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Sourced answers at the speed your editor expects.
Think-tank research has a brutal cycle: a fellow needs the answer by EOD, the answer must cite primary sources, and the source list will be checked by the editor. Model Diplomat compresses that cycle — primary-source answers in seconds, ready for the brief, the memo, or the next op-ed.
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Primary sources indexed
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Every claim verifiable
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Built for foreign policy
Sound familiar?
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Generalist LLMs aren't appropriate for published work
Foreign Affairs, FP, The Atlantic, and major think-tank publications all have editorial policies that exclude or sharply limit LLM-assisted writing. The reason is verifiability — and Model Diplomat is built to solve exactly that problem. Citations to real documents, not pattern-completed references.
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Web search wrappers are too noisy for serious research
Perplexity and similar tools surface what ranks on Google for a query. For foreign policy, what ranks is often op-eds and secondary commentary — not the primary documents an analyst actually needs.
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Specialist databases don't talk to each other
UN voting records in one system, treaty text in another, ICJ rulings in a third, IMF country reports in a fourth, hearing transcripts in a fifth. Model Diplomat reaches across all of these in one query — and tells you which document the claim came from.
What you get.
AI search across primary sources
Ask any foreign-policy question and get a sourced, current answer with citations to the actual documents. UN, treaty, court, hearing, ministry — all in one search.
Brief and memo drafting
Model Diplomat understands the structure of a foreign-policy brief: background, current state, policy options, recommendation. Draft section-by-section with citations.
Treaty, sanctions, and statute lookup
Treaty article and ratification status, US sanctions designation history, hearing transcripts — searchable directly.
Conflict and country trackers
For active conflicts (Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, Myanmar, Sahel), Model Diplomat maintains continuously updated context: military situation, humanitarian status, diplomatic state, key statements.
Editorial-friendly citations
Citations point to the actual primary documents — easy to drop into a footnote, easy for an editor to verify, hard to fake. Built for the editorial workflow think tanks already use.
Risk-aware sourcing
Model Diplomat flags when sources are partisan, dated, or low-confidence — so you don't ship a memo citing a 2017 paper as current consensus.
Common questions.
Can think-tank research staff cite Model Diplomat in published work?
Cite the underlying primary sources Model Diplomat surfaces — same as you would with any research database. Model Diplomat is the research tool; the citations themselves should be to the actual UN document, treaty, hearing transcript, or court ruling.
How does this fit alongside subscription databases (HeinOnline, Westlaw, Foreign Affairs archive)?
Model Diplomat complements them. Subscription databases are excellent for the specific document type they cover; Model Diplomat is excellent at synthesizing across primary sources from many places in a single search. We don't replace your legal-research subscription; we make the rest of your research faster.
Org-level access and licensing?
Personal Pro is $10/month. Institutional and team licensing is in pilot — reach team@modeldiplomat.com.
Privacy and data handling?
We don't train on user queries. We don't ingest documents users upload. See the Model Diplomat Privacy Policy for full details.
Ship your next memo. Cited. By EOD.
Free to start. Pro for $10/month — less than one billable hour, and roughly the time it saves on every brief.
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