diff --git a/apps/api/src/policy-ocr/parsers/policy-parser.spec.ts b/apps/api/src/policy-ocr/parsers/policy-parser.spec.ts
index ada16a2..361fa58 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/policy-ocr/parsers/policy-parser.spec.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/policy-ocr/parsers/policy-parser.spec.ts
@@ -310,7 +310,13 @@ describe("parsePolicy / GMX especificación (PVL Hogar)", () => {
     expect(p.agentName).toBeNull();
     expect(p.netPremium).toBeNull();
     expect(p.total).toBeNull();
-    expect(p.notes.join(" ")).toMatch(/no trae vigencia, agente ni prima/i);
+    // The note must tell the reviewer to key them in — those three are
+    // captured by hand on this layout — and must say what silently breaks if
+    // the vigencia is left empty.
+    const notes = p.notes.join(" ");
+    expect(notes).toMatch(/no trae vigencia, agente ni prima/i);
+    expect(notes).toMatch(/captúrelos a mano/i);
+    expect(notes).toMatch(/avisos de renovación/i);
   });
 
   it("takes the currency from the printed limits, not from the M.N. sublimits", () => {
diff --git a/apps/api/src/policy-ocr/parsers/policy-parser.ts b/apps/api/src/policy-ocr/parsers/policy-parser.ts
index 17b6055..1109303 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/policy-ocr/parsers/policy-parser.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/policy-ocr/parsers/policy-parser.ts
@@ -603,9 +603,15 @@ function parseGmxEspecificacion(page: OcrPage): ParsedPolicy {
   const { coverages, currency } = parseEspecificacionCoverages(lines, notes);
 
   // These are absent by design on this document, not failures to read. Say so
-  // explicitly, or the reviewer reads four empty fields as a broken parse.
+  // explicitly, or the reviewer reads three empty fields as a broken parse.
+  //
+  // The renewal consequence is spelled out rather than left implied: a Policy
+  // confirmed with a null `policyTo` never matches the renewals window query
+  // (`renewals.service.ts`, `policyTo: { gte, lte }`), so it drops out of the
+  // renewal notices silently and stays out. Nothing downstream errors.
   notes.push(
-    "la especificación PVL no trae vigencia, agente ni prima; esos datos están en la carátula de la póliza",
+    "la especificación PVL no trae vigencia, agente ni prima; captúrelos a mano " +
+      "(sin vigencia la póliza no entra en los avisos de renovación)",
   );
 
   return {
diff --git a/docs/POLICY_OCR.md b/docs/POLICY_OCR.md
index 611e42b..e65122e 100644
--- a/docs/POLICY_OCR.md
+++ b/docs/POLICY_OCR.md
@@ -171,8 +171,22 @@ Three things about the especificación are worth knowing before touching it:
   above it (`efectuados.`, `Y CADA PÉRDIDA.`), and without it coverages get
   named after the last word of the preceding prose.
 - **Vigencia, agente and prima are absent by design**, not unread. The parser
-  says so in a note, so a reviewer seeing four empty fields does not read it
-  as a broken parse. The caratula is the document that carries them.
+  says so in a note, so a reviewer seeing three empty fields does not read it
+  as a broken parse.
+
+  **These three are keyed in by hand** — confirmed 2026-08-14 with Luz, who
+  handles GMX policies at the office. The review screen already has editable
+  inputs for all three, and `postPremium` enables off the *typed* premium, so
+  a hand-entered prima posts to the ledger exactly like a parsed one. No code
+  change was needed to support this; it is a process decision, recorded here
+  because the parser's own note now instructs the reviewer accordingly.
+
+  > **A blank vigencia is silently permanent.** `Policy.policyTo` is nullable
+  > and the renewals window query filters `policyTo: { gte, lte }`
+  > (`renewals.service.ts`), so a policy confirmed without one **never matches
+  > and never gets a renewal notice** — no error, no warning, and nothing
+  > later notices. This is why the parser's note names the consequence instead
+  > of just listing the missing fields.
 
 An excluded catastrophic risk is recorded as excluded **in the risk label**
 (`Terremoto o erupción volcánica — Sección Edificio: EXCLUIDO`) with a null