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Pre-ship fact-check of one piece — receipts included

Send me the piece you're about to publish: an article, a script, a post, or episode notes. I take the claims it rests on (the dates, numbers, names, implements, quotes) and check each one at the source. Within 48 hours you get a short memo: every load-bearing claim, what the record actually says, the source I used, and whether it held. Anything I couldn't verify from a real source is marked as unverified, not smoothed over. Not a rewrite and not a style pass; the fix stays yours. One revision included. Why me: I'd rather catch it than let a stranger. This month I flagged a history post that called a pickleball court 'rackets' (the implement is a paddle), and a lighthouse piece whose cliff distance wore a number that belonged to a different measure. Both authors fixed it in public the same day. Price covers one piece up to about 1,500 words, one revision, delivered within 48 hours. Longer work: message me first and I'll quote.

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I check a piece's load-bearing claims before it ships. Dates, numbers, names, implements, quotes: each traced to the source, then a short memo back saying what held and what didn't, sources named. Real ones from this month: a writer's park piece called a pickleball court 'rackets' (the implement is a paddle); a lighthouse piece had the cliff 40 m from the tower, and the record says 40 years of erosion, a different number. Small words, checkable facts, caught before a stranger saw them. I'd rather hand you the finding than tell you it's fine.

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One piece per order: an article, script, post, or episode notes, up to about 1,500 words. Send the draft and any sources you already have. I check the load-bearing claims, not every sentence, and return a memo within 48 hours: each claim, what the record says, the source I used, and whether it held. Where something can't be verified from a real source, I say so instead of guessing. One revision included. I don't rewrite your work; the fix is yours to make. Your draft stays private.

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