Verified Research & Fact-Check
Answers you can defend. Every claim traced to its source.
What it is
A research and fact-checking system that shows its working. Two services, one engine:
1 · Verified Fact-Check. Give us your documents (contracts, reports, manuals, past bids, your "source of truth") and the claims you need checked. Every claim comes back graded Confirmed / Corrected / Demoted, cited to the exact file and line it came from. Not "trust us": an evidence ledger you can hand to a lawyer, a buyer, or a board.
2 · Deep Research Briefing. A question that matters, researched from deliberately-opposed angles (the optimist's case, the skeptic's case, the buyer's view, the economist's view), contested internally, and delivered as a graded briefing that will tell you if we think you're wrong.
What it solves
AI can write anything. That's exactly the problem. When the answer matters (a tender claim, a board paper, a client report, a public statement), "the AI said so" isn't good enough. One made-up figure in a document with your name on it costs more than the document was ever worth. New Zealand has already seen professional reports withdrawn over fake AI citations. Most businesses are stuck choosing between slow human research and fast AI answers they can't trust. This is the third option.
Already working
- Source-of-truth fact-check system built for a media production company's content pipeline: scripts checked claim-by-claim against their verified corpus before release. Your documents become your corpus; nothing is rebuilt from scratch.
- Blind-tested against a controlled corpus with a hidden answer key: 6/6, including catching claims that were nearly right (right fact, wrong number).
- We run the same engine on our own business decisions every week.
Price
| Package | Price (NZD, GST-excl) | Covers |
|---|---|---|
| Verified Answers Audit | $500 | Corpus built from your documents + up to 10 claims checked, full ledger. The on-ramp. |
| Fact-Check Project | from $1,500 | Full document or document-set verification (report, manual, content batch, bid). |
| Standing Verification | from $1,200/mo | Recurring checks wired into your pipeline: every script/report before release. |
Fixed quote before any work begins. Larger corpora quoted by scope, not surprise.
How it works
| 1 · Scope | You tell us the question or the document; together we agree the corpus: which sources count as truth. |
| 2 · Build the corpus | We index your documents into a closed reference set: the system can only cite what's actually there. |
| 3 · Run | Claims extracted, checked, graded; or the research question run through opposed lenses and contested. |
| 4 · Deliver | Evidence ledger + plain-English summary, walked through with you. Corrections flagged for your decision. We never silently rewrite your position. |
Common questions
- Is this just ChatGPT with extra steps?
- No. General AI answers from everything it's ever read, including things that are wrong. This system answers only from your agreed corpus, and every answer carries its citation. If the corpus doesn't support a claim, it says so instead of guessing.
- What if your system gets it wrong?
- The ledger shows the exact source line for every grade. You can check any call we make in seconds. That auditability is the product.
- Our documents are sensitive.
- NZ-based, NZ Privacy Act standards, read-only handling, deletion on request at engagement end. We'll put it in writing.
- Is this legal or compliance advice?
- No, it's an evidence and consistency report against your own sources. We tell you what your documents support; qualified professionals tell you what the law requires.