Four rules that override everything else.
They are written down, they are the same for every client, and the work shows where each one was applied.
What every item is held to.
- 1
Nothing is invented.
No source, locator, date or quantity. What is absent is printed as not disclosed, not monitorable or human review required, together with what would close it.
- 2
A retrieval asserts its own completeness.
A count that looks fine is not proof. A company’s own site once returned 9 of 109 records with no error and HTTP 200.
- 3
A scan of nothing is not a clean scan.
Every source adapter carries a negative control; if the control is absent, the adapter is marked failed, not trusted. An official sanctions file: 5,708 records, not one name.
- 4
A conflict is printed, not resolved.
When sources disagree, both figures appear with their sources. One company publishes four different counts of itself.
From everything published to the six things that matter.
Every edition prints its own funnel; these counts are from one, built from public sources.
Nearly four rows in five are one document returned by more than one search. Of the 7,607 documents, one in 36 reaches the company; one in five of those is assessed in writing; six make the front page.
Five stages, each printing what it set aside.
The counts are the same edition’s. RBC is the subject of the analysis, not a client.
- 34,333rows read Read the official sources.
- 7,607distinct documents Count each document once.
- 210reach the company Keep what can reach the company.
- 41assessed Write the item: what changed, why it reaches the company, an action to consider.
- 6front page Rank by impact and date; the rest go to the watch register.
What each stage does, and sets aside
- Stage 1 · Read
- Fifteen official sources for the company’s footprint, from the Canada Gazette and OSFI to the US Federal Register and EUR-Lex.
- Stage 2 · Deduplicate
- Duplicates fold into one record, and the totals are made to add up in print.
- Stage 3 · Match
- Each document is tested against the company’s own disclosures. 3,196 were set aside with a reason; 4,219 are not yet judged, never counted as clean.
- Stage 4 · Assess
- Each item quotes the official text and its date. 31 of the 41 were verified; the rest say why not.
- Stage 5 · Rank
- Six made the front page; 35 sit on the register with the reason they are not in front.
Source for every count: Strature Exposure, RBC edition of 28 Sep 2026, the coverage funnel, coverage tiers, summary counts, the sources table and the rank rule.
Registered before the fact, scored when it resolves.
Every probability Strature publishes is our estimate, scored when it resolves.
- 1A question that can be settled, and every outcome.
A test a named third party could resolve from public sources on a stated date; scenarios that sum to 100%, including “all other outcomes”; base rates from historical analogues.
- 2Proposed, ratified, registered.
A separate forecasting seat proposes each probability; the Principal ratifies or changes it. It is registered before any page prints it, with a SHA-256 hash of the full statement, so any later edit would show.
- 3Scored when it resolves.
On its resolution date, against what happened. No aggregate claim about skill is made until the 36-month rule allows it.
Full forecast register, every forecast resolved and open, available on request.
The limits, printed with the work.
Actions to consider are illustrations, not instructions. They are general research, not legal, tax, accounting or investment advice, and never a recommendation on any security.
Four more limits, printed with the work
- Zero is not zero exposure. A place with no items is a coverage statement, printed per place.
- Not every item is verified, nor every document judged. Both counts are printed; neither is folded into “clean”.
- Corrections are printed, not overwritten. The correction and the original stay visible.
- Client material never leaves its client. It is kept per client, never pooled, and never used in a published brief.
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