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The Dossier Engine

Submit a name. Get back a sourced, broadcast-ready briefing on any coach, player, broadcaster, or executive — in minutes, not hours.

Live web research Every claim sourced Minutes to delivery
The problem

Great prep takes hours.
Air time doesn't wait.

Producers, on-air talent, and front offices all need the same thing: deep, trustworthy background on a person — fast. Today that means a researcher stitching together rosters, news, interviews, and stats by hand, under deadline.

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Slow

Hours of manual digging per name, repeated for every guest, hire, or matchup.

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Inconsistent

Quality swings with who did the research and how much time they had.

Unverifiable

A doc of bullet points with no trail back to where each fact came from.

What it is

One name in. A complete briefing out.

The Dossier Engine is an AI research agent built for sports media and front offices. Ask for a person — "De'Zhaun Stribling, WR, Ole Miss" — and it researches the live web, writes a structured multi-section dossier, and attaches a verified source trail behind every major claim.

01 · Ask

Name, role, org

A single line of input. Type it, or send it by email.

02 · Research

Live web sweep

The agent gathers official bios, news, interviews, and stats.

03 · Write

Structured dossier

Synthesized into role-aware sections, ready to read on air.

04 · Verify

Sourced & labeled

Claims mapped to URLs and marked verified or needs-checking.

How it's built

An agent pipeline with a paper trail

Not a single chatbot prompt — a controlled pipeline that researches, drafts, synthesizes, and self-checks, with provenance tracked at every step.

LAYER 1

Research agent

An autonomous agent runs live web search and reads primary sources — official rosters, news, interviews.

LAYER 2

Synthesis

Findings are written into role-aware sections, then a quality pass escalates anything thin or unclear.

LAYER 3

Provenance

Every source and claim is captured separately and linked — so each fact traces back to a URL.

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Delivery

Rendered to the web app, exported as Markdown or PDF, or emailed — all from the same run.

Built on modern LLMs with provider fallback for reliability · enrichment sidecars (video + breadth research) fail-open so a run always completes · designed to be honest about uncertainty rather than invent detail.

Two speeds

A quick brief, or the deep dossier

Pick the depth the moment calls for. Same engine, two modes.

FAST BRIEF

~3 minutes

Core sections, top-line bullets
The essentials with key sources
Perfect for a fast screen or pre-read
BROADCAST PREP

The full dossier

Role-aware sections — a coach, a broadcaster, and a player each get a different shape
Career arc, quotes, recent signals, conversation angles
8–16 sources, claims mapped and labeled
Real output

What lands on your desk

A real, unedited example — a national on-air broadcaster. Here's the dossier the engine produced: career arc, Emmy record, social handles, linked video clips, and a citation behind every claim. The next slide is the whole thing on one page.

13structured sections
4video clips linked
11cited sources
~minfrom request to ready
Real output · the full dossier, one request

Dossier: Rece Davis

role: College GameDay Host & Commentator · org: ESPN · created: 2026-05-16 · ● 11 sources cited
Quick Referencetop-line snapshot
  • College GameDay Built by The Home Depot — host of ESPN's flagship football pregame show since 2015.
  • Basketball GameDay — host of College GameDay Covered by State Farm since its 2005 debut.
  • Also hosts the CFP National Championship, the NFL Draft on ABC, and the CFP Top 25 Rankings Show.
  • Has hosted the NBA Draft on ESPN for 10+ years; ESPN tenure of 25-plus years.
  • GameDay won Sports Emmys for best weekly studio show in 2016, 2017, and 2018 under his hosting — eight total.
  • Personal Emmy nominations for Studio Host in 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, and 2024.
  • Married to Leah since Dec. 13, 1993; two children. Based in Bristol, CT.
Social & Public Footprint🔗 profiles · 📺 video
  • X (Twitter): @ReceDavis — ~494.5K followers · x.com/ReceDavis
  • Instagram: @recedavis — ~92K followers · instagram.com/recedavis
  • ESPN Press Room official bio · espnpressroom.com/us/bios/davis_rece
  • IMDb: imdb.com/name/nm1795122
📺 Video clips surfaced
▸ Exclusive Nick Saban interview after his Alabama retirement
youtube.com/watch?v=m-NTaEbfAtg
▸ Ryan Day interview with Rece Davis
youtube.com/watch?v=Rri_smx6WVU
▸ Lane Kiffin "abandoned a playoff team" commentary
youtube.com/watch?v=f18tJIibuKs
▸ Rece Davis & Mike Greenberg on The Rich Eisen Show
youtube.com/watch?v=ryyImsu1vWY
In Their Own Words🗣️ quotes from subject
"College GameDay host. Husband. Dad. Definitely not in that order."

— X bio

"[David Pollack is] a brother to me for life. He's a man of God."

— X post on his GameDay colleague

Quotes About Them💬 quotes about subject
  • ESPN's official press room calls Davis "one of the sports industry's preeminent hosts and a mainstay on ESPN for more than 25 years."
Current Role & Why They Matter Now

Davis sits at the intersection of every major college football moment ESPN broadcasts. With the 12-team Playoff in full swing, hosting both the CFP National Championship and the Top 25 Rankings Show makes him the primary on-air narrator of the sport's biggest storylines. Recent marquee work: the exclusive post-retirement Saban interview (Jan 2024), a Ryan Day sit-down (Jul 2025), pointed Lane Kiffin commentary (Dec 2025), and a Rich Eisen Show appearance (Apr 2026).

Career Arc & Key Stops🗺️ full timeline
PeriodRole / Milestone
Early ESPNSportsCenter anchor & contributor across shows
Sat. studioHosted CFB pregame w/ Lou Holtz & Mark May; College Football Final
2005–nowHost, College GameDay Covered by State Farm (hoops)
2015–nowNamed host of College GameDay (football)
10+ yrsHost, NBA Draft on ESPN
CurrentCFP National Championship, NFL Draft on ABC, Top 25 Show
Key Accomplishments🏆 honors
  • 8 Sports Emmys as GameDay host (2008–2018, best weekly studio show).
  • 5 personal Emmy nominations — Outstanding Sports Personality, Studio Host.
  • Conducted the exclusive post-retirement Nick Saban interview (Jan 2024).
  • Credited on EA Sports College Football 25 (2024).
Quick Stats & Notable Numbers📊 verified stats
MetricFigure
ESPN tenure25+ years
GameDay football host since2015
GameDay basketball host since2005
Sports Emmy wins (GameDay)8
X / Instagram following~494.5K / ~92K
Conversation Angles🎙️ ready for air
  • The voice of college football's biggest moments — institutional memory from BCS to the 12-team CFP.
  • Dual-sport, dual-role versatility: football and basketball GameDay, NFL Draft, NBA Draft, and play-by-play.
  • Faith, family, and longevity as a public brand — what sustains a 25-year broadcast career.
  • The Saban access story: what the exclusive sit-down says about trust between coaches and broadcasters.
What every dossier captures

More than a bio — a complete picture

Each run pulls together the things a producer would otherwise chase across a dozen tabs.

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Quotes from the subject

Their own words from interviews and pressers — the voice that makes a segment feel personal.

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Quotes about the subject

On-the-record takes from coaches, teammates, and reporters.

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Public profiles

Official roster, ESPN, league and prospect pages — linked, not summarized away.

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Media & video links

Articles, clips, and YouTube leads surfaced when public footage is available.

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Verified stats

Season-by-season production, each number tied back to a source.

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Career arc

Every stop mapped — with why each one matters to the story.

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Recent signals

What's happened lately — moves, awards, news — and why it's relevant now.

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Conversation angles

Ready-for-air talking points, drawn straight from the research.

Why it's different

Every fact has a receipt

Generic AI tools hand you fluent text you can't trust. The Dossier Engine tracks sources and claims as separate, linked data — so before you say it on air, you can see exactly where it came from and whether it was verified.

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Claims → sources

Major facts are mapped to the URLs that back them. No orphan assertions.

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Status labels

Each item is marked verified, partial, or needs-checking — honest about what's solid.

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No invented detail

"Not found from public sources" beats a confident hallucination. Built to say what it doesn't know.

Scale

From one name to the whole program

The same engine that profiles one player can take on an entire roster or coaching staff in a single batch — every name researched in parallel and delivered as one ready-to-use set.

Submit

A whole team

Point it at a full roster or staff list instead of one name.

Fan out

Runs in parallel

Dozens of dossiers generate at once — not one-at-a-time.

Deliver

Bundled set

The complete collection lands together, ready for the production team.

85+players in a roster, one request
HC→entire coaching staff covered
generated in parallel
1bundled delivery

Built for a network's real cadence — spin up a full matchup's worth of prep, refresh a program ahead of a broadcast window, or stand up a coaching-carousel watch list on demand.

Fits your workflow

Request anywhere. Read anywhere.

One run, every format your team already uses.

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Web app

Ask in a clean interface with run history and follow-ups.

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Email

Send a name to an inbox, get the dossier back — no app required.

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PDF & Markdown

Download for notes, the rundown, or offline review.

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Follow-ups

Ask more about the same person — context carries, no restart.

Who it's for

Built for the people on deadline

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On-air talent & producers

Sound deeply prepared on every guest, matchup, and storyline — in the time you actually have.

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Front offices & ADs

Vet a coaching or personnel candidate with a full career arc and a transparent source trail.

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Media & features

Spin up grounded background research for segments and stories without the manual grind.

The engine understands the language of the work — the portal era, coaching trees, conference moves, award watch lists — so the output reads like it came from someone who knows the beat.

Let's run one on your roster

Give us a name.
We'll hand back the dossier.

The fastest way to see it is to watch it work on someone you already know cold. Pick a coach, a prospect, a broadcaster — and judge the output yourself.

Live demo on your names Sourced & verifiable Minutes to delivery