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What FactLatch is and the quickest way in.
It helps you discover, verify, track and review information that may change: prices, plan limits, tables, documents, schedules, lists of people, and facts that depend on a source. It suggests what may be worth tracking, you verify what matters, it keeps checking, and it shows you exactly what changed so you can decide what it means.
One thing FactLatch checks for you: a source-backed fact, a value, a table, a section, a schedule, a list of people or a file.
Scan your site from the home page, or from Scan inside the app. You can scan a whole website, or just one page or document if you already know what matters. Create an account, open what looks relevant, check what FactLatch read, and choose Track item. Or add a fact and its source yourself with + Track item.
Scan: FactLatch maps a site or reads a page and suggests what may be worth tracking. Verify: you confirm what matters. Track: FactLatch reads the item again from its source, records a baseline and keeps checking. Review: you decide what a change means.
No. It never decides what is true. It notices when something you rely on changes, and a person decides what that means for the page.
No. FactLatch reads public pages and never needs access to your website or your content management system, and it never edits your site. If you use WordPress there is an optional plugin that tells FactLatch which pages you have published.
The scan, and what it does and does not tell you.
Your public sitemap and home page, then a diverse set of the most promising pages and a few files. It is bounded by size, time and rate limits and it respects robots.txt. It does not sign in anywhere and does not read anything behind a login, so it describes what it read, not the whole site.
You enter the address of one page or file and FactLatch reads that target in depth, together with the files it links to. It does not map the rest of the site.
PDF, DOCX, XLSX, CSV, TXT, JSON and XML. It does not do OCR, so a scanned image inside a PDF is not read.
No. Scanning is free, needs no sign-up and does not use your tracked items. It does have size and rate limits. Tracking is the ongoing value.
Strong matches are the strongest candidates FactLatch found, and there may be none. It does not fill the list to look busy. That is not a verdict on your site: look through the less certain discoveries, or scan a specific page or document.
FactLatch is less sure they are worth your attention (for example a number inside a sentence, or a table that looks like a demo). They are suggestions, not recommendations, and you are often the better judge. You can filter them by values, tables, documents, schedules, people or sections.
Not yet. A finding is only something FactLatch read on a page, and a citation is only a link. Nothing is tracked until you verify it and confirm.
A scan reads a limited set of pages. You can scan a specific page or document, or add a fact and its source yourself with + Track item.
You confirm what matters, and why a citation is not automatically evidence.
What it is, where FactLatch read it, what it last saw, what identifies it and what would be watched. Opening it never tracks it. When you choose Track item, FactLatch reads it again from its source first.
For a fact that cites a source, FactLatch reads the cited page itself and looks for evidence for the exact fact. Only a source that really holds the evidence is marked Ready to monitor. Nothing is selected for you.
Ready to monitor: clear evidence was found. Needs review: possible evidence, but ambiguous, and FactLatch will not guess. Citation found, evidence not confirmed: the page was read and the evidence was not found there. Source unavailable: the page could not be read right now.
No. It means FactLatch could not find clear evidence for this exact fact on the cited page, so there is nothing to track yet. It does not mean the citation or the fact is wrong. You can add the fact yourself with a source you choose.
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What happens after you track an item.
The item has not been checked successfully yet. FactLatch takes a baseline on the first successful check. Until then nothing has been found wrong.
On a schedule, repeatedly. Each check is compared with the baseline FactLatch stored when tracking started.
Each tracked item, whether it is a source-backed fact or a table, section, schedule, list of people, file or value. A scan discovery you have not verified and tracked does not count.
Yes, at any time, from Tracked items. Its history is kept and it no longer uses one of your tracked items.
No. Formatting, layout and ordering alone are not changes. A changed cell, an added or removed row, or a changed entry is.
When something changes, or FactLatch is not sure.
It appears in Review with what it said before, what it says now, and why FactLatch flagged it. A change is a signal, not a verdict: it does not automatically mean anything you published is wrong.
Resolve: I dealt with it, for example by updating the page, and the item closes. Acknowledge: I have seen it, and it stays open until resolved or dismissed. Dismiss: this is not a real problem, and the item closes. Each decision is recorded in an audit trail.
It asks you instead of guessing. Ambiguous or unreadable evidence goes to your review list rather than becoming an alert, because a false alert makes every later alert easier to ignore.
Never. It shows you what changed. You decide whether a page needs an update and you make that edit yourself.
The optional plugin.
It tells FactLatch which posts and pages you have published, and shows what you track on each right inside WordPress. It does not track anything by itself and never edits your content.
In FactLatch open Account, Integrations, WordPress and choose Connect WordPress. Install the plugin in WordPress, paste the one-time code in Settings, FactLatch, and the first sync runs. Then choose what to track.
For each published post or page: its id, type, address, title, status and last modified time. Never post content, drafts, private posts, comments, users or any password.
What a plan includes and what happens at the limit.
Every account is on the Free plan today, with 3 tracked items. Pro ($29 a month: 25 tracked items, change and evidence history, CSV export) and Growth ($79 a month: 150 tracked items) are planned, but paid plans are not on sale yet.
Tracked items, not scans. There are no credits, scan credits or per-check prices.
FactLatch will not add another item past your plan's limit. Everything you already track keeps running, and nothing is switched off or removed. Stop tracking an item to free a slot, or move to a larger plan once plans are available.
In Account, Plan & billing. There is no payment method or invoice yet because nothing has been bought.
Sign-in, passwords and sessions.
In Account, Security. You enter your current password and a new one, and you stay signed in.
Use Forgot password on the sign-in page. FactLatch emails a reset link if an account exists for that address.
In Account, Security, choose Sign out everywhere. Every session on every device ends.
Not yet. They are shown in Account, Profile.
Yes. Account, Appearance has Dark, Light and System, and a reduce-motion option. It is saved in the browser you set it in.
What is read, stored and who sees it.
For a fact: the page address, the claim text and value, the source address you attached and short evidence extracts read from it. For a table, section, schedule, list, file or value: the page or file address, a label, where it sits and the text FactLatch compares between checks. Also the history of checks and changes and your review decisions. Only your workspace can see them.
Counts and a few short example sentences from the scan, a one-way hash of the network address to limit abuse, and, in your browser only, a saved scan for up to 24 hours so you can verify and track from it.
Not yet. Exporting data and deleting an account are not available, and they are planned. Nothing is removed without you asking.
On the Privacy and Terms pages, and in Account, Privacy & data.