research note · 2026-07

Divergence is a finding, not an error

When two authoritative sources disagree on the same indicator, the honest output is both values.

Hydrogen project databases disagree on announced capacity in the Northeast. Energy agencies disagree on production series. A pipeline that picks one silently has made an analytical decision without recording it.

MINERVA returns every source's value side by side for an indicator. Claims carry contestation edges. The Context Brief records the disagreement in the quantitative-claims block. Resolution, when it happens, is a human act with a name and a reason attached.

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technical investigation · 2026-07

The 68% that did not exist

A fabricated figure in an early Context Brief motivated the numeric-anchoring gate. This is what it does.

framework · 2026-06

When a network is the wrong picture

A trade relationship involves a municipality, a product, a country, a period and the signals that affect it. Five edges lose what one hyperedge keeps.

research note · 2026-05

Refusing to resolve is a valid result

An entity resolver that always returns a match is lying some of the time. Ours records why it declined.

These pieces sit on the principles we work by: the intelligence principles.