Method
How Delora sources, verifies and corrects the claims behind its guides and suburb data — and what it won't publish.
Every material claim traces to a named source
Facts that drive a guide, calculator or tool — thresholds, rates, grant amounts, legal rules, process descriptions — are stored as individual, dated claims in a versioned graph, each linked to the specific government, regulator or authoritative page it came from. Guides read from these claims rather than having numbers typed directly into prose, so a figure a reader sees links back to where it came from and when it was last verified. See the knowledge base for the full source catalogue, organised by subject.
How a source gets in
A source is fetched directly from the issuing authority's own site — a government department, regulator or official register — archived with a content hash, and a specific claim is extracted from it in plain language. A source's tier, retrieval date and document type are recorded alongside it. A weekly monitor re-fetches every archived source and compares a stable hash of its cleaned text (not raw bytes, which change on every request from cache-busting and tracking parameters with no real content change) against what's stored — a genuine change is flagged for human review, never republished automatically.
Claims are never silently overwritten
When a claim needs updating, the previous version is marked superseded and kept, with the date it was superseded and what replaced it — visible on the relevant knowledge-base subject page, not deleted. A reader can see what Delora previously stated as well as what it states now.
What the build itself enforces
Delora's site build validates every active claim before publishing: a claim with no source, or with signs of a formatting corruption (a stripped currency figure, a leftover template placeholder, a literal "None" or "undefined"), fails the build rather than shipping. This isn't a manual checklist — it runs on every single regeneration of the site.
Facts, estimates and opinions are kept distinct
A suburb's median house price is a fact from a named dataset. Delora's hedonic price model is an estimate, explicitly labelled as modelled context with its assumptions and confidence range stated, never presented as a valuation or a prediction. An editorial recommendation, where Delora makes one, is labelled as guidance, not fact. If a claim can't be traced to a public source, Delora doesn't present it as fact.
Use of AI
Delora's guides and site code are drafted with AI assistance, working from sources fetched and registered directly rather than a model's general training knowledge. Every material claim is checked against its cited source before publishing — AI assistance speeds up drafting, it doesn't replace sourcing a claim or disclosing a limitation honestly.
What Delora won't publish
Lines Delora holds
No claim presented as fact without a named, checkable source. No fabricated professional reviewer or credential. No property given a diagnosis, safety declaration, repair-cost estimate, compliance certification or pass/fail verdict. No paid ranking or featured placement for any property, suburb, agent, lender or developer. No "coming soon" placeholder presented as a finished page.
Corrections
Found something wrong? See the corrections page for how Delora handles errors, or get in touch directly.