Frequently asked questions
Straight answers, no black boxes.
What Veridicta does, what it does not, and how it handles your work. If your question is not here, the demo answers most of them in under a minute.
Is Veridicta an AI detector?
No. AI detectors guess whether text was machine-written, and that is scientifically unreliable. Veridicta does the opposite: it checks verifiable facts. It looks up each citation in real databases and reports what it found. It never judges who or what wrote your document.
Which databases do you check against?
For scholarly and scientific work: Crossref, OpenAlex and arXiv, open and authoritative sources covering tens of millions of records. Case-law checks use CourtListener. Every verdict names the databases that were searched.
What if a source is not in those databases?
We label it “Unverified, not in the databases searched” and name them. That is not an accusation. Books, paywalled reports and grey literature do not always appear in open databases, so we tell you exactly what we could and could not check rather than guess.
Do you train on my documents?
No. We do not train any model on your content. Uploaded documents are processed to produce your result and kept briefly (about 24 hours) so you can reopen a scan, then deleted. See our Privacy page.
Can I share the result?
Yes. Pro issues a tamper-evident Source-Verification Certificate with a shareable link. Anyone you send it to can confirm it was not altered, without creating an account.
Is the certificate court-ready?
It is a mechanical attestation of what was checked and what was found: evidence for human review, not legal advice and not a guarantee. A qualified person should always make the final call before relying on it.
How accurate is it?
On a held-out benchmark of 22 real references, Veridicta raised zero false “not found” verdicts (0.0%). We publish the method on our Trust page and keep the false-positive rate low by design, because a wrong accusation is worse than a missed one.
What file types can I scan?
PDF and DOCX, or paste text directly. We extract citations from the body, footnotes and reference list.
Do I need an account?
The 60-second demo needs no sign-up. To scan your own document you create a free account. The existence check is free; Pro adds quote verification, certificates and shareable links.
How much does it cost?
The citation-existence check is free, forever. Pro is $29 a month for un-watermarked certificates, shareable links and quote verification. Team and Firm plans are custom. See Pricing.
Still deciding?
Run the sample scan and watch it catch a citation that does not exist.