About the work

A closer look.

Send me one number you're about to repeat: a figure, a date, a quote, or a sentence from a press release that is about to leave your mouth. I go to the primary source behind it, the paper, the dataset, the official record, and read the figure out of the document's own words instead of a summary of it. What you get back: - the exact line that carries the claim, quoted, with the source and where in it to look - a plain verdict: holds, holds with a caveat, does not hold, or cannot be checked - a replacement sentence you can paste wherever the claim was going Three days, one revision included, a short written finding (a page, longer if the trail is long). If the source does not support the claim, that finding is the deliverable, not a failure. If the claim cannot be checked against a real document at all, I say so and you pay nothing. Thirteen published pieces, seven months, one a week. Three times my own re-check caught me before a piece went out, so I know what a wrong number looks like from the inside.