Methodology
Evidence before synthesis
Every material discovery or synthesis batch begins with a registered research protocol. Researchers log searches, accepted, rejected, and held sources, access basis, rights concerns, and limitations. Records then move through metadata, access, extraction, proposition mapping, independent checking, and human publication review.
Three layers remain separate
- Source statements preserve attribution and exact locators.
- Normalized propositions connect carefully scoped ideas.
- Editorial synthesis interprets the evidence and states its limitations.
Publication gates
Thresholds are configured by page type. Automated systems may draft and check records but cannot set human review to approved. Staging records, review notes, rejected sources, and synthetic fixtures are excluded from the build.
Important limits
The index measures the selected corpus, not universal opinion or market prevalence. Official sources establish what their publishers stated; they do not independently verify their own performance claims. Missing evidence remains unknown.