Orchard Tax Docs
Orchard Tax documentation for the solo-practice Prepare & Review stack.
ORCHARD TAX · PUBLIC DOCS + KB
Prepare & Review, explained like a system.
This public docs site keeps the working model close to the code: workflow decisions, engine boundaries, rule citations, deployment notes, and the guardrails that keep a solo-practice alpha deterministic.
TY 2025Public docsCited rulesSource traceability
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Recommended path
Four articles that explain the product shape fast
What lives here
| Workflow | Upload, extract, verify, review, and snapshot the return. |
|---|---|
| Engine | Deterministic federal math, rule registry, and golden tests. |
| Operations | Private alpha deployment, data boundaries, and runtime guardrails. |
| Authoring | How to add pages without losing the source trail. |
High-value pages
Prepare & Review workflow
The line-by-line path from verified fields to a reviewed draft return.
Tax engine architecture
Where money math lives, how sources attach, and why the engine stays pure.
Rules and citations
How TY2025 values, IRS citations, and rule IDs stay auditable.
Private alpha deployment
The Orchard-hosted alpha split across docs, app, Neon, and private Blob.
Tax engine guardrails
Contributor rules for constants, tests, overrides, and deterministic outputs.
Document intake
How uploads move from received to extracted to verified, including the no-key path.
Current posture
- Branding is Orchard Tax going forward, but the historical solotax filenames remain in place.
- The docs app is the public marketing and knowledge base site, and it stays separate from
apps/webso the knowledge base can evolve on its own cadence. - Anything that touches tax math still belongs in
packages/tax-engine, not in docs prose.