Your document estate
Your document estate, as a record: what was read, what was not, and what you can re-check.
Your document estate — the contracts, filings, policies and mail that accumulated for a decade — is a set nobody currently has an inventory of. Citenda builds the record of it: what is in scope, what was read, what could not be read (named, not averaged away), and how to re-check every part of that on your own machines.
The record
Citenda leaves every file in your estate in exactly one state
In scope and converted; in scope and flagged unreadable, listed by name; or declared out of scope, like spreadsheets. The record states which, for every file, so a total is always a total of something you can enumerate. That containment is the product: not a promise that everything works, but an account of what does, what does not, and where the boundary sits — signed off against your own file listing, not ours.
The answer
Every question ends in one of three declared states
An answer, with the documents behind it. An evidenced stop that names what was covered and what could not be read. Or — if the underlying AI platform's capacity limits interrupt the session — a clear "not completed" with nothing lost, resumed when capacity returns. Never a silent failure, and never a confident guess.
We attach no number to that bound — no answer-time figure and no accuracy percentage for your archive — until a measurement of your archive produces one. That is what the Assessment is for.
Reproducibility
The record can be re-derived, not just re-read
What we hand over carries its own manifest: what went in, what came out, and the checksums that tie the two together. The included verify.py re-checks the delivered artifact on your machines, offline — so months later, when someone asks where an answer came from, the citation still points into a set you can enumerate and a record you can re-derive. If your auditor asks how you know the archive copy is intact, the answer is a command, not a meeting.
Pricing
What it costs, starting from a fixed price
Every engagement starts with the Estate Assessment — a fixed price, credited in full against what comes next. After that, Foundation, Programme and Enterprise are priced as floors, fixed only once the Assessment has measured your estate.
Citenda states its limits before you have to ask
- We never repair a damaged identifier. If an ISIN, IBAN or VAT number fails its own check digit, we flag it and point you at the source page.
- We name what we could not read. Unreadable or poorly-converting documents are flagged and listed by name — never dropped quietly out of a total.
- We do not cover spreadsheets. We convert PDF, HTML/XML, Word, PowerPoint, email and images, and we would rather say so than quietly index tabular data badly.
- We do not upload your documents. Conversion, splitting and indexing run on your machines and make no outbound call; the answering step runs under your own AI account and key, in your own logs.
- We stop rather than guess. When the set does not contain the answer, Citenda says so and shows what it looked at.
- We do not claim accuracy on your archive until we have measured it. Every published figure comes from a corpus we built and a benchmark we ran ourselves, and we label it that way.
The first step — paid, bounded
Start with the Estate Assessment
The pack is a set we maintain and you can check. This is your set — which nobody currently has an inventory of.
The Estate Assessment is one script run in your environment — nothing leaves the building — producing one measured profile of your archive: how much converts cleanly, what will not read and why, where the borderline cases sit, and what model access your team already has to work against. It is the first evidenced stop you buy, and it is the measurement every later fee is fixed against: a fixed fee, quoted after a measured profile of your archive.
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The evidence
The benchmark we ran ourselves, published with its limits
We do not claim accuracy on your archive until we have measured it — so the figures we do publish come from a controlled benchmark on a corpus we built, and they are labelled that way, limits first.
Metadata enrichment is in development and will be priced when we can show you what it adds.