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Track Record

What someone said would happen against what actually happened, dated and scored.

2 credits·in-depth·about 2–4 min·12 domains

What it answers

The question Track Record is built for

Name the person, firm or institution. It builds a ledger of their past claims and forecasts against the outcomes, scores the record, draws out the patterns, and names what to watch next.

Who reaches for it

Anyone deciding how much weight to give a source: a reporter, an investor, a competitive analyst, a voter.

What comes back

6 sections, on every run

These are the headings the result renders, read from the same promise the form makes before you spend a credit. A section that depends on what the record holds is rendered when it can be and never promised here.

01

Scorecard

02

The Ledger

03

Patterns

04

What to Watch Next

05

Bottom Line

06

Suggested Follow-ons

What you give it

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Try it on: a subject you already hold an opinion about, so you can grade the result against what you know. Each one opens the form filled, in the General domain.
OPEC+ compliance with its announced cutsNATO members' 2% defense-spending pledgesThe UN Sustainable Development Goals at ten
What it will not do

The lines it holds

A claim is on the ledger because it was made on the record and its outcome is documented. It does not infer a motive from a miss, and a claim whose outcome cannot yet be known is held open, not scored.

Every claim carries its grade

A claim the scan could not source is marked as such rather than dressed up. How the grades work →

Verified or grounded
Reported or attributed
Contested
Open question
Where it runs

Available in 12 domains

A domain may name it in its own words and price it on its own terms; each row is what that domain shows.

General2 creditsDefense2 creditsFinance2 creditsEnergy2 creditsHealth2 creditsPolicy2 creditsTechnology2 creditsClimate2 creditsLearning2 creditsSports2 creditsTravel2 creditsLifestyle2 credits
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Roles that lean on it

8 role guides suggest it

Win/loss & deal intelligence analystlead scanESG / corporate reporting leadlead scanCompetitive intelligence leadTransformation / PMO directorLegislative director / stafferCredit / fixed income analystBid & proposal consultantHead of sustainability
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The fastest way to judge the result is to pick a subject you know cold and read it against what you know. The scan names its credit cost before it runs.

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