Sources
Where the intelligence comes from.
What feeds Signal and the Research Console, and how it is checked before anything is published.
This page is a companion to Methodology, which covers how an individual AI Disruption Snapshot is built. This one covers the standing research behind Signal and the Research Console.
1. What we track
Five public tracks run continuously, plus a sixth that is specific to your own book of clients or prospects:
AI Frontier
Capability releases, pricing and vendor announcements as labs and hyperscalers ship them.
Adoption
Named organisations changing how they operate — evidence of what is actually landing, not what is being sold.
Regulatory
Government and regulator publications: what is being constrained or permitted, and where.
Invention
Patent activity in AI and machine learning — a leading indicator of what is being industrialised now.
Federal spend
Public contract award data, showing where government AI money is actually going.
Client signals
Matched to your own book when you run the Console. Not part of any public feed.
2. Verification
Nothing is published unless it ties to a real, checkable source. No invented figures, no invented URLs, no invented dates or attributions — the same standard the platform applies to every deliverable it generates for a paying engagement.
Figures reported in Signal are carried through verbatim from what was found, not rounded, estimated or reworded for effect. Where the evidence only supports a reading rather than a fact, it is written as a reading, not stated as settled.
3. Cadence
Each track refreshes weekly. Signal is generated once from that week's evidence across every track, reviewed, and published as a single issue — the same issue every reader sees, whether by email or on the web. Nothing is regenerated per reader or per surface.
4. Citations
The public Signal edition and this site publish the argument: what happened and what it means. The full citation list behind each issue – every source cited, one by one – is included in the Signal Pro edition, delivered by email, so a subscriber can check the evidence themselves rather than take the read on faith.
5. What this isn't
This is a research operation, not a data vendor. We don't publish raw feeds, the underlying datasets, or the process used to select, weight and cross-reference what makes it into an issue — that is the analysis, and it is the product.
It also isn't investment advice, and vendor claims, previews and patent filings are reported as what they are, not as proof of a shipped or verified outcome.