How we write and check our articles
This policy covers the articles and guides we publish on this site, and it says plainly how they are made. It is not a medical peer review: the section “What this is not” below explains what the checks do and do not cover. What Alma generates from the material you upload is covered separately, under “Standards for generated questions” below.
How our AI writer makes an article
Research
An AI model searches the web for the topic. Our own system then downloads each page (the model never browses for us) and keeps only passages that really appear on the page. A page with at least one real passage becomes a source. With too few sources, no article is written.
Writing
The model writes the article from those numbered sources only, and may cite only their numbers. Our code builds the reference list from the sources the article actually cites.
Claim check
Every factual claim about the outside world has to rest on a passage that our code finds in the source it cites, and every number in the claim has to appear in that passage. A paragraph, list item or table row with an unsupported claim is rewritten once; if it still fails, it is removed. Statements about what Alma itself does are checked against our product facts file instead.
Source standards
Sources are web pages found by search and downloaded by our system. The writer is instructed to prefer primary sources (the exam owner's own pages, society guidelines, journal articles, a vendor's own pricing page), to treat competitor blogs and aggregator pages as leads, to cite a company's own page for a claim about its product, to date every price and feature, and to say so when a price is not published in the sources it checked. Those are instructions to the model. The claim check confirms that a quote really appears in the source an article cites; it does not check who owns that source.
What this is not
This is not a medical review or a peer review. Articles do not show a reviewer, and we do not claim that a clinician reviews each one. The claim check confirms that a statement matches the source it cites. It cannot catch a factual sentence it fails to list, and it cannot tell you whether the source itself is right. An article written or edited by hand in our admin does not go through the research or the claim check, and an edit made after the claim check is not checked again.
Alma is a study tool. Articles are not medical advice and not a clinical decision tool. Check anything that matters against the source it cites.
Conflicts of interest
Alma publishes these articles. Our system adds a disclosure line to every article the writer drafts that mentions Alma, saying that Alma publishes the article and makes one of the study tools it discusses. In comparisons the writer is also instructed to say how the tools were chosen and to name where a competitor is the better pick. The author shown on an article, Roupen Odabashian, is the founder of Alma.
Dates and corrections
Each article shows the date it was published, and a “Last updated” date when its text changed after that day. If you find a mistake, email support@almastudy.com with the address of the article.
Standards for generated questions
Questions, flashcards and cases generated from your own uploads are governed separately — what the model may assert, what it must cite, and what it must refuse. That is documented on the standards page.