Citecheck
A pre-publication review that extracts claims and citations, checks source access and shows whether the cited passage actually supports the draft's wording.
AI-assisted drafts can contain links that do not exist, sources that resolve to unrelated pages or statistics that the cited page never states. The supplied research confirms enterprise fact-check infrastructure, affordable search access and free scholarly metadata, but found no reviewed solo-priced product focused on deterministic link and citation resolution. That supports a narrow quick-win workflow, not a complete truth engine.
An accessible page is not evidence for a claim. A matching phrase can be quoted out of context, superseded, satirical, translated poorly or copied from another secondary source. Dynamic pages change; paywalls and robots controls limit access; numeric claims need units, population, date and methodology. The product should say unable to verify when evidence is missing rather than manufacture a source or silently broaden the claim.
Draft claim, citation marker, requested URL, redirect chain, retrieved representation, source identity, quoted passage, support assessment, reviewer finding, correction, publication and later source change are separate. Citecheck should make the evidence chain inspectable while leaving truth judgment, fair quotation, legal review and publication with the author.
A solo newsletter publisher, independent researcher or content founder who uses assisted drafting and publishes factual claims without a dedicated fact-checking desk.
High-volume assisted drafting makes fabricated or mismatched citations a visible current problem.
Independent publishers have a recognizable reputational risk, though frequency and willingness to pay need testing.
Citation hallucination, assisted publishing and accessible retrieval infrastructure converge around a specific preflight job.
The input supplies a concrete solo-publisher failure mode, confirms usable search and metadata infrastructure and identifies a narrow gap below enterprise fact-checking products.
The moat is low, support judgment is not fully deterministic, source access and change are messy, and search or writing incumbents can add similar checks.
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