How it works
Evidence on every citation, not a score on your writing.
Veridicta reads a finished document, checks each citation against real sources, and shows its work. Here is the full pipeline, the verdicts it can return, and an honest account of what it can and cannot check.
The pipeline
Five steps, from upload to certificate.
Ingest and extract
Ingest and extract
Upload a PDF or DOCX, or paste your text. Veridicta extracts every citation from the body, the footnotes and the reference list, and detects the citation style (APA, MLA, IEEE, Vancouver, Chicago or Bluebook) so it can read each reference correctly.
Resolve existence
Resolve existence
Each citation is looked up in Crossref, OpenAlex and arXiv: free, authoritative databases covering tens of millions of records. Veridicta matches per component on title, authors, year and DOI, so a real source with a wrong year is not confused with a source that does not exist.
Verify quotes
Verify quotes
When you provide the cited source, Veridicta checks each quotation word for word against it. If the wording drifts, you get a side-by-side diff showing exactly what differs, rather than a yes or no.
Check grounding (opt-in)
Check grounding (opt-in)
An assistive, opt-in step looks at whether the cited source actually supports the claim it is attached to, and flags statements a source may not back up. It is a prompt for human review, not a final judgement, and it is off by default.
Issue the certificate
Issue the certificate
Veridicta produces a Source-Verification Certificate: a tamper-evident record of what was checked and what was found. It is signed, shareable by link, and anyone can re-verify it was not altered, with no account.
Verdict states
Five verdicts, so a wrong year is never a fabrication.
Most tools give a pass or fail. Veridicta separates the cases that matter, so you know whether to fix a detail or pull a source entirely.
The source resolves and its key components match the citation.
The source is found, but a detail differs, such as the year or a page range.
No matching source in the databases searched. This is not an accusation: the verdict names exactly where it looked.
The citation points to something the open databases do not cover, such as a book or a paywalled report.
The citation is too ambiguous or incomplete to resolve with confidence.
What Veridicta checks well
- Journal articles, conference papers and preprints with a DOI or an arXiv ID.
- Author, title and year matching across millions of scholarly records.
- Quotations, when you provide the source they came from.
- Case-law citations, against CourtListener.
What it cannot fully verify, and says so
- Books and book chapters that are not indexed in open databases.
- Paywalled reports and grey literature with no public record.
- Quotations when the underlying source is not provided.
- Anything the open databases simply do not cover yet.
When a source falls outside what the databases cover, Veridicta marks it “Unverifiable” and names where it looked, rather than guessing. Coverage transparency is the point: you always know what was and was not checked.
The artifact you hand over.
Every scan can produce a Source-Verification Certificate: a tamper-evident, shareable record of what was checked and what was found. It is a mechanical attestation, evidence for human review, not legal advice and not a guarantee. The reviewer always decides.