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What's the difference between a citation and a receipt?

A citation points at a paper: authors, year, DOI, formatted for your essay. A receipt settles a question: the claim, the verdict, the evidence both ways and the confidence score, on a public link you can drop into any thread.

Who is this actually for?

Two people. Someone mid-argument who knows they read it somewhere and needs the source in ten seconds, and someone mid-essay who has written forty confident sentences and needs the ones that will not survive a marker. Same engine, two surfaces: the popup for the first, the workspace for the second.

What does it work on?

Any claim or question, typed on the site or highlighted on any webpage via the extension. Essay drafts by paste today; claim detection inside file uploads and Google Docs is on the roadmap.

Is it free?

Five checks a month are free, receipts and share links included, no card. Bro is $9.99 a month for 400 checks and 5 draft reviews; Pro is $29.99 and adds the side-panel workspace. Annual is twelve months for the price of ten.

Trust and accuracy

Do you ever invent sources?

No, and the product is built so we could not get away with it if we tried. Every citation is retrieved before it is judged, quotes appear only when they exist verbatim in the source text, retracted papers are caught by a nightly scan, and anyone can challenge any receipt with a counter-source.

How accurate is it?

We run a labeled evaluation before every release and publish all four numbers, including the unflattering ones: false-attribution rate, recall, verdict accuracy and quote fidelity. They live on the accuracy page with the dataset size and the run date, so you can tell whether a figure is current.

What happens when the evidence is genuinely disputed?

We say CONTESTED and show you both sides. A famous study that failed replication gets called exactly that. Flattening a live dispute into a clean answer is how you lose arguments to people who read the follow-up studies.

What if a claim is obviously true?

It comes back COMMON KNOWLEDGE with no sources attached. Bolting a paper onto 'grass is green' would be noise dressed up as rigour, so the engine refuses to do it.

What if there is no good source at all?

You get INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE and a plain sentence saying so. We would rather hand you nothing than hand you a citation that does not hold, and the receipt records the miss publicly rather than hiding it.

Can I challenge a verdict?

Yes, on any receipt. Bring a counter-source and the engine re-judges with your paper in evidence. Papers move verdicts; opinions do not.

Drafts, limits and privacy

How many words can I actually put in?

Bro takes 2,000 words per upload and 10,000 words a month. Pro takes 5,000 per upload, batches up to 20 uploads into one run, and covers 100,000 words a month. Either way we cite about 10 claims per 1,000 words, so a 2,000-word essay comes back with roughly 20 citations attached.

What counts as a check?

One claim, one question, one citation, one receipt. Essay reviews meter separately, so a heavy essay week never eats your checks.

What happens to my draft after you check it?

Essay text is kept for 30 days so you can reopen the review, then deleted. The claims and their verdicts stay, because that is what receipts are made of, but they are stored as claims rather than as your document.

Does a shared receipt expose anything about me?

No. A receipt carries the claim, the verdict and the evidence. It carries no identity, shared or not. Sharing publishes your connection to the claim, not your data.

Plans and billing

Why does Pro cost more?

It unlocks the side-panel workspace: whole-draft review, the argument critique with the counter-case, the analytical lens, a searchable claim library, and a deeper search on every check.

How do I cancel?

Any time, from your Stripe receipt email. No retention maze, no phone call, no three-step confirmation flow.

Still stuck?
The pipeline page explains how a claim becomes a receipt, and published accuracy shows how often we get it right. Anything else, challenge a receipt and we will answer it in public.