I built a Chrome extension that fact-checks AI restaurant recommendations against government data

ChatGPT said the restaurant was great. The government data told a different story. That disconnect is what led me to build Commit — a free Chrome extension that pulls verified data from public registries and displays it inline when AI recommends a business. The problem AI assistants are increasingly the first stop for restaurant recommendations. Ask ChatGPT or Perplexity "best sushi in Oslo" and you'll get confident suggestions with summaries that sound authoritative. But those summaries are built from web content — reviews, blog posts, SEO pages. None of it is verified. A restaurant that closed two years ago still has glowing reviews online. A place with multiple food safety violations might have a 4.8-star average. Government databases tell a different story. In Norway, every business files mandatory annual accounts (Brønnøysund register). Every restaurant gets food safety inspections (Mattilsynet). This data is public, current, and doesn't come from someone who got a free meal. What