How we source, score and correct

Sources

• Every material claim on a card must appear in a source linked on that card. A plausible number with the wrong citation is treated as an error.
• Regulatory, funding and permitting claims need a primary source — the agency, company filing or official release — or the card says plainly that primary confirmation is missing.
• Each source is labeled primary or secondary. Trade press and news are secondary, however reputable.
• We use public, lawfully accessible sources and licensed data only. We do not bypass logins or access controls, and we do not claim or sell non-public information.
• Quoted excerpts stay short and within the source's terms.

Observation vs. inference

Each card separates what a source says happened (Observed — sourced fact) from what we think it means (Why it matters and Who benefits, labeled inference). The recommended action is our judgment. Every card also has a What might make us wrong section for counter-signals and open questions. If the evidence is thin, the card says so; it doesn't get filled in.

Evidence and urgency bands

Evidence and urgency are shown as bands, not percentages, so we don't imply more precision than we have.

Strong

Primary sources confirm the material claims, and nothing we found contradicts them.

Moderate

Credible secondary reporting, or primary sources with a status that is still unresolved or reported inconsistently.

Limited

A single secondary source, an expired timing claim, or a status we could not confirm. Limited cards are not used for recommendations.

Urgency is High when there's a dated deadline or a window closing within weeks, Medium when the window is months away, and Low when the change is structural with no near-term deadline. The NOW / EARLY / FORMING stamp shows where the opportunity sits in its life cycle.

Freshness, expiry and staleness

Every card shows four dates: when the change happened, when we first logged it, when we last verified it, and (where relevant) a review-by date. If we can't re-verify a card, it's marked Stale, drops to the bottom of the list, and stops generating alerts until a primary source confirms its status.

Conflicts and human review

When sources disagree, we use the primary documentation and say what's unresolved on the card. AI helps with retrieval, extraction and drafting. A human analyst reviews every card before it's published or delivered. We also re-audit a sample of published and rejected cards, so we catch both errors and good opportunities we wrongly threw out.

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