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December 20257 min read
Building an Epistemic Audit Engine
A notebook entry on claim extraction, verification middleware, and why confidence scores need structure behind them.
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The Epistemic Audit Engine came from frustration with how loosely reliability is discussed in AI systems. Confidence without structure is not enough.
The core idea was to decompose generated text into atomic claims, evaluate them against evidence, and produce verdicts that could be used downstream.
That pushed the system toward middleware thinking. Verification became an operational layer between generation and consumption, not just an offline benchmark.