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Jeff DeChambeau

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Turning decades of scattered records into one reliable career history

A system that compares old résumés, biographies, and announcements, then builds one fact-checked history without losing the original evidence.

01 / Information challenge

Decades of career records disagreed about names, roles, and dates

No single résumé, biography, or announcement contained a complete reliable history.

02 / System change

Every extracted fact remains connected to its original evidence

AI compares records at scale while conflicts and uncertainty remain visible for review.

03 / Practical outcome

One verified archive can support every future career document

New résumés and biographies become editorial choices instead of repeated research projects.

No single document contained the whole story

A long career had been described in many résumés, biographies, award notices, board profiles, and announcements. Each document contained part of the story, and many of them disagreed about names, titles, and dates.

Making the writing shorter could also make it less accurate

A clean-looking résumé can still combine separate roles, invent certainty where dates are unclear, or repeat an old statement as though it were still current. Every claim needed to remain connected to the document and exact lines that supported it.

I built a research system before writing the final document

The system gathers Word and PDF files, removes exact duplicates, and extracts their text. AI then breaks each document into small factual claims, attaching the source filename, line numbers, and supporting quotation to every one.

It groups claims that appear to describe the same event, handles spelling and naming differences, and creates one clear version of each supported fact. When the evidence genuinely conflicts, it marks the issue for human review instead of guessing. The final record can be opened in Excel and checked line by line.

The valuable thing was the fact, not one version of the résumé

A résumé is written for one purpose and soon becomes outdated. A well-supported fact can be reused in many future documents. The system also avoids turning “this person held the role in 2012” into the much larger claim that they held it continuously for years.

Editing became a choice about emphasis, not a hunt for facts

The finished archive can be searched, sorted, checked, and traced back to the original wording. AI handles the large amount of comparison work; a person still resolves real uncertainty and decides what belongs in each final document.

One reliable history can support many documents

The same record can support a short résumé, a full career history, a biography, or a board profile. New information can be added without starting the research over again.

The history now has a dependable home

Instead of maintaining several documents that slowly drift apart, the project creates one evidence-backed history from which those documents can be written.

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