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 inside the report

Our reports do not typically name specific law firms, advisory boutiques, consultancies, or recruitment firms inside the analysis. Naming firms in research creates conflict-of-interest risk and rarely survives editorial review. Buyers pay for analysis, not a seat. Where firms do appear next to a report on its public landing page or configurator, they appear as clearly-labelled Expert-Partner Brochures - paid for by the firm, separate from the report content, and never cross-cited inside the analysis. See the Editorial Policy for the boundary.