How to use Ukweli for best results
Ukweli is a pre-publication integrity check. Paste or upload a document and it tells you whether the content is safe to release — and exactly what to fix if it isn’t. This page is the short manual; you don’t need it to start, but it helps you read a report properly.
The 30-second version
Paste or upload your document, pick a depth (Check, Verify, or Certify), and run it. In under a minute you get one verdict — Cleared, Review, or Hold — with the specific things to fix. Act on the fixes, run it again, and watch the verdict move. Read the verdict, not the number. That’s the whole tool.
What you can check
Ukweli works on any text-based document where claims, figures, and citations carry weight — strategy documents, proposals, policy documents, white papers, research, reports (monthly to annual and board), press releases, speeches, thought-leadership, grant applications, board papers, ESG and investor updates, tender responses, and prospectuses. Give it the prose: it reads PDF, Word, or pasted text, not spreadsheets, images, or raw data.
Read the verdict first, not the number
Every report opens with a verdict. That is the decision — everything else is supporting detail. There are three:
Cleared
No blocking issues were found against the checks that ran. It’s a screen, not a guarantee — it is not a substitute for legal, financial, or regulatory sign-off.
Review required
There are issues a person should look at before publishing. Work through the priority fixes, then re-run.
Hold — do not publish
At least one serious problem makes the document unsafe to release as written. Fix the flagged items and re-run before it goes anywhere.
The big number in the corner is a secondary signal — a rough sense of how much needs attention, useful while you’re editing. Don’t chase 100. The verdict is the threshold that matters; a document is ready when it clears, not when the number is highest.
Then work the priority fixes
Under the verdict you get the three most important things to fix, in order of severity, each written as a concrete instruction (“correct the date in paragraph 3 and cite a source”), not a vague note. Do those first — they’re the items most likely to move the verdict. Below that, the report breaks down by area: editorial quality, claim precision, the fact pattern, statistics, and — on higher tiers — sensitivity, research method, live citation checks, and consistency with your earlier documents.
Near the end, a coverage statement tells you what was and wasn’t checked. Read it: a “cleared” only covers the checks that actually ran.
Choose the right tier
You pick the depth on the analyse page, just above the document box, before you run. If you’re not sure, start with Check — you can always re-run the same document at a deeper tier.
Check
The core read: editorial integrity, claim precision, the fact pattern, and a statistical audit. Fast, for everyday drafts.
Verify
Everything in Check, plus research-methodology review and live citation verification — claims are checked against real sources on the web.
Certify
The full stack: adds country-sensitivity scanning and cross-document consistency, and produces an Integrity Certificate. Use it for anything high-stakes or externally submitted.
Use a report against your earlier ones
Ukweli stores the result of an analysis, never the document itself (your text is analysed and discarded — that’s the zero-retention promise). Your last five reports are kept in History.
The practical move: after you act on the fixes, run the same document again. You’ll see the verdict move — typically Hold → Review → Cleared — which is the trajectory of the document becoming publishable. It’s the honest way to confirm an edit actually resolved a finding rather than just looked like it did. On Certify, a cleared document also feeds a private consistency baseline, so later documents are checked for contradictions against what you’ve already approved.
Tips for the cleanest results
Give it the real document, not a summary — it checks what’s actually on the page. Upload the PDF or DOCX when you have one; paste works too. The single biggest lever is sourcing: claims with a stated, checkable source pass; orphaned claims and unsourced statistics get flagged. If a verdict surprises you, open the relevant section — every flag explains itself and points at the passage.