How it works today
Your question is matched against the site’s search index, and matching passages come back grouped by section, each linked to its page. Nothing is generated. The passages can still contain errors or unreviewed claims, so follow their evidence labels and sources. When few passages match, the tool asks you to help fill the gap.
The search index is built when the site is built and runs in your browser. Your question isn’t sent anywhere.
A future conversational version (deferred)
A conversational version would need a separately configured provider and tests of its actual answers. The owner has deferred that setup. Before activation, it must satisfy these proposed requirements:
- Answer only from the Record. No outside knowledge, and no guessing.
- Cite every sentence with a link to the passage it came from.
- Say “unknown” when it is unknown, and point to the open problem.
- Keep the evidence labels: a hypothesis is never presented as established.
- No ratings or recommendations of named charities.
These are acceptance requirements, not claims that a model has passed them. The current tool stays retrieval-only; no model credentials or conversation backend are provisioned by using it.
What it isn’t
It isn’t financial, legal or tax advice, and it isn’t a recommendation to give to any organization.