Touchstone

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Does the source say it?

Paste an AI research report with its links. Touchstone opens every page it cites and checks each claim against the line the source actually wrote — not against whether the claim sounds right.

Example — Africa smartphone market

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ReportMarkdown

For full-year 2025, Transsion—the parent of TECNO, Infinix, and itel—led Africa’s smartphone market with about 48% of shipments, according to Omdia data.

2025 brand shares

Brand / groupQ2 2025 share Trend
Transsion (TECNO, Infinix, itel) 51%+6%
Samsung19%+3%
Xiaomi (incl. Redmi, POCO) 14%+32%

Note: figures based on shipments differ from “usage” statistics; Samsung can lead usage-based estimates even while Transsion leads new shipments.

Samsung was the strongest challenger, with Q4 shipments up 27%, helped by the Galaxy A series.

Devices priced below $200 made up 81% of African smartphone shipments in 2025.

Click a line to see its verdict.

Checked 7 claims

Five sourced, one unsupported, one contradicted.

Saved run of a real Perplexity answer. We changed Samsung’s 18% to 19% to show a catch.

A citation is a promise.

On 14 October 2026 we put the same question — internet access and the digital economy in Algeria — to Gemini, ChatGPT and Perplexity, then opened the pages they cited.

Gemini
18 citations. Of the 13 we could check, at most 2 were backed by the cited page: a 2024 edition cited for 2026 figures, UNCTAD figures credited to the World Bank, bare homepages.
ChatGPT
Mostly accurate — but the text you copy out has site icons where its inline links were, so the sources have to be put back before anything can be checked.
Perplexity
Cited a page for figures that page doesn’t contain.

Our own small test, not a study: one question, one day.

The Check

Claim in, evidence out.

One claim, three moves: open the page, verify the line, assign the label. Scroll through them, or pick one.

The page is opened

Verdicts

Four verdicts, said plainly.

Sourced
Partial
Unsupported
Contradicted

Other outcomes

Not every check ends in a verdict. These say why one couldn’t be given.

  • Couldn’t confirm
  • No source given
  • Unverified
  • Opinion
  • Source unreachable
  • Not checked
  • Error

An early prototype, honestly.

Cited claims per check
25
Don’t paste anything private. Reports are processed by Google Gemini’s free tier, which may use inputs to improve Google’s products.
Distinct source links
8
It checks the page, not the truth. Whether the source is right is still your call.
Checks per hour
5
Free, not commercial. Expect rough edges; your edits save on your device.

Only the first ones, in report order, are checked.

Bring a report.

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