Ground Truth — three offline verification instruments

Three instruments that check a claim against the authoritative record, with the network disconnected. Each opens as a self-contained page, carries its own dated corpus, and states what it cannot see as plainly as what it can.

Why offline is the point, not the constraint. These are the conditions the work is actually done in: a network that is unavailable, a network that is not trusted, or a query whose subject is itself the sensitive part — the counterparty you are checking, the authority you are about to cite, the dependency you are about to disclose. An instrument that has to call an API leaks the question even when it answers it correctly, and answers nothing at all when the line is down.

Economic security

Chokepoint

Where an economy’s supply of a traded good is concentrated, and whether anyone else could physically fill the gap. Exposure and its mirror — the leverage the same economy holds over others — across 323,929 importer-product cells.

BACI 2024HS 6-digitexposure & leverage

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Authority

Veritas

Whether a cited authority exists, resolves to the case it is attributed to, and has not been retracted. Checks neutral citations against Find Case Law and DOIs against the Retraction Watch corpus, and refuses to call a citation false merely because it sits outside the corpus.

Find Case LawRetraction Watchcertificate output

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Corporate control

Lineage

Who consolidates whom, from the register regulators rely on. Walks 479,762 filed control relationships across 350,169 entities, counts the jurisdictions a chain crosses, and reports where the chain stops and why.

GLEIF Level 1 & 2chain walkjurisdiction crossings

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What they refuse to do. Chokepoint will not read a dependency below HS 6-digit resolution and says so rather than guessing. Veritas will not call an authority fabricated because it predates its corpus — a verifier that cries wolf on Donoghue v Stevenson teaches its user to ignore it. Lineage records accounting consolidation, which is not beneficial ownership, and does not pretend to be. In each case the limit is stated in the tool, carried in the data pack, and reproduced on every export.