Dr Ana Petrus
Co-founder, thinkerlab · Product · Outreach
Adjunct lecturer at FH Graubünden and founder of scivia, a consultancy specialising in data governance, research data management, digital sustainability and AI literacy.
anapetrus.chAbout Veracite
Veracite started with a stack of theses
— and a growing pile of references that didn’t exist.
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Why it exists
Large language models have changed how people find literature. The results usually read well and most references are real. However, some have a plausible author, a convincing title and a journal that exists, but point to a paper that was never written. Supervisors see them in theses. Editors and librarians see them in submitted manuscripts and reader enquiries. Researchers find them in their own drafts, sometimes just before a deadline.
Checking for them means going through bibliographies by hand, entry by entry, across catalogues and databases that no single search covers. Conversations with colleagues, librarians and clients kept ending at the same place:
Nobody wanted an AI to guess whether a citation was fake. They wanted to know whether it could be found, and where.
Our answer
Look it up. Match the details. Show the evidence.
Veracite answers that question. It looks each reference up in scholarly and library databases and reports what it found, with the evidence attached. It does not score writing style or judge whether a text was machine-generated. It checks whether the cited work exists and whether its details match — and shows where it looked, so the result holds up when someone else asks.
The team
The people behind Veracite
Veracite is developed by thinkerlab GmbH in Switzerland.
Sangeeths Chandrakumar
Co-founder, thinkerlab · Technical Lead · Customer Support
AI engineer and technical lead. Has built audio-guide infrastructure for museums and cultural institutions, and deep-learning pipelines for dermatological image classification.
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