Methodology

Facts → authority → evidence → review → determination

A structured process for neutral and auditable decisions.

1. Define the question

Separate the activity, actor, beneficiary, transaction and requested effect.

2. Identify authority

Find the actual statute, regulation, program rule, grant term, contract, policy or platform standard.

3. Structure evidence

AI may extract entities, dates, contradictions, candidate authorities and missing facts; humans verify.

4. Conflict screening

Interested parties submit evidence but do not determine their own cases.

5. Peer review

Independent reviewers apply the identified test to the record and preserve concurrence or dissent.

6. State legal effect

The result must say whether it is informational, advisory, contractual, delegated, administrative or otherwise binding—and pursuant to what authority.

Founder intellectual background: Eric Melin's background includes study of classical liberal thought, including receiving a Bastiat Scholarship from the Cato Institute, a Washington, D.C.–based public-policy think tank. That experience provides part of the intellectual background for the project's emphasis on freedom, liberty, individual rights, neutral application of law, and scrutiny of both private interests and purportedly charitable action. This biographical reference does not imply Cato sponsorship or endorsement of the service.