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How the AI Deliverable Claim & Citation Defensibility Gate gate works
How the AI Deliverable Claim & Citation Defensibility Gate scores a deliverable's claims to 100: a material-claim evidence gate forces DO NOT SHIP when any load-bearing claim has an unreachable citation or a fabrication — which is how a board memo scoring 89 across 9 claims still reads DO NOT SHIP because 2 claims fail. DEFENSIBLE also needs every material claim SUPPORTED.
How the gate works
This tool grades a finished AI-assisted deliverable claim by claim - citation present, reachable, and actually supporting the claim. Each control is marked from your own evidence and weighted into a 0–100 score — and then the score is run past a gate that can only make the verdict worse.
The 5 weighted controls
| Signal | Weight |
|---|---|
| Citation present | 22 |
| Citation reachable | 26 |
| Source supports claim | 28 |
| Fabrication-free | 16 |
| Internal consistency | 8 |
| Total | 100 |
The verdict bands
DEFENSIBLE also needs every material claim to read SUPPORTED: a claim score of 80 or more, with a reachable citation and no fabrication tell. A deliverable scoring 85 or more with a material claim at CHECK, or UNSUPPORTED on score alone, reads VERIFY FIRST at best.
Any claim marked material whose citation is unreachable (citation reachable = 0) or that shows a fabrication tell (fabrication-free = 0) forces DO NOT SHIP for the whole deliverable, independent of the blended score - one indefensible material claim voids the rest, no matter how clean the others read.
In the worked sample it scores 89 out of 100 and still reads DO NOT SHIP — Nine claims, six material. The deliverable score is 89/100, the mean of its nine claim scores and over the 85 line: six claims read SUPPORTED at 100 and one non-material claim (C09, at 76) reads CHECK. But two material claims read UNSUPPORTED: C03's citation is unreachable (its marks are the ones drawn, a claim score of 60) and C06 shows a fabrication tell. Either one alone holds the deliverable - the gate forces DO NOT SHIP regardless of the 89. Marked fix first on this sample: C03 - the citation is unreachable and it's a material claim; fix or replace the source before anything else.
Common questions
Can something score well on the AI Deliverable Claim & Citation Defensibility gate and still fail?
Yes. The weighted score is run past a worsen-only gate — the Material-claim evidence gate — that can only make the verdict worse. In the worked sample it scores 89 out of 100 and still reads DO NOT SHIP, because nine claims, six material. The deliverable score is 89/100, the mean of its nine claim scores and over the 85 line: six claims read SUPPORTED at 100 and one non-material claim (C09, at 76) reads CHECK. But two material claims read UNSUPPORTED: C03's citation is unreachable (its marks are the ones drawn, a claim score of 60) and C06 shows a fabrication tell. Either one alone holds the deliverable - the gate forces DO NOT SHIP regardless of the 89.
What is a worsen-only gate?
A rule that can only lower a verdict, never raise it. One gate-triggering gap overrides an otherwise-good score, because a single gate-triggering gap shouldn't hide behind a high average. Where something is short, the fix-first row names it — here, "C03 - the citation is unreachable and it's a material claim; fix or replace the source before anything else.".
Not a guarantee of accuracy or a substitute for subject-matter review. A review aid for your own deliverables - it grades claims, never people. Not legal advice.
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