Sample investigation · Investors
An analyst sees a central bank comment travel across the wires. The record shows it came from one interview, with the hedge left out of most copies.
Illustrative An invented example. No real client, event or organisation, and the figures are samples. Sample record 7A-D-000890, SAMPLE · 29 SEP 2026 · 08:15 local.
Copies of the claim
within a day
Independent origins
one interview
Copies without the condition
of the forty
Edits to the lead copy
one unmarked
01 Headline
The interview carried a condition. Thirty-one of forty copies dropped it.
40Copies of the claim
The headline reads as a signal. The analyst starts by finding the sentence it came from.
Dispatch
SAMPLE · 29 SEP 2026 · 08:15 local
The interview carried a condition. Thirty-one of forty copies dropped it.
The question
What did the speaker say, and how much of the market story rests on the part that was cut?
02 Sources
An origin is the first to report something. A repeat only passes it on. Counting origins shows how many separate voices there really are.
2Origins among 5 sources shown
One interview, one transcript, thirty-nine copies. The ledger puts the transcript first and shows each repeat with its score, so the shortened copies are easy to tell from the original.
Source ledger
| Source | Role | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Interview transcript, posted | Primary | 92 |
| Business broadcaster, own interview | Origin | 86 |
| Agency wire, short form | Repeat | 64 |
| Financial daily, headline only | Repeat | 52 |
| Market newsletter, no sourcing | Repeat | 30 |
2 of 5 shown report on their own or are the document itself
03 Six-axis audit
The audit asks who, what, when, where, why and how. Each question gets its own confidence from 0 to 100. A weak answer is marked contested instead of being averaged away.
What and why are contested: the transcript gives a conditional, while most copies give a plan. How is high, because the loss of the condition can be followed copy by copy.
Six-axis audit
Who
The governor, speaking for herself, not the committee.
What
A cut is possible if inflation keeps easing.
When
Interview aired at 07:40, copies from 07:52.
Where
A single broadcast, then global wires.
Why
Not stated. Copies infer a policy shift.
How
The condition was cut as the story was shortened.
04 Impact
The impact matrix does not forecast. It lists where the claim, if it holds, would touch each of nine areas, and how strongly.
Financial and political readings are highest. The record does not say what a market should do. It shows where a claim of this kind would act, and how much of that rests on the cut condition.
Impact matrix
05 Dossier
Rate comment: the interview against the copies. The file is fixed as it stood on 29 SEP 2026 · 09:05 local. A later correction would be a new entry.
The analyst a with the transcript, the comparison of copies and the audit, dated before the trade desk acts. The file records what was known at the time.
Dossier
Sealed 29 SEP 2026 · 09:05 local. Later changes become new entries.
The note to the desk states the condition and cites the transcript by reference number.
What happened next. The desk position note quotes the full sentence and attaches the . The dated record shows what was known when the call was made.
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