Alethia reads what applicants say they did, checks it against public records, and confirms it with the people who were there. Your readers get evidence attached to every claim instead of a guess.
For admissions teams at universities and colleges.
Verification record
No. 2027-00418
Illustrative applicant · synthetic data
| No. | Claim | Checked against | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Founded a nonprofit that tutored 200+ students State charity registry · organization site | State charity registry · organization site | Needs reviewNeeds review |
Evidence trail The registry lists incorporation in March 2025, and the organization’s site names 40 enrolled students. The scale of “200+” could not be confirmed from public sources. Routed for human review with both records attached. | |||
| 02 | 1st place, State Science & Engineering Fair, 2025 Fair results archive | Fair results archive | VerifiedVerified |
Evidence trail The 2025 results page lists the applicant as 1st place in Environmental Science. Name, school, and year match the application. | |||
| 03 | Research assistant, university biology lab, summer 2025 Reference outreach · lab director | Reference outreach · lab director | VerifiedVerified |
Evidence trail Outreach sent to the listed reference. A reply arrived in two days from the lab’s institutional domain confirming nine weeks of supervised work. Sender domain and role verified. | |||
| 04 | Co-author on a peer-reviewed journal article Journal index · Crossref | Journal index · Crossref | Not verifiedNot verified |
Evidence trail No article matching the applicant’s name or the described title appears in the journal’s index or in Crossref. Marked not verified; the reviewer may request a citation from the applicant. | |||
| 05 | Varsity debate captain, three seasons League records · coach outreach | League records · coach outreach | VerifiedVerified |
Evidence trail League tournament records list the applicant across three seasons. The coach confirmed the captaincy by reply. | |||
| 06 | Built a study app with 10,000+ downloads App store listing | App store listing | Needs reviewNeeds review |
Evidence trail A listing exists under the applicant’s name. Download counts are not public, so the figure cannot be checked. Routed for human review with the listing attached. | |||
6 claims · 3 verified · 2 need human review · 1 not verified | |||
A reading season brings thousands of files, each carrying dozens of claims: awards, roles, hours, research, founding stories. Checking one by hand takes a phone call and an afternoon. Checking all of them has never been possible, so most teams verify a handful and take the rest on trust.
Procedure · one claim, four entries
Illustrative
Alethia reads the whole application and lists every checkable claim: the activity, the role, the dates, the scale, and who could confirm it.
Agents look where a true claim would leave a trace: archives, registries, publications, organization pages, news. Every source consulted is logged, including the ones that return nothing.
Where a person can confirm the claim, Alethia writes to them and reads the reply. The reply is checked too: who sent it, from where, and whether it matches the claim.
The claim receives one of three outcomes with its evidence attached. Your team reviews what needs a human; the rest arrives already done.
Applications name the people who can vouch for them: coaches, supervisors, teachers, lab directors. Alethia writes to each of them, follows up, and reads the replies. A reply counts only when it checks out: the right person, from the right place, saying something consistent with the claim.
Illustrative figures for one applicant pool
Outreach · sent
Dear Dr. Adeyemi, an applicant to Westbrook University has listed you as a reference for a summer research assistantship in your laboratory (June to August 2025). Could you confirm the role and dates, or let us know if this is not accurate? Replying to this message is sufficient.
Office of Admissions, via Alethia
Reply · received
Yes, I can confirm. The applicant worked in my lab for nine weeks last summer on the stream ecology survey, supervised by my postdoc. Happy to say more if useful.
Needs human review is an outcome, not a failure. When public sources disagree, when scale cannot be confirmed, when a reply arrives from the wrong place, the claim goes to your queue with everything Alethia found attached. Readers open the evidence, decide, and move on. No lookups. No chasing.
Review queue · this morning
Illustrative
Founded a nonprofit that tutored 200+ students
Registry confirms the organization; the scale could not be confirmed from public sources.
Attached: Registry entry · program page
Regional finalist, national mathematics olympiad
Finalist list found for the named year; applicant’s name appears with a different school.
Attached: Finalist list · school record
Internship, municipal planning office, 2024
Reference replied from a personal address rather than the office domain.
Attached: Outreach thread · domain check
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