A Microsoft Word add-in — for every brief

we tag the authorities, you write the brief.

— every citation, accounted for.

Veraciting scans your draft and marks every case, statute, regulation, and agency decision — federal or state — then builds a clean table of authorities in one pass. Verification comes next: every cite checked against the published source, so a hallucinated authority never reaches a judge.

Mac  ·  Windows  ·  offline-capable  ·  nothing leaves your machine
Petition_for_Review_DRAFT.docx Word · macOS

Argument · I

The agency's reliance on Matter of A-B-, 27 I&N Dec. 316 (A.G. 2018), is misplaced. The Supreme Court's reasoning in Pereira v. Sessions, 138 S. Ct. 2105 (2018), forecloses the government's position with respect to 8 U.S.C. § 1229(a).

Even assuming, arguendo, that Sanchez v. Mayorkas, 593 U.S. 409 (2021), supports the agency's reading — and it does not — the regulation at 8 C.F.R. § 1003.1(b) would still require remand. Niz-Chavez v. Garland, 593 U.S. 155 (2021), is to the contrary.

Argument · II

Petitioner is entitled to review under 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(D), the "questions of law" exception. Guerrero-Lasprilla v. Barr, 589 U.S. 221 (2020), settled this point.

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Table of Authorities

Cases
Guerrero-Lasprilla v. Barr,
589 U.S. 221 (2020)9
Matter of A-B-,
27 I&N Dec. 316 (A.G. 2018)passim
Niz-Chavez v. Garland,
593 U.S. 155 (2021)7, 14
Pereira v. Sessions,
138 S. Ct. 2105 (2018)passim
Statutes
8 U.S.C. § 1229(a)7
8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(D)9, 14
Regulations
8 C.F.R. § 1003.1(b)12
8 C.F.R. § 1208.134, 19
tagged and built — in one minute or less
Verification — coming in v1.5

and then it checks every cite.

Marking and the table of authorities are v1. Verification is what comes next — a local pass that reads each citation against the published source and flags anything it can't stand behind, before the brief is filed.

authority verification

the authority exists

Every case, statute, and regulation is checked against the published source — a citation to something that was never decided or codified gets caught.

pin-cite verification

the page supports the point

The pinpoint page you cite is checked against the source — a pin cite to a page that doesn't say what you say it does gets flagged for your review.

quote verification

the quote is really there

Language inside quotation marks is matched against the source text — a quotation that was paraphrased, altered, or invented gets surfaced before filing.

Petition_for_Review_DRAFT.docx Word · macOS

Argument · I

The agency's reliance on Matter of A-B-, 27 I&N Dec. 316 (A.G. 2018), is misplaced. The Supreme Court's reasoning in Pereira v. Sessions, 138 S. Ct. 2105 (2018), forecloses the government's position with respect to 8 U.S.C. § 1229(a).

Even assuming, arguendo, that Sanchez v. Mayorkas, 593 U.S. 409 (2021), supports the agency's reading — and it does not — the regulation at 8 C.F.R. § 1003.42(g) would still require remand. Niz-Chavez v. Garland, 593 U.S. 155 (2021), is to the contrary.

Argument · II

Petitioner is entitled to review under 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(D), the "questions of law" exception. Guerrero-Lasprilla v. Barr, 589 U.S. 221 (2020), settled this point.

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Built for the briefs that get filed

practice areas where every cite matters.

Veraciting was built by a federal-immigration appellate attorney for the work he files every week. The marking engine doesn't care what kind of brief it is — but the people who care most about a clean TOA tend to file in these rooms.

01

federal appeals

Circuit briefs, petitions for review, en banc, cert. The TOA is mandatory; the Federal Rules require Bluebook accuracy.

02

state appellate

From California Court of Appeal to the NY App. Div. Each court has its own citation idioms — Veraciting respects them.

03

immigration

EOIR briefs, BIA appeals, petitions for review. Agency precedent (I&N Dec.) is indexed alongside circuit decisions.

04

administrative

NLRB, SSA, IRS, FERC. Agency decisions, codified rules, and federal-court review all in one index.

If your practice cites authorities and your court wants a table — this works for you. Trial-court motions, agency briefs, scholarly articles. The list is just where it shines first.

How it works

three buttons. one clean table.

Veraciting lives in a Word task pane. It reads your brief, identifies authorities, and writes the table — without you ever leaving the document.

01 — SCAN

find every cite as it sits.

One click reads the active brief and tags every case, statute, regulation, and agency decision. No formatting changes you didn't ask for.

02 — VERIFY (v1.5)

cross-check against the published source.

Every cite is resolved against a local index — federal and state reporters, USC and state codes, CFR and state administrative regs, agency precedent (EOIR, NLRB, SSA, and more). If we can't find it, we say so.

03 — INSERT

generate a real Word TOA.

Native Word fields — not pasted text. Rebuild it whenever you edit the brief. Hyperlinked where local rules permit; never where they don't.

Full walkthrough →
v1.5 — verification

the hallucinated cite stops here.

v1.5 cross-checks every case name, reporter pin, statute section, and regulation against a local index. If we can't find your cite where you say it is, we mark it — quietly, in the pane, before it gets filed.

  • case name matches reporter volume + page
  • statute section actually exists at that part
  • regulation subsection is current as of last index
  • agency decision is in the published series
  • pin-cite falls within the opinion's page range
How verification works →
flagged cite · drawer view
Sanchez v. Mayorkas, 593 U.S. 409
! page mismatch · cited 409, reporter ends at 396
"…the government's reliance on Sanchez v. Mayorkas, 593 U.S. 409 (2021)…"
P. 4 ¶ 2 · suggest 593 U.S. 388
Privacy is not a feature

your draft is none of our business — except enough of it to mark the cites.

Veraciting runs entirely on your machine. The verification index ships with the add-in and updates the way Word updates: locally, on your schedule, with your consent.

Read the manifesto →
Things we never do
  • send your document text to a server
  • train a model on your briefs
  • require a sign-in to open a document
  • phone home with case names or client identifiers
  • retain a transcript of what you asked us to verify
From the studio

"I built Veraciting because Best Authority doesn't run on a Mac, and because pasting briefs into a chatbot gives away privilege. So I made the tool I wanted."

Joshua E. Bardavid · attorney · WeSkye Studio
Pricing — early access

one fair price. no per-document credits.

Best Authority charges by the document. We charge by the year. Cancel any time; the brief you already wrote stays yours either way.

Trial
$0/ 14 days
  • full functionality
  • unlimited briefs
  • v1 marking + v1.5 verification
  • no card required
no permanent free tier — we'd rather charge fairly than throttle.
Veraciting · annual
$179/ year · first seat
  • everything in trial
  • $99/year for each seat after the first, up to 12
  • quarterly index updates (federal & state reporters · codes · regs · agency precedent)
  • priority feedback channel — we read every email
  • Mac & Windows · a seat is a person, not a device
monthly is $19 (~27% more). 13+ seats — email [email protected].
Full pricing & FAQ →
Common questions

things people ask before they install.

does this work on Mac?

Yes — Mac was the reason this exists. Veraciting runs on Word for Microsoft 365 on macOS Sonoma and later, alongside Word for Windows. Most existing TOA add-ins are Windows-only.

will my document leave my computer?

No. Marking runs locally. Verification runs against a local index that's downloaded once and updated on a cadence you control. We do not transmit document text, ever.

what about citations Veraciting doesn't recognize?

You'll see them in the pane as "unrecognized" — neither marked nor verified, but visible so you can decide what to do. You can mark a passage manually with a button click; we won't second-guess Bluebook judgment calls.

when does v1.5 ship?

v1 ships first with marking, TOA insertion, and TOC hyperlinking. v1.5 — the verification feature — follows. Annual subscribers get v1.5 included; we won't charge twice for the same product line.

All questions →
Ready when you are

stop hand-marking. start writing.

14 days, full functionality, no card. If it doesn't save you a Saturday by Friday, uninstall and we'll never bother you again.

Install Veraciting See the full walkthrough