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Built against one failure mode:
incomplete evidence looking complete.

A source-linked intelligence platform for the AI economy, built against a specific failure mode: presenting incomplete evidence as though it were a complete market model.

The problem

By the time a number is a headline, its context is gone.

Market analysis loses its source context, its coverage limits and its revision history somewhere between the research and the headline. By the time a number is quoted, the reader cannot tell what it excluded, when it changed, or whether the gap in the data was material.

Constraint

Provenance

Every figure has to remain traceable to what produced it.

Constraint

Coverage honesty

Partial coverage must stay visibly partial.

Constraint

Rights

Not everything ingested can be republished, and that is a per-source question.

Constraint

Reproducibility

A number cited last month has to be recoverable this month.

Architecture

How the system is put together.

01Private data engine, public application. The ingestion and processing engine is separated from the public product, so the public surface never becomes the processing environment.
02Release-bound datasets. Data is published in releases rather than continuously mutated, so a citation stays valid.
03Evidence references and source manifests. Each figure carries its references, and each release carries a manifest of what went into it.
04Deterministic identifiers and revision lineage. Records keep stable identifiers across revisions, and revisions are recorded rather than overwritten.
05Rights-aware publication. Rights, review state, publication eligibility and provenance are separate concerns rather than one generic verified flag.
Key decisions

The choices that shaped it.

Each of these was a decision with an alternative, taken deliberately.

Decision 01

Missing evidence stays missing

No synthetic total is created because a complete-looking number is easier to present. This is the rule the whole product exists to enforce.

Decision 02

Four separate states, not one flag

Whether we hold the rights, whether it has been reviewed, whether it may be published and where it came from are four different questions. Collapsing them into verified loses the ones that matter.

Decision 03

Downloadable records

If a figure cannot be taken away and checked, it is a claim rather than evidence.

Decision 04

Edge deployment with scheduled monitors

Database, queue, ingestion and storage health monitors run on a schedule against production, because an ingestion failure that nobody notices becomes a silent coverage gap.

The boundary

Where AI is used, and where it is not.

Where AI earns its place
  • Extraction and classification from source material.
  • Drafting narrative around published figures.
Where it never goes
  • Producing a total.
  • Filling a coverage gap.
  • Deciding publication eligibility.
  • Assigning rights or review state.
Operating model

What it takes to keep it running.

Deployed to Cloudflare Workers with R2 object storage and OpenNext, split across public and private repositories, with separate operator configuration and scheduled production health monitoring across database, queue, ingestion and storage.

Outcomes

What it changed.

Coming soon

Measured outcomes for this system are being compiled from our own operating records. We publish figures only once we can show how they were measured, so this section is deliberately empty until then.

Other work

More systems we built and run.

A useful first conversation

Show us the workflow everyone has learned to tolerate.

We will help determine whether it needs a focused product, an autonomous operating system, a stronger data layer, a review of what already exists, or a simpler fix that involves no AI at all.