LIVING DECISION FILE · PUBLIC METHOD
A live source can start the question. It cannot answer it alone.
One weekly file develops in three passes: signal, evidence and application. Exact public sources are fetched and tested locally without paid search or editorial model calls.
THE RESEARCH CHAIN
Twelve gates before publication.
- 01
Fix one current subject
One retained primary record is scored for decision relevance and complete disclosed source coverage. Generic word matches cannot widen it.
- 02
Fetch five live lanes
The current record, official market data, mechanism research, contrary evidence and implementation evidence remain distinct. Exact routes come from a disclosed subject-source registry, not a paid search prompt.
- 03
Recover mechanism research safely
A blocked, thin or non-readable result is discarded. Free OpenAlex exact-record retrieval may recover mechanism research; every outside lane still requires a separately retrieved and verified page.
- 04
Retrieve and fingerprint
Every cited external page is retrieved through a public-address, size-bounded HTTPS path before use and receives a content fingerprint.
- 05
Test the evidence packet
Five lanes, distinct identities, source families, a current primary trigger and a current external market date must exist before drafting begins. A source family is the disclosed host or official collection shown in the register; it is a diversity check, not proof of independence.
- 06
Normalise time, place and units
Monthly, quarterly and event data retain their native reference periods. A first-verification date is never presented as a publication date.
- 07
Build the claim ledger
Every material statement—including the closing interpretation—points to a source or a disclosed calculation and receives one evidence-state label.
- 08
Construct a bounded scenario
Canonical inputs, formulae, assumptions and outputs remain inspectable. The result is an educational comparison, not a forecast.
- 09
Render locally from the graph
A deterministic evidence editor constructs qualitative claims, the evidence braid, model language and application rail from the frozen source packet. It cannot introduce another fact or number.
- 10
Run the local adversarial gates
A separate evidence-graph pass rejects unsupported causality, wrong dates, incompatible geographies, source mismatches, unbounded conclusions and missing counterevidence.
- 11
Stage one recoverable revision
The stable public file and media update atomically. An immutable protected copy, audit record and transaction receipt preserve every passing revision.
- 12
Publish or retain
A failed phase does not become filler. The last valid weekly revision remains public while the existing Observatory windows retry later.
EVIDENCE STATES
These labels describe the route by which a statement entered the study. They are not confidence theatre and are never collapsed into one opaque score.
SCHEDULE AND RECOVERY
Monday signal · Wednesday evidence · Friday application.
The existing Observatory service checks at 09:15, 13:15, 17:15 and 21:15 Europe/London. Each phase updates the same weekly URL only after every gate passes. Later same-day runs are recovery windows. No additional production timer was created.