What this platform will and will not claim
An intelligence product is only as good as its willingness to show its working, and to say when it does not know.
Every record carries a mode label — live, cached, seeded or unavailable — and that label follows the record into every view. Nothing is presented as observation when it is demonstration. The Meridian Mobility Group briefing is a fixture: every row in it is synthetic and marked as such.
The confidence arithmetic
Confidence is not a mood. It is a weighted sum of named components, minus explicit penalties, and every component is shown with its score, its weight and the sentence that justifies it.
confidence = Σ (component.score × component.weight) − Σ component.penalty components typically include source diversity how many independent sources agree recency how old the freshest load-bearing evidence is corroboration whether sources arrived at it independently entity resolution how certain we are it is the right company contradiction an explicit penalty when credible evidence disagrees
Entity resolution
A company is not a string. Each organisation resolves to entities — brands, markets, competitors, topics — each with a canonical key, known aliases and a match confidence. Evidence that cannot be matched above threshold is retained as context, never as proof.
Collection
Company website
Planned
Homepage, robots, sitemap and feed discovery, with private-network requests refused.
RSS and Atom feeds
Planned
Discovered feeds only; recent items retained as canonical documents.
GDELT
Planned
Global news index, queried by organisation name and domain.
Wikimedia
Planned
Entity description and categories for entity resolution.
PageSpeed Insights
Planned
Public technical measurement of the company origin.
A failing connector reduces coverage and confidence. It never silently disappears, and it never causes the platform to invent a substitute.
The integrity rule
If the evidence does not support a claim, the platform says so and shows the gap. An empty field is a finding. Low coverage is a finding. Neither is filled with plausible language.