Quoin Launches the World's First Verification Engine for Business Intelligence, Turning Any Company into a Fully-Sourced Dossier in 20 Minutes

CHICAGO, June 8, 2026 — Quoin, Inc. today launched Quoin.ai, the first AI verification engine built for decisions where being wrong is costly. Point Quoin at any company or topic—a household-name corporation, a private company with barely a website, or an emerging market you need to understand—and in about twenty minutes it returns a fully sourced report in which every claim is independently verified, every fact is traced to a primary document, and every gap in the evidence is disclosed. It is the kind of work a firm once handed to analysts for days or to a consulting firm for months—produced in the time it takes to read a memo.

The trade-off it ends

Until now, a decision-maker who needed to understand a company or a topic had three bad options:

• Pay an investigation, due diligence, or commercial research firm $25,000 to $1 million and wait three to twelve weeks.
• Tie up junior analysts for days assembling a deck no one can fully source.
• Paste the question into a general-purpose AI and hope it is not confidently wrong.

Quoin collapses that trade-off, delivering a synthesized, defensible report at a fraction of the cost and time—on any subject, including the private companies and fast-moving topics that databases and consultants barely cover.

One engine, two questions

Quoin answers two kinds of high-stakes questions with the same rigor:

• Company diligence: point it at a company and it returns a diligence dossier on any public or private entity.
• Topic research: point it at a topic and it returns a deeply researched, fully cited report on the subject.

Either way, the input is a single line of plain language, and the output—twenty minutes later—is research you can defend.

Why now

Generative AI has made research effortless and trust nearly impossible. Every executive now has a tool that will write a polished, authoritative report—much of it unsourced and some of it simply invented—and that output is flowing straight into investment committees, credit memos, and board packs.

At the same time, the cost of being wrong is rising. Regulators are tightening the documented “reasonable basis” standard for investment advice, fee compression is thinning the ranks of analysts who used to do this work by hand, and a record wave of dealmaking is forcing faster diligence on more counterparties than ever. The market needs research it can act on, not just read.

Why it holds up

Most AI tools use the same model to find information and to judge it—which is like asking someone to grade their own homework. Quoin runs separate agent systems for research and verification that never share context, so agents that find a fact cannot influence those that verify it.

Every claim is found, then independently verified, and then traced to a primary source before it appears. Anything that cannot be confirmed is disclosed, not buried.

Quoin also starts where other tools stop. Most enterprise AI research platforms can only analyze documents a firm already owns or libraries they license; they assume you arrive with the materials in hand. Quoin assumes nothing but a name, then investigates the open web and primary records themselves.

That combination—investigating any subject from nothing, separating the researcher from the verifier, and labeling every source as an independent fact or the subject’s own narrative—is what makes Quoin the first of its kind.

“General AI is great for brainstorming and disastrous for due diligence, because it confidently guesses,” said Ted Souder, co-founder and CEO of Quoin. “And most other AI research tools only analyze the documents you already have. We built Quoin to need none of that, and to answer one question: can you stake a decision, your reputation, or your fiduciary duty on this? If the answer is no, it is not intelligence. It is content. Quoin investigates any company or topic from scratch, traces every fact to its origin, and shows its work, so the answer is yes.”

How it works (from a name to a defensible report)

• Name the subject: enter any company or any topic, or upload a list of up to 200 at once. No documents, no coverage list, no setup.
• Investigate from scratch: Quoin gathers evidence from primary sources: regulatory filings, court records, corporate registries, government databases, and original reporting.
• Verify independently: separate verifier agents check every claim against the source, without access to the system that wrote it—removing blind spots that cause hallucination.
• Label every source: each fact carries its citation, and each source is marked independent or company-controlled, so users can tell evidence from narrative.
• Deliver decision-grade: in about twenty minutes, Quoin returns a structured report of findings, risks, and confidence levels—ready for an investment committee, a board, or a regulator.

“Most AI is built to produce answers. We built Quoin to produce evidence, and those are very different problems,” said Brooke Dixon, co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Quoin. “By keeping research separate from verification, we deliver the one thing a partner meeting or a regulator’s review actually demands: a claim you can trace, every time. When the stakes are high, evidence matters more than eloquence.”

The company believes verification will become foundational infrastructure for high-stakes decisions across finance, law, and the enterprise—the trust layer beneath AI-powered intelligence.

Quoin is available now, and teams can run their first report free at quoin.ai.

About Quoin

Quoin, Inc. is the verification engine for business intelligence. In masonry, a quoin is the cornerstone—the structural block everything else is built on—and the company takes its name from the conviction that every important decision rests on the research beneath it.

Quoin investigates any company or topic and returns a decision-grade, fully sourced report in minutes, tracing every claim to its origin and labeling every source for what it is. It is built for investors, dealmakers, lenders, advisors, and the compliance, legal, and corporate development teams whose decisions carry real consequences.

Quoin was co-founded by Ted Souder (among Google’s earliest employees, where he spent two decades in senior roles including Head of Industry and founder of the Google CFO Forum; board member of 1871 and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs) and Brooke Dixon (Chief Product Officer, with 20+ years spanning The Motley Fool, Match.com, and multiple startups). The company is bootstrapped and based in Chicago.

Learn more at quoin.ai.

Media contact

Ted Souder · ted@quoin.ai

SOURCE: Quoin, Inc.