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name: quotable-statistic-sourcing
description: Use when your content makes claims no assistant will repeat because nothing in it is specific enough to cite.
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# Quotable statistic sourcing

Models cite claims that carry a number, a date and an attributable source. Content built on adjectives - faster, better, more effective - offers nothing to quote. This skill converts vague assertions into citable ones, or removes them.

## What you need first

- A page making qualitative claims
- Whatever real data you hold: your own metrics, customer results, published research

## Method

1. List every claim on the page. Mark each as measurable or merely asserted.
2. For each measurable claim, attach the figure, the period it covers and where it came from. "Cut audit time" becomes "cut audit time from six hours to twenty minutes across 40 client sites in 2026".
3. For claims you cannot support, either find a citable source or delete them. An unsupported superlative costs credibility and gains no citation.
4. Prefer your own first-party data. It is unique, which makes it the only reason to cite you rather than a competitor repeating the same third-party study.
5. State the method in one line wherever you publish your own figure. An unexplained number is treated as marketing.
6. Put the figure in the answer sentence itself, not in a caption or chart alt text where it will not travel with the quote.

## What this produces

A claim inventory where every retained claim carries a number, a period and a source, and unsupportable claims have been cut.

## Where this goes wrong

- Citing a widely-repeated third-party statistic, which gives no reason to cite you over anyone else
- Burying the figure in an image, where it cannot be extracted
- Publishing a number with no method, which reads as a marketing claim

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From the QuQi skill library - https://www.quqi.io/skills/quotable-statistic-sourcing