Our story
Built by people who read documents for a living
Valnexis grew out of long nights spent double-checking figures for reporters who had nowhere else to send them.
Origin
Started at a kitchen table in Surabaya
Valnexis began as an informal favor: a former desk editor checking a friend's environmental story against a stack of permits before deadline. Word spread among a small circle of freelancers who needed the same thing but had no checking desk to call.
Today the practice is still small by design. We work with a limited number of reporters at a time, because the kind of reading this requires — matching a claim to its source, sentence by sentence — doesn't scale well past a certain point.
We stay away from criminal reporting entirely. Our focus is the quieter, document-heavy work: environmental data, institutional records, and the kind of claims that live or die on a footnote.
What matters to us
Three things we hold onto
01
Accuracy before speed
A checking pass that misses a wrong figure isn't worth the time it saved. We'd rather take the extra day.
02
Editorial, not legal
We're honest about the edge of our role. When a passage needs a lawyer, we say so plainly.
03
Respect for the reporter
We flag concerns, we don't rewrite voices. The story stays yours; we just help it hold up.
The team
A small, careful group
Ratna Anggraini
Lead Verification Editor
Farid Nasution
Environmental Records Analyst
Wulan Pramesti
Editorial Risk Consultant