E EVIDARIUM BY CIVILIZATION LABS

Before yourely on AI,reality-check it.

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The reality-check and judgment layer above AI. See what holds up, what’s missing, and what should change.

HUMAN JUDGMENT. BETTER INFORMED.Explore Evidarium

AI has made answers abundant.
Judgment still takes work.

A fluent answer can rest on the wrong question, weak evidence or a missing option. Civilization Labs is building Evidarium to help you see the difference.

01 / WHAT WE DO

Go beyond
the fact check.

Examine the whole piece of thinking.
Not just the statements inside it.

A FACT CHECK ASKS

“Is this statement true?”

Check an individual claim against the evidence.

A REALITY CHECK ASKS

“Can I rely on this enough
to act on it?”

Examine the framing, evidence, assumptions, alternatives and what could make the conclusion fail.

Three ways to use Evidarium.

The experience we’re building
01

Reality-check existing work.

Bring an AI answer, plan or strategy. See what holds up, what may be wrong or missing, and what should change.

REVIEW
02

Start a fresh inquiry.

Bring a question when you don’t yet have an answer. Build an analysis with the evidence and alternatives in view.

EXPLORE
03

Keep a judgment alive.

Keep what you concluded and why. Watch the signals that could change it, and know which part to reconsider.

REVISIT
02 / WHAT BECOMES CLEARER

Sounds convincing.
Let’s look closer.

STRATEGY RECOMMENDATION
“Launch in Market B.
Demand is growing
and competition
is limited.”
Ready to approve?
ETHE REALITY CHECK01 / 03
01

Growing where,
exactly?

The report cites regional growth. Does the evidence actually show demand in Market B?

WHAT’S MISSING

Market-specific demand evidence.

Illustrative example · Not a live product result

Know what you can defend.
And what still needs evidence.

What you get.

A clearer basis for action.

  • What deserves reliance, and how much
  • Material weaknesses and missing options
  • The strongest reasons the conclusion could be wrong
  • A recommended next step
  • Signals that should trigger a rethink
03 / WHO IT’S FOR

For decisions
that carry weight.

When your money, time, people
or reputation are on the line.

04 / WHY WE’RE BUILDING THIS

A world that gets
better at deciding.

The quality of judgment matters more than ever.

The decisions that shape our companies, institutions and communities should be shaped by people who can tell what’s known from what’s assumed, see what they might be missing, and change course when the evidence does.

Civilization Labs builds the systems that make judgment more reliable.

05 / ABOUT THE FOUNDER

Meet Jim Clark.
Founder of Civilization Labs.

Four decades of bringing people and institutions together to navigate technological change.

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Jim Clark

Founder, Civilization Labs

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Powerful AI is only part of the question.
What can we responsibly rely on?

Jim has spent four decades bringing people and institutions together around consequential technological shifts. His focus today grows out of that work: as AI makes it easier to produce persuasive answers, people need better ways to examine the thinking behind them.

Through the World Technology Network, he connected more than 1,500 innovators across science, technology and business. In 2015, he convened the World Summit on Technological Unemployment. From 2018 to 2021, he co-led the International Congress for the Governance of Artificial Intelligence, bringing different disciplines into conversations about AI’s consequences well before the current boom.

With Evidarium, he is turning years of research into practical tools: uncovering hidden assumptions and overlooked options, testing claims against evidence, and identifying when a decision needs to change. The purpose is to help people build a clearer picture of reality, and know how far they can trust it.

BE PART OF WHAT COMES NEXT.

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waitlist.

We’re running a small number of pilot experiments. Join the waitlist, and we’ll be in touch as access opens.