THEORETICAL BASIS
Why the check sits outside the thing that writes.
A tool that generates cannot audit itself. Whatever verifies an authority has to sit outside the thing that produced it. TrueCite is that outside: a deterministic gate built on a theory of delegation and verification, not on a language model.
- Anchor. Human intention is raised to a citation identity that can be checked — not to a prompt.
- Compare. The identity is matched against an admitted, versioned index, and where no index tier holds it, against the record for that citation on a named court or law library site, read at a stated time. A named source is the source of truth, not the model and not the submitting party.
- Name the source, always. Every finding says which source answered it, on what basis, and when it was observed. A source located at the time of the check is labelled as that and never dressed as the court’s own index; the reader can go to it and see for themselves.
- Do not elevate. Client materials cannot turn unresolved into verified. Silence is a lawful outcome.
- Record. The finding carries its evidence basis, source, date, coverage and limits. That record is the public proof; the books are not.
The programs are the bones. Intelligence, if it is used at all, is flesh around them. TrueCite ships the bone: an identity stamp a practice system can embed.