions, deep links, and API surfaces.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Known rough edges" icon="triangle-alert" href="/greatbook/guides/troubleshooting">
    Current limitations and how the product reports them.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>