{"slug": "show-hn-citellm-verify-ai-answers-in-pdfs", "title": "Show HN: CiteLLM – Verify AI Answers in PDFs", "summary": "CiteLLM launched a tool that verifies claims and traces AI answers to exact source passages in PDFs, available as a plugin for ChatGPT and Claude plus a standalone web app offered on request. The tool highlights each cited passage in the original document, supports document search and question answering, and extracts defined fields into structured data with a source for every value, with an API available. CiteLLM targets regulated teams that need to show an auditor where every number came from, and offers to run the tool on a prospective customer's own documents for evaluation.", "body_md": "### CiteLLM Check\n\nVerify claims and trace answers to source passages directly in ChatGPT or Claude, or in a standalone web app we set up for your team.\n\nPlugin for ChatGPT & Claude · Web app on request\n\nCheck claims, ask questions and extract data. Every result links to the exact passage, highlighted in your original PDF.\n\n**Services**, up **14%**  to **$109,158 million** .\n\n|  | 2025 | Change | 2024 | \n| iPhone | $ 209,586 | 4% | $ 201,183 | \n| Mac | 33,708 | 12% | 29,984 | \n| iPad | 28,023 | 5% | 26,694 | \n| Wearables, Home and Accessories | 35,686 | (4)% | 37,005 | \n| Services | 109,158 | 14% | 96,169 | \n| Total net sales | $ 416,161 | 6% | $ 391,035 | \n\nClick 1 or 2 to see where each number comes from\n\nCheck a PDF in your AI chat, search a document collection, or pull fields into a table.\n\nEvery answer, claim or extracted value links to the exact passage in your PDF.\n\nApprove or flag each result, then export an evidence report for your records.\n\nSearch across your document collection and get grounded answers with passage-level citations.\n\nDocument search & question answering\n\nExtract defined fields from documents into structured data, with a source for every value.\n\nStructured extraction · API available\n\nNot using ChatGPT or Claude? [Ask us about the web app →](mailto:citellm@superdocs.io?subject=CiteLLM%20Check%20web%20app)\n\nNot sure what to ask? [See example requests →](https://citellm.com/prompts)\n\nThe Consolidated Leverage Ratio may not exceed **4.50 to 1.00**, stepping down to **4.00 to 1.00** from the fourth full fiscal quarter after closing .\n\nYes: after a Qualified Acquisition the limit rises to **5.00 to 1.00** for four consecutive quarters .\n\nFOR VALUE RECEIVED, LAKESIDE HOLDINGS LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (\"Borrower\"), promises to pay to the order of Meridian Capital Bank (\"Lender\") the principal sum of TWO MILLION FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($2,450,000.00), together with interest as provided below.\n\n**1. Interest.** The unpaid principal balance shall bear interest at a fixed rate of seven and one quarter percent (7.25%) per annum, calculated on the basis of a 360-day year.\n\n**2. Maturity.** All outstanding principal and accrued interest shall be due and payable in full on March 31, 2031 (the \"Maturity Date\").\n\nRecompute a borrower's ratios from its compliance certificate, using the credit agreement's own definitions.\n\nSearch your executed contracts in plain language and get the clause, not a list of files.\n\nRent schedules, options and critical dates in your template, each with its clause.\n\nEvery quotation and record cite in a brief or deposition digest confirmed before it is filed.\n\nCoverage questions answered from the policy wording, with the clause on screen for the adjuster.\n\nTotals, dates and line items captured, with the source one click away for any value that looks wrong.\n\nBuilt for regulated teams that need to show an auditor where every number came from, and who can see the files.\n\nEvaluating CiteLLM for your team? We'll run it on your documents so you can judge the results yourself.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-citellm-verify-ai-answers-in-pdfs", "canonical_source": "https://citellm.com/", "published_at": "2026-10-31 16:29:43+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-31 16:51:37.441564+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-products", "generative-ai", "ai-search", "structured-data"], "entities": ["CiteLLM", "ChatGPT", "Claude", "Superdocs", "Lakeside Holdings LLC", "Meridian Capital Bank"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-citellm-verify-ai-answers-in-pdfs", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-citellm-verify-ai-answers-in-pdfs.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-citellm-verify-ai-answers-in-pdfs.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-citellm-verify-ai-answers-in-pdfs.jsonld"}}