3 Patent Applications — Prior Art Clear

Because Accuracy Matters

AI-generated citations are polluting the scientific literature, corrupting court filings, and eroding the foundations of evidence-based discourse. Evidite is not another AI tool. Every citation Evidite resolves, every quotation it verifies, and every legal case it identifies and formats includes where it came from — its provenance. No overconfidence. No hallucination. No fabrication. No guessing. Just the facts, never “alternative facts.” If Evidite cannot resolve your citation, find your quotation, or identify the correct court case, it doesn’t guess at what it might be; instead, it informs you it does not know — prompting you to consider whether a citation, quotation, or court case might be a fabrication or a hallucination.

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350M+

Hours Lost to Citation Work Annually

$14B+

Annual Cost of Citation Work

56%

of AI Citations Are Fabricated or Contain Errors

∼40M

Professionals Who Need This

Sources & Methodology

AI Is Making Citation Errors Worse — Not Better

The headlines are writing themselves. The crisis is real, accelerating, and unsolved.

“Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature”

110,000+ papers with fake references in 2025

Miryam Naddaf and Elizabeth Quill, “Hallucinated Citations Are Polluting the Scientific Literature. What Can Be Done?,” Nature 652, no. 8108 (2026): 26–29, https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-00969-z.

“US Appeals Court Fines Lawyers $30K Over AI Filing Errors”

Sanctions escalating 6x in 3 years

Ma Fatima, “US Appeals Court Fines Lawyers $30K Over AI Filing Errors,” JD Journal Blog, March 16, 2026, https://www.jdjournal.com/2026/03/16/us-appeals-court-fines-lawyers-30k-over-ai-filing-errors/.

“Hallucination-Free? Assessing the Reliability of Leading AI Legal Research Tools”

Lexis+ AI & Westlaw AI: 17–33% hallucination rate

Varun Magesh, Faiz Surani, Matthew Dahl, et al., “Hallucination‑free? Assessing the Reliability of Leading AI Legal Research Tools,” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 22, no. 2 (2025): 216–242, https://doi.org/10.1111/jels.12413.

“A.I. ‘Hallucinations’ Created Errors in Court Filing, Top Law Firm Says”

~40 errors including fabricated citations in a single filing by Wall Street’s most prestigious firm

Santul Nerkar, “A.I. ‘Hallucinations’ Created Errors in Court Filing, Top Law Firm Says,” New York Times, April 21, 2026, https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/nyregion/sullivan-cromwell-ai-hallucination.html.

Case Study — April 2026

When AI Hallucinations Hit the Courtroom

On April 18, 2026, Sullivan & Cromwell—Wall Street’s most prestigious law firm—filed a five-page apology letter with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court (S.D.N.Y.) after its emergency motion in In re Prince Global Holdings Limited was found to contain fabricated case citations, invented statutory language, and misquoted authorities—all generated by AI.

“The Firm’s policies on the use of AI were not followed. . . . this review process did not identify the inaccurate citations generated by AI.”

— Andrew G. Dietderich, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Comprehensive policies. Mandatory training. Secondary review. All failed.

The Headlines
Bloomberg

“Sullivan & Cromwell Apologizes to Judge for AI Hallucinations”

CNN

“Another ‘hallucinated’ court filing highlights the difference between Silicon Valley and the rest of the world”

NYT

“A.I. ‘Hallucinations’ Created Errors in Court Filing, Top Law Firm Says”

From the Errata (Schedule A)

“As expressly contemplated by section 1519(b) of the Bankruptcy Code, which permits the Court to grant relief ‘on an ex parte basis,’ the” The urgent need to obtain the Emergency Order . . .

Source: PACER, S.D.N.Y. Bankruptcy Court, Doc 25, Filed 04/18/2026

Enterprise-Grade Infrastructure

29 Data Sources

CrossRef, PubMed, OpenAlex, Google Books, Library of Congress, CourtListener, and more.

Verification Engine

Confidence scoring and retraction detection.

Word Integration

Native Microsoft Word add-in. Resolve inline or batch-process entire documents.

Patent-Pending IP

One provisional utility patent filed. Two utility patents in progress after prior art searches found no blocking references.

Built to Scale

Cloud-native on Google Cloud Run. Designed for 10,000+ simultaneous users.

Cost-Optimized

Waterfall architecture minimizes expensive API calls. Cache-first strategy cuts costs 90–99%.

13M+ Pre-Cached SourceComponents

More than 13 million pre-cached SourceComponents comprising the most frequently cited sources in law, science, medicine, government, and academe.

Research, Engineering, and Design

One team built to ship.

Eric Caplan

Eric Caplan, PhD

CEO & Co-Founder

Historian of medicine, author, and inventor of Evidite’s suite of products—BlindnoteGenie, CitateGenie, QuotateGenie, and BluebookGenie. He created them to remove the time-consuming, mind-numbing drudgery of resolving citations and verifying quotations, and to combat the war on facts and the scourge of AI-generated hallucinations that has cast a pall over academic, scientific, and legal writing.

Ben Sulzinsky

Ben Sulzinsky

Co-Founder & CTO

Software engineer and technologist with experience in game development. Builds the tools that make Evidite work.

Erin Lange

Erin Lange

Chief Design Officer

Design visionary with over a decade of experience. Her work with brands including Snap Inc, Harvard Kennedy School, Patagonia, and Kerry Washington has honed her ability to resonate with diverse audiences.

Rick Rosenthal

Rick Rosenthal

Chief Commercial Officer

Client-centric sales and marketing leader, connecting stakeholders with innovations that enhance life at work. Consults with Evidite institutional clients.

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