For Beta Researchers

VerityIndex is an independent editorial research engine for YouTube videos. Public visitors see one curated demo. We admit researchers through a consulting-style trial: a 15-minute Zoom unlocks three days of hands-on dashboard access — one standard analysis plus one managed Gemini DeepResearch credit — so we can qualify fit quickly before a paid engagement.

Tier T1 (creators / journalists / OSINT) may receive auto-granted access on Cal.com booking; Tier T2 (enterprise / analyst firms) uses the same /beta form with organization type, admin review, and NDA before access. See For analysts for the enterprise track.

Multimodal claim extraction Counter-intelligence Managed Gemini DeepResearch Categorical editorial verdicts User-scoped private storage

Apply — select organization type Book 15 min (unlocks 3-day trial for T1)

Public vs. private — what changes inside an account

Our public gallery contains exactly one analysis, the curated demo tLJC8hkK-ao. This is deliberate: it is the boundary we drew with the YouTube API team after our May 11 compliance round. Everything else is private and account-scoped.

During an active trial you get:

  • One standard analysis with claim-level counter-intelligence narrative.
  • Private HTML, PDF, and Markdown for that run — rendered from our internal {video_id}_report.json; you do not download the raw JSON.
  • One managed Gemini DeepResearch enhancement on a completed analysis.
  • Private storage under gs://verityindex_commercial/vngn/accounts/{user_id}/videos/{video_id}/... with cross-user access blocked at both storage and API layers. Trials expire on schedule; paid engagements unlock additional volume.

Managed Gemini DeepResearch — how it works

For any completed standard analysis, an Enhance with DeepResearch action runs a deep-dive citation pass against the analysis using our Vertex / Gemini pipeline. Findings merge into the internal {video_id}_report.json; we re-render your private HTML, PDF, and Markdown from the updated file. The enhanced view contains the same evidence cards, deeper citation chains, and an explicit "what we still don't know" section.

Each DeepResearch submission also requires the per-run acknowledgement modal; that event is written to compliance_audit.jsonl before the model runs.

YouTube-ToS acknowledgement — three tiers

Public (e.g. the single curated gallery demo): categorical verdicts only — no derived percentage badges next to YouTube thumbnails.

Private standard reports (your account): full numeric editorial detail in HTML/PDF/MD is allowed because you accept the YouTube Terms at signup and every private render carries an in-report notice that redistribution is your responsibility. The root {video_id}_report.json remains internal; reports are generated from it.

Managed DeepResearch adds a per-run acknowledgement modal before the Vertex / Gemini call. Submitting writes a row to compliance_audit.jsonl in addition to your signup acceptance.

In all cases you agree that:

  • You remain personally bound by the YouTube Terms of Service;
  • You will not redistribute YouTube API statistics or video metadata in violation of those terms;
  • You will not present VerityIndex outputs as YouTube's own editorial assessments.

For the full posture, see How we comply.

Editorial: All reports are independent editorial research by HotChili Analytics, LLC — not provided, endorsed, or calculated by YouTube or Google. LLM / data: Categories and verdicts are independently generated by an LLM by HotChili Analytics, LLC and are not official YouTube data (YouTube API ToS III.E.4.h).

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