The truth-graph method

When AI answers for you, be the source it cites.

Verumgraph is a method for publishing knowledge as an entity graph with persistent identifiers and source provenance — readable by people, verifiable by machines, citable by search engines and AI systems.

First deployment: Kanon Kosmetyków · ~700 addressable records · in production

GRAPH FRAGMENT · LIVE DATA verified
QUESTION QE-000027 · "cream for dark circles?" NEED CONTEXT CTX-000063 · dark-circle reduction PRODUCT RECORD PC-000021 · eye cream VARIANT GTIN · label · as-of INGREDIENT ING-000001 · Aqua sameAs → wikidata.org/Q213388
identifiers shown are real records from the first deployment
Why now

Search is becoming an answer, not a list of links.

People increasingly ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and AI Overviews — and read a single synthesized answer instead of ten blue links. In that world your website is no longer read by your customer. It is read by the machine that answers your customer.

Most content was never written for that reader. Marketing prose is ambiguous, undated and unverifiable — so AI systems either skip it or, worse, guess. Brands end up invisible in AI answers, or misrepresented by them.

Verumgraph takes the opposite approach: publish knowledge the way reference databases do — as records with identity, evidence and dates — so machines can trust it enough to cite it, while people still get pages built for humans.

The method

Five properties of a truth-graph.

Any single one of these is a known technique. Verumgraph is the discipline of applying all five together, from day one, to the same body of knowledge.

VG-R1

Entities, not articles

The unit of publication is a record, not a blog post: a product, a user need, a question, an ingredient, a brand. Each is a node in a graph with typed relations — question → need context → product → variant → ingredient — so knowledge composes instead of duplicating.

VG-R2

Persistent identifiers

Every record carries a registry-style ID (PC-000021, QE-000027, CTX-000063, ING-000001) that never changes. Machines can track an entity across pages, exports and years — the way scientific databases and standards bodies do it.

VG-R3

Provenance on every claim

Each statement is typed — verified fact, manufacturer declaration, or editorial interpretation — and carries its evidence (e.g. a label photo) and an as-of date. Uncertainty is data, not fine print. An empty field beats an unverified value.

VG-R4

Dual publication

One record, two renderings from the same source of truth: an HTML page for people, and machine layers for AI — schema.org JSON-LD wired into one graph via @id, a clean record.json per entity, and an llms.txt that tells AI systems what the base is and how to cite it.

VG-R5

Anchored to the world's graphs

Entities link out via sameAs to global identifiers — Wikidata, industry registries — so the graph is not an island. External anchors are added only on exact matches: fewer links, zero wrong ones.

Anatomy of a record

What the machine actually reads.

This is a shortened, real machine record from the first deployment — the kind of object an AI system can fetch, parse and cite without scraping a single line of marketing copy.

IdentityStable @id and registry number — the entity survives redesigns and URL moves.
LicenseExplicit CC BY — machines are told they may cite, and how to attribute.
FreshnessdateModified and per-claim as-of dates let an AI weigh how current the data is.
DistributionA record.json download — clean data instead of HTML scraping.
Controlled vocabularyAttributes come from a defined term set, so records are comparable across the whole graph.
// …/products/biolaven-eye-cream/record.json
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Dataset",
  "@id": "…/products/biolaven-eye-cream/#dataset",
  "name": "BIOLAVEN eye cream — reference record",
  "identifier": "PC-000021",
  "dateModified": "2026-08-07T09:14:00Z",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "distribution": [{
    "@type": "DataDownload",
    "encodingFormat": "application/json"
  }],
  "record_fields": {
    "application_area": "eyes",
    "use_mode": "leave_on",
    "primary_function": "moisturize",
    "fragrance_status": "declared — source: label, as of 2026-06"
  }
}

Shortened for display. The live record, and hundreds like it, are one click away below.

Case study · in production

Kanon Kosmetyków — a reference base for natural cosmetics.

live deployment

Kanon Kosmetyków is a Polish curated knowledge base about natural cosmetics — no ads, no rankings, no affiliate links. Every statement has a source and an as-of date. It is the first full deployment of the Verumgraph method and serves as its living proof.

The graph maps real purchase intent to verifiable product data: user questions resolve through need contexts to product records, market variants (label, GTIN, ingredients as printed) and individual ingredient entities anchored to Wikidata.

Everything below is public. Open the links, view source, fetch the records — the method is fully inspectable.

~700addressable records with persistent IDs
578INCI ingredient entities parsed from label data
5entity types linked in one graph: questions, contexts, products, variants, ingredients
100%of records exposed as JSON-LD + record.json under CC BY 4.0
Work with us

Two ways in.

FOR BRANDS

Own your representation in AI answers.

When a customer asks an AI about your category, your product should appear — described from your verified record, not from a model's guess.

  • A maintained, evidence-backed record of each product
  • Machine-readable data AI systems can safely cite
  • Protection against hallucinated claims about your formulas
  • Re-verification when formulations or labels change
FOR AGENCIES & PUBLISHERS

License the method. Answer the "what about AI?" question.

Your clients are asking what you're doing about AI search. Verumgraph is a deployable answer: a record model, a context vocabulary, a provenance workflow and the technical layer to publish it all.

  • Method licensing, playbooks and training
  • Reference implementation to build on
  • Applicable to any vertical with verifiable facts
  • Differentiation beyond "more content"
Principles
No rankings.Records are selections by explicit criteria — never "top 10" lists, never paid placement.
Evidence first.A claim without a source and a date is not published. An empty field beats a guess.
Open by design.Records carry an explicit license and machine distribution. Citation is the point, not a leak.

Be citable before your competitors are.

Tell us your category. We'll show you what your first ten records would look like — and what AI systems currently say about you.

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