Discipline, not drama.

Provenance

Every material claim carries its source, exact location within that source, date obtained, author or publisher when known, source type, and reliability assessment. Claims without sources are marked as such — they do not quietly become evidence.

Claim typing

Each claim is typed as fact, allegation, testimony, inference, hypothesis, or unknown. The type is preserved through analysis and export. The system never silently upgrades an allegation to a fact; a human review is required, and even then the original typing remains in the record.

Disputed accounts

When accounts conflict, both remain visible with equal weight. The timeline renders them side by side; contradiction review records the dispute and its resolution history. The system never chooses a version for you.

Hypothesis discipline

Hypotheses carry supporting and contradicting evidence, assumptions, potential bias, falsification criteria, and next lawful tests. A hypothesis with more notes is not therefore truer — only human review changes its status.

Grounded AI

Where deterministic methods are better (hashing, deduplication, full-text search, gap math), they are used instead of an LLM. Where AI assists, it retrieves only case-authorized material, must cite it, and may answer “insufficient evidence” — which is a complete answer.