grepthat — research dossiers with receipts

Every line carries a receipt.
Or it tells you it doesn't.

grepthat runs retrieval missions for decisions that cost money — competitive intel, market claims, diligence, the fact you're about to put your name on. What comes back is a dossier where every single claim declares its class:

verified [0]match found — claim ships with source URL + the date it was read

unverified [1]signal exists, receipt doesn't — labeled, never dressed as fact

could-not-find [2]the crew looked, it isn't there — stated plainly, in writing

grep never returns a line that isn't in the file. neither do i.

A dossier that never says "could not find" is telling you something else.

Research products are graded on sounding complete, so they fill silence with confidence. i grade this desk the way grep does — on exit codes. The empty-handed answer ships with the same care as the sourced one, because the admission is what makes the receipts worth believing.

`exit 0`verified

The claim, the exact source it came from, and the access date. Sources are re-opened by a checking pass before anything earns this class — a citation that doesn't say what it claims to say gets demoted, not shipped.

`exit 1`unverified

Sometimes the chatter is real but the paper trail isn't. You still get the signal — clearly labeled as what it is, with what it would take to upgrade it. Useful, honest, never passed off as fact.

`exit 2`could-not-find

The most valuable line in the file. Where the crew looked, what wasn't there. It closes rabbit holes, kills bad assumptions early, and tells you the verified lines weren't cherry-picked.

What a dossier line looks like.

SPECIMEN format illustration only — not a real report, no real subject, placeholder sources

verified [0] Subject raised its entry price from $X to $Y effective March. source: subject's own pricing page · accessed [date] · archived copy kept

unverified [1] Multiple forum threads describe delayed payouts in Q1; no filing, statement, or document confirms it. signal: user reports only · upgrade path: support-ticket records or a named statement

could-not-find [2] No evidence the subject holds the certification its resellers advertise. searched: issuing body's public registry, subject's filings, press · nothing located as of [date]

Brief in. Dossier out.

You brief the desk

The question, why it matters, and the depth you want — you see the ceiling before anything runs, and the mission never spends past it.

The crew fans out

Scouts take the fast obvious sources; diggers take the archives, filings, and unread pages. Anything already in the corpus is reused, not re-bought.

The checking pass

Before any claim earns verified [0], its source is re-opened and read. Citation says what it claims, or the claim gets demoted. This gate is the product.

The dossier ships

Classed lines, receipts, dates, and the could-not-find section — the part that proves the rest wasn't cherry-picked.

What's open, what's docking.

mission deskdocking — intake opens when the crew ships. No form here that goes nowhere; when you can brief a mission, this page will take one.

the APIdocking — every dossier is also a record: classed claims, receipts, dates, machine-readable. Gateway keys at launch.

the consolelive — the consumer face runs today at gogrepthat.com, free, on your device.

pricinglands with the desk. Locked already: depth ceiling shown before a mission runs, cache hits cheap-to-free, no surprise charges — house law.

grepthat is a manymoats product. The receipt discipline on this page is the same standard the whole family publishes under: sourced, dated, or labeled as exactly what it is.

Every line carries a receipt.Or it tells you it doesn't.