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+**Structured Evidence for High-Stakes Reporting**
+
+*Turn messy source material into audit-ready investigative artifacts.*
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+# Overview
+
+InvestigativeJournalist.jl is a Julia toolkit for managing the
+end-to-end investigative reporting workflow. It provides high-integrity
+structures for ingesting diverse sources, extracting verifiable claims,
+and building a corroboration matrix that minimizes editorial and legal
+risk.
+
+# Core Capabilities
+
+- **Multi-Source Ingestion**: Ingest documents, web snapshots, and
+  interview notes with automatic hashing and deduplication.
+
+- **Claim Extraction**: Extract discrete claims and link them to
+  entities (people, orgs, places).
+
+- **Corroboration Matrix**: Quantify confidence levels across claims and
+  multiple supporting sources.
+
+- **Auditable Provenance**: Every claim in your final draft traces back
+  to a cryptographically hashed source document.
+
+- **Timeline & Network Analysis**: Visualize actors and events to detect
+  gaps or contradictions in narratives.
+
+# Quick Start
+
+```julia
+using InvestigativeJournalist
+
+# Ingest a source document
+doc = ingest_source("docs/leaked_contract.pdf")
+
+# Extract claims and link to entities
+claims = extract_claims(doc)
+link_entities!(claims)
+
+# Build a corroboration matrix
+matrix = corroborate(claims, all_docs())
+
+# Generate a publication-ready evidence pack
+pack = generate_publication_pack(story_draft)
+```
+
+# Suggested Tech Stack
+
+- **Data**: `DataFrames.jl`, `Arrow.jl`, `JSON3.jl`
+
+- **Persistence**: `SQLite.jl` or `DuckDB.jl`
+
+- **Text Analysis**: `TextAnalysis.jl`
+
+- **Visualization**: `Makie.jl`
+
+# Safety & Governance
+
+- **Source Protection**: Support for encrypted fields and redacted
+  exports for sensitive whistleblowers.
+
+- **Audit Trail**: Immutable logs for every change in confidence scores
+  or claim text.
+
+- **Zero-Unreferenced Policy**: Final publication packages prevent
+  inclusion of any claim without a verified evidence link.
+
+# License
+
+Palimpsest-MPL-1.0 License - see [LICENSE](LICENSE) for details.