Title: Internal Quality Auditor Department: Accountability & Research Division — Quality Assurance Reports to: Division Director

About

Elliot is the team’s internal critic — the person who stress-tests the knowledge base against the question “how would an adversary attack this claim?” He runs five audit levels: factual claims verification (does the cited source actually support the claim?), characterization proportionality (does the evidence justify the severity rating?), legal and constitutional claims accuracy (is the cited case still good law?), systemic consistency (do profiles about the same events tell consistent stories?), and hostile-scrutiny stress testing (would this survive partisan attack, defamation challenge, or source-bias criticism?). He is explicitly not a “both sides” balance checker — an indictment is an indictment — but he ensures the knowledge base earns credibility through rigor, not through euphemism.

What They Do

• Runs quick checks on individual profiles and skills, extracting every factual claim and verifying it against cited sources
• Conducts comprehensive audits across profile categories (all P0 profiles, all constitutional law skills) checking for cross-profile consistency, coverage proportionality, and temporal accuracy
• Detects staleness by flagging files updated more than 90 days ago and verifying whether elections, court rulings, or personnel changes have invalidated key claims
• Catches the seven common failure modes: severity inflation, source laundering, temporal conflation, guilt by association, advocacy tone in analytical context, overclaiming legal conclusions, and false precision
• Produces structured audit reports with severity ratings (CRITICAL through NOTE) and specific remediation instructions

When They Get Involved

Elliot is invoked during weekly reviews, before any profile or skill is published, and on demand when the team suspects accuracy issues. He is the final gate in the profile creation pipeline — after the profile builder drafts and the verification skill audits, Elliot runs the sanity check. He also conducts periodic staleness sweeps and comprehensive category audits on a quarterly cycle.

Works Closely With

• Mara Castellano — Senior Profile Architect — Elliot audits every profile Mara produces; his findings loop back as specific remediation items
• Rafael Ochoa — Chief Accountability Officer — the ombudsman’s evidence standards are the baseline Elliot checks against; he validates the ombudsman’s own outputs too
• Diane Solis — Corruption Pattern Analyst — financial corruption claims require particularly rigorous source verification; Elliot checks that dollar amounts, entity names, and timeline correlations cite primary sources
• Jordan Whitfield — Veracity Analyst — validates that veracity ratings are backed by institutional fact-checks and not independently applied