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Why evidence beats summaries

Summaries are convenient. Evidence is durable. Andosho is built on the belief that conclusions without provenance are hard to trust and harder to defend.

Matt Canham8 min read

A summary can be persuasive without being true. It can flatten uncertainty, erase contradictions, and leave no path back to the page that justified the claim.

Evidence-first systems keep the source attached. That is slower than a fluent paragraph. It is also closer to how serious work actually holds up under scrutiny.

What survives summarization

Andosho treats citations, timelines, and page-aware references as first-class outputs—not decorations after the fact.

When a conclusion can be traced, it can be challenged, corrected, or reused. When it cannot, it is just prose.