Against the laws it cites
When a statement cites an article of law, an ordinance or official guidance published online, Velydian opens it and checks the minimum, the threshold and who it applies to.
For HR and people teams
Every rule in your handbook, checked against the law it cites.
Velydian checks policies, handbooks, contracts and people reports against the laws, collective agreements and data they rely on, so what you tell employees matches what the rules say.
Free trial, no card needed.
- Cited or not. Every claim checked, and stronger sources found where the evidence is weak.
- A record you can keep. Annotated document, audit trail and exports, in minutes.
- Swiss and private. Data residency in Switzerland, processing in Switzerland and the EU, GDPR compliant.
VerdictIllustration
CLAIM IN YOUR POLICYNeeds Revision
“Swiss law gives every employee five weeks of paid holiday a year.”
What the source says
“The employer must grant the employee at least four weeks’ holiday in each year of service and five weeks’ holiday to employees under 20 years of age.”
Swiss Code of Obligations, Art. 329a para. 1
The legal minimum is four weeks. Five weeks applies only to employees under 20.
The stakes
What an unsupported claim costs.
~$700M
Recovered for more than 21,000 victims of workplace discrimination in a single year by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
US EEOC, Fiscal Year 2024 reports (Jan 2025)$365,000
Paid to settle the EEOC’s first AI-hiring case: the recruiting software automatically rejected older applicants.
US EEOC v. iTutorGroup, settlement (Sep 2023)€15M
Maximum EU AI Act fine for breaching high-risk obligations, which cover AI used in hiring and managing staff, or 3% of worldwide turnover.
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 99(4)What it catches
Six things that go wrong in policies.
Each one with the claim, the passage Velydian reads, and the verdict. Examples for illustration.
A legal minimum stated wrongly
“Swiss law gives every employee five weeks of paid holiday.”
“…at least four weeks… five weeks… to employees under 20.”Needs Revision
Four weeks is the minimum; five only for under-20s.
A notice period from the wrong rule
“The notice period is one month in all cases.”
The cited article sets longer periods after the first year of service.Needs Revision
The period depends on years of service.
A benefit the agreement does not grant
“The collective agreement guarantees a 13th salary.”
The agreement mentions no 13th salary.Not Supported
Attach the agreement; the claim is checked against it.
A pay-gap figure that drifted
“Our unexplained gender pay gap is 3%.”
Pay analysis: unexplained gap 4.8%.Needs Revision
The report and the analysis disagree.
A survey result overstated
“Most employees want to return to the office.”
“38% would prefer to work mainly from the office.”Not Supported
A minority, reported as most.
A correct statement of the law
“Employees must be paid their salary during holidays.”
“The employer must pay the employee the full salary due for the holiday period…”Supported
Matches the law, with the article quoted.
Not another fact checker
Not just right or wrong. Supported or not.
Velydian checks the figures and the rules. It also weighs what a report does with them: the explanation it gives and how strongly it states it. A score can be right and the sentence around it can still mislead the leadership team.
One claim, three levels · illustration
“The new hybrid policy lifted engagement to 78%.”Needs RevisionSource: the company’s own engagement survey. Example for illustration.
- Level 1
Facts
Minimums, thresholds, notice periods and figures, checked against the law, agreement or data.
Does the survey say 78% or 68%?
Velydian findsSupportedThe 78% score is in the engagement survey.A citation check stops here: true. - Level 2
Interpretation
Whether a conclusion follows from the source, or reaches further than it.
Did the policy do this, or something else?
Velydian findsStretchedThe score rose by the same amount at the sites that kept the old policy. - Level 3
Judgement
Whether the statement is as strong as its evidence, and what was left out.
Is this the whole picture leadership should see?
Velydian findsOverstatedThe same survey shows the response rate fell from 70% to 41%. The report leaves it out.Verdict: Needs Revision. The score is right; the explanation reaches further than the survey allows.
How it works
Upload the policy. Every rule comes back with its evidence.
PDF, Word, text or Markdown, or paste it in. Velydian finds each rule and figure and checks it in one of three ways.
Statements with no source
Velydian searches official websites, research databases and the wider web, keeps the strongest sources and checks the statement against them.
Against your own files
Attach the collective agreement, the pay analysis or the survey results, and every statement is checked against them. You see the price before it starts.
Three layers of checking
Surface tools check that a source exists. Velydian reads it.
Layer 1
Distortions and inaccuracies
Minimums that drift, rules from an old version, a group quietly widened.
A notice period that applies only in the first year, stated for everyone.
Layer 2
Bias and fabrication
Benefits the agreement does not grant, a law that says something else, and what was left out.
The favourable survey result is reported; the one beside it is not.
Layer 3
Stronger sources
When a statement rests on a summary, Velydian looks for the law itself.
An HR blog is flagged, with the article of law offered instead.
One verdict per claim
Four verdicts, each with its evidence.
Supported
The law, agreement or data checked backs the statement as written.
Needs Revision
Close, but a minimum, a threshold or who it applies to does not match.
Not Supported
The text checked does not back the statement, or says something different.
Unverifiable
No text could be read or found that settles it, for example a collective agreement you did not attach.
Open any verdict to see the passage and the reasoning behind it. Correct a line or swap a source and it is checked again. Velydian weighs the evidence; your team decides what to change.
- Drop the policy inPDF, DOCX, TXT, MD or pasted text.
- Every rule is checkedAgainst the cited law, your own files or independent sources.
- Review and correctFix a rule or swap a source; it re-checks.
- Take the resultAnnotated policy, audit trail, executive summary, CSV/JSON exports.
How we test it
Test it on a document you already know.
Our published test results so far are on company reports: see Velydian for Finance. For every other kind of document, the best test is one of your own.
Every verdict, open to inspectionSource + reasonEach verdict shows the passage it rests on and why, so you can check Velydian itself.In every result
When the sources cannot settle itUnverifiableThe claim is marked Unverifiable, with the reason, for a person to check.One of four verdicts
Your own testYour documentRun a policy where you already know the mistakes, and see whether Velydian finds them.First check free
Review the verdict and the reasoning yourself: every one shows its evidence. Your first check is free.
Today and with Velydian
From hours of checking to minutes.
Manual policy review
Days per handbook, risk in a dispute
- Each rule checked against the law by hand
- Outdated rules survive from old versions
- Figures drift between analysis and report
- No record of how each statement was checked
Velydian on your policies
Checked before employees read it
- A full handbook checked in minutes
- Every rule checked against the law or agreement
- Outdated or overstated rules flagged
- The quoted passage behind every verdict, kept for the file
What it checks
The documents your team signs.
- Employee handbooks
- Policies and procedures
- Employment contract templates
- Pay-equity and transparency reports
- Engagement survey summaries
- Job adverts and offer letters
- Works-council and union communications
- HR training materials
Who uses it
Across the team.
- HR directorsPublish policies knowing each rule was checked.
- HR business partnersAnswer employees with the source in hand.
- Employment lawyersReview handbooks against the law in minutes.
- Reward and analytics teamsKeep reported figures tied to the analysis.
What you get back
A record you can keep.
- The annotated policyEvery statement marked with its verdict, in place.
- An audit trailFor each rule, the passage relied on and the reasoning.
- Primary textsWhere a statement relies on a summary, the law itself to cite instead.
- ExportsExecutive summary, CSV and JSON.
Cost
You see the price before you start.
Checking a policy by handCHF 450your rate × your hours
With Velydian, pay as you goCHF 4.8094× cheaper30 cited claims drawn from 10 sources: 160 credits
At the Founder rateCHF 1.60281× cheaperthe same policy, CHF 0.01 per credit
Checking a claim costs 5 credits and reading a source costs 1. Deeper source audits cost more. Your reviewers still read the verdicts; Velydian takes the tracing off their desk.
Questions
Before your first policy.
Is employee data safe?
Your data resides in Switzerland and is processed in Switzerland and the EU, under GDPR and Swiss data protection law.
Does it work with our collective agreement?
Yes. Attach the agreement as your own file and every statement in the policy is checked against it.
Does it give employment-law advice?
No. It checks whether each statement matches the law or agreement it relies on, and shows you the passage. The legal judgement stays with you and your advisers.
Where do the sources come from?
Three places. The sources your document cites; sources Velydian finds on official websites, research databases and the wider web for claims without a citation; or your own files, if you attach them.
What happens to my document?
When you run a check, your document’s text is sent over an encrypted connection to our servers and AI services in Switzerland and the EU. To find evidence, short search queries built from your claims are sent to web and scholarly search services. Your document’s content and results are deleted automatically about 24 hours after your check; source links and summary data are kept.
Which languages does it check?
English is measured and in daily use. German and French are in validation.
Can I rely on Velydian as my only check?
Velydian supports human review. It shows the evidence behind every verdict so you can decide. In high-stakes work, expert judgement stays essential.
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