Decidi for journalists
Survive the fact-check and the libel read before you publish.
Have every claim verified, every source questioned and the legal exposure flagged by independent models — so the story you publish under your byline holds up.
- Fact-check every claim — independent models cross-examine each other so no single one fabricates a detail.
- Run the libel read: which line is defamatory, unsupported, or an opinion stated as fact?
- Pressure-test the framing for bias the subject — and your editor — would call out.
- Surface the missing context that changes how the story should be read.
- Steelman the other side so the piece is fair, not a one-source narrative.
- Stress-test the headline against the body so it informs rather than overreaches.
- Every factual claim — verified, not assumed
- Legal exposure — defamation and unsupported assertion
- Framing and bias a critic would flag
- Missing context that changes the story
- The other side — steelmanned for fairness
- Headline vs. body — accurate, not overreaching
Say your investigation is ready to file: three sources, two documents, one reluctant on-the-record quote. The story is true — you are sure of it — but “true” and “provably true from what is in the piece” are different standards, and the subject has lawyers.
The Fact-Checker strips the draft to its checkable claims and tests each against what the piece can actually evidence — where a document supports a sentence, where a source’s claim is being carried as established fact, where two sources are actually one source twice removed. The Corporate Lawyer reads for the defamation surface: which sentences assert versus report assertion, and where privilege does and does not cover you. The Steelman constructs the subject’s strongest rebuttal so the right-of-reply question is asked properly rather than performatively, and the Ruthless Editor cuts the flourishes that add legal risk without adding proof. The Devil’s Advocate reads the whole piece as the subject’s counsel will. You file knowing which sentences carry the story — and which nearly sank it.
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