Disclaimer

You bring in documents — PDFs you have scanned, files you already hold, pages you point it at. Okusoko reads them and turns them into a record you can work: it breaks what a document says into individual claims, attaches to each claim the exact quote it rests on, and checks that quote against the bytes of the stored source. It notices when two accounts descend from the same original, so twelve outlets running one wire story count as one account rather than twelve. It tracks which of your questions each piece of material bears on, where the record is thin, and where two sources flatly disagree.

The point of all of it is to let one person hold a body of material larger than one person can hold, and to keep every assertion tethered to the page it came from. It is filing, cross-referencing, and checking — done at a scale and speed a person cannot manage alone.

The material in an investigation is the material its investigator put there. We do not supply it, curate it, commission it or review it before it lands. An investigation is a workspace, and what is in it reflects the choices of the person who built it — what they went looking for, what they found, what they decided was worth keeping.

The same is true of the conclusions. Okusoko will tell you what your record currently supports; it will not tell you that you have gathered the right material, or that the picture you have assembled is the true one. A record built from six sources that all agree looks confident and may be badly wrong. The tool measures the record. Judging the world is the investigator's job.

Okusoko also helps you go and get material you do not have: searching the open web, digitised books, court and regulatory filings and public archives, following what your existing documents cite by name, and proposing what is missing. Anything it retrieves is retrieved because a user asked for it, at their direction, and it arrives as a lead — something to examine, not something we vouch for.

Material found this way carries whatever its origin carries. A newspaper archive contains the errors the newspaper printed. A court filing contains the allegations a party chose to make. Bringing such a document into a record does not make its contents true, and Okusoko does not treat it as though it did.

When Okusoko marks a quote verified, it is making one narrow, checkable statement: these exact words appear at this exact position in this exact stored document. That is a fact about the file, and it is machine-checked rather than asserted.

It says nothing whatever about whether the document is accurate, honest, complete, or written by someone who knew what they were talking about. A verified quote from a document full of lies is a verified quote from a document full of lies. The verification protects you from one specific failure — a claim drifting away from its source, or being invented outright — and from nothing else.

Okusoko composes prose: standing answers to your questions, briefs on where a case stands, an encyclopedia-style article, and suggestions about what to do next. All of it is generated automatically from the material in that investigation, and it inherits every limitation of that material.

None of it is our opinion. It is not a finding, not a conclusion we have reached, and not a statement by Cobble Network, Inc. about any person or organisation it happens to name. It is a reading of one investigator's pile of documents, produced by software, and it can be incomplete or mistaken in ways the software cannot detect.

Investigations name people and organisations, because documents do. A person appearing in an investigation has not been accused of anything by us, and the presence of a claim about them is not an assertion that the claim is true. Recording that a source alleges something is the opposite of endorsing it — it is what makes the allegation examinable.

Records routinely contain claims that turn out to be false; keeping them, marked and cited, is how they get disproved. If you believe material here is harmful or infringes rights you hold, please tell us.

Neither Okusoko nor Cobble Network, Inc. endorses, adopts, verifies or vouches for the statements, findings, conclusions or views of any user, or of any investigation, article, answer, note or post produced here.

A published investigation is one person's account of what they found. It is not reviewed by us before it appears, and nothing about it being hosted here implies we agree with it or have checked it.

Nothing produced on Okusoko is legal, medical, financial, investment or other professional advice, and none of it is a substitute for a qualified person who has looked at your actual situation. Do not make a decision that matters on the strength of an investigation alone — including your own.