AI THAT CITES ITS SOURCES
An assistant that shows you the evidence it used
If what you want is an assistant that cites the open web, use one of the ones that do — they are free or nearly free, they cover everything published, and they need no setup. GI JI cites nothing on the open web. Every citation it gives points at a passage inside a document you imported yourself. This page is about what that narrower promise buys you, and what it costs.
Where a web-citing assistant is the better tool — said first, on purpose
It knows things you have never read. It answers about last week. It costs nothing to try and runs on a phone. If your question is about the world rather than about your own material, GI JI is the wrong tool and will simply refuse you. Nothing on this page is an argument against that; it is an argument for a different job.
Three things GI JI does that a link at the bottom of an answer does not
It separates cited from merely retrieved. Searching your library turns up passages; only some of them end up supporting the sentence you are reading. GI JI lists both and marks which is which, so you are never left guessing whether a source in the list actually did any work.
It opens the exact stored passage. A citation is not a filename and not a page number. Clicking it puts the stored text GI JI actually read beside the answer, so checking a claim takes a second rather than a hunt through a PDF.
It stops instead of composing. In Sources only, if GI JI cannot attach enough usable evidence from your documents, it says so and writes nothing. No answer-writing AI call is made at all — there is no draft to be tempted by, because none was ever produced.
What we measured, and what that measurement is worth
Across every measured run this project has taken against its own frozen benchmark library, GI JI produced zero fabricated citations: no answer pointed at a passage that did not exist or did not say what the answer claimed. That is our own testing on our own benchmark, not an independent audit, and we will not dress it up as one. It is the number we have, measured the way we measure, and it is the reason the refusal exists.
A citation is also not a guarantee that an answer is right. It shows you what an answer rested on so that you can judge it. GI JI does not replace your reading, and it is not legal, medical, financial, or compliance advice.
The limits, said here so you do not meet them later
GI JI does not read scans. It imports text-based PDFs, Word files, notes, HTML and permitted websites; a scan-only PDF has no text to cite, so GI JI refuses it rather than importing it empty. It refuses more often than a cloud assistant does, by design — in Sources only it under-answers rather than inventing, and some questions a person would call answerable come back as a refusal. A Personal licence activates on one computer at a time; deactivate it to move it. And the one-time setup needs the internet to fetch the local models, after which GI JI reads and answers with no connection.
The one-line version
If you want an answer about the world with a link underneath it, use a web-citing assistant. If you want to know exactly which of your own passages an answer rests on — and to be told plainly when your documents do not contain one — that is GI JI, for $79 once.
WATCH IT WORK
Answer, cited passage, and an honest refusal.
Ask a question of your own documents, open the exact cited passage, then ask something your library does not contain and watch it stop instead of inventing.
HOW GI JI COMPARES
Where GI JI wins, and where it does not.
Three comparisons with the tools you are most likely choosing between, each one naming the case where the other tool is the better buy.
WRITTEN FOR ONE READER
Four pages that answer one question properly instead of all of them briefly — what a citation is actually worth, what GI JI is and is not for a technical reader, how it stands beside a note library, and what it does for work whose material cannot leave the computer.