Method
How AiSeek reads its sources, decides that a change holds, writes its dossiers, and where it can go wrong.
What we read
We read public sources: regulators, governments, company announcements, exchanges and news organisations. For each source we record two things apart: whether it may be collected, and whether it may be shown in public. Being allowed to collect a source does not mean being allowed to show its text; a source that may not be shown is used for checking only.
When a change holds
Every change rests on evidence that can be shown. Claims come in three classes: fact (with its source passage), supported (at least two independent sources) and hypothesis (always marked, never presented as fact). The class follows from the evidence; a model's confidence never decides it.
How a dossier is written
Dossiers are written by AI, from facts taken word for word from the sources only: each fact must be found as an exact passage in its source, or it is dropped. Every sentence names the facts it rests on, and opens to their passages. A written dossier is then checked: every figure must appear in a cited fact, no long run of a source is copied, and a translation may not add figures; analysis and inference appear only in parts marked as analysis.
Corrections
When a mistake is found or a source changes, the dossier is revised; each revision says what changed and why, and is listed in public on the corrections page.
Limits
AI can still misread a source, and translations can be imperfect; changes reported only where we do not read will not appear here. For important decisions, rely on the source itself: the links are in each page's source list.
How SeekMap is computed (method v1)
Where a change happened
Each change is placed by rules first: a place named in its own words (a country, a state or province, a city) or a national institution (the Fed, the Bank of Japan), then the states, governments and places linked to it, then the country of the government or regulator that published it. A company counts where it is headquartered (from Wikidata, open data), and is the place of the change only when the change is the company's own and nothing else names a place. When no rule can tell, a model is asked to point at the words in the item that show the place; its answer is kept only when those words are really in the item, and such places are marked as inferred. Changes with no single country (discoveries, worldwide releases, decisions of bodies of many countries) gather in the "global" area in the Pacific instead of being forced onto a country. Every dot keeps what it was placed by.
Change Heat
Each change weighs its importance (0 to 1) times an evidence factor (two or more independent sources 1.2, a single source 0.8). A country's sum for the day is read against its own mean of the last 30 days: heat = 100 × (1 − 2^(−day / mean)). An ordinary day is 50, a day twice as busy 75. The mean never counts below half an ordinary change, so one item does not send a quiet country to the top. Heat measures how much is changing, never danger or instability.
Structure arcs
Only relation types from the registry, and only relations with evidence: facts solid, supported relations dashed and marked; hypotheses are never drawn on the public map. The two ends are based in different countries, and at least one is linked to a change on the map.
Convergence
A ring is drawn where three or more domains have an important change (importance 0.6 or more) within 48 hours. It says the changes happen together, not that one causes another.
Limits
Places are read by rules, open data and, where marked, a model, and can be missed or misread; only the sources we read are covered. The assistant answers only from the changes on the map and their passages, citing each sentence, and can still be wrong.