Start with the statement, not a personality profile
This guide is for reviewing your own public profile, an organization or professional information shared for a consent-based review. Its output is a small evidence ledger. It is not a background check, a financial assessment or an investigation of someone’s private life.
Copy only the public statement needed for the task into your private notes, together with its page and access date. For example, if an accessible biography says someone works as a designer, a careful note is “The biography describes the role as designer.” That does not verify employment, current status or income. The example is hypothetical.
Label the evidence type
| Label | Meaning | Suitable wording |
|---|---|---|
| Self-description | The profile or its publisher makes the statement | “The profile states…” |
| Direct public record | A relevant original page states a bounded fact | “The organization’s page lists…” |
| Repeated statement | Another page repeats the same underlying source | “This repeats the original statement…” |
| Model interpretation | An AI system added an explanation or prediction | Exclude it from factual claims unless independently supported |
| Unknown | No usable evidence was obtained | “Not established from the reviewed sources” |
Keep contradictions next to the claim they affect. A polished summary should not erase the difference between an attributed statement and an independently checked fact.
Remove unsupported personal conclusions
Do not estimate a private individual’s income from a job title, travel image, possessions or posting style. Do not assign a relationship status from shared photos, missing posts or interactions. Avoid personality, trustworthiness or identity scores derived from these clues.
A model can produce confident but incorrect facts, fabricated references and misleading simplifications. OpenAI recommends checking important information against reliable original sources. OpenAI’s reliability guidance
A disclaimer at the bottom does not make an unsupported personal claim suitable for the report. Remove the inference itself.
Check matching and attribution before summarizing
If two public pages share a username, do not silently merge them into one person. Review whether the pages actually establish a relevant connection. If they do not, keep them as separate candidates. A photo may be reused; resemblance does not establish identity.
When writing about an organization, distinguish its official page, an employee’s self-description and an unrelated third-party mention. When reviewing your own information, compare the summary with the public pages you control and correct the working record where it misattributes something.
Keep a correction trail
Record the original statement, its source, the issue found and the corrected wording. Preserve the fact that an earlier conclusion was unsupported; do not silently convert an unknown into a negative claim. If a source is later unavailable, note that you can no longer confirm its current state.
Avoid retaining unrelated personal data. The amount collected should follow the permitted task, not the number of fields a report template offers.
Use the app as a source-discovery aid
TraceSeek’s owner describes AI-assisted retrieval and summaries of accessible public content. Product descriptions do not establish independent accuracy. Review the current app capabilities and limits, and check source pages before relying on a generated summary.
For a claim-by-claim source worksheet, continue with checking an AI-assisted search answer.