Every answer cites the record. Or it declines.
VitalRecord reads an agency's records and answers questions with the source document attached to every line. When it cannot point to a source, it says so. Built for FOI, audit and records work, and run on infrastructure you control.
From the file
The request was received on 12 March 2026. The department must notify its decision within 30 days.
In plain language
The clock started on 12 March. The file does not say whether an extension was sought, or whether the third-party consultation is done.
The question it raises
Which other files in scope of this request name the same third party?
The work is reading. There is too much of it.
FOI teams, auditors and records units face the same arithmetic: more documents than readers, and every answer must survive a reviewer.
- An FOI request lands on a file store holding decades of mixed formats, and the statutory clock starts whether or not anyone has opened the box.
- An answer that cannot be traced to a document does not survive the review, so the reading gets done twice.
- A generic AI assistant reads fast and invents the parts it cannot find. On your records, an invented answer is a liability you will be asked to explain.
VitalRecord does the first reading. Every line it returns carries the record it came from, so the second reading is a check, not a redo.
What it changes
- Saves time. The first reading happens once, at machine speed, across the whole corpus. Your reviewers spend their hours on judgement, not on search.
- Increases compliance. Every answer carries its source, and every document is registered by origin, date and hash. The audit trail is built as the system works, not reconstructed afterwards.
- Reduces hallucinations. An answer without a source does not ship. Where a generic assistant invents, VitalRecord declines and says why. That is a gate in the platform, not an instruction in a prompt.
How it works
- Screen. A deterministic scope and injection screen runs before the model is called. Out-of-scope and adversarial requests are turned away without reaching it.
- Retrieve. The question is matched against your registered records. Every document carries where it came from, when it was taken, and its hash.
- Cite or refuse. An answer ships only with its sources attached. With no source, the system declines and gives the reason. That is a gate in the platform, not an instruction in a prompt.
See the same gate running in public at foi.axoquant.com and ndb.axoquant.com, where every figure carries its basis and its source.
foi.axoquant.com · ndb.axoquant.com
The category sells AI that guesses. VitalRecord is built for work that has to be right: every line carries its source, or it does not ship. Call it SI if you want a name for the difference. The gate is the difference.
Your boundary, or ours.
Deployments run on Australian infrastructure we operate, or inside your tenancy. Records are never sent to a third-party model provider. Each account's files are encrypted under its own key, and deleting an account deletes them.
Every document is registered with its origin, the date it was taken and its hash. Every access is logged. The citation a reader sees is a view of that register, and the register itself is the artifact an auditor can ask for.
We hold no third-party certification today, and we do not imply otherwise. The claim on offer is falsifiable: ask it something outside its records and watch it decline.
Where it comes from
VitalRecord is built by Bluebird Labs in Australia, alongside its sister business Bluebird Advisory. The governance layer underneath it has screened every output of our own operations for more than two years and over 500,000 research cycles.
The first step is a small one.
A pilot is one corpus, one team, one question set, measured against your current process. It is sized to fit under the Commonwealth's $125,000 SME procurement threshold, so the paperwork stays simple.
Write with the shape of your estate and we come back with a pilot design.