Manipulation does its quiet work everywhere — the confident lie that moves a market, wins an argument, rewrites a war. So we set out to build the simplest thing that pushes back: a way to check what you're reading, right where you read it, in a single swipe.
Today it reads. In time it will hear and see too — one honest answer at a time.
False stories aren't a glitch in the feed — they're a permanent feature of how we read now. Social, news, messaging: none of them come with a way to ask the simple question, "wait, is this actually true?" And the cost of not asking shows up at two moments:
You don't want to be deceived. False information means financial, reputational and legal decisions made on false premises.
You don't want to deceive others. Forwarding a fabrication destroys trust with clients, audiences and colleagues.
The cost of producing a convincing fake collapsed to seconds. At the same time, the cost of verification fell just as fast — inference prices drop roughly 50% a year, putting real-time claim-checking within reach of a phone. In 2025, social media passed television as the leading news source in the US. A single fabricated tweet from a compromised AP account in 2013 erased about $136 billion in market value in minutes — with a reach of thousands. Today the same fake reaches millions in seconds.
Sources: Pew Research Center (Sept 2025) · Ofcom Online Nation 2025 · Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025.
You're scrolling. Something stops you: a headline, a number, a claim you're not sure about. Swipe the lens over it. VeRa reads what it says, checks it against real sources, and tells you what holds up. Seconds, not an afternoon of open tabs.
Drag VeRa's lens over any post — feed, chat, news site, anywhere.
On-device OCR extracts the claim. The screenshot never leaves your phone.
Live source retrieval, a sourced verdict, a confidence score.
Build a list from 155 instruments — 105 stocks, 20 indices & ETFs, 30 crypto. On-device and offline. Automatic alerts are on the way.
Every check is saved with search and status filters — find any past verdict in a tap.
No black box. Every verdict comes with the sources it stands on — read one, then keep scrolling.
"The Stockholm3 blood test outperforms standard PSA testing for prostate cancer."
Genetic markers, proteins and clinical data predict aggressive-cancer risk in men aged 45–74.
"A viral post claims NASA announced six days of total darkness from a solar storm — no such announcement exists."
NASA issued no statement of the kind. The claim recycles a long-debunked hoax and has no basis in solar physics.
"Headline claims the central bank 'admitted' the currency will collapse — the source is an opinion blog quoting no official statement."
The official transcript contains no such admission. A conditional scenario from an analyst interview is presented as the regulator's own position.
"The claim lacks concrete details to verify."
Missing date, specific location and incident scope. No source link to a specific event.
fig. 1 — four bearings, each shown with its work
| Client | Flutter + Kotlin — Android overlay (MediaProjection) |
| OCR | Google ML Kit — on-device, the screenshot never leaves the phone |
| Source retrieval | Brave Search + Serper — real-time retrieval cascade |
| Engine | Rin — a model-agnostic compound AI system: retrieval, claim extraction, a tuned reasoning prompt, and deterministic gates that can override the model (cloud LLM today) |
| Backend | Node 24 — SSE streaming, verdict cache, CI-gated test suite |
| Deploy | Hetzner Cloud VPS (EU) — live HTTPS · Google Play closed testing |
One data structure for any content type — the same interface will serve text, voice and video. With zero credible sources, the verdict downgrades to UNVERIFIED by design. A high-confidence fabrication is architecturally impossible. Temporal grounding and news-existence calibration are built in. English-language content today — multilingual verdicts are a planned update. Ahead for financial claims: deterministic verification of numeric financial claims against primary-source SEC filings.
The same swipe that reads a headline today will one day hear a voice on a call, and watch a face in a video. We're honest about it: this is the road we're on, not a shelf of dated promises. One engine, one verdict — new senses as they're ready.
Everyone else rates the outlet, compares the coverage, or publishes a verdict days later. VeRa answers the claim in front of you, now.
And it compounds. Each opt-in verdict enriches the dataset — better accuracy, broader reach, more data.
One founder, orchestrating a small army of AI agents. What a team of three engineers would spend a quarter building went live in seven weeks — and the same nine weeks also produced the brand system, this website, an incorporated UK company and its full legal framework.
Maksym Pietukhov — a background across media, advertising and PR, and a self-taught designer: the VeRa brand system is his own work.
Pro is on the way — free for everyone while VeRa is in beta.
Our design language is built on one idea: the lodestar — the single fixed point you can steer by when everything else drifts.
Every product we make does the same job: it separates one steady signal from the noise around it. Even the dot that closes VeRa is that light — the point of truth the whole mark leans on. Below, the philosophy drawn as an instrument: countless false readings; one verified bearing that holds.
fig. 2 — one bearing, held against the noise
I am Ukrainian, based in the UK. All my life I watched Russia use lies as a weapon against my people — decades of manipulation, and now a full-scale war where disinformation hits alongside artillery.
Fighting it is not a market opportunity I found. It is personal. I want people to make informed decisions instead of being led by manipulation. VeRa is that conviction turned into a product.
— Maksym Pietukhov, founder, RedMindsys