How we verify a script.
The full method — because a tool that checks claims should show its own work. Every step below follows the same sentence.
The company stole $20 million.
One claim, followed from arrival to delivered report
We find the claims
Every sentence that asserts something checkable becomes a claim: facts, numbers, quotes, legal allegations, causation, superlatives, dates. Opinions, predictions and rhetoric are marked Not Checkable and left alone — we do not research them and we do not touch your voice.
We hunt the original source
A news article is usually reporting something else — a filing, a dataset, a statement. We follow it back. A court document beats a story about the court document, because the story can be wrong about it.
We count evidence chains, not headlines
Four articles carrying the same figure are not four confirmations if three of them reprint the first. Your report shows the chain and says so in words, because this is the single easiest way for a careful writer to be confidently wrong.
Allegation or established fact
This is where scripts get into trouble, and it is almost never deliberate. An indictment alleges; a conviction establishes. A sentence that states the allegation as settled says something no court has said.
We check freshness
Accurate once is not accurate now. Charges get dropped, records get broken, figures get revised. A claim that was true when it was reported gets marked Outdated rather than wrong.
Every claim gets one of seven statuses
No scores, no percentages, no confidence bars. Seven statuses, each meaning one specific thing, so you can scan a report and know exactly where you stand.
A human reviews every high-risk claim
Crime, fraud, medical and financial claims, live legal matters, and anything about a private individual are reviewed by a person before the report goes out. AI helps us search and draft; it does not decide what your report says.
You get the Evidence Report
Every claim with its status, its sources, what the evidence shows, and — where the wording overstates — a replacement sentence. Plus an honest list of what we could not settle either way.
Most tools ask whether a claim appears true. We ask whether the exact sentence you’re about to publish says more than the evidence supports.