I enjoyed the thorough introduction to the problem space, and to recent innovations like Takehiko et .al
When ti comes to the solution, the phases of production are clearly defined. I couldn't dive deeper into the MVP because the Github repo seems broken (https://github.com/Piswearpants/cite2root).
A proposal for the team is to also consider how to productize the solution, how to put in the market and design dynamics and incentives for its adoption.
Also ti reads as if the solution focuses on validating existing citations; what about identifying claims that require a citation (but don't have one yet)? Wikipedia worked on something similar: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Future_Audiences/Experiment:Citation_Needed