For reporters, editors and producers

Research the people and companies in your story, with citations you can use

Who runs it, how the money works, what is in court, what changed lately: a report where every claim links to the record behind it, back in minutes. Check it, quote it, and keep going. The subject is never contacted.

Background that used to take a day of calls, before your first call.

Get the Full Report Check any company free Fact-check a document

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The same work, elsewhere	What it costs
A private investigator, by the hour	$132 an hour on average a survey of 32 investigation firms in the 10 largest US metros, April 2026. Source: Zealous Advocate
A diligence firm, comprehensive report on one executive	$1,500 to $5,000 per executive a comprehensive executive due diligence report, one firm's published price range (advanced or global work runs $5,000 to $15,000 and up). Source: JRG Partners
A reporter's own hours on background	$29.91 an hour median pay of a reporter, 2025, before benefits and overhead. Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics
A MentionFox Full Report on the company and the people behind it	See pricing for the whole report, back in minutes

Every claim citedEach finding links to the record it came from, so you can check it yourself.
Minutes, not weeksThe report is written while you wait, in minutes.
The subject is never involvedNo consent form, no call, no notice to the person or company you research.
Says what it could not findAn empty record is reported as empty, never filled in.

What you get: real sections of a real report

Who Runs It, And How To Reach Them

Lin Qiao is the co-founder and CEO of Fireworks AI and is the person any acquirer would be across the table from. Her profile confirms the role, her prior position is stated on the company's own team page, and a national business outlet reported in April 2026 that she helped build PyTorch at Meta before founding Fireworks AI.

Read it in the full sample report, with its sources

Litigation and Regulatory Record

Court, legal, regulator and enforcement records were checked for Fireworks AI. None returned litigation filings, regulatory enforcement actions, consent orders, sanctions matches, or exclusion notices naming Fireworks AI, Inc. That absence is not a clearance, and the report says exactly what was and was not searched.

Read it in the full sample report, with its sources

From the makers of FoxPlug, 2x winner in HackerNoon's Proof of Usefulness Hackathon 36,000+ free company record pages, every claim cited to its filing54,000+ funding filings tracked in 2026

Before it runs

The name on your desk, turned into a sourced, cited profile.

These are the kinds of names that cross a reporter's desk every week. Enter one and MentionFox returns a profile where every claim links back to where it came from — a verdict, the evidence behind it, and citations in your house style.

Source claim A source's public statement, on the record before deadline

"I ran that program for eight years and we never missed a single audit."

→ MentionFox builds a cited profile of the source: the roles and dates they actually held, what the record says about that program, and which parts of the claim are verified, which are unconfirmed, and which contradict the timeline — each line linked to its evidence before you put it in print.

Investigation subject The person at the center of a story you are mapping

"There's no connection between me and that company. I've never had any involvement with them."

→ MentionFox maps the subject's network and affiliations into a sourced diagram — the people, entities, and roles that connect to them and to each other — so you can see the relationships, follow the timeline, and cite each link rather than assert it.

Public figure on the record Someone whose statements today need to be checked against the past

"I have always supported this position. My view on it has never changed."

→ MentionFox returns a track record and dated timeline of the figure's prior public statements, the reputation and sentiment around them, and a side-by-side of where today's words line up with — or contradict — what they said before, with a citation on every entry.

How it works

Four steps, from a name to a profile you can file behind.

No black box. You start with a name and end with a sourced, cited profile where you can stand behind every line.

Step 1

Enter a name

Type the source, subject, or public figure you're writing about. One name is enough to start.

Step 2

Build the cited profile

MentionFox assembles roles, dates, affiliations, and the record into one profile — every claim linked to the evidence behind it.

Step 3

Verify claims and map the network

Each factual claim gets a verdict and confidence tier. The network around the subject is mapped, with the timeline laid out so contradictions surface.

Step 4

File with confidence

Export the profile with citations in your house style. Ship the piece knowing each line points back to where it came from.

What you can run

Built for the work a newsroom actually does.

Each surface returns a sourced, cited result — never a guess, never an unattributed claim.

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People intelligence

Turn a name into a structured profile: roles, dates, affiliations, reputation, and sentiment — every line cited. Run a person profile.

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Sourced dossier

A reader-ready profile that lays out the verdict, the evidence behind it, and citations in your house style. See a sample dossier.

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Subject and founder vetting

For the person at the center of a story or a deal: claim-by-claim verification with a confidence tier on each. Open the vetter.

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The journalist den

A home base tuned for reporters — the surfaces you reach for on deadline, in one place. Open the journalist den.

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Coverage across surfaces

A profile pulls from many surfaces at once, so the network and timeline come back whole rather than one thread at a time. See coverage.

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Citations in your style

Every verdict ships with citations pre-formatted in APA, MLA, Chicago, Bluebook, or AMA — paste straight into your draft. See all features.

Why not just do it by hand?

Manual background research finds facts. We find facts you can cite.

Working a name by hand means hours across tabs with nothing linked together. Generic people-search sites hand you an unsourced data dump you can't put in print. MentionFox returns one profile where every claim carries its evidence.

Manual background research

Hours of open tabs, scattered notes, and a network you're holding in your head. The facts may be right, but nothing is linked, nothing is dated, and you rebuild it from scratch for the next name.

Generic people-search

An unsourced dump of addresses and relatives with no verdict, no confidence, and no citation. You can't stand behind a single line of it on the record, so it never makes the piece.

MentionFox

One sourced profile: claims verified with a confidence tier, the network mapped, the timeline laid out, and a citation on every line in your house style. Vet a subject or see a sample.

vs The Field

What the alternatives actually do

NewsGuard and Logically have the brand recognition. Here is how their product overlap looks against per-claim fact-checking for working writers.

	NewsGuard	Logically	MentionFox
Coverage	35,000 sites	Political speeches, livestreams	Any document
Verifies individual claims	No	Yes (political only)	Yes (any topic)
Citation styles	None	None	APA, MLA, Chicago, Bluebook, AMA
Pricing	Custom enterprise	Custom enterprise	Per page, see current pricing
Setup time	Weeks	Weeks	Paste text, get verdict

How working writers use it

Four scenarios. Same engine.

Claims Check scales from a 1,200-word filing to a 280-page manuscript. Three tiers map to budget and rigor.

Newsroom editorial

Your reporter files a 1,200-word piece at 4pm for a 6pm deadline.

You paste it into Claims Check. In under 3 minutes, you see 23 factual claims, 19 verified with primary sources, 3 flagged "low confidence — verify by hand," and 1 flagged "citation broken — author claims a 2019 study, link is dead." You ship the piece with confidence.

Newspaper tier · 5 credits/pg

Book publisher pre-publication

You're publishing a 280-page non-fiction book.

Traditionally you'd skip fact-checking or pay a freelancer $5K-$20K. Instead, you run the manuscript through Claims Check at Magazine tier (80 credits a page for a manuscript over 200 pages): every claim checked with its evidence cited, every claim flagged for your editor's sign-off, and citation suggestions in Chicago style.

Magazine tier · 100 credits/pg

Podcast narrative episode

You're producing a 45-minute investigative podcast episode.

You paste the episode transcript. Claims Check finds every checkable claim and who said it, checks each one, and returns a report with a verdict and a cited source per claim: "'The company had 12,000 layoffs that year': supported, cited to the company's own filing." Your producer reviews a sourced list instead of a raw script.

Newspaper tier · 5 credits per transcript page

Screenwriter biopic legal vetting

You're writing a biopic of a still-living public figure.

Claims Check finds every passage the script presents as fact, checks each one, and marks what is documented, what is contested and what nothing on the record supports. Your entertainment lawyer starts from that sourced list instead of a blank page.

Magazine tier

What you get per claim

Every claim returns evidence, verdict, citations.

No black-box scoring. Each verdict shows the source URLs, the matching passage, the confidence tier, and citations pre-formatted in the style you picked.

CLAIM 17 of 23 "The 2023 study by Stanford University found that 67% of remote workers..." VERDICT: Verified (high confidence) EVIDENCE: - Stanford WFH Research, Aug 2023, https://wfhresearch.com/data - Specific page: "Among surveyed workers, 67% reported..." - Date confirmed: Aug 15, 2023 - PHIA confidence: Substantial likelihood CITATIONS (in your chosen style): APA: Stanford WFH Research. (2023). Remote work productivity study. https://wfhresearch.com/data MLA: Stanford WFH Research. "Remote Work Productivity Study." 2023, wfhresearch.com/data. Chicago: Stanford WFH Research. 2023. "Remote Work Productivity Study." https://wfhresearch.com/data. SUGGESTED EDITS: - Add citation marker after "67%" - Specify "Stanford WFH Research" rather than "Stanford University" (the study was by the WFH Research team, not the university broadly)

Pricing calculator

Plug in your length. See the cost.

One page = 250 words. Drop in either words or pages and the calculator handles the rest.

Document length (words) or Pages

Tier

Total: 30 credits for 6 pages at Newspaper tier

Compare to freelance: 1 chapter (around 25 pages) of a book costs $500-$2,000 from a freelance fact-checker. Claims Check Magazine tier: 2,500 credits. What a credit costs: see pricing.

Bulk pricing for full manuscripts

Upload the whole book at once and the credits per page drop. What a credit costs is on the pricing page. Bulk discounts apply automatically to manuscript-mode uploads.

Pages	Newspaper	Hybrid	Magazine
1-50 (article / chapter)	5 cr/pg	25 cr/pg	100 cr/pg
51-200 (longform book)	4 cr/pg	22 cr/pg	90 cr/pg
201+ (full manuscript)	4 cr/pg	20 cr/pg	80 cr/pg

A 280-page book at Magazine tier: 280 × 80 = 22,400 credits (28,000 at the 1-50 page rate — 5,600 fewer). Cached re-runs of the same manuscript are free for 90 days.

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