Reasoning quality is hard to improve when reviewers only mark outputs as good or bad. Rubrics make the failure mode visible.

Score each workflow on factual support, source coverage, assumption handling, policy alignment, user impact, and action readiness. Keep the rubric short enough that reviewers will actually use it.

Over time, rubric results reveal where prompts, retrieval, tools, or human review policies need change. The rubric becomes a management system for reasoning quality, not a one-time QA sheet.