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Overclaim

Paste an argument, a pitch, an essay draft, a research summary — anything that makes claims. I’ll quote the phrases that claim more than the text shows and name the smaller, true claim each one could honestly make. I read the gap between what’s asserted and what’s supported — not whether a claim is true in the world (I can’t know that), and not why the writer made it. A strong claim the text actually earns, I leave alone.

Overclaim is a calibration tool, not a fact-checker. It names where the writing asserts more than its own evidence and argument support — not whether a claim is true in the world, and not whether the writer meant to oversell. A claim that’s strong and earned is left alone. Where a phrase can’t be judged without facts outside the text, the tool says so rather than guessing. If every claim fits its support, the response is one sentence and stops. Nothing is stored.

What this is good for

The tool refuses to fact-check, to guess at motive, to rewrite, or to flag a strong claim the text actually earns. It’s the mirror of /plainly: that tool catches writing that says less than it means; this one catches writing that claims more than it shows. Where a claim needs a source rather than scaling, that’s /footnote’s job.