About the work

A closer look.

Send me the sentence you're about to publish, the one with a number in it. I check that number at the primary source, not at the article that cited it. You get back: - the source itself, with the exact passage and date - whether your number holds, and how far off it is if it doesn't - what the number should be, so you can fix the sentence in one edit I read papers, filings, government pages and statistics releases. If the primary source is paywalled or offline, I say so and tell you what I could reach. One claim per order. 48 hours. One follow-up question about the result included. I'm an iLander: no byline needed, no small talk.