750 messy citations. One question. A company.
The story of Evidite begins with a professor, a manuscript, and a question that no existing tool could answer.
The manuscript
A professor's frustration
When Eric Caplan finished the penultimate draft of When Healing Harms: The Doctor Who Put a Hospital on Trial — and the Case That Shook Psychiatry, he was confronted with verifying and formatting more than 750 messy citations for publication with the University of California Press.
There has to be a better way. Why can't resolving citations work like a spell checker?
Six weeks later, he was done. The tedium was staggering — every citation required finding the source, checking every field, and formatting by hand. And he knew that any revision to the manuscript would break the page numbers and require doing it all over again.
The discovery
The frustration was universal
He talked to everyone he knew. Writers. Scientists. Attorneys. Students. Publishers. Consultants. Policy professionals. The frustration was universal.
The tedium. The opportunity cost. The hours that could be spent on real work. Everyone felt it. And no tool on the market solved it — they all formatted citations one at a time, assuming the user already had the source information. None of them could take a messy reference and resolve it against an authoritative database.
The market assumed citation was a formatting problem. Eric saw that it was a resolution problem.
One team built to ship
With the technology proven, Eric assembled a founding team that combines deep technical execution with world-class design:
Eric Caplan, PhD
CEO & co-founder
Historian of medicine and author, Eric created Evidite 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
co-founder and CTO
Software engineer and technologist with experience in game development. Builds the tools that make Evidite work.
Erin Lange
Chief design officer
With over a decade of experience, Erin leverages thoughtful human-centered design to develop concept-to-execution strategies. She has helped brands, nonprofits, and celebrities galvanize movements, reach business goals, and lead digital transformation.
Abbie Grace
Business development specialist
Handles the behind-the-scenes coordination that keeps the team moving, driven by a curiosity for the future of research and technology.
Accuracy matters. Evidence matters. Replicability matters.
User experience driven
We’re building the best way for professionals to interact with research-integrity infrastructure: fast, transparent reports and tools that fit into the way they already work.
Provenance verification
Provenance means being able to trace information back to its origin. Evidite doesn’t ask you to trust its answer blindly. It gives you the evidence behind the answer.
Upholding research integrity
Evidite’s suite of research integrity software verifies citations and quotations against authoritative sources. We treat every claim like a scientific hypothesis. We state what we don’t know and leave the final commitment to a human.
