Sources & Citations Policy

Primary over secondary

Every material claim in a report is anchored to a numbered citation. We prefer primary sources — statute, regulator publications, official statistics, court filings, exchange announcements, central-bank releases — over secondary commentary. Where we use secondary sources, we cite the original where possible.

Dating

Every cited source carries the date on which we retrieved it. Reports as a whole carry a production date on the cover. You can always tell how current a claim is.

Guarding against AI fabrication

Our report engine validates citations in multiple places: automated URL-structure checks, source-count validation against the cited text, and human review by the senior reviewer before publication. Fabricated citations are the most damaging failure mode of AI-assisted research and we treat them as a hard stop.

Why we limit named firms

Our reports do not typically name specific law firms, advisory boutiques, consultancies, or recruitment firms. Naming firms in research creates conflict-of-interest risk (we're not a directory platform) and rarely survives editorial review. Buyers pay for analysis, not placement.