The story of Evidite begins with a professor, a manuscript, and a question that no existing tool could answer.
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.
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.
"There has to be a better way. Why can't resolving citations work like a spell checker?"
— Eric Caplan, PhDHe 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.
With the technology proven, Eric assembled a founding team that combines deep technical execution with world-class design:
Ben Sulzinsky, Co-Founder & CTO — Software engineer and technologist with experience in game development. Builds the tools that make Evidite work.
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, Chief Commercial Officer — Client-centric sales and marketing leader, connecting stakeholders with innovations that enhance life at work. Consults with Evidite institutional clients.
Evidite is the shared backend engine powering four products, each targeting a distinct market need:
Document-first citation resolution for academics, researchers, and publishers. Upload a manuscript, get verified citations.
Quotation verification against authoritative sources — including copyrighted books. The feature a Super Lawyer called "the single most important."
Legal citation formatting with 6,583 pre-cached court cases. Context-dependent Bluebook compliance, not templates.
Automated blind note conversion for scholarly publishing. Patent-pending semantic extraction with dynamic page references.
Evidite is raising a seed round to bring citation resolution to 40 million professionals.
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