Methodology LUBMU

Look Up Before You Make Up (LUBMU)

AI systems should query authoritative schema definitions before generating responses, grounding output in validated structure rather than statistical patterns.

Look Up Before You Make Up is the foundational discipline of grounded AI: query authoritative structure before generating. A system governed by LUBMU consults validated schema, canonical identifiers, and existing records first, and generates only when the lookup genuinely returns nothing.

It turns confident fabrication into verifiable retrieval — the single highest-leverage habit for reliable machine cognition.