Pith Review
A referee report that shows its work.
Submit a paper and get a completed review ticket: referee-style feedback, required revisions you can answer one by one, a claim ledger for every load-bearing claim, and a verification grade. The report is a computation — versioned, re-runnable, and yours to publish or keep private.
$5USD per review
~3–6 minturnaround
privateby default
V0–V5verification grade
The fee buys the instrument run, never the verdict. Rejections are not refunded, and payment cannot improve a score; the rubric and hard floors are public at /journal/policy. Checkout runs through Stripe. Before you pay: read a finished report that an author chose to publish — the exact artifact you are buying, decision letter, claim ledger, and all.
01How it runs
- Review first. This page creates the review ticket. It does not directly submit the paper for a public pre-print record.
- Private by default. The report is visible only to the requester while it is queued, running, and after completion unless the owner explicitly shares it.
- Pre-print submission later. Once the ticket is complete, the owner can choose whether to make it public and enter pre-print eligibility scoring. Directly-submitted pre-prints that publish receive a Crossref DOI pointing at their permanent Pith article page.
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03Recent public reviews
04The grade ladder
| Grade | What it means | Tier |
|---|---|---|
| V0 | Prose only; no formal artifacts supplied. | ≙ T0 |
| V1 | Theorem statements or formal names linked; build not checked. | ≙ T0 |
| V2 | Lean files supplied; the review did not reproduce the build. | ≙ T3 |
| V3 | Lean build reproduced and zero-sorry status checked. | ≙ T4 |
| V4 | Lean artifacts plus data or code reproduced. | ≙ T4 + T2 |
| V5 | Independent formal audit passed. | ≙ T4 |
05What the report contains
- Referee's decision - publication recommendation and rationale.
- Required revisions - stable R1, R2, ... actions the authors can answer one by one.
- Claim ledger - every load-bearing claim with type, evidence, status, and reviewer note.
- Verification grade - V0 through V5, from prose-only to independent formal audit.
- Technical assessment - theorem statements, assumptions, proof strategy, counterexamples, notation, and literature positioning.
- Recognition Science audit - exact Lean theorem comparisons and epistemic tags where the paper overlaps Recognition.
- Cited Recognition theorems - Lean theorems that bear on the review, each linked to its module page.
- Final recommendation - accept / metadata fixes / minor / major / formalization required / empirical evidence required / reject / out of scope / uncertain.