An answer without its source is an assertion. A grounded answer is evidence.
AI can produce a useful paragraph of analysis from a set of documents. Then someone asks: "Where does it say that?"
The connection between the finding and the source was never preserved. The answer is reasonable. It is also unverifiable.
Search+ attaches inline citations to important claims — connecting each finding to the document, available section, and supporting excerpt. The evidence is inspectable, not remembered.
The analysis is useful. The source is gone.
A well-written summary synthesizes information from several documents into a clear narrative. That is genuinely valuable.
But the moment the summary leaves the tool — into a note, a report, a presentation, a decision — the connection to its sources disappears. The finding becomes an assertion. The supporting excerpt becomes a memory. The specific document and section become "I think it was in one of the reports."
This is not a minor inconvenience. In professional work, an unsourced finding is a liability.
The citation is part of the product, not something you add afterward.
Search+ returns inline citations alongside important claims. Each citation connects to:
The source document — which file in the workspace produced this evidence.
Available location metadata — sections, pages, or structural markers when the underlying source provides them.
The supporting excerpt — the specific passage that supports the claim.
Open any citation to inspect the evidence. The connection is navigable, not reconstructed.
Search+ shows sections and page references when the underlying source provides them. It does not manufacture location data that the document does not contain.
When the analysis spans documents, the evidence still points home.
Structured analysis across multiple sources — comparison, synthesis, extraction — is where source grounding matters most and is hardest to maintain manually.
Search+ Deep Analysis produces results where each finding carries its attribution. The comparison matrix shows which document holds which position. The synthesis identifies agreements and disagreements with per-source evidence.
The structured result is the beginning of further work. Follow the citation to inspect the source. Ask a follow-up question about a specific finding. Narrow to one document for precision.
What source grounding does and does not guarantee.
Source grounding means the tool connects claims to the documents and excerpts it drew on. It means you can inspect the evidence behind a finding rather than accepting it on faith.
It does not guarantee that the analysis is correct. It does not guarantee that every relevant passage was found. It does not replace professional judgment about what the evidence means.
What it does is make the judgment more efficient: the evidence is reachable, the source is named, and the supporting passage is quoted rather than paraphrased from memory.
Produce analysis you can trace back to the source.
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