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Bind at the source
Evidence is attached where a claim is written, not reconstructed by a reviewer later. The link is part of the sentence.
Early concept · in development
Evidence that carries its origin.
Provenant binds every claim to the sources behind it — so a brief can never say more than its evidence allows.
Claim sealed
“EV battery pack costs fell below $90/kWh for the first time in Q2.”
BloombergNEF · 2026
Volume-weighted average pack price reached $87/kWh mid-year.
98% supportIEA Battery Report
Confirms the sub-$90 threshold was crossed in Q2.
94% supportProvenance sealed · 2 sources · replayable
The block
Unsupported claims are blocked, not footnoted.
A footnote lets a shaky claim survive as long as something is cited nearby. Provenant does the opposite: a sentence with no evidence behind it can’t be sealed into the brief at all. The weak line surfaces in coral while you write — before anyone downstream relies on it.
Draft · competitive brief
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Our pricing undercuts the category leader by roughly 12%.
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Both competitors will exit the market within a year.
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Component lead times have shortened since March.
The lineage
Trace any sentence back to the page it came from.
Every claim keeps its chain: the finding it was derived from, and the source that finding was cited from, down to a content hash of the original document. Click a sentence and the whole path is there — no reverse-engineering what someone meant.
Claim“costs fell below $90/kWh”
derived from
FindingAverage pack price measured at $87/kWh in Q2.
cited from
Source sha256 4c1a…9f20BloombergNEF — Battery Price Survey, 2026.
Why it matters
A brief is only as trustworthy as the weakest claim nobody checked.
0Unsupported claims that can reach a sealed brief. The floor is evidence, not formatting.
1 clickFrom any sentence to the exact source and the hash of the page it came from.
∞Points in time you can replay a brief to — see what was known, and when.
The replay
Wind any brief back to what was known at the time.
Evidence changes: a source is retracted, a number is revised, a claim is blocked and later supported. Provenant keeps the whole trail, so you can replay a decision to the exact state it was made on — and show, not assert, that it was sound then.
Audit trail · market_brief_q3
09:14A. Virtanensealed
11:02modelblocked
14:37A. Virtanensealed
↶ Replay to any point — see exactly what was known when.
The method
Three rules the engine never relaxes.
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Block, don’t footnote
A claim with no support can’t be sealed. Weak lines surface while drafting instead of hiding behind a citation.
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Keep the whole trail
Every change is recorded and replayable, so any brief can be returned to the exact state a decision was made on.
Questions
What researchers ask first.
How is this different from citing sources?
A citation sits next to a claim; it doesn’t constrain it. Provenant makes the link load-bearing — a claim that isn’t backed can’t be sealed, and every claim that is carries the exact finding and source it rests on. The bibliography stops being decoration and starts being a gate.
What counts as “supported”?
A claim is supported when it can be matched to evidence drawn from a source, with a confidence the author can see and adjust. Below the threshold, the line is flagged and blocked from the sealed brief rather than quietly footnoted.
Does it work on AI-written research?
That’s the point. A model can produce a fluent brief in seconds; the risk is a confident sentence with nothing behind it. Provenant holds machine-written and human-written claims to the same binding rule, so generated research arrives with its evidence or not at all.
Who is it being built for?
Teams whose work is only as good as its sourcing — investment and market research, diligence, policy, and competitive intelligence — where a single unsupported claim can carry real cost downstream.
We’re building Provenant now
Let the evidence set the ceiling.
Provenant is an early concept from The Adjacent Possible. We’re building the binding engine and the lineage model, and we’d like to talk to research, diligence, and intelligence teams who already treat sourcing as the job.
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