EXPERIMENT 001 · THE GLASS ARTICLE

Sentence-level provenance, rendered as typography

Pollar Research
opened July 2026 · last revised July 2026
STATUS: MOCKUP · runs on specimen content · no bench entry yet

Abstract

A news article asks to be believed. This experiment makes the request inspectable: every sentence the writer produces carries its evidentiary status, corroborated, single-source, or declared inference, and exposes the underlying source quotes on demand. The reader inherits the editor's view. We test whether a frontier writer can hold publication quality prose and complete sentence-level attribution at the same time; no writer has yet demonstrated that combination on our bench.

1The artifact

The figure below is interactive. The passage is a specimen written for this page; the interaction is the artifact under test.

EXPERIMENT 001 · SPECIMEN, NOT PIPELINE OUTPUT
EU ministers reach provisional deal on electricity market reform

Energy ministers agreed a provisional position on the reform of the EU electricity market late on Thursday, after fourteen hours of negotiation. The compromise extends state-backed price contracts to existing nuclear plants, the concession Paris had made a condition of any deal. Poland is reported to have abstained in the final round. If the September trilogue holds, the reform would take effect before the 2027 heating season.

Fig. 1. The Glass Article. Sentence-level provenance, rendered as typography. The passage is a specimen written for this figure. Hover any sentence.
corroborated 3+ sources single source named inference declared, gated

2Journal

2026-07 · why this is a mockup and not a demo
The interaction and the grading vocabulary are settled. What does not yet exist is the instrumented writer: production of publication prose where every sentence emits its own provenance record at write time, verified against the source set rather than reconstructed after the fact. Post-hoc reconstruction risks overstating write-time provenance; write-time attribution is the experiment.
2026-07 · what would kill it
Cost per article at frontier prices, and the failure mode where attribution pressure flattens the prose into quotation stitching. Both get bench measures before this page claims anything.

3Reported results

None yet. Under Rule 1, this experiment cannot appear in an edition until it has a bench entry. The first grounding run publishes here, whatever it says.