The AI Fact-Check Workflow

A 6-step pipeline that catches every hallucination in an AI draft before it ships. DeepSeek 3.2 for cheap drafting and claim extraction, Brave Web Search for free verification, Brave AI Grounding for the hard cases, git for the audit trail. Total cost per fact-checked article: under $0.05.

• The 6-step pipeline: generate, extract claims, search, verify, annotate, commit. Model and API choices justified at each step
• DeepSeek 3.2 prompt that extracts atomic claims from any AI draft as structured JSON, ready to verify
• Brave Web Search free tier (2,000 queries/month), routing only the hard claims to paid AI Grounding at $0.004/query