Sources and citations

Whether an answer carries sources is decided by what Grep takes the request to be, not by the effort dial. A question it reads as a quick factual one is answered in the chat thread and stops there — no report, no sources count, no citations, no links out, just prose. That is working as intended, and no amount of reading the answer will show you where it came from.

A request Grep treats as research produces a report, and it can do that at any effort level. The chat gives a short summary and a report card with OPEN; the report opens beside the thread. Its header carries icons for Build, Track and Export and a time-saved counter, then the REPORT and FILES tabs, a SOURCES tab with the count, and EDIT beside the title.

Sources are the pages, documents and references Grep used while working — company websites, public filings, articles, reports, documentation. The report header counts them, for example "SOURCES · 18", and the count is a tab: it opens the list, each source with its site and what it was used for.

• Which material Grep reviewed.
• Which of it supports the final answer.
• Whether a claim needs checking by hand.
• Where to read the original.

Grep does not use numbered footnotes. The claim is the link: the words carrying the fact — a price, a percentage, a named customer — are themselves a link to the page that says so. Hovering shows the destination, and clicking opens the source.

So a well-cited report reads as ordinary prose with the load-bearing phrases underlined, and a paragraph with no links in it is telling you something: that part is synthesis, not a sourced fact.

• Read the summary and confirm it answers what you asked.
• Open the sources and judge whether the material is good enough.
• Check the citations behind the claims your decision depends on.

If the material looks outdated, irrelevant or thin, do not start over. Ask a follow-up that says what you want leaned on. This usually helps, but treat it as steering rather than a filter: nothing here guarantees a source is excluded, so check the sources panel on the answer you get back.

• Use only sources from the last 12 months.
• Prioritise company websites, SEC filings and official announcements.
• Exclude blog posts and forum discussions.
• Find stronger evidence for the market size estimate.