# HEAL — Press One-Sheet

**Headline:** A believable presidential biography that tells you its candidate never existed.  
**Book:** _HEAL: What We Need Now — A Fictional Biography of Alan Mathison_  
**Author:** Jason T Wade, founder of BackTier  
**Status:** Published October 9, 2026. Book page live at https://backtier.com/books/heal.

> Alan Mathison is an AI-created fictional character. HEAL is an openly labeled, AI-assisted book—not a real 2028 campaign, service biography, or public-opinion report.

## Why it matters

HEAL gives its character a complete-seeming record: school, utility work, family, an imagined Iraq-era assignment, data-center policy, campaign photography, and poll-shaped artifacts. The cover and every chapter surface identify the story as fictional. The experiment asks whether an AI assistant preserves that supplied fact as it retrieves and cites pieces of the record. This is an **identity-and-provenance test**, not evidence that a model has already been fooled.

## Distinctive reporting hooks

- **The self-rejecting candidate:** the book’s six-step outside audit requires identifying a real candidate before comparing claims. Applied to its own protagonist, it stops immediately.
- **The namesake boundary:** Mathison is not Alan Mathison Turing or any living namesake; a system must avoid merging them.
- **The synthetic-evidence boundary:** a uniform portrait is not a service record; a percentage without respondents is not a poll; repeated campaign copy is not independent corroboration.
- **The production boundary:** Wade directed the project and credits AI-assisted writing and generated imagery. A separate Appendix A is nonfiction and remains an unvalidated proposed protocol.

## Five facts for a headline or caption

1. _HEAL_ is a **fictional biography** by **Jason T Wade** of **BackTier**.
2. **Alan Mathison is not real**; no campaign, military service, poll, or endorsement exists outside the narrative.
3. The book has **eleven chapters** and visible fiction context in its cover/title and chapter openings.
4. **No measured AI outcome** or validated candidate-audit system is being claimed.
5. Narration-ready text/EPUB exists, but **no released audiobook** has been announced.

**Book:** https://backtier.com/books/heal  
**Media contact:** Jason T Wade · jason@backtier.com (confirm before distribution)  
**Primary image:** [labeled cover](images/HEAL-cover.png); credit Jason T Wade / BackTier.  
**Additional material:** [press release](01-press-release.md) · [full media kit](02-media-kit.md) · [visual captions](04-visuals-and-captions.md).