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

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title: Workflows by outcome
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  Lithi Compute work is organized into eight outcome families. Find the family
  that matches your job, see the input it needs, and start with the smallest
  test that proves fit.
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## Choose by outcome

Workflows are grouped by the outcome they produce. Find the row describing the result you want, then read that workflow's descriptor for its exact inputs and bounds.

| Family | Input you need | Smallest first test | One reason not to use it |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Media | Audio, image or video files you already hold | Convert one file and compare it with your own copy | It changes format and structure, never editorial judgment |
| Meetings | A recording with reasonably clear speech | Transcribe one short recording | Heavy crosstalk lowers what any verification can confirm |
| Documents | Documents whose layout you inspected first | Extract fields from a single page | Unusual scanned layouts need a preprocessing stage first |
| Data | A tabular snapshot with a stable item identifier | Run twenty rows and read the result columns | Rows needing your private business rules belong in your system |
| Evals | A rubric, a reference set, or both | Grade ten items against one rubric version | An uncalibrated rubric scores confidently and proves little |
| Agent Work | A bounded task list your agent can describe | One item with one bounded instruction set | It runs registered primitives only, never arbitrary tools |
| Core ML Lab | A model plus the assets it needs | One conversion, then read the report back | It reports on the build you submitted, not on model quality |
| Apple Test Lab | A build and the tests you want run against it | One test target on one build | A green run describes that build, not your release decision |

## Start with the smallest test

Pick the narrowest version of your task and prove the fit first. A price preview costs nothing and runs nothing.

A quote never authorizes work. You approve separately, after reading the maximum charge it states.

## Pages in this group

- **Discovery** — read the current workflow descriptor before you build a request.
- **Parameters** — map your own fields onto the typed knobs a workflow declares.
- **Custom tasks** — what you can shape, and exactly what is not available.
- **Output schemas** — narrow the declared schema to the fields you will read.
- **Multi-stage** — dependency behavior, intermediate output and partial runs.
- **Quality presets** — what each preset checks, and what it cannot prove.
- **Rubrics** — versioned gates, scored dimensions and evidence rules.
- **Verification evidence** — what lands in your result to support a verdict.
- **Profile token bounds** — the input and output envelope for text work.