Editorial standards
How Verika answers questions
The answers on this site and in the app are produced by the Verika engine. Here is exactly how — and where its limits are.
- Step 1
Sources first
Verika only answers from documents it holds: the regulations and specifications for a region (for example OSHA 29 CFR 1926, state DOT Standard Specifications, state building codes, FMCSA rules, the UK Approved Documents and CDM 2015) and, inside a company account, that company's own approved knowledge and documents. It does not answer from general web text.
- Step 2
Retrieve for the right place
A question is matched against the sources for the asker's region plus the national layer above it, and nothing else. A Wisconsin question is not answered from Texas rules.
- Step 3
Draft, then check
A language model drafts an answer using only the retrieved passages, citing each claim. A separate fact-checking pass then tests every claim against those passages. A draft with unsupported claims is not shown: Verika redrafts, and if it still can't pass, it answers by quoting the relevant source text directly instead.
- Step 4
Cite or refuse
Every answer shows the sources it came from, with the section or page where we have it, so you can read the clause yourself. If the sources don't support an answer, Verika says so instead of guessing, and in a company account the question is logged for that company's experts.
The answer pages and the blog
Pages under /answers are real Verika output for common questions, published with the date they were generated and links to every source. State-by-state topics are also gathered into comparison tables, such as cold-weather concreting rules by state.
Blog guides are written with AI assistance and checked against the primary documents they cite — the eCFR, osha.gov, FMCSA, state DOT specifications, gov.uk and HSE. Each guide lists its sources at the end and shows when it was published and last updated.
Limits
Codes and specifications are revised, adopted with local amendments, and interpreted by the authority having jurisdiction. Verika helps you find and understand the rule that applies; it is not engineering or legal advice. For a specific project, confirm against the edition your contract or building official uses.
Spotted something wrong? Email hello@heyverika.com — we correct errors and note the update on the page.