Method

How each article is made

Every piece is drafted from a fixed collection of source documents and checked against them before it publishes.

1. 01 — Ingest

   Source material lands in a Sourcebase collection: filings, dockets, transcripts, and the records they reference. The collection is what the reporting is drawn from, and nothing outside it can be cited.

2. 02 — Draft

   An automated reporter drafts from that collection alone. It cannot cite a document that is not in it, and every claim carries the page, paragraph or timestamp it came from.

3. 03 — Review

   Each citation is opened and read against the sentence attached to it. Claims that do not survive that check are cut rather than softened.

4. 04 — Publish

   The article ships with its sources listed. Where the record is thin, the piece says so and stops there instead of reaching past what the documents support.

What we will not do

We do not paraphrase a document we have not read, and we do not publish a claim with no page behind it. A story that cannot be sourced does not run.

Corrections

If a source does not support the sentence attached to it, that is a correction and it is fixed in place with a dated note.