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Your AI Just Made Up a Citation. Did You Catch It?
Judges are sanctioning attorneys for AI hallucinations, and "I didn't know" isn't a defense. GhostCite instantly audits every citation in your brief so you never violate your Duty of Candor. Free. No signup required.
GhostCite demo: citation and quote verification
Cross-referencing CourtListener...
ghostcite-audit.log
Invalid Citation: Volume 999 does not exist for the F.3d reporter.
This is what a citation that doesn’t exist in the court record looks like.
Quote Hallucination: No matching text found in the primary law record for this citation.
Topic Mismatch: Bennett v. Arizona-
Quote Alteration Detected-
Structural Error: Non-existent volume-
Pincite not in opinion-
GhostCite: The Safety Layer Between AI and Your Filing
The Problem
AI drafting tools generate citations that look structurally perfect and do not exist. The case name, reporter, and volume all check out at a glance. The opinion itself does not. Courts have already sanctioned attorneys for submitting fabricated case law, and “my AI generated it” has not been accepted as a defense.
The Solution
GhostCite cross-references every citation and quoted passage in your document against primary legal sources via CourtListener in seconds. It flags non-existent cases, volume errors, reporter mismatches, and quoted text that does not appear in the cited opinion. No AI rewrites. No legal analysis. Only a direct comparison between what your brief says and what the court record actually contains.
The Benefit
File with confidence knowing every citation has been verified against the primary record. Protect your license from the bar complaints that follow AI-generated hallucinations. Recover the hours currently spent manually pulling cases and comparing quoted text, line by line.
GhostCite is built by a Senior Legal Solutions Architect with 30 years of software engineering experience. It applies the same systematic verification logic used in enterprise compliance pipelines to the specific, high-stakes problem of legal citation integrity.
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How this fits with other tools
Many larger platforms now include some form of cite checking, often wrapped inside AI-powered drafting or research tools. GhostCite is deliberately narrower: it doesn’t draft, summarize, or suggest arguments. It simply checks whether the citation and quoted text in front of you appear in the underlying case or court record, using public sources like CourtListener.
That makes it useful if you don’t have (or don’t want) an AI-heavy platform, or if you just want a quick, transparent failsafe you can run right before filing, the way you would run spellcheck or update a table of authorities.
Questions from cautious lawyers
Is this an AI tool?
No. GhostCite doesn’t generate text, summarize cases, or give legal advice. It only pulls the cited authority from public sources like CourtListener and shows you the underlying text so you can compare it yourself.
Does this replace reading the case?
No. It’s a shortcut to get you to the right case and page faster so you can read it in context. If you don’t read the case, that’s still on you.
Why would I use this if I already read every case?
Many lawyers already do meticulous manual checks. GhostCite just automates the tedious part of finding the right document and locating the quoted passage, so you can spend more time on substance and less time on hunting through PDFs.
How We Work With You
AI is reshaping legal practice faster than most firms have had time to prepare. We offer two focused tracks: one for the attorneys who own the risk, and one for the paralegals who manage the workflow.
AI Safety Audit
A structured review of how AI is currently used in your firm, where the liability exposure sits, and what guardrails are missing. You receive a written report with prioritized recommendations aligned to current bar ethics guidance.
Fractional AI Architect
Ongoing, embedded AI support for firms that want to move efficiently without moving recklessly. We build your custom prompt libraries, design human-review checkpoints, and keep your AI policy current as guidance from the bar and the courts continues to evolve.
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Verified Operator Training
A structured curriculum covering citation verification, hallucination detection, output quality review, and documentation standards for AI-assisted work product. Graduates receive a Verified Operator credential that demonstrates technical fluency to any firm that uses AI in its practice.
Career Longevity Track
Designed for paralegals who want to position themselves as indispensable rather than replaceable. We help you build a professional identity around the one skill AI cannot replicate: human judgment applied at the verification layer.
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About
The Engineer Who Understands What Lawyers Are Actually Risking
Salma Saad is a Senior Legal Solutions Architect and the founder of Rule26 AI. She brings more than 30 years of software engineering and technical leadership experience, including Director-level roles at organizations operating at the compliance standards and production scale of Silicon Valley's most demanding environments.
Her foundation in Mathematics is not incidental. It shapes how she approaches every verification problem: systematically, precisely, and with zero tolerance for outputs that cannot be confirmed against a primary source. That discipline now drives the core logic of GhostCite.
Salma holds the CIPP/US certification from the International Association of Privacy Professionals, the credential US attorneys and compliance teams rely on when evaluating data governance expertise. It reflects a working knowledge of US privacy law, data handling standards, and the regulatory frameworks governing how information is collected, stored, and disclosed in the United States.
She founded Rule26 AI after identifying what she calls the Verification Gap: the distance between what an AI tool claims a legal source says, and what that source actually contains. That gap is where professional reputations are lost, bar complaints are filed, and sanctions are issued. GhostCite exists to close it.
30+
Years in Software Engineering
CIPP/US
Certified Information Privacy Professional
B.S. Math
Foundation in Formal Verification
Director
Former Engineering Leadership
Rule26 AI is named for the federal disclosure obligation attorneys already know. Every tool and engagement it produces is built on the same engineering rigor used in enterprise compliance pipelines, now directed at the one problem no AI drafting tool currently solves: confirming that what you file is actually supported by the authority you cite.
AI Discovery Design Partner Program
We're building a discovery assistant for cases involving AI systems: training data, logging, regurgitation, and accountability. We're looking for small and midsize firms as design partners. In exchange for structured feedback, you get early access, discounted pricing when it launches, and tailored support on live matters.
Ideal partners: employment, consumer, IP, or tech disputes where AI systems recur.
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