QiXCite Documentation

What is QiXCite?

QiXCite is a citation governance engine for legal AI, part of the Quorum Integrity eXchange (QIX) framework by OrchIntel. It helps detect likely fabricated citations, checks authority existence, separates source-backed checks from first-party estimates or unavailable treatment status, and produces verifiable evidence bundles for every verification.

QiXCite is purpose-built for law firms, legal departments, and compliance teams that use AI in their workflows. It runs as a managed service on IOA Cloud or on your own infrastructure with a local/on-premise deployment.

Documentation

Everything you need to understand, deploy, and use QiXCite.

API Endpoints

QiXCite exposes verification, monitoring, and OCG operations endpoints. Endpoints are available at http://localhost:8000 (local) or https://api.orchintel.com/api/qixcite (cloud).

Core Capabilities

API Quick Examples

Copy-paste examples for core QiXCite operations. All endpoints available at http://localhost:8000 (local) or https://api.orchintel.com/api/qixcite (cloud).

curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/v1/documents/scan \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"text": "As held in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966)..."}'

curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/v1/cite/validate \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"citation": "384 U.S. 436", "jurisdiction": "US-FED", "audit_id": "test-1"}'

curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/v1/cite/quote-lock \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"quote": "the prosecution may not use statements...", "source_url": "384 U.S. 436", "audit_id": "test-1"}'

curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/verify \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"text": "...", "jurisdiction": "US-FED", "require_corroboration": true}'

curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/v1/efiling/precheck \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"text": "...", "jurisdiction": "US-FED", "court": "district"}'

curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/v1/batch \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"citations": ["384 U.S. 436", "347 U.S. 483"], "jurisdiction": "US-FED"}'

curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/v1/monitor \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"citations": ["384 U.S. 436"], "jurisdiction": "US-FED", "check_interval": "daily"}'

curl http://localhost:8000/v1/evidence/sample

curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/v1/authority-alignment \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "X-Tenant-ID: my-firm" \
  -d '{
    "citation": "Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966)",
    "context_text": "Police must give Miranda warnings before any interrogation.",
    "audit_id": "audit-aae-demo",
    "user_llm_api_key": null
  }'

# Response includes verdict (aligned/misaligned/partial), alignment_score, rationale,
# authority_excerpt, authority_excerpt_hash (SHA-256), and quota_status.

Jurisdiction coverage

QiXCite checks citations in the areas marked Available. For areas marked Coming soon, the citation is detected but not sent to any source, and the result is a warning that says it was not checked. It is never shown as a pass.

How Results Are Labelled

QiXCite reports and labels. It does not block, edit, or file anything for you, and a person makes the final call on every flag.

Anti-Hallucination Design

QiXCite uses multiple layers to prevent and detect citation hallucinations.

Try It: Sample Citations

Use these sample citations to try QiXCite in the add-in or the console playground.

Citation Monitoring (API Preview)

An API preview lets you register citations from your filed documents and re-check them on request. Changes in a source result are recorded and can be posted to a webhook. Automatic scheduled re-checks are not running yet, and monitoring is not part of the Word add-in.

How QiXCite Compares

QiXCite is the only citation governance tool that combines anti-hallucination verification, cryptographic evidence bundles, and continuous monitoring in a single platform.

Academic Citation Governance

The same governance engine that validates legal citations now validates academic and scientific references. Same PASS/WARN/FAIL/BLOCK outcomes, same evidence bundles, same API,different authority providers.

Academic capabilities include:

• DOI resolution via CrossRef and DataCite
• PubMed / PMC article existence and metadata verification
• arXiv paper verification and metadata
• Citation formatting validation (APA, Bluebook, OSCOLA, AGLC)

QiXCite confirms that an identifier exists. It does not check whether a paper has been retracted, so confirm that separately.

Set jurisdiction: "ACADEMIC" in your API calls to use academic providers. The same endpoint that validates case law validates research citations.

Authority Alignment Beta

Authority Alignment answers the question existence/semantic checks cannot: does the cited authority actually support the claim? A citation can exist, pass configured treatment checks, and be semantically similar , yet still be misused. Schenck v. United States cited to argue all speech is protected is a classic example.

Verdict Types

Misalignment Taxonomy

Free Tier & Cost

Each tenant receives 10 complimentary Authority Alignment checks on IOA Cloud LLMs. Beyond that, use cloud quota or optionally configure your own Anthropic/OpenAI key in Settings.

Word Add-in , Interactive Preview

The QiXCite sidebar integrates directly into Microsoft Word. Click the tabs below to explore the interface , including the Authority Alignment panel.

Support & Resources