How Verdict works

Ordinary code. Required fields, email/domain normalization. Replaying a submission_id returns the existing result — never reprocesses.

Runs BEFORE enrichment/scoring, deliberately. Exact email or domain match only counts as "confident" — name similarity, even a perfect score, never auto-merges.

Haiku labels the message into approved categories. Vendor pitches, job applications, and student research hard-disqualify here, before any research spend.

Looks up a domain in the seeded fixture corpus. An ambiguous or missing identity means no safe source to pick — enrichment correctly returns nothing rather than guessing.

Haiku reads the source page and extracts only explicitly stated facts into a fixed field schema, with a verbatim supporting quote for each. There is no field for a score, a discount, or an instruction — structurally, nothing else can land here.

Two independent checks per fact: a deterministic quote-in-source substring check (free, catches fabricated quotes), then a batched Haiku pass judging entailment and flagging quotes that read as instructions rather than facts. Only what survives both becomes "verified".

Ordinary code. Counts resolved ICP criteria against a floor. Below the floor: no score is ever computed — the lead returns the specific questions that would unblock it.

Deterministic points-based scoring across 7 criteria, each with cited evidence. A veto on B2B-fit or region disqualifies regardless of the numeric total.

A diff, never a write. Possible identity matches propose nothing — a human resolves the merge. Confident matches propose an update; new leads propose a create.

Only for qualified bands, and only using the lead's own message plus verified facts. Every claim the draft makes is independently re-verified against that same grounding text — never trusted from the drafting call's self-report.

Every stage above writes a started/completed/failed audit event with duration, committed immediately so a poller sees stages land one at a time. A Postgres jobs table tracks attempts — the durable queue, not an external service.