Cited AI
AI answers with citations linking to exact source passages
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Hey HN!I’m Collin, a 20 year old law student from Amsterdam. I built Cited AI, an AI that gives accurate and verifiable answers from your documents/context.As a law student who uses AI a lot, I know how important it is that answers are actually accurate and verifiable. I remember many instances where I'd ask a chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude about case law or long documents, and it would either hallucinate facts that didn't exist, or fail to give me the exact passages from my source documents so I could verify its answers. Even when specifically asking for exact quotes, finding that passage in the original document is still a hassle. That's why last November I started building Cited.It should work with all types of content, complex PDFs (including math heavy ones) and long documents up to 75k words. No RAG or chunking is used, to make sure the full document is in the LLM's context.I would love to hear your feedback!
HN · launched Jan 7, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: ai research assistants · 76 launches, 3 in the last 7 days ▼ -67% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Search & retrieval
- B2C
- AI-native
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes Building a document Q&A application that extracts text, finds matching chunks with semantic search, and highlights source spans in the UI is a standard RAG project well within vibe-coding scope.
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