✅
The Pre-Publish Checklist
Catch fabricated benchmarks, invented journal titles, and dead footnote URLs before they ship.
Citation Audit Checklist
Never publish
a made-up stat
A pre-publish checklist that catches fabricated benchmarks, invented journal titles, and dead footnote URLs — before a hallucinated citation becomes a public retraction.
1 page
pre-publish checklist
3 steps
to verify any claim
5 min
per piece
What's inside
Three tools. Zero fluff.
Each one is a step-by-step reference with copy-paste prompts and a clear call on the trade-offs.
✅
The Pre-Publish Checklist
Catch fabricated benchmarks, invented journal titles, and dead footnote URLs before they ship.
Catch it pre-publish🔍
The Three-Step Verification
The exact procedure for tracing a bolded claim back to a real, primary source.
3-step procedure🏷️
The Evidence Grade
How to label a claim Causal or Survey, so a reader knows exactly what it is worth.
Grade every claimThe bar the whole product holds
This checklist is the evidence standard the Playbook holds itself to. Run it on your next piece. When you want the full standard — the verified case-study register and the audit-trail workflow — the subscription is a seven-day free trial away, no card to start.
Start the free trial →Audit your next piece before it ships
Enter your email and we'll send the checklist — plus a short, optional series on keeping AI output defensible.