What Are AI Briefings?

AI Briefings let you ask research questions and get structured, sourced answers drawn entirely from the Disclosure Navigator document library — not the open web.

How Briefings Differ from a Chatbot

A standard AI chatbot answers questions from whatever it learned during training — a mix of internet sources, books, and documents, with no way to verify where any particular claim came from.

Briefings work differently. When you ask a question, the AI searches the Disclosure Navigator library first, retrieves the most relevant documents, and constructs its answer using only that material. Every claim it makes is tied to a specific entity or event in the library — which you can click to explore further.

Key principle: If the library doesn't contain information about something, the AI will say so — it won't fabricate an answer from outside sources.

Inline Citations

Inside each briefing, you'll see colored citation chips embedded in the text:

Blue chips — entity citations (a person, organization, program, or location). Click to open a profile preview in the right panel.
Orange chips — event citations (a specific incident or documented event). Click to see the event details and the source documents behind it.

A References section at the bottom of each briefing lists all cited entities and events in one place.

Source Attribution in Briefings

The AI notes what type of source backs every claim — government document, congressional testimony, or research interview. A claim supported by a declassified government record carries more evidentiary weight than one from an interview, and the briefing makes that distinction visible so you can judge each statement on its own merits.

AI Tokens

Generating a briefing uses AI tokens from your account balance. Tokens are consumed when the AI processes your question and synthesizes the answer — a longer, more complex question uses more tokens than a short one.

Your token balance is shown in your account. When your balance runs low, you can purchase additional tokens from the account page. See Tokens & Credits Explained for pricing details.

Tokens are consumed per briefing. Each new top-level question generates a briefing and uses tokens. Follow-up branches on an existing briefing are more efficient — they reuse context from the original question.

Saving and Sharing Briefings

Briefings are saved automatically to your account. You can access all your past briefings from the Briefings tab. Each briefing also has a download button that exports the full text as a formatted Word document — useful for saving your research or sharing with others.