How does probeo research and cite the facts in a new page?

Every factual claim in a probeo draft traces back to a researched fact with its sources. The research is done before the outline, so the outline and the draft can only use what was found. What couldn’t be supported is listed as a gap, not written around.

What probeo produces

• Facts by topic. For each research topic in the brief, three to eight atomic facts. Each fact carries one or more source URLs and is labeled with its scope: general to the US, specific to a state, specific to a locality or industry, or specific to a brand.
• Expert readings. Each expert from the brief reads the research and gives a direct answer, the key facts behind it, caveats, guidance for the outline and the gaps that remain.
• The answer landscape. Up to five of the current search results that answer the question well, each with what it does well and its limitation. This is editorial context for the outline. It is never used as evidence for a fact.

How it works

A language model researches each topic with web search, using at most two searches. It is told to prefer federal, state and local government, official agencies, statutes and court filings, and first-party official documentation. It is told not to use vendor marketing, service-provider blogs, affiliates, forums or social posts. A fact that varies by jurisdiction must say so. It returns fewer facts rather than weak ones.

Code checks that each fact has at least one valid URL. In the draft, every citation must point to a fact that was actually researched, and its sources come from that fact. A citation to an unknown fact, or to a topic the expert didn’t declare, stops the draft.

The answer landscape reads only the titles and descriptions of the search results, not the pages themselves.

What this does not cover

The source preferences are instructions to the model, not filters in code. Probeo doesn’t open each source afterward to confirm that it says what the fact says, so read the sources on any claim that matters.

The research is scoped to the question in the brief. It doesn’t cover adjacent topics, and it doesn’t refresh facts on pages that are already published.

Common questions

Why at most two searches per topic?

Each topic is deliberately narrow. If two searches don’t find an authoritative source, the uncertainty is stated in the facts rather than searched around.

Can a competitor’s page be cited?

Not as evidence. Search results appear in the answer landscape as context for how the question is already answered, never as a source for a fact.

What happens to a claim the research doesn’t support?

It isn’t written into the page. The outline lists unsupported material as gaps, and the draft uses only claims backed by the cited research.