Why We Started
Every company has a founding story.
Most of them go something like this: "We saw an opportunity in the market and built a product to capture it."
This is not that story.
The Moment
It was 2023. We were watching the same internet you were watching.
We saw AI-generated images presented as photographs. We saw fabricated quotes attributed to real people. We saw coordinated campaigns designed to make fiction feel like consensus.
We watched people we respected—smart, educated, thoughtful people—share things that weren't true. Not because they were stupid or malicious, but because the systems they trusted had failed them.
And we asked ourselves a question that wouldn't go away:
If the infrastructure of truth is broken, who is going to fix it?
What We Saw That Others Missed
The conventional response to misinformation is fact-checking. Find the lie, label it, publish a correction.
This approach assumes two things:
- That corrections reach the same people as the original lie
- That people change their minds when presented with evidence
Both assumptions are wrong.
Corrections don't spread like lies. They're boring. They don't trigger outrage or fear. The same algorithms that amplify misinformation actively suppress corrections because they don't drive engagement.
And people don't change their minds easily. By the time a fact-check is published, the lie has already become part of someone's identity. Challenging it feels like an attack.
We realized the problem wasn't bad information. The problem was broken infrastructure.
The Library Metaphor
Think about libraries.
Before libraries, knowledge was scattered. Finding information meant knowing the right person, having access to the right collection, being in the right place at the right time.
Libraries changed that. They created a system—a methodology for organizing, cataloging, and accessing human knowledge. They made information discoverable, verifiable, and accessible to anyone who walked through the door.
The internet was supposed to be the ultimate library. Instead, it became the opposite.
Information isn't organized. It's scattered across platforms that don't talk to each other. It's not verified. Anyone can publish anything and make it look authoritative. It's not accessible in any meaningful sense—finding the truth requires expertise that most people don't have time to develop.
We decided to build the library that the internet was supposed to be.
The Team
We're not journalists, though we respect journalism deeply.
We're not academics, though we rely on academic rigor.
We're not technologists building technology for its own sake.
We're people who got tired of waiting for someone else to solve this problem.
Our backgrounds span engineering, data science, philosophy, and investigative research. We've worked at companies you've heard of and on problems you haven't. We've seen how systems scale—and how they fail.
What unites us is a shared conviction: transparency is the only antidote to manipulation.
What We're Building
Veremet is a Public Intelligence Utility.
"Public" because it's not owned by any ideology, party, or interest group. The infrastructure of truth must be neutral or it's worthless.
"Intelligence" because we're not just collecting information—we're synthesizing it, analyzing it, and presenting it in ways that enable understanding.
"Utility" because this isn't a luxury. It's infrastructure. Like roads. Like electricity. Like the internet itself was supposed to be.
We're building the Consensus Graph—a transparent, auditable record of what evidence supports and what it doesn't. Every claim traced to its source. Every contribution attributed to a real person. Every conclusion open to challenge.
Why "Verifiers"?
We could have called our users "members" or "subscribers" or "customers."
We chose "Verifiers" because of what it implies.
A Verifier is not passive. A Verifier does not simply consume information and accept what they're told. A Verifier engages. Questions. Investigates. Contributes.
Verification is a verb. It requires action.
The Verifiers are not an audience. They are participants in a process. They are the human layer that makes this system work.
The Road Ahead
We don't pretend this will be easy.
The forces that profit from confusion are powerful. They have resources, reach, and a multi-decade head start.
But they have a weakness: they require opacity to function.
Manipulation only works when people don't see it happening. Coordination only succeeds when it stays hidden. Bad actors thrive in darkness.
We're building floodlights.
Join Us
If you've read this far, you understand why we started.
Not to build a company. Not to capture a market. Not to optimize for engagement or maximize shareholder value.
We started because the problem exists, because no one else was solving it the way it needs to be solved, and because we couldn't live with ourselves if we didn't try.
Be curious again.
The Era of Clarity is beginning.