Built for investment funds, deal teams, and founders making a real decision on the other side of the research — not general curiosity.
The market, honestly
Due diligence research is a real, well-paid discipline — when it's trustworthy. No inflated numbers; what the 2026 data actually says.
The actual problem
Fast AI research and trustworthy AI research are not the same thing. This isn't a hypothetical — it's the documented state of the market right now.
A 2026 study ran the same due-diligence questions across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, and Copilot against 20 real private B2B companies — 240 company/prompt pairs, 1,440 individual answers. The researchers found they had to manually trace every single factual claim back to its source before any of it was usable.
The skill that matters now isn't reading fast, it's knowing which AI-generated claims to trust — and being able to prove it. This is exactly the gap Groundtruth is built to close, not paper over with a faster chatbot.
The Certainty-Gap Method
Every claim gets reduced to what's actually true before it gets an interpretation — the same named discipline behind Still OS Digital Holdings' own verification infrastructure, applied to your research question.
Source-traced, not summarized
Every factual claim in the report links to the primary source it came from — a filing, a dataset, a live page fetch — not a paraphrase of a paraphrase.
Multi-provider cross-check
Findings are checked across independent search and retrieval paths before they make it into the report, so one bad source can't silently become "the answer."
Honest confidence, not false precision
Where the evidence is thin, the report says so plainly instead of rounding an uncertain claim into a confident-sounding number.
- One-shot chatbot answer, no citation trail
- Confidently states things it can't actually verify
- You re-check every claim yourself before you can use it
- Every claim linked to the real source it came from
- Cross-checked across independent retrieval paths
- Delivered with a source ledger you can hand to anyone
See the method — a real example, not a mockup
We haven't redacted a paying client's report here — this offer is new and we won't fabricate one. Instead, here is the exact claim → source → conclusion shape a report ships with, run live against a real, publicly-checkable question using the same litigation-search capability that powers this service.
“Has Theranos, Inc. been party to federal litigation?”
| Case | Court | Filed | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walgreen Co. v. Theranos, Inc. | D. Del. | 2018-07-02 | CourtListener ↗ |
| Maltese v. Theranos, Inc. | N.D. Cal. | 2016-06-17 | CourtListener ↗ |
Yes — real federal dockets exist, each with a live, public, independently-checkable link (not a paraphrase or a summary of a summary). A real report scopes this to the specific question you asked, reads the actual docket entries relevant to it, and states plainly if the evidence is thin — it doesn't round an uncertain read into a confident-sounding paragraph.
This capability is also live as a standalone paid API route — see it on Still OS's pricing page as Litigation Check.
The Groundtruth Guarantee — if any claim in your report doesn't hold up against the source it's cited to, that finding gets redone at no charge. No argument, no fine print. You're not paying for effort or a nicely formatted document — you're paying for a report you can put your own name behind.
Four ways to engage
Scoped to how deep the question actually needs to go. Pricing reflects 2026 US freelance due-diligence market rates — not inflated, not a loss-leader. Start with the $99 Evidence Scan to see the method firsthand; most engagements grow from there once the first result lands.
- One specific claim or fact, verified against its real source
- Source link + confidence read, no report formatting
- The fastest way to see the method before committing further
- One focused research question, fully source-traced
- Company, claim, or market snapshot
- Full source ledger included
- Market sizing, competitor benchmarking, financial/claims research
- Every finding cross-checked and cited
- Report + full source ledger, direct scoping session first
- Covered by the Groundtruth Guarantee
- Standing research capacity for a fund, deal team, or founder
- Same source-traced standard on every deliverable
- Priced at market rate for investment-grade research
- Covered by the Groundtruth Guarantee
Founder-reviewed, not outsourced — every report is directly touched by the same process behind this page, not handed off to a contractor pool. That's a real capacity limit, not a marketing device: engagement volume is kept deliberately small so the standard doesn't slip.
- Scope the real question. What decision is this research actually feeding? That determines depth, not a generic template.
- Source-traced research. Every claim gets run down to a primary source and cross-checked before it's written down as a fact.
- Honest synthesis. Findings get interpreted only after the underlying facts are locked — every uncertain claim is labeled as uncertain, not smoothed over.
- Report + source ledger. You get the findings AND the full trail behind them — hand it to your own team or investors without re-verifying it yourself.
Built on real verification infrastructure
Groundtruth is run by the Nola Wealth Financial Group team using the same source-first discipline behind our technology partner's live infrastructure — Still OS's notary/verification systems, which sign and screen claims for autonomous agents today. Notary's checks are narrow and automated (sanctions screening, track-record grading, trust scans); Groundtruth applies that same discipline to the broader, open-ended questions no automated check can answer alone — same standard, different shape of problem, not the same pipeline.
Before you ask
Why not just ask ChatGPT myself?
You can — and for a lot of questions, that's genuinely fine. The difference shows up the moment the answer matters: a 2026 study found researchers had to hand-trace every single AI-generated due-diligence claim back to its source before trusting it. Groundtruth does that tracing as part of the deliverable, not as homework you take on after.
What if the research doesn't find what I was hoping for?
Then the report says that, plainly. A report that only ever confirms what you wanted to hear isn't due diligence, it's a compliment.
How fast is turnaround, really?
24–48 hours for a Verified Brief. Due Diligence Reports are scoped up front with a specific delivery date before anything starts.
What if I'm not sure exactly what to ask for?
Send what you've got, even half-formed. Scoping the actual question is the first step, included, not a separate paid step.
What does "source ledger" actually mean?
A plain, itemized list mapping every factual claim to the exact source it came from. Hand it to your own team or an investor and they can check it themselves in minutes.
Groundtruth Research is a Growth Services practice operated by Nola Wealth Financial Group, using verification methodology developed by our technology partner, Still OS Digital Holdings. This is a v0 offer — pricing and scope reflect our first real engagements, not a fixed rate card. Checkout secured by Stripe; billing statement shows Nola Wealth Group LLC.