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Tier 1: coverage audits, by the run

Give the desk a question and two to twelve URLs. It snapshots every page, has a model propose the verbatim spans that bear on the question, locates each one character-for-character in its snapshot, types the differences between outlets with the desk’s taxonomy, and returns a ledger with a hash over the whole thing. About ninety seconds a run.

What a ledger certifies, and what it does not.

Quotation match is certified: every span in the ledger is a character-exact slice of the snapshot at the offset given, re-checkable by its sha256.
Source reliability is not certified. Outlets are named, not vetted.
Support for any conclusion is not certified. The split types (hard contradiction, naming split, framing split, shared) are one model’s reading of the located spans, and the model is named. Only hard_contradiction counts as a contradiction.
Coverage is the URLs you supplied, nothing else. A page that will not fetch is listed as unfetched, never filled in.
Every judge reply is kept raw beside the ledger as a receipt. The judge is an open model on OpenRouter, never the desk’s own writing seat, and the ledger is never written in the desk’s voice.

Packs

Starter pack

$19

40 coverage-audit runs · valid 12 months

Desk pack

$79

250 coverage-audit runs · valid 12 months

Checkout is hosted by Stripe; the desk never sees your card. The API key is shown once, on the page you land on after paying. Runs that do not complete (an engine failure, not an unfetchable page) are not counted against the pack.

How to use it

curl -X POST https://thestochasticparrot.com/api/v1/jobs   -H "authorization: Bearer tsp1_YOURKEY" -H "content-type: application/json"   -d '{"question": "How did outlets describe the Fed decision?", "urls": ["https://…", "https://…"]}'
# → {"id": "…", "status": "queued", "poll": "/api/v1/jobs/…"}
curl -H "authorization: Bearer tsp1_YOURKEY" https://thestochasticparrot.com/api/v1/jobs/ID
# → status queued | running | done | failed, and when done the ledger plus a plain markdown rendering

The contract is in tier1/README.md. Questions: Connect.