After a flood, hundreds of appeals arrive. Some are real.
Lifeline never pays the person who posted. It checks the place against the satellite flood map for the loaded disaster and pays only registered local charities there.
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Why this is safe
Lifeline doesn't ask donors to trust an AI's opinion. It uses AI to gather evidence, deterministic rules to decide, and PayPal to make sure money can only move to registered local relief charities after the evidence passes.
Lifeline verifies
- The disaster declaration (FEMA)
- The satellite flood extent
- The place and the date window
- Registered, eligibility-screened local charities (IRS register, Pub 78, revocations, OFAC)
Lifeline does not verify
- The person who posted
- The family
- The exact need
- How the charity spends the money
What protects the donor
- The person who posted the appeal is never paid
- The PayPal authorization is voided if the checks fail
- Money only goes to registered local charities
- Every receipt is hashed
Still needs a human
- UNVERIFIABLE cases
- The charity's follow-up with a family
Show the full evidence trail agent steps, map, rules and register rows
What Lifeline verifies, and what it doesn't
Lifeline verifies
- The disaster declaration (FEMA)
- The satellite flood extent
- The place and the date window
- Registered, eligibility-screened local charities (IRS register, Pub 78, revocations, OFAC)
Lifeline does not verify
- The person who posted
- The family
- The exact need
- How the charity spends the money
What protects the donor
- The person who posted the appeal is never paid
- The PayPal authorization is voided if the checks fail
- Money only goes to registered local charities
- Every receipt is hashed
Still needs a human
- UNVERIFIABLE cases
- The charity's follow-up with a family
Give to the flood, not to the person who posted
Run a check first.
PayPal authorizes your donation but doesn't capture it until the checks pass. If they fail, the authorization is voided and you are never charged.
- AuthorizedPayPal authorization, not captured
- Checks passedVerdict hash
- Captured and splitPayPal Payouts to the charities
Request for charity follow-up (optional)
Lifeline can't guarantee a specific family receives help. The charity checks first and decides how to respond.
0/200 · Travels with the money to the charities as an advisory request. Lifeline never pays individuals directly.
38 of 40 test appeals got the expected verdict.
Synthetic appeals grounded in real places, FEMA declaration data and real satellite flood extent. 40 appeals, labelled before any run (answer key SHA-256 locked in eval/LOCKED_HASH.txt). $100 assumed per appeal.
Baseline: Gemini alone (gemini-3.5-flash-lite, same appeal, no tools or rules) was asked whether each appeal is genuine; only a VERIFIED answer releases funds.
Exact baseline prompt
Is this flood appeal genuine? Answer VERIFIED, NOT VERIFIED or UNVERIFIABLE.
Appeal (posted {posted_at}):
{text}