diff --git a/tests/unit/test_youtube_extraction.py b/tests/unit/test_youtube_extraction.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3d2d90c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unit/test_youtube_extraction.py
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+"""Pure-helper tests for the claim extractor — the anti-hallucination quote match + chunking.
+The Ollama call itself is integration-tested live (not mocked here)."""
+
+from youtube_claims.extraction import _chunks, _norm, _normalize, _quote_supported
+
+
+def test_norm_collapses_whitespace():
+    assert _norm("  A\nB   c ") == "a b c"
+
+
+def test_quote_supported_matches_across_segment_joins():
+    # the caption text is fragmented (joined with spaces); a quote spanning the join still matches
+    ntext = _norm("as it broke through 12\ni took 3000 off the table at 12 and 13 cents")
+    assert _quote_supported("as it broke through 12 I took 3000 off the table", ntext)
+
+
+def test_quote_supported_rejects_hallucination():
+    ntext = _norm("the trader discussed a reverse split squeeze")
+    assert not _quote_supported("AAPL will hit 300 next week", ntext)
+    assert not _quote_supported("", ntext)
+
+
+def test_normalize_drops_claim_without_verbatim_quote():
+    assert _normalize({"asset_ticker": "aapl", "verbatim_quote": ""}, 0, 6) is None
+    ok = _normalize({"asset_ticker": "aapl", "verbatim_quote": "aapl broke out"}, 0, 6)
+    assert ok and ok["asset_ticker"] == "AAPL" and ok["timestamp_start"] == 0
+
+
+def test_chunks_group_segments_with_time_span():
+    segs = [{"start": float(i), "end": float(i + 1), "text": "x" * 100} for i in range(200)]
+    wins = list(_chunks(segs, max_chars=1000))
+    assert len(wins) > 1
+    buf, start, end = wins[0]
+    assert start == 0.0 and end is not None and len(buf) >= 1
diff --git a/youtube_claims/extraction.py b/youtube_claims/extraction.py
index e8523a6..d806bb2 100644
--- a/youtube_claims/extraction.py
+++ b/youtube_claims/extraction.py
@@ -5,10 +5,25 @@ verbatim_quote is dropped: that quote is the chain of custody the reasoning mode
 against ASR error."""
 
 import json
+import re
 import urllib.request
 
 from youtube_claims import config
 
+
+def _norm(s: str) -> str:
+    """Collapse whitespace + lowercase so a verbatim quote still matches across the segment
+    joins and the punctuation-poor text of auto-captions."""
+    return re.sub(r"\s+", " ", s or "").strip().lower()
+
+
+def _quote_supported(verbatim_quote: str, ntext: str) -> bool:
+    """Anti-hallucination: is the quote actually present in the (already whitespace-normalized)
+    source window? Matches a ~40-char prefix to tolerate minor ASR word-boundary noise while
+    still rejecting a fabricated quote."""
+    nvq = _norm(verbatim_quote)
+    return bool(nvq) and (nvq[:40] in ntext or nvq in ntext)
+
 _PROMPT = """You are a precise information extractor. From the TRANSCRIPT below, extract every
 distinct market/trading CLAIM about a specific asset (stock, crypto, ETF, index, commodity, fx).
 
@@ -94,16 +109,16 @@ def extract_claims(segments: list[dict], watchlist: list[str] | None = None,
     wl = ", ".join(watchlist if watchlist is not None else config.watchlist()) or "(none specified)"
     out: list[dict] = []
     for win, w_start, w_end in _chunks(segments):
-        text = "\n".join(t for _, t in win)
+        text = " ".join(t for _, t in win)
+        ntext = _norm(text)
         try:
             raw = _ollama_generate(_PROMPT.format(watchlist=wl, transcript=text), model, host)
             data = json.loads(raw)
         except Exception:  # noqa: BLE001 — a bad chunk shouldn't kill the whole video
             continue
         for c in (data.get("claims") or []):
-            vq = (c.get("verbatim_quote") or "").strip()
             # keep only claims whose quote is actually present in THIS window (anti-hallucination)
-            if vq and vq[:60].lower() in text.lower():
+            if _quote_supported(c.get("verbatim_quote") or "", ntext):
                 nc = _normalize(c, w_start, w_end)
                 if nc:
                     out.append(nc)
diff --git a/youtube_claims/momentum-transcripts.service b/youtube_claims/momentum-transcripts.service
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2c9bec4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/youtube_claims/momentum-transcripts.service
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=Momentum YouTube transcript -> claim-extraction pipeline
+StartLimitIntervalSec=0
+
+[Service]
+Type=simple
+WorkingDirectory=/mnt/c/code/momentum
+# secrets (DATABASE_URL, YOUTUBE_API_KEY, YT_WATCHLIST) load from the repo's gitignored .env
+# via youtube_claims.config (python-dotenv). Whisper is option A (CPU) by default; flip to the
+# LAN GPU (option B) with YT_WHISPER_MODEL=large-v3 YT_WHISPER_DEVICE=cuda YT_WHISPER_COMPUTE_TYPE=float16.
+ExecStart=/home/philip/.venvs/momentum/bin/python -u -m youtube_claims.run run
+Restart=always
+RestartSec=30
+StandardOutput=append:/mnt/c/code/momentum/data/transcripts_pipeline.log
+StandardError=append:/mnt/c/code/momentum/data/transcripts_pipeline.log
+SyslogIdentifier=momentum-transcripts
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=default.target