AI notice

Wrongstep explains which kinds of step in this sort of assembly cannot be undone if they go wrong, and what to confirm before doing one of those. It also says, just as prominently, which kinds of step do not matter much if they go wrong — because a service that only listed the dangerous ones would be one more thing making people tense, and most of an assembly is not the dangerous part.

You describe what you are putting together in one sentence. That sentence is sorted into a kind of construction. The grading is then produced on your own device from a local table of what is common to that kind — so it works with no connection, and produces the same reading offline as online.

The steps are on the sheet in the box. Wrongstep does not supply them, for any product, of any make.

It copies, rewrites, translates, excerpts and reads out no manufacturer’s instructions of any kind. It mentions no brand, no model, no series, no step number and no part number — none of those appears anywhere on this site. What it describes is only what is common to a type of construction.

So everything it says must be checked against the sheet you actually have. Two items that look identical from the outside can be put together completely differently inside, and yours is the one that counts.

The instructions in the box are the steps. This only tells you which kinds of step cost you something if they go wrong — check everything against the sheet you have.

What Wrongstep produces is a grading of consequence, not a schedule of order. It does not say what to do first, what to do next, or what to leave until later. Asked for the next step, it answers the same thing every time:

That is what the sheet in the box is for. This can tell you whether the step you are about to do is one you can undo.

Fixing anything to a wall, how much anything can hold, and the use of power tools are entirely outside the scope of this service.

Furniture tipping over can injure people, and particularly children. How to fix something, which anchors to use and whether a wall is suitable depend on the wall and on the item, and cannot be judged by this service — it can see neither.

If the sheet in the box includes anything about fixing the item to a wall, do not skip it. If you are not sure, get someone who does this work to do it.

When it detects content of this kind, the service stops entirely. It does not produce a partial reading, a hedged answer or a general note — it produces nothing, and says why.

Every reading carries the same line, on every plan, never behind a watermark or a paywall:

If a piece is too heavy or awkward to hold steady on your own, stop and get a second pair of hands. Nothing here is worth doing one-handed.

Nothing this service covers is worth doing one-handed, and nothing it says asks you to climb, to lift above your head, or to move a large piece on your own.

There is no upload control anywhere on this site, and there is no code path that would accept one. Photographs of instruction sheets are not accepted, for two reasons that are both real:

• A manufacturer's instructions are their work. This service does not copy, rewrite, translate or read out any page of them.
• Giving you steps from a photograph of a sheet is replacing the sheet — which is exactly what this service says it does not do.

• How your item is actually built.
• What the sheet in your box says. It has never seen it and does not want a picture of it.
• What is actually in the box — how many bags, what is in them, whether anything is missing or damaged.
• Your floor, your room, or how heavy any of it is.

The classifier

Sorting your sentence into one of a fixed list of construction kinds is the only judgement anything makes about what you wrote. It is a classification and nothing more.

The grading

The grading itself is not generated. It is looked up from a local table that was written by hand and holds only what is common to a kind of construction. No model writes a step, invents a reason, or produces a card. That is deliberate: text generated on the spot about which steps ruin a panel would be a confident guess, and a confident guess is the worst possible thing to put in front of someone kneeling on a floor with a fixing in their hand.

The drawings

Every path, arrow, gate, card and diagram on this site is drawn in code. None of the things that carry a reading is a generated image. Illustrations elsewhere on the site are generated pictures, they are labelled as illustrations, and none of them carries information that is not also written out.

It describes what is generally true, and it can be wrong about your particular item. Treat everything it says as a prompt to look before you commit, never as a verdict. It is not an inspection and not an approval.

High-risk uses are prohibited: medical, legal, financial, safety, employment, credit, housing and judicial decisions are all outside its scope. The acceptable use policy sets that out in full.

What you type is not used to train, fine-tune, evaluate or improve any model, ours or anybody else’s. It is not pooled into a dataset and not licensed to anyone. The privacy notice says what is kept and for how long.