---
title: "Make sense of a stack of sources."
description: "Find agreements, contradictions, and unanswered questions."
author: Graham
date: 2026-09-05
url: https://powerofai.ca/use-cases/read-a-stack-of-sources
---

# Make sense of a stack of sources.

Find agreements, contradictions, and unanswered questions.

## Why try this?

A source-based workspace can help you compare material too scattered to hold in your head.

## What to bring

Documents you have permission to upload, their dates, and a specific research question.

## Your starting request

Using only these sources, compare what each says about [question]. For every claim, cite the document and relevant passage. Separate agreement, disagreement, and missing evidence. Preserve the dates and distinguish an author’s opinion from a reported result.

## Illustrative result

This is an authored teaching example, not a live model response.

A comparison organized by claim, with source pointers and explicit gaps rather than a single overconfident summary.

## Then make it fit

Choose the weakest supported conclusion in your summary. Show the exact evidence and explain what additional source would change it.

## Before you use it

Open the cited passages. Check that they support the claim, and consider which sources are missing from your collection.

## What you are learning

A citation is a place to start checking, not proof that a conclusion is correct.

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