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The human-in-the-loop layer for organizations that can't afford to get it wrong. Check any AI claim against your own trusted sources, and leave an audit trail. Your sources, your standards, your call.

Pronounced KOH-thon. A 2,500-year-old innovation to protect what matters. (No, really.)
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Across the program, total funding reached $420M last year, and reach grew steadily across every region.

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AI is breaking the thing your organization runs on: being right.

Your organization is now producing and standing behind AI outputs it can't double check or trace.

Your sources. Your standards. Your call.

You bring the sources you already trust: reports, datasets, PDFs, the research you actually read. Cothon is the double-check, and every verdict is logged the moment you make the call.

…the market grewan estimated 40% last year

ContradictedYour Q3 report · p.12

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Highlight any statement in a document, report, or AI conversation and instantly see how it holds up against your evidence base.

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Your research, captured in context.

When you find a source worth keeping, one click saves it to your evidence base without ever leaving what you're reading.

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Every verdict logged, automatically.

Your expertise, protected.

Your team's research in one place, checking in real time as anyone writes. Everyone's knowledge aligned, no inaccuracy slips through.

Works wherever you work.

Cothon fits alongside your workflow, so checking your work never means stopping it. It starts in your browser: the extension verifies any page or AI chat as you read.

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Audit trail

Every check, on the record.

Cothon logs every verification automatically: who reviewed each claim, which source they checked it against, and when. It builds as your team works, so when a client, a stakeholder, or your own board asks how you know, the answer already exists.

  1. Confirmed

    “Allocations rose to $2.4 billion last year”

    M. Okafor · checked against Annual Sector Report 2025, page 31
  2. Needs context

    “Roughly three fifths arrived as loans, not grants”

    L. Adeyemi · checked against Portfolio Review 2025, page 44
  3. Contradicted

    “Unit shipments grew 40% year on year”

    D. Kovač · checked against Market Tracker 2026, page 8
  4. and 125 earlier checks, every one since.

Data privacy and document security

Your documents are encrypted in transit and at rest, isolated by project, and never used to train AI models.

Are your documents secure?

Yes. Encrypted in transit and at rest, on keys we control, isolated by project, in a private cloud with no public access.

Is your data used to train AI?

No. Never. Your documents and sources are never used to train AI models.

How long is your data kept?

Until you delete it, or your account. The full privacy policy has the detail.

In the news · Devex

How two friends launched an AI safety tool

Following layoffs, these development professionals set out to improve the use of AI in the sector, and discovered a wider appetite for what they had built.
Natalie Donback · 15 May 2026
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The Devex article: How two friends launched an AI safety tool

Built by people who couldn't afford to get it wrong.

The team behind Cothon has led climate finance, sensitive data systems, and crisis response programs across four continents.

Max McGrath-Horn
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CO-FOUNDER · CEO
Max McGrath-Horn
Knows how to fund it, partner it, and scale it
15 years in climate finance and development partnerships across the UN, USAID, Chemonics, and ARPA-E. Managed a $350M climate portfolio across Asia-Pacific.
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Will Culhane
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Will Culhane
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15 years in humanitarian operations. Ran the UN's Displacement Tracking Matrix, producing mission-critical intelligence in complex emergencies.
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Yann Say-Liang-Fat
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Yann Say-Liang-Fat
Knows how to build it and make it work
13 years building humanitarian data infrastructure across 20+ international missions: machine learning, cloud, DevOps, and RAG.
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