Never file an invented citation again.
CiteGuard re-checks every case you cite (real, still good law, cited to the right reporter and pin, and actually standing for the point you claimed) and hands you a signed receipt before the brief ever leaves your desk. Not a green checkmark you have to trust. Proof you can hand a judge.
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THE PROBLEM
A citation goes into a brief, and someone has to be sure of it. Maybe an associate typed it at 2am, maybe an AI drafting tool produced it and nobody fully trusts the tool. Either way, the case has to be real, it has to still be good law (not reversed, not overruled, not vacated), it has to be cited to the right reporter and pincite, and it has to actually stand for the proposition it is cited for. Courts are no longer taking your word for it. More than 113 standing orders now require per-citation certification of AI-assisted filings, judges are issuing sanctions (observed to about $95,000) for hallucinated cites that got filed, and the FTC's ban on DoNotPay made clear that unverified legal AI is an enforcement target, not a gray area.
HOW IT WORKS
CiteGuard sits behind the drafter, an associate or an AI legal tool, it does not replace them. For every citation, it runs the actual research legs and checks each one against ground truth: it parses and normalizes the cite on Westlaw, confirms the case exists on Fastcase, Shepardizes it on Lexis Advance to prove it is still good law, pulls the Fastcase authority score, and confirms the holding with a LexisNexis case search. Where a check is decisive, you get a verdict. Where a cite cannot be resolved, CiteGuard fails closed and flags it rather than passing it, because a citation it could not verify is exactly the one you do not want it to wave through.
WHAT YOU GET (the receipt)
For every citation, one line an opposing counsel and a judge cannot wave away: - VERIFIED, with the sources checked, or - the failure kind (invented citation, dead law, wrong reporter or pincite, miscited holding, weak authority, unverifiable), - the correct value, where one exists, and - the exposure, the sanction risk that cite would have carried into the courtroom.
A per-citation disagreement report you can certify from, not a dashboard you have to believe.
WHO IT'S FOR
Litigators and legal-ops teams filing on deadline, solo and small-firm attorneys leaning on AI drafting tools, and legal-AI vendors who need to certify their own output before a client files it. If a wrong citation from your desk ends up in front of a judge who is now sanctioning for exactly that, this is for you.
PRICING (the ladder)
- Pilot, a fixed-price paid proof on your own briefs. You see the receipts before you commit to anything. - Value-metered, per brief or per verified citation, once the pilot proves the catch rate. - Platform, CiteGuard wired into your filing workflow (or a vendor's stack) so an uncertified cite cannot ship.
IP is licensed, never assigned. The verifier stays ours, the certainty is yours.
THE PROOF (dogfood)
We run this discipline on ourselves. CiteGuard is the same verifier-first architecture that already powers AYA's regulatory pilot, a checker that sits behind a drafter and reports where it is wrong with the correct answer as a receipt, retargeted onto legal citations. Every citation in our own research reports and legal-defense filings is a candidate for the same pass. We are not certifying your citations with a tool we would not point at our own.
Honest status, today: the CiteGuard verifier is built as a composable pattern over legal research legs that already exist, and it grades against ground truth deterministically. Live runs on your briefs need your own Westlaw, Fastcase, and Lexis credentials wired in (you keep your keys), which is the pilot setup, not a rebuild.
First design partner slot open, a litigation or legal-ops team that files enough to feel the per-citation-certification pressure. case study to follow
HONEST NOTE
We would rather under-promise. Where the research legs give a decisive answer, CiteGuard certifies it. Where they do not, it tells you the cite is unverifiable and stops, it does not manufacture a green check to look complete. That refusal to fake certainty on something a court will read is the entire product.
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*This page is a specification. The capability it describes is not built yet, and nothing here is a claim that it runs today.*