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How the evidence travels

Every insight keeps a trail back to its source.

b4joinacompany preserves what each source can support, names every transformation, and turns recurring terms and missing facts into questions—not conclusions.

Follow the full method Read the safeguards

✓Reported, submitted, derived, and destination evidence never collapse into one score.

The provenance thread

Follow one label from origin to limitation.

Interactive evidence contract
Rules-derivedUnverified interpretation
  1. 01
    OriginExplicit work-mode or schedule language

    Sentences in unverified stories and comments.

  2. 02
    Company matchDistinct source excerpts

    Source ID, URL, role, and observed date remain linked.

  3. 03
    TransformationRules count explicit mentions

    Coverage, conflicts, and extraction confidence stay visible.

  4. 04
    Product useWork-setup clues

    Reported mode and schedule become questions to confirm.

  5. 05
    LimitNever current company policy

    Confidence is support—not accuracy. Unknown never becomes onsite.

Derived is not a source. It is a named, traceable transformation of unverified source material.

Rules v1.0.0
Published evidence receiptDataset release v1.3.0

2,464 stories across 781 companies.

2026-07-24Main story snapshot
Schema · joins · hashesIntegrity checks
Claims not fact-checkedTruth boundary

Two paths, kept distinct

Prepared questions are not the same as AI answers.

The checkpoint engine is rules-based. Ask is optional and uses a bounded set of company story excerpts. Keeping the paths separate makes the limitation of each one visible.

01
Default checkpoint

Rules prepare what to verify.

No AI call
  1. InputCompany stories + joined comments

    Role and date context are retained.

  2. ScanEight fixed candidate concerns

    Term recurrence ranks management, pay, stability, growth, workload, culture, work setup, and hiring.

  3. OutputQuestion + guidance + rationale

    Up to three source labels are attached. Thin evidence keeps an Evidence Gap.

A prepared question is a prompt for direct verification—not a finding about the company.
02
Optional Ask

Generated text needs source review.

Excerpts sent on Ask
  1. RetrieveA bounded set of company story excerpts

    If lexical matching finds none, early company stories may supply fallback context.

  2. RequestThe provider is instructed to stay cited

    Retrieved excerpts leave b4joinacompany only after Ask is used.

  3. ReturnAnswer with [S#] labels—or labeled retrieval fallback

    Generated prose is not independently fact-checked. Inspect the cited stories.

When the AI allowance is exhausted, Ask stops before retrieval; public evidence remains available.

The language boundary

Careful wording is part of the method.

Personal accounts can show what deserves investigation. They cannot establish policy, intent, or one final judgment about everyone’s experience.

b4joinacompany can say

  • Several dated reports mention a related concern.
  • A submitted role range provides unverified negotiation context.
  • Explicit work-mode language appears in named source excerpts.

b4joinacompany will not say

  • The company has good or bad culture.
  • A submitted amount is an HR-approved salary band.
  • Missing work-mode evidence means the role is onsite.
Unknown is not positive or negative. Conflicting reports remain conflicting. Missing evidence stays visible as a gap.

Change without rewriting history

A later release does not silently rewrite saved context.

Evidence is published in versioned releases. Corrections and new source material require manual maintainer review and a dataset update before they can appear in a later release.

  1. 01Published releaseVersioned evidence and lane-specific dates

    Public research reads from the active release.

    v1.3.0
  2. 02New source or correctionPrepared for maintainer review

    The correction form stores a review record; it changes nothing automatically.

    Not published
  3. 03Integrity reviewIdentity, labels, joins, and files are checked

    Integrity checks do not fact-check personal claims.

    Maintainer run
  4. 04Later releaseAccepted changes can enter a new version

    Earlier release identifiers remain meaningful.

    New version

Use the method

Put a company through the evidence trail.

Build one brief, compare two companies on the same unknowns, or carry the research into Deshi Mula with the extension.