Using Verity AI Search

What is Verity?

Verity is the AI research assistant built into this publication. Instead of typing keywords into a search box, you can ask Verity a plain-English question — “What's the latest on polymer banknote security?” or “Which central banks issued new notes this year?” — and it answers using our own published articles, with links back to the source so you can read further and check the answer for yourself.

You'll find Verity from the AI Search link in the main navigation of this site.

What Verity can do

• Answer questions in plain English — you don't need to guess the right keywords; describe what you're looking for as you would to a colleague.
• Cite its sources — every answer links back to the specific article(s) it drew from, with the author and publication date, so you can verify anything important and read the full piece.
• Hold a conversation — ask a follow-up question and Verity remembers the earlier exchange, so you can narrow down or dig deeper without repeating context.
• Find articles by a specific author — ask, for example, “What has [an author's name] written recently?”
• Find articles by category — ask for articles “tagged” or “under” one of our editorial categories, for example “show me articles tagged [a category name].” You'll find this publication's own category names on its articles and in its navigation.
• Find articles from a specific time period — ask what was “published in May 2026,” or what's come out “since March 2026.”
• Surface individual items inside round-up articles — a single short item buried inside a “News in Brief”-style digest is still individually findable and citable, not lost inside the wider article.
• Keep a history of your searches — if you're signed in, your past Verity conversations are saved so you can return to them later.

What Verity can't do

• It only searches this publication. Verity answers from this site's own articles only — it does not search across our other titles. If your organisation subscribes to more than one publication, ask the same question again from that publication's own AI Search page.
• It only searches articles — not newsletter editions, tender alerts, events or reports. Verity's index covers published articles. It cannot open or summarise a monthly newsletter PDF/flipbook edition as a whole document, even though most of an edition's content also exists as individual articles you can ask about directly.
• It only knows what we've published. Verity has no access to breaking news, other publishers, or anything beyond our own article archive — it cannot comment on events that haven't been covered in one of our articles.
• It can occasionally miss a match. If a question is phrased very differently from how our articles cover a topic, Verity may not find a strong match. Try rephrasing, or use this site's regular article search instead.
• Answers are AI-generated, and can be imperfect. Verity summarises from the articles it retrieves; like any AI tool, it can occasionally be incomplete or get a detail wrong. Always use the citation link to confirm anything you plan to rely on.

Getting the best answers

Verity works best with a specific, natural-language question — the same way you'd ask a colleague who knows our coverage well. A short, vague prompt gives it very little to match against. Below, replace anything in [square brackets] with a real name, topic, category or date from this publication's own coverage.

• Try: a full question describing what you want to know, for example “What are the latest developments in [a topic you're interested in], and who's behind them?” — rather than just the topic on its own (e.g. a single word), which is too broad to point to any particular article.
• Try: “What has [an author's name] written about [a topic]?” — rather than just the author's first name on its own, which reads as a topic search rather than an author lookup.
• Try: “Show me articles tagged [a category name]” — rather than just the category name on its own, which Verity will treat as a general topic search rather than browsing that category directly.
• Try: “What articles were published in May 2026?” — rather than “recent articles” or “the latest edition,” which don't give Verity an actual date to search against.
• Try: asking one question at a time — rather than bundling several unrelated questions into a single message, which makes it harder for Verity to retrieve the right articles for any one of them.

Who can use Verity

Verity is included with Premium subscriptions and above (Premium+, Enterprise and Charter), as well as Complimentary and Government access. If you are not signed in, you can try a small number of free questions before being asked to register or subscribe.

Important Notes

• Verity only searches the publication you're currently on — it does not search across our other titles.
• Always check the linked source article for anything you plan to rely on — Verity's answers are AI-generated and can occasionally be incomplete.
• If you believe Verity should have found something and it didn't, contact us using the details at the bottom of any Help Centre page.