A figure reaches a screen only by way of a retrieved document.
An evidence product that cannot show its own evidence is not one. These are the rules every number on the platform — and on this site — is held to.
How every figure is checked
- Retrieved, dated, hashed. Every outside document the platform cites is kept as retrieved, with its address, its retrieval date and a SHA-256 digest recorded beside it. A figure points at that file, not at a memory of it.
- Exact words, checked at build. Each figure is registered with the exact words of its source. The loader refuses a figure whose quote is not in the retrieved file, and refuses a figure whose printed number is not inside its own quote. A quote that is not verbatim fails the build.
- Nothing typed twice. Deadlines are computed by a shared statutory clock, never typed. Counts on the platform's own documentation are generated from the registries, so they cannot drift from what the software holds.
- Retractions stay retracted. A figure found to be wrong is withdrawn everywhere it appeared, and a gate over the documents fails if it comes back.
- This site too. A test fails the build if any page here states a figure that is not in the platform's sourced corpus, or links to anything but a .gov or .mil source.
What that looks like
An official figure
“$21.5 billion is specifically targeted at eliminating all poor and failing unaccompanied troop housing (barracks)”Overview — FY 2027 Department of War Budget, Office of the Under Secretary of War (Comptroller), April 2026
Held with its caveat on the same row: a budget request, not an appropriation and not law. We say requested, never committed.
comptroller.war.gov — FY2027 Budget Request Overview · retrieved 27 Aug 2026
An oversight finding
“an estimated $285 billion of maintenance backlogs in fiscal year 2025”GAO-26-107255, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Department-wide and all facility types — not a barracks figure, and never presented as one.
Official and press, kept apart
- Official means a statement published by the Department or another government body on a .gov or .mil site. It is quoted as the government's own words.
- Press means what a reporter wrote. It is always attributed as reported, with the outlet and date, and never presented as the Department's own words — even when it quotes an official.
- Named people are quoted only verbatim, from published sources. We do not characterise them, and a quotation implies no endorsement of this product.
- Absence is not failure. An evidence reading describes the public record only. Not in a public record means nobody outside can check it — never that the work did not happen. The platform never infers a failure from an absence.
The simulated-data rule
Some screens show the shape of a record that only a sponsor's system can supply — a barracks manager's daily log, a sensor reading. Where the platform shows such a record before a sponsor has supplied one, it is simulated, and the rule has no exceptions:
- It is generated from a fixed seed and describes no real installation, building, device or reading.
- It is labelled simulated on the figure itself, not in a footnote.
- It is never summed with, averaged into or compared as if it were a sourced number.
- It is removed from the whole platform by one flag.
Honest gaps
- A detector whose feed is not loaded reports unevaluable, never clean. A clean board produced by an absent feed is exactly how an occupancy report lies.
- An obligation whose text has not been retrieved stays asserted and says what was tried. Of the 20 obligations the platform holds, 3 are in that state today, each with its reason on screen.
- An obligation dated by an event rather than a calendar reports untriggered, with no invented due date.
- A keyword extract is not a population. Nothing on the platform is summed into a barracks-spend figure.