Grounded AI book writing: every claim traceable to something you uploaded
General-purpose chatbots will happily fill a paragraph with plausible detail. That is fine for a brainstorm and fatal for a memoir, an investigation, a technical manual or any book someone might fact-check. Flumyngo takes the opposite approach: the assistant is only allowed to write from material you gave it.
The four things that make writing grounded
- Evidence packs. Each chapter gets its own list of allowed sources — documents, transcripts, court records, screenshots, photos, video, and Book Bible entries. You can lock a source so it must be used.
- Required citations. Factual sentences carry a marker that resolves back to a source, a citation key, or a Bible entry. Nothing factual is allowed to float free.
- Gap markers instead of invention. When the evidence does not cover something, the draft says so in place, rather than filling the hole with confident fiction.
- Continuity checks. A revision pass compares the manuscript against your Book Bible and flags contradictions in names, dates, sequence and voice.
Attach the manual, keep the character
Grounding also works for expertise. Attach an electrical code book to a character and their technical talk stays accurate, without pretending that is all they know. Their opinions, blind spots, humour and other interests still come from you, in the Book Bible.
What you can still do freely
- Invent plot, dialogue, mood and structure in fiction — grounding governs facts, not imagination.
- Turn a chat into canon: save any assistant answer as a Book Bible entry.
- Snapshot every chapter before an AI pass, and roll back in one click.
Questions writers ask
How does grounded writing stop AI hallucination?
Each chapter has an evidence pack: the documents, transcripts, photos and Book Bible entries it may draw on. Factual sentences must carry a marker pointing at one of those sources, and anything unsupported comes back as a visible gap marker instead of invented detail.
Can I see where a sentence came from?
Yes. Citations resolve to the reference, page or media item behind them, so you can check any claim line by line before you publish.
What happens to gaps?
Gap markers stay in your draft as a to-do list. You can fill them with a real source or dismiss them when the vagueness is deliberate. They are always stripped from reader-facing exports.