unfold4all

Better context, not a better model.

AI answers inherit the biases of their training data: institutional, textbook-centric voices dominate. This demo corrects that by choosing different context — a community’s own account of itself — and shows you exactly which sources it used and why.

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How it works

Every source is ranked by authorship proximity — who is speaking, not how polished or popular the page is:

Tier 1 · community-authoredThe community speaking for itself: tribal organizations' own sites and blogs, their video channels, oral histories, newsletters.
Tier 2 · community-collaborativeMade with the community: long-form interviews, co-curated exhibits, journalism quoting members at length.
Tier 3 · secondary scholarshipAcademic, archival, or journalistic work about the community without substantial community voice.
Tier 4 · generic webWhat default search surfaces: encyclopedias, textbook summaries, SEO content. Used only as labeled gap-filler.

Retrieval is hybrid: a curated, pre-indexed corpus of community sources is consulted first, with tier-aware live web search filling gaps. And when no community-authored sources exist for a question, the answer says so — it never quietly falls back to generic content and calls it coverage.

See the difference

Real excerpts from this app answering: “What is the history of the Ohlone people?”

Default AI (no sources)

The Ohlone (also historically called the Costanoan, from the Spanish costeño, “coast dweller”) are the Indigenous peoples of the central California coast, occupying the region from roughly the San Francisco Bay Area south to Big Sur… Rather than a single unified nation, “Ohlone” describes about fifty or more distinct tribal groups speaking eight or so related languages…

Fluent and broadly accurate — but it speaks about the Ohlone from training-data priors, with no way to check where any claim comes from.

Community-sourced

The word “Ohlone” itself has a complicated history. According to the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone, the term came from a misspelling of “Oljon,” the name of a tribe within Ramaytush territory along the Pacific Coast… Today it is broadly accepted as an identifier for all Costanoan-speaking peoples from the San Francisco Bay Area to Big Sur, though some persons and groups, such as the Amah Mutsun and Tamien Nation, prefer not to use it [5].

[5] Terminology — Association of Ramaytush Ohlone[1] The Rich History of Pre-Spanish California — Muwekma Ohlone Tribe

Drawing on 7 Tier-1 (community-authored) sources; no Tier-4 content was used.

Same model, same question. The only difference is the context it was given — and the sourced answer knows things the default one can’t: where the name “Ohlone” actually came from, and that some communities prefer not to use it.

Honesty & attribution