This page is the method behind the scan report — published so the report can be checked against it, not taken on trust. Scan and the World Desk Setup Festival judging rubric share the same reading lens, applied to different ends — same lineage, different form. The rubric scores festival entries for a selection; the scan reads one private photo and never scores anything.
The reading lens
These are the same four lenses the WDSF rubric scores entries on — but here they only inform the reading below, individually and in combination. No total, no weighting, no disqualification, no eligibility judgment, and no score of any kind — a lens, not a scale.
Work-mode fit
Does the layout serve a describable, believable real workflow? The reading looks for evidence in the layout itself — input devices, compute, display zones that map to specific work — not for whether the desk merely looks professional.
Spatial narrative
Does the space express who works here and how? This is the record-keeper's question: can a stranger read person and place from the photo — not whether the room is decorated.
Craft & execution
How completely is the intent carried through — cable work, alignment, material coherence. Budget is explicitly not the question; a finished inexpensive desk reads as complete where an unfinished expensive one does not.
Authenticity
Does the photo read as a space in real use rather than staged for show — working traces, connected peripherals, believable wear. In the WDSF selection this lens can disqualify an entry; in the scan it cannot — there is nothing to disqualify you from.
The three layers
What the lenses above produce is not four scores — it is one reading, written in three layers, ledger voice, by an AI model working from your photo alone.
Observed
What the photo actually shows — the objects, the layout, the zones. A plain inventory of what is in the frame, no evaluation yet.
Reads as
The observed layout read AS one way of working, with the visible cues that support the reading. A reading, not a verdict — it can name its own uncertainty.
Noted
One or two durable notes. Each judges an object or an idea — never the person — with a reason, and is falsifiable. Never a shopping list, never a product name, never a renovation suggestion.
Where your data goes
This is the same disclosure shown on the upload page before you consent (version v4) — the evergreen copy of it, kept in lockstep.
A specialist AI reads your photo.
To read your desk, we send your photo to MiniMax, a specialist AI service (run by Nanonoble Pte. Ltd., Singapore). Being upfront: under MiniMax's own terms, it may use what's sent to run and improve its services, and it doesn't offer a way to opt out of that. That's why we keep everything on our side — storage, deletion, what you share — as tight as we can.
Where it's stored, and when it's deleted.
Your photo sits in Alibaba Cloud's Singapore region; MiniMax processes it in data centers it says are in the United States. We delete our copy of the original within 24 hours after the 7-day mark. MiniMax doesn't publish how long it keeps API inputs, so we can't verify that side. Your report stays on its private page until you delete it. Deleting it erases every copy we hold — the report page and our backups, the backups clearing within 30 days. The copy already in your inbox is yours: we can't reach into your mailbox, so keeping or deleting that one is up to you. We keep short deletion logs (technical metadata only, no image) for 90 days.
Change your mind? Delete it in one email — or one click on the report page.
Email beyond-desk@hexcal.com from the address you give us, and we'll remove everything we hold tied to it — the original photo (even before day 7), the report page, your email and our delivery records, and your profile with our email provider (Klaviyo) — and file a deletion request with MiniMax. The report page's own delete button runs the exact same removal, no email needed. Neither one can reach the report copy already sitting in your own inbox — that one is yours to keep or delete. Either one also withdraws your consent (it won't undo processing that already happened). We aim to finish within a month.
Deletion on request, at any time: beyond-desk@hexcal.com — write from the address you submitted, and the cascade described above runs against everything tied to it.
Version record
- Version v4Date 2026-07-18β mirror rewrite: scored dimensions replaced by three read layers (Observed / Reads as / Noted), the four rubric lenses kept as shared reading context rather than individually scored fields; the report moved from an emailed copy to a private, sign-in-gated report page.
- Version v1Date 2026-07-12Initial publication with the scan launch.
Same lineage, different form
The reading lens above is the same one behind the WDSF judging rubric — one set of definitions, applied in two forms: the rubric scores festival entries for a public selection; the scan reads one private photo into three layers and scores nothing. Same lineage, not the same use — the rubric is a selection, the scan is a mirror.
This reading was private, for you. If you'd rather put the desk on the public record, you can submit it to the registry.
