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The record

The material a scan actually read during its run and the sources it cites.

The product’s working definition.

How to read it

When The record appears on a page

What the scan actually read: the reporting, the filings, the datasets and the documents it fetched during the run, plus the sources it cites. When a page says "the record cannot establish" something, it means this material, not the world.

The family

The product's own words

The handful of nouns the pages use for the things the product makes and keeps.

ScanOne run of one kind of research on one subject: the unit of work, priced in credits, that produces a research page.SourcesThe list of what a research page cites, rendered only from URLs the output genuinely carries.WatchboardThe standing list of signals a scan named to watch, checked on a schedule the reader sets.Structured ThinkingThirty named frameworks run over a subject with the same grounding a scan gets, priced flat.CreditThe unit every scan is priced in; a scan names its cost before it runs.
Where you will see it

On these pages

Kinds of research that print it
Event →Ask →
Surfaces
Every public research page
The rubric

The whole grading vocabulary, on one page

Every grade here is assigned by the same rules on every scan, and the methodology page renders those rules from the code that enforces them.

How the grades work →The whole glossary