method

the lanes

the corpus was produced by two parallel agent research lanes — history and people, and coverage plus the idea — each writing a lane report against one shared scratch source catalog before synthesis. the pattern is the company-research formula proven on roam-research: lane-prefixed source ids frozen upfront, per-claim confidence, and a declared deduplication owner. the research window is the launch week itself — september 15–17, 2026 — which is why the corpus is thick on discourse and thin on anything older.

the evidence rules

1. every event, quote, and claim carries at least one source id.
2. dates keep their precision — a year, a month, or a day — and approximate dates are labeled rather than sharpened.
3. confidence stays honest: confirmed, reported, and inferred are distinct claims, not stages of the same claim.
4. sources are typed by role — primary, interview, reporting, archive, community, reference, repo — so a claim's foundation is visible before it is read.
5. sentiment labels describe the coverage, not the truth of it.

known gaps

1. the research covers launch week — september 15–17, 2026 — and most of the material is self-reported or launch-week coverage.
2. calibration is unverified: no published calibration curves, ece, or reliability diagram exists; the independent evals measure agreement with llms, not ground truth.
3. the ~$200m valuation is single-source forbes reporting via a 'person familiar'; investors beyond dcvc and all board members are undisclosed.
4. jev's architecture is undisclosed — tarball forensics and the ceo's accepted reframes are inference, not disclosure; the promised paper does not exist yet.
5. diogo's 2018–2020 employment and education are not in public sources; daniel gafni's relationship to the cto is unconfirmed and not asserted.
6. headcount varies by source — linkedin lists 23; the register and press coverage say ~23; the two-day window could not reconcile them further.
7. ravel biotechnologies' outcome after 2021 is unclear — the site is live and only the $9.5m seed is on record.
8. the june 19 blog post was video-only — its tl;dr card is quoted, the video content is not transcribed.
9. stealth-era material partly relied on search-index snippets — wayback captures of the early homepage were unavailable.
10. the r/singularity thread exists per techmeme but its comments were not retrievable from the research environment.
11. old-typesafe name collision is a live search risk — lightbend and akka results contaminate queries and are excluded deliberately.

corrections

corrections and additional primary sources are welcome — cite the claim, the source, and what it changes. the catalog is designed to be audited, not just read.