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title: Docs
description: How to read a business, confirm a fact and follow a record.
canonical: https://welila.com/docs
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# Docs

Start with a business page, read its facts, and follow any fact back to its record.

These are the docs for reading Welila. The developer page has the API surface; this page is the shape of the ideas behind it.

## A fact

A fact is one thing about a business, in the owner's words, with the sources that support it and the date each was read. A fact the owner has not confirmed keeps the state its sources gave it. A fact the owner has confirmed carries who confirmed it and when.

## A record

Every change is a row in an append-only record. A correction does not overwrite; it adds a row. So the history of a fact is readable, and a receipt points at the exact row a response reflects.

## Reading a business

- Open the business page for the human view.
- Read facts.json beside it for the same facts as data.
- Read the markdown twin by asking for text/markdown, or add .md to the path.
- Follow records for the history, or verify a signed fact against its record.

The full reference grows here as the API surface lands.