Why I built rtfstruct, fifteen years after writing the RTF parser inside Scrivener

Lee Powell · Architect of Scrivener and Scapple · Lumen & Lever Most AI document pipelines fail before the model is ever called. Tables become paragraphs. Lists collapse into prose. Annotations are detached from context. Page references disappear. Source traceability is replaced by a confidence score. The structure that gave the document its meaning is gone before retrieval runs, and no retrieval recovers it. This is the layer that gets underestimated. I have worked on it for a long time. Lo