Extended learning guide

Detailed explanation

Choose a mode by the job

The visible command modes are Brief, Monitor and Investigate. Brief gives a concise overview; Monitor emphasises the operational picture; Investigate exposes the deeper workspace. Some older preferences use the internal names brief/simple/advanced. The Simple / Extended selector in this guide changes the amount of teaching, not your account permissions.

Use Commands to find a tool by name, or browse this guide’s Capabilities directory. The app also uses a horizontally scrollable tab strip and an expandable research/finance area. A workspace hidden by your personal layout is different from an unavailable data source.

Learn beside the application

Choose Practice in Watchtower in a lesson to open its coaching dock. Use Show me where for a reviewed navigation or locating action, make the described choice yourself, and use Next/Back to continue. The dock can be collapsed so it does not cover your work. Return to the learning centre whenever you want the full explanation. The guide does not save cases, enable rules, submit purchases or run an AI model for you.

Layout, fullscreen and keyboard

Use native workspace fullscreen to gain space while keeping the same view. Its close control returns to the normal layout. Individual map tools, a workspace expansion and the main globe have different display controls. Closing the main globe stops its own rendering; independent workspace maps have their own visibility lifecycle.

The guide supports search, keyboard buttons, Escape to close the current learning dialog/dock, and reduced-motion preferences. In the app, use the keyboard hints shown by Commands and native controls. Do not assume a shortcut is available while a text field or another dialog has focus.

Use User & Settings → Customize Workspace for the supported layout/theme/panel choices. Inspect a preset before resetting or saving a layout. A layout preference does not change data definitions, access or source quality.

Detailed explanation

Watchtower is most useful when you distinguish what a number actually represents. Open source details before combining figures from different panels.

The five clocks to check

Occurrence/observation time is when the event or measurement belongs. Publication/issue time is when the source released it. Reference period identifies a month, quarter, year or survey interval. Collection/check time is when Watchtower obtained or checked it. Model valid time/horizon says when a forecast applies.

These clocks can legitimately differ. A newly downloaded annual statistic can be several years old. A daily market bar's timestamp is not necessarily its last trade. A warning can be issued now but effective later. A date-only source should not be interpreted as a precise midnight observation.

Missing, zero, stale and partial

A dash, null or unavailable field means there is no qualified displayed value. A genuine zero is a measurement and should remain zero. Stale, retained, aged, partial, reference-only, not integrated and credential required describe different conditions. Read the panel's explanation rather than treating them all as “nothing happened.”

Counts are frequently heterogeneous: articles, CAP messages, language versions, database rows, providers and locations are different units. Do not add them into a total of independent incidents. Duplicate coverage from related publishers or overlapping datasets is not independent corroboration.

Geography and units

A point may be an observed event location, an approximate locality, a reference headquarters, a municipality centre or an aggregate cell. Unlocated evidence can remain in a table without a map marker. A warning polygon is an issuing product's area, not necessarily an observed damage footprint. A model layer carries its own assumptions.

Check nominal versus real values; market USD versus purchasing-power-parity units; stock versus flow; percent versus percentage points; level versus return; quarterly versus year-to-date; and issuer/listing country versus asset exposure. Colour and animation help navigation but do not change these definitions.

Raw evidence and reproducible reading

Raw data & source evidence is normally collapsed at the bottom of the relevant tab. Expand it for official points, domain support, original records and source coverage. Use row information buttons for specific observations. Save source links, original dates, selected filters and model/definition versions with an export. When a snapshot changes during a multi-page export, use the workspace's fresh-read/retry path rather than joining different generations yourself.

Detailed explanation

These are different entry points for different jobs.

Read the lead items, then open their canonical workspace. A concise card is a pointer to evidence, not a substitute for all source qualifications. When a source is unavailable, follow the coverage detail rather than interpreting an empty card as a normal condition.

Signal Board lets you assemble a focused monitoring display. Search for a signal, pin it, reorder or remove tiles, and expand the board when useful. Source-anchored debt clocks can also be pinned here. Their playback state is shared with the corresponding debt-clock controls during the session; a running animation does not turn a reported stock into a live measurement.

Alert Screen is the compact place to review monitoring conditions. It is not identical to the Alerts rule editor or My Watchtower's server inbox. Use the alert's own origin, threshold, timestamp and evidence to decide where to investigate next.

Choose the news in a Brief

Pro Brief and Daily Brief offer News preferences for topic, source type, editorial perspective and an integer story count from 0 to 50. Zero hides news; the initial defaults are six Pro Brief stories and ten Daily Brief stories. Choices are browser-local, per owner and per brief, with a separate guest namespace. Pro uses a 48-hour window; Daily uses the current UTC day and retains its region selection. Publisher labels describe source context, not article accuracy or inferred event geography. Saved invalid choices require explicit correction rather than silent replacement. A copied live Brief link does not transfer your saved preferences.

Detailed explanation

My Watchtower is the personal daily-workflow workspace. It combines cloud watchlists, acknowledged changes, scheduled briefings, an in-app inbox and usefulness feedback. Its settings and results belong to the verified account.

Create your first watch

1. Open My Watchtower and create a clearly named watch, such as “Canada: banking and household debt.”
2. Choose the supported country, domain, company, sector, topic or asset selectors. A focused watch is easier to evaluate than a broad list of everything.
3. Save it and inspect the initial baseline. Existing evidence establishes the starting state; it is not all automatically a new event.
4. Open What changed. Review source-content changes, dates and coverage before acknowledging the items you have read.
5. If useful, enable selective alerts with an appropriate priority, cooldown and daily budget. Check the matched rule and evidence in each inbox item.

The initial implementation supports up to 20 watches. Typed thresholds bind to the intended field, units and version. Missing or stale evidence does not silently rearm a condition. Cross-watch deduplication and budgets reduce repeated notifications; they do not prove that every relevant development has been detected.

Personal briefings

Choose your timezone and local briefing hour. A personal edition can include a bounded set of qualified highlights, upcoming schedules, forecast outcomes and source gaps. Open the edition before exporting JSON, HTML or PDF. The saved edition is an immutable research record; later source revisions do not silently rewrite its original evidence.

The server scheduler can continue preparing the in-app workflow independently of an open tab. Delivery here is an in-app inbox, not a promise of email or SMS. Browser notification behaviour in other workspaces is separate. Use feedback controls to record whether an alert or briefing was useful, rather than broadening thresholds merely to produce more messages.

An optional research pilot requires an invitation and consent. Participation is separate from plan entitlement; it does not automatically grant additional access or mean that any recruitment target has been filled.

Detailed explanation

Watchtower Search searches the retained canonical corpus and is available in both Simple and Advanced layouts. It can surface source records, public reporting, social items, data and supported destinations with provenance and freshness context.

Search deliberately

1. Start with an entity, instrument, country or phrase. Add a second discriminating term if the results are broad.
2. Use the available result-type/category filters. A news result, source status row and measured event are different things.
3. Expand the result to read its indexed excerpt and source metadata. The excerpt is what was retained, not guaranteed to be the complete current publisher page.
4. Follow the original source, qualified data detail, country view or market destination.
5. If a Show on map (OpenStreetMap) action is present, read the coordinate qualification. It opens an external marked map for a supported source-owned point; it does not establish a new main-globe observation.

Search is a retained index with a scheduled refresh. A record newly available in a live dataset may appear in Search later. Source-specific filters, retention limits and entitlements still apply. Private My Watchtower items, account records and private investigation contents are not part of the shared public corpus. Live search is withheld during replay rather than being mixed into a historical view.

Use Data Q&A for supported structured numeric questions; use Search when you need to locate records or reporting. Use a specialist workspace when the task requires complete filtered tables, detailed histories or source-native pagination.

Detailed explanation

The News area contains Breaking, Economics, Technology, Health / Bio, Natural Disasters, Search and Narratives. The separate Social workspace is in the main Advanced navigation. Reader topic controls remain available in expanded/fullscreen views.

Read across sources

Choose a topic, date window and geography, then refine by source type, platform or editorial context where offered. Open the original story or post. Compare publication times and publisher families before interpreting repeated coverage as independent support. Reading-list and saved-filter tools preserve the source metadata needed to revisit the item.

Source type, editorial/political leaning, platform and reliability are not interchangeable. A source can be unclassified without being centrist. Wire status does not guarantee neutrality. Labels may be based on publisher self-description or attributed editorial review and do not assign beliefs to every author or reader.

The expanded source directory includes alternative and libertarian publications and selected public Bluesky, YouTube, Mastodon, Lemmy, PeerTube, Rumble-reference, Odysee and podcast sources. These are bounded reviewed feeds, not complete social-platform firehoses. A publisher-linked video reference may retain the referring article's clock rather than a verified video-upload timestamp. A directory-only channel is a discoverable reference, not a connected feed.

Use Narratives to explore themes and related reporting. A cluster describes a grouping, not proof of coordination or truth. When exporting or writing a report, retain publisher URLs, publication dates and relevant source labels. Detailed distinctions are in media methods.

Detailed explanation

Linked Events: follow source records and revisions

Open Linked Events for the feed, filters, timeline, map, associations, sources and recorded changes. Search and narrow by source/type/time before opening a record. Its detail distinguishes occurrence, publication, issuance, source-snapshot and collection clocks where available.

Track a record, add a note or save a view when you want to return to it. The tracker can preserve changes observed since collection began; it does not reconstruct every earlier revision at the publisher. Tracking here is browser-local and does not automatically arm an alert or synchronise to another browser. Export/import or use My Watchtower for its separate cloud workflow.

Associations use shared entities, headline/document evidence and time windows. They are leads for investigation, not causal connections or independent verification. A publisher's country and a place mentioned in text do not automatically establish event coordinates. Relevant unlocated records remain useful in the list.

Incident Graph and Entity Explorer

Incident Graph helps inspect relationships among events, places and related evidence. Select a node or map item, read the relationship description and open the supporting records. Expand the map or description controls when the graph is dense. Ask whether an edge represents a shared reference, inferred association, model relation or observed fact.

Entity Explorer is useful when the subject is an organisation, person, asset or other named entity rather than a single event. Resolve ambiguous names using identifiers and source context. Similar labels can describe different entities; repeated mentions are not evidence of legal ownership or operational control.

A good investigation preserves three things separately: the original record, your relationship hypothesis and the evidence that would confirm or contradict that hypothesis.

Detailed explanation

The Calendar combines official and provider schedules, reference periods, prior values and market expectations where supplied. It is a planning tool for upcoming information, not proof that a release has occurred.

1. Select the date range and the relevant country, category or source.
2. Read the event's timezone/time basis. A date-only schedule should remain date-only.
3. Distinguish scheduled time, reference period, previous value, consensus and actual release. They describe different stages.
4. Open the official source or event detail for publication and revision context.
5. Use the table or fullscreen view for a longer horizon. Its light-theme headers and day groupings are now explicitly styled for readability.

Compare like-for-like units and periods before interpreting a surprise. A percentage-point difference between actual and consensus is not necessarily a relative percentage change. A passed scheduled time with no actual value is an unresolved data state, not an observed zero.

Calendar evidence also appears as catalysts in Forecast Lab, Geopolitical Outlook and reports. Those appearances do not turn a schedule into a forecast or independent corroborating event. See Calendar methods.

Detailed explanation

The left Market Overview, lower Markets panel and full-width Global Markets now share consistent identities, source dates, units, flags and evidence controls. Use the compact panels for scanning and Global Markets for a wider table or symbol lookup.

Left Market Overview tabs

Lower Markets and the full-width atlas

Commodities shows native futures quotations; Indices shows the registered benchmark universe; Forex offers market quotes and ECB references; Crypto shows the source-defined asset universe; Global Stocks shows the filtered worldwide equity-mover scan. Use the available regional, text, rising/falling, data-gap and period controls. A rising/falling filter requires eligible non-missing change data; an undated source is not automatically a current mover.

Global Markets adds an overview and dedicated Indices, FX, Commodities, Equities, Crypto, Yields and Sources views. Symbol lookup searches supported public references. Confirm instrument type and exchange: the same ticker can identify different listings. Open the instrument for its existing chart controls, or use the information button for normalized evidence and original fields. CSV reflects the selected view; inspect the export's units, source and observation columns.

Worldwide coverage, flags and identities

The benchmark registry contains 56 indices across 44 countries/areas. The market release verified 55 available values, including qualified SET, PSEi, Tadawul All Share and DFM General supplements. Chile S&P IPSA was a visible remaining gap. Availability can change; the registry count is not a guarantee that every record is presently populated.

Index flags identify the benchmark area. Stock flags now prefer source-reported company country, matched to the exact exchange-qualified instrument. That reference is not independently verified legal domicile. If company country is unavailable, a known venue flag carries an explicit Listing tag; if both are unknown, a neutral marker appears. Country is not guessed from quote currency or a bare ticker. Inspect the flag's source/basis and retrieval date; retrieval is not an invented corporate-validity date.

This identity treatment also appears in quote searches, company views, stock-chart headers and portfolio stock rows. Equity display-region filters use the preferred country; the company screener's existing country column is explicitly Listing country. CSV adds company/listing country and flag basis. FX displays the base and quote currency areas; EUR uses a union reference. Commodity mini-icons and crypto glyphs supplement names and tickers. Unknown tokens retain a readable badge. Company-country flag update.

Corrections include the actual S&P/TSX Composite, SSE 50, US CBOE VIX identities and the current CME lumber reference LBR=F. Duplicate aliases for one benchmark are consolidated. An unverified name-only fallback cannot become a newly verified symbol.

Currency-reference example

Open Forex → ECB references, choose a base such as CAD, then inspect a row. The source provides currencies per EUR. Watchtower calculates a cross as quote-per-EUR ÷ base-per-EUR on the same fixing date. The reviewed source supplied 30 currencies including EUR and a 90-day reference file. The prior common fixing supplies the comparison, not an invented intraday quote.

For a USD/foreign pair with a 10% rise, the reciprocal foreign/USD return is approximately −9.09%, not −10%: (1 / (1 + 0.10) − 1) × 100. Pair direction therefore matters in FX strength.

ECB information is available free of charge from the ECB. Cross-rates and changes are Watchtower calculations. Fixings are dated reference information, not executable transaction quotes. See market sources and calculations.

Detailed explanation

Two sentiment views with different meanings

Fear & Greed restores seven cross-asset scopes—US, Europe, Asia-Pacific, crypto, commodities, forex and bonds—plus a composite, seven regional views and the 44 covered country contexts. The release introduced 59 cards. Search for a scope, open its component detail and check the eligible input denominator and source dates.

These are Watchtower heuristics, not republished CNN, Alternative.me, CoinMarketCap or Tickertape readings. The publisher directory links those services; a directory link does not mean a live numerical integration. The composite uses available core cross-asset scopes rather than adding their regional/country subdivisions again.

Market Tone remains a separate equal-weight regional price-change screen. Its declared transformation is clamp(50 + 12 × mean qualified one-day index percentage change, 0, 100). Missing and stale inputs are excluded with the denominator shown. Neither view is a calibrated event probability or a promise of predictive performance.

Read bond moves in three units

The updated yield rows and details expose basis points, percentage-point change and relative yield change when the source supports those quantities.

Worked example: a yield moves from 4.00% to 4.10%.

• Percentage-point move: +0.100 pp.
• Basis-point move: +10 bps, because one percentage point is 100 bps.
• Relative yield change: +2.50%, because 0.10 ÷ 4.00 × 100 = 2.50.

That last figure is a change in the yield, not the bond's price return. Relative change is withheld when its denominator is unsuitable or the source unit is unknown. Check CSV and evidence details for the same distinction. Release explanation.

Detailed explanation

Global Bonds: choose a measurement, then its source

Open Global Bonds and use Desk, Sovereigns, Markets, Credit, Ratings & CDS, Derivatives, Offshore Currencies, Leverage/Collateral, Structured, Swap Lines/Repo, Flows, Warnings or Sources according to the question. The primary panels distinguish direct observations, contextual prices/proxies, source-required gaps and authored model components.

Read sovereign yield tenors and native units. In fiscal comparisons, general-government debt, central-only debt, consolidation and expenditure/expense definitions stay explicit. Total expenditure and expense are not summed as if they were non-overlapping measures. Source year and estimated/provisional status can differ across countries.

Ratings & CDS contains a separate broad reference workflow for issuers, funds/vehicles and rated instruments, plus public credit-derivative disclosures. See its dedicated lesson for source status, identities, contracts and price distinctions. The aggregate corporate credit/debt model does not become an issuer-level default estimate merely because a company reference is available nearby.

Derivatives, offshore currencies and funding

BIS notional, gross market value and legally netted credit exposure have different meanings. Currency legs and alternative instrument/maturity/rating breakdowns can overlap. Period-matched shares require compatible numerators/denominators. Market size is not measured loss.

Offshore USD/EUR/JPY credit and Hong Kong offshore-RMB deposit measures have source-specific currencies, components and coverage. They are not one complete global Eurocurrency money-supply total. Keep reported stocks separate from illustrative running debt clocks.

Financial Stress, Deposits and Bank Run Monitor

Use Financial Stress and Deposits for their exact funding/liquidity/positioning/price indicators and stated models. In Bank Run Monitor, distinguish official institution/system observations, authored bank-sample diagnostics and reported news/context. A payment outage, stock decline and deposit outflow are different observations.

Bank CDS retains a selected published five-year premium reference with holding-company/operating-bank boundaries and original dates. Its contract details can be incomplete. Wider rating/CDS links lead to the reference workspace rather than silently replacing model values or inferring deposit safety.

Government finance methods · Credit/CDS methods · Bank evidence methods

Detailed explanation

Global Debt covers household, consumer, card, mortgage, business, private, government, total nonfinancial, servicing, arrears, rates and related statistical families. It also retains the earlier Real Estate analysis in its own section. Use the atlas, country dossier, comparison and exact-series histories to understand the selected measure.

Compare a debt measure correctly

1. Choose the sector and measure before choosing the country ranking.
2. Read the reporting period and units: currency amount, percent of GDP, service ratio or borrowing rate.
3. Preserve valuation and lender scope. Market-value and nominal government debt are separate measures.
4. Compare like periods and definitions; do not add household/corporate totals to a private total that already contains them.
5. Export the selected series and source definition when using it outside Watchtower.

Reported, Run, Pause and Resume

The clock shelf starts in Reported mode. Run extends the latest reported stock using the declared four-quarter change and elapsed time. Pause freezes the model instant; Resume catches up. Reported returns to the source stock. A refresh or button click does not create a new observed balance.

The initial clock registry contained 248 models: 242 country measures and six covered-economy subtotals. Those totals cover the source's participating economies, not necessarily all world debt. Clock rates can include exchange-rate effects, valuation changes and revisions; they are not measured second-by-second borrowing or interest.

Running values are gated by comparable consecutive quarters, source age and projection bounds. Missing country measures remain missing. Pins can be displayed in Signal Board; playback is session state, while pins are owner-scoped preferences. For the reasoning behind the animation, see source-anchored debt clocks.

Detailed explanation

Global Wealth / Affordability brings together observed price/income/wealth statistics, alternative measures, investment-category references and a real-value lab. Its broader research views cover official inflation, wealth and inequality, national capital, household portfolios, income/wages, housing/rents, food, living standards, debt/taxes, rates/money and resources.

Start with the country and indicator, not an assumed overall wealth ranking. Open an exact series to check its population, sector, frequency and unit. National capital is not household wealth; average wages are not every worker's pay; a rebased housing ratio is not automatically years of income.

Official CPI, annualised one-month inflation, twelve-month inflation and alternative measures have different windows. A Big Mac PPP comparison is a purchasing-power proxy, not an inflation rate. FAO food-price indices describe an international basket rather than a household's local shopping bill. PPP dollars and market-exchange-rate USD should remain separate.

The investment-category directory explains roles and limitations of equities, bonds, cash, housing, REITs, metals, commodities, land, infrastructure, private markets, pensions, human capital, digital assets and collectibles. It does not assign guaranteed returns. Reference-only commercial measures do not imply a subscription or numerical data entitlement.

In the real-value lab, choose explicit nominal-return, fee-drag and inflation assumptions. The real growth factor is (1 + (nominal − fee drag)/100) / (1 + inflation/100). A copied historical CPI value becomes a labelled assumption, not a future inflation forecast. Save the assumptions with the result so another reader can reproduce the scenario.

Detailed explanation

The lower Crypto market tab is a quote view. Crypto Intel is the deeper research workspace, with Overview, Markets, Stablecoins, DeFi/venues, Chains, NFTs, Derivatives, Network, Security, Global policy, News and Sources. Existing model/watchlist/analyst functions sit alongside this source-based research.

Search and filter the chosen family, open an asset or protocol, inspect a history and use comparison/export controls where offered. Complete filtered exports can span multiple pages; preserve a coherent source snapshot. Provider rate limits and partial directories remain visible.

Important distinctions

• Stablecoins: token supply and USD-valued circulation differ. A non-USD peg requires its proper FX basis; yield/share/fund tokens are not automatically USD1 pegs.
• DeFi and venues: TVL, trading volume, fees and revenue are different quantities. Overlapping protocol and chain totals should not be summed blindly. CEX asset references are not proof of solvency.
• Yield pools: APY is source-reported context, not a guaranteed forward return.
• NFTs: a listed floor is not a bid; floor × supply is not readily liquid market value. Addresses are not people. Collection directories can be partial.
• Derivatives: preserve contract type, expiry and native open-interest units. An options notional and a contract count are not the same measure.
• Security and policy: distinguish a historical exploit report, an official regulatory reference and an issuer assertion. A directory entry is not a legal approval or reserve audit.

Use the Source view to understand coverage before comparing chains or countries. A country filter in policy references is not a physical-risk map of a blockchain.

Detailed explanation

Monetary Predictions contains several related but distinct research areas. Use the internal navigation to move between monetary/hyperinflation context, Gold and Commodity Wars 2030. Read the selected model's input definitions, source periods and evidence gaps before interpreting a ranking.

Monetary and gold research

Monetary screens combine the source evidence and declared methodology available in the workspace. A stress ranking or authored estimate is not automatically a calibrated probability of hyperinflation. Compare the underlying inflation, money, exchange-rate and fiscal observations rather than only the headline score.

Gold research links bullion/currency context, official reserve references and mine-production evidence where supplied. Separate a reserve stock from annual mine production, a futures quote from physical-dealer pricing, and tonnes from currency-valued holdings. Country references do not imply that all reserves have been independently audited by Watchtower.

Commodity Wars 2030

This is a source-based country resource/planning atlas. Choose a metric, reference year and estimate policy, then compare countries on the same measure, basis, unit and year. The reviewed catalogue initially contained 309 separate measures and a critical-material applications directory. “2030” is planning branding, not a forecast that a commodity conflict will occur in that year.

Production, reserves, resource endowments and processing capacity are different measures. Freshwater resources and adverse water stress point in different directions. Missing first-stage quantities remain unscored. A same-basis 0–100 ranking is relative to its eligible set; it is not a probability or a universal resource-security score.

Use Commodity Atlas to inspect physical references and Companies to investigate issuers, while retaining the distinction between national production statistics, mapped sites and company disclosures.

Detailed explanation

Prediction Markets → Market Radar provides a risk radar, screener, repricing view, closing calendar, event ladders, themes, browser-local watchlist, comparisons and source methods. The integrated catalogue is a reviewed subset of Polymarket and Kalshi, not each venue's entire market universe.

Open the exact contract before interpreting a displayed price. Read the outcome wording, Yes polarity, resolution criteria, close time and quote time. Two similar headlines can have different settlement conditions. Nested thresholds or contracts about the same event overlap and should not be added into a total probability.

Use books/depth and histories where available to understand the quotation's context. Missing trades or a thin book should remain missing/thin, not be replaced with an assumed price. USD volume on one venue and contract counts on another are distinct measures. Related news or a Watchtower model can provide context, but does not settle the contract.

A market price is a market observation about a particular payoff. It is not Watchtower's calibrated forecast or confirmation that the event happened. Watchlist saves here are browser-local. See Prediction Markets methods.

Detailed explanation

Open Companies when you need to move from a commodity theme or ticker to a specific issuer. Search the reference universe, identify the correct listing/entity and inspect the source-backed dossier. Use the available source, category, geography and history controls rather than assuming every result is an active listed company.

The mining/extraction universe combines selected SEC extraction/mining registrants, Wikidata entities and labelled curated references. Broad industry categories can include energy and services. Company names alone do not establish commodity exposure; a “junior” label or low market capitalisation does not establish operating stage. Listing-venue and business-address country are not mine locations.

For a selected supported SEC issuer, primary facts retain the entity identifier, taxonomy concept, value, unit, reporting start/end, filing date, form and accession source. Compare compatible periods and currencies. An amendment can supersede a fact for the same period. The panel does not manufacture trailing-twelve-month results, EV multiples or cash runway from unmatched observations.

Production, reserves/resources, AISC, guidance, mine ownership and project capex require current issuer disclosures or technical reports. Use their source links for those questions. A reference company population is useful discovery, not an exhaustive current worldwide mining census. Optional connected-provider data remains subject to your account and the provider's licence. Companies methods.

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Countries: build a dated dossier

Choose a country in Countries and work through its overview, statistics/trends, encyclopedia, Demographics, comparisons and source references. Compare compatible measures and source years; some tools allow up to four countries. Export exact source series with their units and periods.

The country/territory directory is broader than contemporary coverage for every measure. World Bank statistics have publication lags. Wikipedia prose is an on-demand revision-dated reference. Archived CIA Factbook fields retain original dates; the Factbook’s retirement does not turn archival text into a current census.

Demographics provides ages/sex, families/health, education/work, migration/living and source-qualified cultural references. A same-year population pyramid requires compatible cohorts and denominators. See the dedicated Demographics lesson for details.

Politics, news and legislation

In Global Politics, compare country governance/development measures using their definitions, years and coverage. Use Political news or Bills & legislation to inspect source-backed records. Select country/topic/source/date and read the source-specific stage. Original publication, capture, observation, passage and effective dates are different clocks.

A publisher’s headquarters is not the subject country of its report. Automated subject matches are not verified incident coordinates. Official legislative metadata and news-reported statements retain different evidence classes. Chamber passage is not automatically enactment or current legal force. Read the original record and any known official coverage gap.

The native country/source alert controls prepare a draft for review in Alert Center. An observed discovery/revision sequence is different from the time the event occurred; the first sample establishes a baseline. The guide never saves or enables that rule for you.

Country demographic methods · Political news and legislation methods

Detailed explanation

Geopolitical Risk / Outlook

The workspace includes Situation/Outlook, the Country table, forecast exploration, evidence timelines, market expectations, catalysts, track record and sources, with classic diagnostics retained separately. Select a country or region and a horizon, then open the evidence behind the chosen view. Fullscreen map-and-evidence mode keeps the map with collapsible filter and data rails.

Country tables contain source-year fiscal, market, governance and model fields. Check their individual periods and qualifications. A global scenario displayed beside a country does not become that country's probability. Reporting attention describes publication activity in its stated windows; it is not an incidence rate or coverage-adjusted measure of danger.

Compare up to four countries where offered, but keep a consistent indicator definition and date basis. Prediction-market contracts and Calendar catalysts remain separately defined evidence. Optional historical conflict layers are dated context, not a current census. Geopolitical Outlook methods.

Outcome Tree / Global Risk Studio

Outcome Tree makes the authored cross-domain scenario engine inspectable. Its eight non-exclusive scenario families span banking/liquidity, cross-asset dislocation, strategic supply corridors, grid/digital infrastructure, geopolitical escalation, health/biosecurity, mobility/official controls and food/energy pressure. Supported global horizons include 24 hours, seven days and thirty days.

1. Select a scenario and horizon. Read the precise criterion and forecast window.
2. Inspect retained contributors, excluded/context-only inputs and dependency groups.
3. Open the original source records and their clocks. Shared inputs can make models dependent.
4. Use a hypothetical experiment to remove groups, attenuate evidence or change an assumed prior. Observe sensitivity without treating it as a real intervention.
5. Inspect the track record and resolution state before interpreting a numerical estimate as demonstrated predictive skill.

These scenarios are not mutually exclusive, so their values do not sum to 100%. Published conditional pathways are shown only where the source model supports them. Compound-risk views use dependence-agnostic mathematical bounds rather than assuming independence. A sensitivity range is not automatically a confidence interval.

Saved experiment recipes are account-local browser preferences. Reapplying a recipe to a newer capture can produce a different experiment; read the changed-capture message. An active experiment may stay on its accepted capture until you explicitly refresh. Outcome Studio methods.

Detailed explanation

Bayes Threat · Ancap Welcomeness now opens with country scores and independently refreshed evidence. Its country search, regional selection, comparisons, dossiers, pillar audit and JSON export provide several levels of detail.

Understand the score before ranking countries

The declared model uses twelve value pillars and a 60/40 liberty/practical balance. It is a value-based comparative model, not a probability that an event will happen or a personal guarantee about relocation. All 250 country/territory references can receive numerical estimates, but ranking eligibility depends on data-backed coverage. A neutral placeholder for missing evidence is not an observed average country outcome.

Select a country, open its pillar and source/weight breakdown, and inspect the reporting/review periods. Missing-input ranges are sensitivity bounds, not statistical confidence intervals. Related WGI and V-Dem evidence should not be treated as independent confirmation merely because it appears in separate rows. Historical comparisons must retain their model version.

Taxes & fees

The Taxes & fees view brings together source-reviewed professional tax summaries, World Bank fiscal/fee histories and selected official registry fees. Choose the country and tax category, then read the jurisdictional scope and conditions. Personal and corporate taxes, inheritance and gifts, and federal versus local charges are distinct.

A headline VAT or income-tax rate is not an effective tax bill for every person. A publisher's review date is not automatically a law's effective date. Conditional schedules should not be reduced to their first number. Historical Doing Business benchmarks remain historical; a listed incorporation fee applies to its stated service/channel and currency.

The declared fiscal screen uses fixed weights and explicit missing-input bounds. Unsupported local, social, sectoral, residency, relief and fee coverage remains a gap. Use the original authority/professional source for a specific legal or tax situation. Welcomeness methods · Tax and fee methods.

Detailed explanation

One home for country, regional and systemic research

Global Risk Overview combines the former Risk Overview and Systemic entry points. Start with Risk map or All-domain matrix, choose a country or region, then select the evidence domain and lookback. The current overview provides20 domains across five evidence families. Its1/7/30-day controls are evidence lookbacks, not forecast horizons.

Open Drivers & source evidence to inspect the original observations, reporting periods, geography and source lineage. Missing, stale, expired or unsupported inputs remain unknown. Grey/unassessable areas are not certified low-risk areas. Composite evidence-pressure indices need sufficient independent-family coverage; source volume alone does not establish probability or confidence.

Systemic research and track record

Use the embedded Systemic outlook & track record workbench, also available in Forecast Lab. Read Current, Outlook, Impact & dependencies, Evidence, Track record and Methods for their distinct purposes. The Systemic framework’s fourteen domains and frozen financial/regional targets remain separate from the overview’s twenty-domain evidence map.

1. Select the exact target, model and horizon. Financial fund-price outcomes are not country crisis probabilities.
2. Inspect source cut-off, original input times, coverage and excluded/context-only evidence.
3. Separate a source-supported exposure share from an assumed relationship; a graph edge alone does not quantify loss.
4. Read genuinely issued prospective records and compatible outcomes separately from current-vintage historical reconstruction.
5. Keep unresolved and insufficiently sampled outcomes unresolved. Historical fit is not demonstrated live calibration.

The financial Systemic expansion defines58 terminal-loss, close-path-loss and joint-decline targets over1/5/20 NYSE sessions. Regional warning research uses its exact sampled CAP-message criteria and requires adequate sampling before inferring a negative. Use the current target/method definitions in the workspace.

Legacy workflows retains older regional-matrix watches, playbooks and briefing archives with their original meaning. It is not another independently calibrated country forecast.

Global Risk Overview methods · Systemic methods

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Markets, scenarios and track record

Forecast Lab combines statistical market research, source-linked cross-domain scenarios, weather outlooks, economic catalysts, conditional comparisons, personal browser watches and immutable forecast/evidence records. It also includes the newer Systemic risk and Energy views.

For the original Markets pilot, the nine reference funds are SPY, QQQ, EFA, EEM, TLT, HYG, GLD, USO and UUP. Targets are defined over one, five and twenty NYSE sessions. A displayed directional estimate refers to the stated fund-price return, not every constituent, a country, a spot commodity, a yield or a total-return investment strategy. Distributions, execution costs and slippage are not silently included.

Select an instrument and horizon. Read its base and target session, empirical range, component/analogue evidence and baseline. Then inspect historical and prospective performance separately. Brier score, log loss, calibration and interval coverage answer different questions; a nominal 80% interval still needs observed coverage evaluation.

Live issuance uses actual issue times and freezes its definition, source cutoff and inputs. A missing target session remains awaiting evidence. A source revision can withhold scoring instead of rewriting the original forecast. Previously displayed research is not automatically a backdated issuance.

What-if comparisons and local watches

The What-if Lab selects non-overlapping historical windows meeting a specified reference-fund return condition and examines another fund in the same windows. It needs enough matching cases. This is conditional historical co-movement, not a causal shock-response estimate or a calibrated future conditional forecast.

Forecast Lab's original watches and saved baselines are account-scoped in the browser. Their visible-workspace estimate-change checks do not imply closed-browser delivery. Use My Watchtower's separate server workflow when that is the intended monitoring channel. Forecast Lab methods.

Energy

The Energy view includes price overview, futures curves, production/impact context, a declared supply scenario, sources/coverage, historical observations, research ranges and exports. It brings together EIA, World Bank, EU consumer-price and selected electricity references with native currencies, units, taxes and periods.

Select the series and market before comparing numbers. USD per barrel, USD per MMBtu, EUR per litre, monthly commodity benchmarks and hourly/daily electricity references describe different things. Published futures quotes are delivery-contract references, not expected future spot prices or official settlements unless explicitly identified as such.

The research projection uses a fixed declared historical method and persistence comparison. It is not established live forecasting skill. Current news/weather is context and is not inserted into historical training as though known then. The supply scenario uses explicit local-loss and elasticity assumptions; a missing comparable world total prevents numerical propagation. Production-country shares retain their source years. Energy methods.

Detailed explanation

Infrastructure is the physical/network reference workspace: use the available asset and network layers, search, map inspection and source controls to investigate power, communications, data centres, exchanges, pipelines and related systems. Distinguish a mapped reference network from a measured service outage or current flow.

Pacific cable connections

The recent update makes the map wrap across the date line and adds a Pacific cables view. The selected FASTER, Unity, JUPITER, PLCN and PC1 connections are drawn as purple dashed schematic links between approximate, system-specific localities. They describe same-system connectivity, not surveyed seabed paths, precise landing locations or inferred cross-connects between neighbouring systems.

Open a line or locality, read the system/source description and use the original operator or specialist reference. Omitted branches and source history remain explicit. A reference to a cancelled route does not make it part of the current schematic; the cancelled PLCN Hong Kong branch is excluded.

Underwater power and pipelines

Use the Undersea networks controls for power/pipeline layers, search, lifecycle/history and Pacific/world framing. The parent layer matters: power follows Power or Global Grid, pipelines follow Pipelines, and schematic communications follow Fibre/Cables. If an overlay is unexpectedly absent, check the parent toggle first.

The October OSM reference capture contained 3,260 power ways and 15,332 pipeline ways, including inland-water crossings. These are mapped ways, not unique complete systems or an exhaustive operating inventory. Construction, proposed, disused and abandoned tags affect the default view; unverified lifecycle is not assumed operational. Shared-node components describe mapping topology, not proven live flow.

Native infrastructure, atlas overlays and these supplemental references have separate counts and scopes. Preserve OSM/ODbL or the stated schematic attribution in exports. Subsea methods · Fibre methods.

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Commodity Atlas is the map-led resource workspace; Commodities Data is its data-oriented companion. Use commodity/category, geography, source and available lifecycle/history filters before selecting a site, network or country reference. Open details for the native identifier, original source, observation/reference date and geometry meaning.

Commodity prices, national production totals, reserves/resources, processing facilities, ports and transport links are different layers. A mapped mine reference does not prove current production, company ownership share or available capacity. A country production series should not be allocated to a site without an explicit source.

New industrial-gas references

The gas-facility addition contains eleven curated facility/complex records and thirteen gas identities at release. It supports process, gas and text filtering and includes a Neon shortcut to the source-backed POSCO AIR SOLUTION Gwangyang reference.

Explore air/rare gases, helium, natural gas/LPG, electrolysis, reforming, gasification, CO₂ and biogas processes as represented. Specialty-synthesis gaps are explicit. Source-reported planned output is separate from operating output; an undated source keeps its undated status.

Markers are authored approximate locality references, not verified facility coordinates. Read the dashed/reference labels and source cards before using the location. The inventory is partial. Follow a reference to Companies for issuer research and to Monetary Predictions → Commodity Wars for same-basis country resource comparisons. Gas-facility release.

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Start with Simple view

Open War Room and use the clear starting choices: Check a place, Find a dam, Explore map and Help. The All tools control returns to the complete monitoring, investigation and planning interface. These are War Room display choices, separate from the Simple/Extended levels of this guide.

For a place question, choose the intended location or a map point, select the radius and historical period, then read the summary and source details. A search radius is not a hazard footprint; no matching records does not establish safety. Country extents need an actual point rather than an invented country-centre observation. The summary can be downloaded as text for the chosen scope.

Dams, terrain and historical records

The source picker keeps GDAT, GeoDAR and the GDW viewer extract separate. Their identifiers, counts, geometry and capacity definitions differ; nearby rows are not automatically the same dam. A reservoir outline is not a catchment or flood polygon. Published storage capacity is not current storage. Terrain/place references, storm tracks and historical hazards retain their source dates and geometry meaning.

A water-budget example requires an explicit chosen/reported volume, fraction and duration. The fraction25%means0.25. A static water-on-terrain example and a radio line-of-sight calculation use stated assumptions and the native models. They do not establish a dam breach, arrival time, flow velocity, casualties, evacuation route, access permission or guaranteed reception. Missing terrain remains unknown.

Investigations and saved work

Use the native Monitor/Investigate/Tools workflows in All tools for source-linked cases, imagery and planning. The current War Room workbench provides authenticated owner-scoped server cases with its Save/Open/share controls. Read the save/share status before assuming a draft is persisted or another person can access it. Guided place/scenario selections and comparisons have their own session/export semantics. Private browser GIS layers and map notes belong to their own storage system.

Native fullscreen keeps the same iframe, map and draft context, with a fallback when browser fullscreen is unavailable. Use the explicit exit/close control; do not recreate the map just to gain space.

War Room easy guide · Reference/planning methods · Workbench methods · Terrain/radio methods

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Conflict / Military aggregates source-qualified conflict and military-related public evidence. Use geography, time, source and layer filters, then select a record and read its geometry, event class and original report. Country outlines, event points, reference facilities and reported activity should remain distinct.

The unified map is useful for moving from a regional overview to the underlying source, rather than drawing conclusions from the density of markers alone. Multiple reports can concern one development; uneven reporting can leave significant gaps. A military-related headline, an official statement and an independently observed event have different meanings.

Use Geopolitical Risk for global model/context views, War Room for a place-based investigation, Aviation for its dedicated public aircraft observations, and Satellite & Sensor Data for orbital/reference context. A source military label on an aircraft is not independently verified ownership, mission, occupants or intent. Sharing a location or date across layers is a research lead, not by itself a causal or operational conclusion.

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The dedicated Air / Aviation workspace supports 2D/3D views, unified search, filters, aircraft detail, follow, trails/charts, airport lookup, replay, comparisons, context, licensed reference images, private investigations and supported cloud views/watches/inbox functions.

Follow a public observation

1. Search by a supported callsign, registration, identifier or airport reference. Check the identity fields rather than relying only on a familiar label.
2. Select the aircraft. Compare position time, last contact time and collection time.
3. Inspect altitude/speed/track units and the available observed trail. A directional marker follows supplied track; missing direction is not invented.
4. Use follow or fullscreen when useful. Switch to retained-observation replay for history actually captured by Watchtower.
5. Export the supported public observation or trail with its source attribution and gaps.

Public ADSB.lol is the default source. Receiver/query/metadata coverage is uneven; counts include source targets and are not all worldwide flights or verified flight legs. Retained history grows from actual collection and can shorten under caps. Gaps and implausible jumps split trails rather than being joined into a fabricated flight path.

Airport, weather and airspace context

Context can include OurAirports references, AWC METAR/TAF/SIGMET/G-AIRMET, FAA status/TFR/airspace and retained weather warnings. FAA coverage is not a complete global NOTAM service. A weather polygon overlapping a horizontal aircraft position does not prove flight impact. Read original notices and validity windows.

Personal and licensed additions

Use the workspace's supported cloud views, watches, server inbox and account-private investigations for its newer operations workflow. Browser notifications require the relevant open browser context; server inbox evaluation is separate. Local watch preferences and cloud records are not interchangeable.

API Connections & Add-ons → Aviation Data Add-ons can use your eligible FlightAware AeroAPI, ADSBX Enterprise or aviationstack credentials. These are manual, owner-private lookups with separate provider terms/charges. They do not turn paid results into shared public trails, watches or cases. Aviation methods · Investigation release.

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Marine

Use Marine to investigate the available vessel, port, shipping and chokepoint references. Inspect the source and geographic coverage before interpreting a ship count. Public AIS samples may be regional, delayed or incomplete; a last-known position is not a current confirmed location. Embedded third-party views retain the provider's own coverage and access.

Compare a port or route observation with its source time, baseline and relevant event evidence. A position or traffic count does not directly establish cargo, ownership, delay, capacity utilisation or cause. Use Commodity Atlas and Infrastructure for physical context without treating nearby reference assets as proven affected assets.

Mobility Intel

Mobility connects ports/chokepoints, aviation weather/status and selected rail, border or corridor evidence. Its direct-evidence views retain native records, scope and formulas. PortWatch activity, METAR weather, FAA restrictions and sampled Finnish rail observations measure different things.

A weather report is not an airport-congestion reading. A scoped FAA restriction does not imply an airport-wide closure. Predicted rail timing is distinct from observed lateness. A same-weekday activity baseline needs adequate comparable samples; insufficient or stale data should not become an infinite anomaly score or a quiet condition.

For an investigation, choose one node/corridor, inspect its original operational series, then add weather, infrastructure and reporting as separately labelled context. Distinguish reference corridors from measured operations and preserve that distinction in exports.

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Weather Alerts

The global warning view offers country, severity, current/upcoming and multilingual text filters; paginated lists; original information/instructions; source details; map geometry; JSON export; and a country/territory coverage directory.

Read the issuing authority, issue/effective/expiry times, severity and message status. CAP updates and cancellations follow explicit source references. Multiple messages or language blocks are not necessarily separate storms. Japan's JMA municipality/hazard states retain their own levels and are not simply interchangeable with CAP severity categories.

A coverage directory listing does not guarantee complete current delivery for that country. No reported warning, partial, stale, not integrated and unavailable have different meanings. Warnings without qualified geometry remain in the list; Watchtower does not fabricate a country-centre impact polygon. Global warning release.

Natural Hazards

Use Natural Hazards for earthquakes, severe-weather products, fires, tropical systems, volcanic evidence and related observations/reference layers. Its recent expansion reuses still-valid global warnings, adds source event inspection and improves native-unit temperature, rain and snowfall cards.

The volcanic controls include source bulletins and published VAAC observed/+6/+12/+18-hour airborne-ash areas, with source flight levels. Airborne ash is not ground ashfall, a pyroclastic-flow footprint or an evacuation zone. An older open EONET listing does not establish a continuing eruption. No synthetic danger cone should be inferred from a volcano point.

Optional historical landslide reports, dated fault traces, reference volcanoes and LHASA model imagery have separate meanings and are generally off until selected. COOLR reports can be historical. GEM fault traces are geological references, not earthquake predictions. Provider-latest LHASA imagery may lack an exposed run timestamp.

Snow depth appears only when a source supplies it; rainfall is not converted to snowfall with an assumed ratio. Preserve observation/forecast/maximum labels, units and accumulation windows. The newness highlight uses an eligible source time for a bounded ten-minute window; refreshing does not restart an event's age. Expanded hazard methods.

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Space Weather tabs

The Space Weather area contains Live, Threats, Forecast, Aurora, Asteroids and Sources. Use it to distinguish measured solar-terrestrial conditions, official NOAA products, research models and NASA/JPL orbital references.

Live/Threats can include Kp, solar wind, radiation channels and official R/S/G scale context. Read channel, unit, quality flag and validity time. Kp, local K, Dst and geoelectric fields are different quantities. Missing official values should not be interpreted as G0/R0/S0. A regional geoelectric model is not a measured induced-current or power-failure map.

Aurora uses model fields and their valid times, not a direct sky observation. Inspect a cell, frame date and hemisphere/world view. Cloud, local terrain and light pollution affect what a person sees and are not automatically represented. GloTEC background-only versus observation-supported cells have their own support meaning.

Asteroids separates orbital catalogue references, predicted close approaches, Sentry monitoring, Scout candidates and historical fireballs. MOID is a distance between orbital paths, not a predicted simultaneous encounter. PHA classification is not an impact prediction. Source orbital epochs and TDB approach dates differ from a present-time position. Space Weather methods.

Satellite & Sensor Data

Search the orbital/reference catalogue, filter ownership/type/coverage, select an object and inspect its source elements, epoch and projected track. Positions calculated from orbital elements are estimates with age limits. Missing or incompatible elements do not acquire invented positions.

Ownership references can be uncertain or use classifications that are not simple ISO countries. An organisation attached to a station module is not necessarily the owner of the whole station. Object counts can include reference/uncertain records and are not a count of confirmed operational satellites. Layers and fullscreen controls change presentation while retaining these qualifications.

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World Disruption Observatory

Outages brings together service incidents and other disruption-related evidence with source/time/location filters, maintenance/recovery/context/stale controls, a map, an unlocated list and exports. Open the source detail before treating a coloured marker as an ongoing failure.

A provider status notice, planned maintenance, a recovery message and a measured regional power fault are different records. An unlocated cloud-service event should not acquire a headquarters “impact point.” Satellite orbit positions are not customer-impact footprints. Old standing-status notices are not newly failed systems. Source record counts are not unique outage counts.

Cyber Exposure

The deeper cyber workspace includes advisories, CISA KEV, EPSS, recent critical CVEs, package advisories, Internet measurements, response directories, ATT&CK, reporting, dated C2 history and sources. Select the view and identifiers, inspect native evidence and export a coherent filtered selection.

CVSS describes technical severity; KEV records known exploitation under its catalogue rules; EPSS is a defined thirty-day exploitation estimate/rank. A due date can apply to a particular regulated audience. None of these alone proves that your organisation runs a vulnerable affected version.

Country lenses may show measurement samples, issuing jurisdictions, directory references or report associations. They are not automatically attack-origin/victim locations or national cyber-safety rankings. Historical hosting references remain historical even if a retained source flag once said “online.” Use the original advisories and affected-version detail for a concrete exposure investigation.

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Sanctions, trade controls and ownership

Open Sanctions / Ownership for listed targets, entities, individuals, vessels/aircraft, trade/export controls, country/thematic regimes and sources. Search for an identifier and open the exact source entry. Preserve the list/programme, measure, reasons and dates.

List entries can overlap and are not a deduplicated population of legally resolved identities. Similar names do not establish identity. Blocking, sectoral restrictions, banking measures, licensing requirements, verification lists and procurement/import rules are distinct. A source programme's update date is not automatically a designation date.

Country programme maps do not establish a universal embargo or a restriction's severity. Ownership search/reporting remains a separate research tool; the workspace does not automatically resolve ownership chains or apply every jurisdiction's ownership rule. Use the issuing authority's current record for a specific case.

CBDC & Digital Money

Explore country ratings, retail CBDCs, wholesale money, private money, cross-border projects, regulation, stablecoin context, dated evidence, comparison and source gaps. Select the track before comparing countries.

The declared maturity bands run from research through design/prototype, controlled pilot, limited operation and operational product. They are ordinal deployment stages, not percentages of national readiness, adoption, privacy, safety or investment merit. A country rating is based on eligible explicitly mapped project evidence within one track.

A shared project can cover several jurisdictions without becoming several independent programmes. A completed historical pilot is not necessarily current operation. Private stablecoins and tokenised deposits are not CBDCs; supported currency or partner participation does not establish national adoption. Editorial review and source availability expire separately, so a fetched page does not automatically renew a rating.

Detailed explanation

The navigation tab Insurance Stress opens the broader Insurance Risk & Resilience workspace. Its views include country/industry statistics, solvency/capital, premiums/claims, balance sheets, allocation, market development, protection gaps, backstops, catastrophe observations, selected insurer references, histories, comparisons and sources. The older US proxy monitor remains separately labelled.

Choose a financial measure and reporting period before using a map or ranking. Preserve currency multipliers, ratio scale, solo/group scope and provisional/final status. A ratio of 1.0 can mean 100% in the source; EUR million is not EUR. Year-to-date quarters are not independent flows to be summed. Country reporting domicile is not an insurer's entire underwriting footprint.

Source-qualified review flags identify declared thresholds, such as a reported solvency or combined-ratio condition. They are not blended insolvency probabilities. A net combined ratio uses its specified claims/expense and premium basis; investment income and a claims-paid/gross-written-premium calculation are different.

Catastrophe points are source physical-event references. They do not automatically establish insured losses or carrier exposure. EIOPA protection-gap models, historical statistics and dated scheme descriptions retain their vintages. The selected insurer directory is a reference collection, not a complete licensed-register census. Retain source/derivative/free-original-material notices in exported work.

The current worldwide stress map includes source-qualified natural hazards, military/conflict and civil-unrest context alongside original CAT reference zones. Choose its Layers/view controls and inspect the source class and geometry precision. Worldwide insurance stress methods.

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Health / Biosecurity

Use Health's evidence views for official disease/outbreak reporting, wastewater and animal-health context where supplied, plus its facilities reference view. Select the source, country, date and event type, then read reporting/observation periods and geographical coverage. More reports can reflect more surveillance rather than a directly comparable increase in disease incidence.

The Facilities view supports source, type, focus, containment and lifecycle filters. It combines reviewed institutional references with supported registration evidence. FDA registration is not product approval or containment certification. BSL4, CL4, PC4 and other source schemes retain their own labels. Planned or commissioning facilities do not become verified operational capacity.

Facility markers can be city/locality references rather than building coordinates. Unmapped records remain available. A source reference should not be interpreted as a complete census of laboratories, manufacturing plants or national health capacity. Health methods · Facility methods.

Crime & Terror

This map-led workspace combines global evidence with selected police/agency bulletins and statistical area/cell references. Use the filter and data rails, source/lag details, unlocated records, comparison and export tools. Some workflows open a map-first fullscreen view; close it to restore the original tab.

Police bulletins can be preliminary. A municipality centre is not an incident site. Statistical cells aggregate a specified category/month and reporting sample, while coverage can be capped or lagged. Different jurisdiction definitions and collection windows prevent treating raw counts as comparable personal-risk rates.

Inspect the original classification, period and geometry before combining Crime & Terror with a country dossier or a War Room case. A blank area can be uncovered or suppressed by filters; it does not establish low crime. Separate your assessment from the source's statement.

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Public camera explorer

Open Cameras to search a place, radius, country, source or media type. Inspect the source record before opening an image or stream. Official snapshots, community discovery links and directory-only references are different. A registered camera record does not guarantee live playback.

Create a viewing wall using the supported 1/4/9/16-slot layouts, favourites and explicit start/stop controls. Custom public HTTPS images/HLS/clips or YouTube links may be supported, subject to browser, codec, CORS and provider rules. The wall does not create a recording or a media-rebroadcast entitlement.

Walls/favourites and custom URLs are account-scoped browser preferences. Export/import them for a deliberate backup. Hidden/replay/account transitions stop or clear playback as required; opening a new account should not restore another account's wall. Camera methods.

Flock locations

Choose Flock locations for the community-mapped OSM/DeFlock ALPR reference inventory, its map/list/search/radius filters, explicit bearings and source-change history. This is a database of reported locations, not plate records, camera video, verified hardware counts or current operational status.

An added or removed source record is a mapping change; it does not prove that hardware was installed, removed or moved at that instant. No viewing cone is inferred from a point. Tracked IDs are browser-local and do not send notifications. Preserve the source dates and ODbL attribution in exports. Flock release.

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Portfolio applies research context to the holdings and exposure information you choose to maintain. Begin by checking the verified account and the saved portfolio state before editing. Identify each instrument and listing, enter quantities/cost assumptions in the appropriate units, and confirm the application's save result. A portfolio view is not a broker order ticket.

Inspect quote freshness and mapping coverage before interpreting valuations or exposures. A fund can hold many underlying assets; a ticker's listing country does not establish its economic exposure. A missing quote or unresolved mapping is a gap, not a zero-value holding. Snapshot valuations, historical research and scenario assumptions should remain separately labelled in any report.

Personal-relevance/consequences tools can connect selected evidence to your supplied context. Treat their results as conditional research: the source event, exposure mapping and assumed consequence are separate steps. A geographic overlap or shared industry label is not measured loss or a guaranteed impact on a holding.

Where the account's exposure-monitor rules are available, inspect the rule's fields, thresholds, evaluation status and delivery channel. These rules have their own server-side contracts. They do not automatically convert every browser rule, watchlist or map pin into unattended monitoring. Export the assessment assumptions with your evidence when sharing a portfolio-related conclusion.

Only the portfolio’s native controls edit or save holdings. Learning progress contains lesson identifiers and knowledge checks, not your portfolio inputs.

Detailed explanation

There are several monitoring workflows. Choose by where the condition is evaluated and where you expect to read the result.

Build a multi-input browser rule

1. Open Alerts → Intelligence Rule Studio and name the question the rule is meant to detect.
2. Select inputs from the available loaded public-source field catalogue. Read each field's units and timestamp basis.
3. Combine conditions using ALL (AND), ANY (OR) and optional NOT groups. For example, A AND (B OR C) makes a different claim from (A AND B) OR C.
4. Set the maximum age, matching/crossing/duration behaviour and cooldown deliberately.
5. Test against the current evidence. Inspect true, false and unknown branches before saving and arming.
6. Read a triggered report for the exact thresholds, source values, times and optional scenario note.

Missing, stale, failed or future inputs are unknown. NOT unknown remains unknown. A crossing needs two comparable timestamped values. “Observed true for” means matching sampled checks over the chosen duration; gaps can reset that duration. Unknown data does not silently rearm a condition as if it had become known false.

Imported definitions require review and arming. Browser-local rule/report exports can contain your notes and assumptions. Experimental linear projection from session samples is an extrapolation of observed snapshots, not a calibrated event forecast or invented historical series. Rule methods.

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Deterministic Data Q&A

Data Q&A supports structured lookup over reviewed public sources. Use Ask, the source/dataset catalogue, Evidence, Browser snapshots and Methods to inspect what was read. Specify a country, measure and period when relevant. Keep units, reporting years and source coverage with every result. A registered dataset, a successful response and an original observation are different states.

The original lookup workflow remains distinct from the model-assisted Semantic search & Data Q&A task. Use the explicit AI handoff when you want interpretation or query expansion. Completing one displayed page does not mean an entire upstream source was read.

Assistant, AI Analysis and Oracle

The header Assistant offers13 bounded research/help tasks. Choose the task, review the current public context and sources, use Preview evidence, and choose Run AI when ready. Generation uses the eligible account’s configured OpenAI connection and existing request limits. A configured key is not proof that the provider will accept every request. Opening the learning guide makes no model request.

AI Analysis / Deep Analyst supports a deeper question/report workflow with its current scope and entitlement. Oracle is a separate interface. Check the relevant account/provider/credit terms in the actual tool rather than assuming all three have identical funding or persistence.

A useful question includes purpose, geography/entity, period, output and evidence standard: ‘Summarise the selected funding and shipping evidence; separate observations, model context and missing coverage, and cite original dates.’ This is a request example, not a claim about current events.

Read citations and exact supporting spans. Source support does not establish source truth, exhaustive coverage or model calibration. An AI answer does not silently become an official score, a saved case or an enabled rule. Native actions and private persistence require their own explicit controls.

Assistant capabilities · See the full Assistant tools lesson in this guide.

Detailed explanation

Open Reports in the app or the report library. The system distinguishes periodic daily/weekly/monthly editions, requested special reports, local/browser research outputs and personal My Watchtower briefings.

Read an edition

1. Identify the edition date and covered period: daily, weekly or trailing calendar-month windows are not interchangeable.
2. Read the executive briefing and domain sections, then open the source/coverage register.
3. Use Inspect edition evidence where entitled. The evidence view binds to the edition's captured source identity rather than silently substituting today's data.
4. Inspect source fields/pages or download the source manifest. Preserve original observations, source state, query scope and model versions.
5. Download the offered HTML/PDF/JSON formats and writing style. The selected style should not change the underlying factual evidence or purchased scope.

An edition can include current evidence, retained/aged context, unknown clocks and unavailable sources. Its source count is not a number of independent verified incidents. A lack of capture history limits what “changed over the period” can establish. Report documents can remain available after some raw evidence retention expires; use the manifest and any explicit evidence-expiry notice.

Request and purchase deliberately

Choose the report's topic/scope and inspect availability and the displayed price before confirming. Use the current displayed report scope, price and checkout terms; offers can change. Optional research requests may have separate credit/provider costs.

After a payment or generation request, use the existing purchase/confirmation status and report library. A pending confirmation is not an instruction to pay again. Download under the purchasing account, and retain the original edition identity with your copy. Reporting release.

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Three different kinds of history

Application replay uses a captured browser/application snapshot and the data it contains. Source history is the provider's or collector's retained dated series/records. Prospective forecast history is the immutable record of forecasts actually issued and later resolved or left awaiting evidence. These histories should not be conflated.

When you enter replay, some workspaces restore captured inputs and others deliberately withhold live views. A missing historical field should not be filled with today's reading. Return to Live explicitly before expecting current source requests or monitoring. Aviation's observation replay and forecast-ledger inspection also have their own scope and retention.

Where does a save live?

Signing into the same account on a different device does not make every browser-local feature appear there. Clearing site data can erase local research even when cloud records remain. Export important local work first and check import controls for the same feature/version. A copied view link is not a backup of private evidence or notes.

Export for another reader

Include the question, selected country/period/filter, source URL, source dates, units, missingness, model/scenario version and your interpretation. Explain whether the file is a displayed selection, a complete filtered export or a manifest. Keep source attribution/licensing notices. Snapshot conflicts should trigger a coherent reread, not silent page mixing.

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Optional owned provider connections

Open User & Settings → API Connections & Add-ons. Inspect the eligible provider, supported fields, connection/capability status and use conditions. Save a credential only through the native account controls. Provider entitlement, provider charges and Watchtower access are separate. A configured connection does not prove complete source coverage or every redistribution right.

Private credentials do not belong in a research question, URL, public note, screenshot or exported configuration. Private provider results remain separate from the shared public corpus.

Connect an authorised AI agent

1. Sign in with the required API capability and find AI Agent MCP — Hosted Agent Access.
2. Create an appropriately scoped token yourself through the native controls. Keep the one-time token in the client's secret settings.
3. Configure the remote HTTP endpoint https://watchtower.technology/agent/mcp with the expected Authorization bearer header. The public /agents/ page is documentation, not the endpoint.
4. Initialise and inspect the live tool schemas. Use watchtower.list_data_routes to discover reviewed datasets.
5. Read a returned path using watchtower.read_data_route and the documented parameters.

An illustrative discovery call is:

{"name":"watchtower.list_data_routes","arguments":{"query":"credit-evidence"}}

An illustrative read is:

{"name":"watchtower.read_data_route","arguments":{"path":"/agent/api/credit-evidence","params":{"dataset":"ratings","q":"Example issuer","limit":20},"limit":50}}

These are request examples, not current results. Use the live catalogue rather than a memorised route count. Keep snapshot, capture/expiry times, source clocks and stale flags. Continue a JSON-pointer page with its returned offset/snapshot. Native endpoint row pagination can be separate: finishing a reader page does not prove every upstream record was read. On expiry/mismatch, restart a coherent read.

Shared readers exclude private workspaces, credentials, account/payment/admin data and mutation routes. Deep Analyst generation is a separate explicit/entitled action. Hosted agent setup

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Account, access and costs

Open User & Settings to inspect the current account/access state. Wait for verified access before editing private work. A previous account label, a URL or a pending checkout is not proof of current entitlement. Use the actual displayed plan, price, renewal/tax and payment terms; this guide does not freeze a historical offer. Optional reports, AI/provider usage and data add-ons can have separate costs.

If confirmation is pending, use the purchase’s existing status or refresh-access flow under the purchasing account. Do not infer that you should pay again. For unresolved access/billing/deletion questions, use the public support and privacy/terms links. Financial-record retention can differ from account access.

Role-aware tools

Affiliate access requires the applicable invitation, approval and programme terms. Backoffice, App Health, forecast-review/resolution and private OpenCode tools are restricted to their authorised roles/accounts. Reading this public guide does not grant those operations. Keep private account and provider information out of public reports or prompts.

An affiliate approval, payout review, pending payment and confirmed payment are different states. A forecast reaching maturity does not by itself justify resolving it as correct or incorrect. Follow the exact native workflow and evidence requirements.

The guide’s practice controls navigate or locate approved interfaces. They do not change an account, purchase, payout, provider connection, token or forecast outcome for you.

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A tab is missing

Check Brief/Monitor/Investigate mode and your current access. Look in Help, Commands, the horizontally scrollable tab strip and the expandable Research/Finance/OSINT area. Review Customize Workspace or a saved startup layout. A renamed tab can preserve its older underlying identity; for example, Global Debt contains the retained Real Estate research.

The page is loading or the map is blank

Wait for the actual Foundation/Workspace/Data stages; a loading animation is not a completion percentage. Use the supplied retry/reload control if loading fails. Open the intended tab and its map explicitly. On compact screens, close a control rail that covers the canvas. If a graphics-recovery control is offered, use it before repeatedly recreating the view. Source imagery can genuinely be unavailable at a selected place or zoom.

A closed main globe deliberately stops its own live/rendering work. Independent workspaces have separate visibility lifecycles. A source read can also be slower than the interface itself. Check the source status and original timestamps after recovery rather than assuming a new fetch created a fresh observation.

A number is absent, stale or different from another view

Check selected unit, period, valuation, currency, source, filters and snapshot. One view may show a reference catalogue, another a qualified current subset and another retained history. Negative source results, blocked access or an unknown clock must not be replaced with a guessed zero. For a multi-page snapshot conflict, refresh through the workspace and restart the coherent export.

The session says reconnecting

If Session: reconnecting, Connection interrupted or Retry connection appears, private tools are paused while the account connection is verified. Restore connectivity and use the offered retry control if needed. This differs from a confirmed sign-out or changed-account response. Check the final account identity/access state before resuming private edits; the presence of a previous label is not an active entitlement.

An alert did not arrive

Identify the monitoring system first. Was it a browser rule, server inbox, Aviation notification or a passive tracked item? Check armed state, known inputs, duration, cooldown, daily budget, timezone and the actual delivery channel. Browser permissions and page visibility matter to browser notifications. A tracked ID alone is not a notification subscription.

Saved work is missing

Check the account, device/browser, storage location and selected profile before resetting anything. Browser-local and session work will not necessarily appear on another device. Use the feature's backup/import recovery controls and retain any corrupt-preference backup offered. A refresh-access or replay transition can intentionally clear an active private view while verification runs.

Submit a useful report

Use Report Error, Help or support. Describe the workspace, action, approximate time/timezone, expected versus actual result, browser/viewport and any visible source/error identifier. A screenshot showing the affected controls can help; remove private holdings, notes and credentials. Report the source status as shown. One failed provider, a graphics issue and an access error require different remedies.

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A five-minute morning brief

Open Pro Brief or the Brief overview, read the leading source-dated developments and prices, then check My Watchtower's changes/inbox and the upcoming Calendar. Choose two items for deeper review, open their source details and acknowledge the personal items you have read. Finish with a short list of what changed, what matters to your question and what remains unverified. Avoid equating the number of headlines with the number of independent events.

Compare countries for a long-term research question

Start in Countries and compare the same indicators/years. Open Global Politics for governance history, Ancap Welcomeness for its declared value-based pillars, Taxes & fees for source-qualified fiscal details, and Wealth/Global Debt for economic context. Preserve nominal/real/PPP distinctions and coverage gaps. Your conclusion should explain the criteria you chose rather than presenting a model rank as universally best for every person.

Investigate an energy or supply-chain disruption

Identify the source-dated development in Search/News or Linked Events. Inspect the relevant place in Commodity Atlas and Infrastructure, distinguishing precise geometry from schematic/locality references. Add Marine/Mobility and official weather evidence as separate context. Use Energy's explicit supply scenario only if the inputs support it, and label all assumptions. Save an investigation with supporting and contradictory evidence; do not convert a nearby asset into a measured production loss.

Research a company behind a commodity theme

Choose the commodity and source period, identify reference companies, then resolve the issuer and listing in Companies. Inspect primary financial facts and current issuer disclosures for production/cost/reserve claims. Use a market chart for its own price question. Keep country production totals, company category membership and mine/project exposure separate. Export the selected facts and record the remaining disclosure gaps.

Review a banking concern

Begin with the precise claim and its original date. Use Bank Run Monitor for institution/system evidence, Financial Stress and Deposits for broader funding context, Global Debt for relevant balance-sheet definitions and Countries for fiscal/market references. Look for independent confirmations and counter-evidence. A payment outage, a market-price decline and a deposit outflow are not the same event or proof of the same cause.

Monitor a weather-related aviation question

Check the official warning's issue/effective/expiry period in Weather Alerts. In Aviation, inspect source-native positions and contact clocks, then airport/METAR/TAF/airspace context. Use retained replay only for observations actually captured. Read original official notices; horizontal overlap does not establish flight impact. Save an appropriately scoped watch or case and identify whether you expect a server inbox item or an open-browser notification.

Evaluate a forecast instead of collecting a dramatic number

Open the target definition, base/target time, source cutoff, model version and range. Compare the baseline and relevant historical tests. Find the genuinely issued record and subsequent compatible outcome if available. Distinguish unresolved, awaiting-source and source-revised states. Explain the calibration and sample limitations before using the estimate in another report. Compare identical definitions rather than mixing country context with global or fund-price targets.

Create a reproducible briefing for another reader

State the question, period and audience. Gather a small set of source-dated facts from the relevant workspaces, record contrary evidence and gaps, and use a report or cited investigation export. Include the manifest/evidence identifiers where available, native units and all scenario assumptions. Check that the recipient can access the linked material and that the export's licence permits the intended use. Preserve a copy of the edition you actually used.

Detailed explanation

These map sources now live in the existing Watchtower tabs. The standalone Spatial Research tab has been removed. Use the focused source/tool buttons in each tab:

Infrastructure, Mobility, Weather and Cameras use their existing 2D maps. Satellite imagery comparison uses an on-demand comparison map within Satellite & Sensor Data. Choose Close added layer to close the tool controls and clear that source overlay. Expand tab uses the existing fullscreen behavior. Public source clocks, attribution, coverage gaps and private account/replay controls remain in force.

Private layers, annotations and saved scenes use the same owner-scoped browser storage as before. Find them under Infrastructure → My layers / Map briefings; they have not been uploaded or migrated to a cloud account. Shared map buttons are labelled Map notes and Manage layers. Old Spatial Research bookmarks open the matching Infrastructure tools.

Street imagery: find, inspect and follow a sequence

1. In Infrastructure, select Street imagery, choose Panoramax or KartaView, and zoom to a street or neighbourhood. Example area supplies a practical starting location; it does not guarantee current source availability.
2. Choose Search current area. Panoramax searches the bounded map viewport; KartaView asks for photos near its centre. These are bounded photo reads, not exhaustive global coverage layers.
3. Select a marker or record. Inspect the capture date, upload date, creator/credit, licence and original-source link. A recently downloaded image can have been captured years earlier.
4. Use Previous photo, Next photo or Load sequence to inspect the available read. A sequence read is bounded to 100 photos; source omissions and longer sequences remain incomplete. A declared equirectangular image supports an interactive panorama; ordinary photographs remain flat images.

Panoramax images carry per-image licences. The workbench displays previews only for the supported declared licences and reviewed image hosts; other records remain source-link-only. KartaView imagery is credited to Grab and KartaView Contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0. KartaView clocks without a verified timezone retain their native text and capture date; they are not turned into invented UTC instants. A missing compass is not assumed to face north.

Mapillary is optional. Save your own eligible client access token in API Connections, then choose Mapillary. Credentials stay encrypted in the existing owner vault. Query results are owner-private and are excluded from shared caches, Search, public MCP and scene evidence exports. A configured connection is not proof of imagery coverage or every display entitlement. No provider subscription or credential is bundled with the workbench.

Private GIS: import and keep control of persistence

Choose Infrastructure → My layers and select or drop GeoJSON/JSON, KML, KMZ or GPX. Files are parsed in a browser worker and are not uploaded. Review the preview before choosing Add preview to my layers. The accepted coordinate system is WGS84 longitude/latitude; projected files need reprojection before import.

The file limit is 30 MiB, with bounded expanded KMZ size, feature count, coordinates and properties. DTDs, external entities, network links, encrypted archives and remote model references are rejected. Embedded external images/models are not imported. Descriptions and properties are sanitized and bounded; this is not a byte-for-byte archival importer. Original coordinate heights and accepted source timestamp arrays are retained, while rendering is two-dimensional. GPX track-segment gaps remain gaps; the workbench does not synthesize a vehicle animation from a path.

For each layer, use Show/Hide, Locate, Export GeoJSON or Remove. Imported and drawn features are session work until you choose Save in this browser. Saved work is scoped to the verified account in this browser's IndexedDB storage; it is not a server or cloud backup. Other devices and another browser profile will not automatically have it. Clearing browser data removes the local copy, so export a backup first. Browser-local files and previously exported backups are separate from server account records.

Reload saved workspace discards unsaved session edits only after confirmation. Concurrent saves use revisions: a conflicting tab must reload instead of silently overwriting another saved revision. An unknown saved format is preserved for Recovery export or an explicit Reset this browser workspace. Changing account or entering application replay hides private rendered work and stops active operations. Live private tools require verified access again before displaying saved work.

Drawing and measurements

In Infrastructure → Draw / measure, name the annotation and select Pin, Path or Area. Click the map to add vertices; Undo vertex removes the last point and Finish drawing completes the annotation. Pins finish on a single click. Cancel or Escape abandons an unfinished drawing. Shared 2D map toolbars offer the same actions.

Lengths use a spherical-Earth great-circle calculation; polygon areas use spherical geometry. Values are research measurements, not surveyed boundaries, engineering lengths or legal parcel areas. Self-crossing drawn boundaries are rejected. Date-line display is unwrapped independently of the exported original coordinates. Use layer export and an appropriate GIS/survey workflow when precision matters.

Satellite passes: predictions with a declared epoch

Satellite passes searches the existing public orbital catalogue for a name or NORAD number. Select the desired record, choose an observer latitude/longitude or Use map centre, set a UTC window of 1–72 hours and a minimum elevation. You can also enter from the selected satellite's detail in the Satellite & Sensor Data globe.

The planner propagates one selected OMM record with SGP4. It reports up to twelve qualifying passes, start/peak/end, peak elevation, rise bearing and modeled sunlight/dark-sky overlap. The first pass has an estimated ground track. If the object is already above the threshold at the start, its rise is unknown within the window; if it remains above the threshold at the end, the set is explicitly clipped rather than invented.

An element epoch older than seven days at the analysis date, a future-dated epoch or invalid elements is refused. At the 16 October 2026 implementation audit, the existing CelesTrak collector was paused and its retained elements were dated 4 October. The workbench does not reset that source pause or relabel those elements as current. To study their original period, choose a date near the element epoch and explicitly enable Historical reconstruction. To calculate from newer elements you already have, load a local OMM JSON object or array; those supplied elements stay in the session and are not independently authenticated by Watchtower.

Observer height is assumed to be sea level. Sunlight uses a cylindrical Earth-shadow model and approximate Sun position. Clouds, brightness and your local skyline are not modeled. “Visible” is modeled sunlight/darkness overlap, not a guarantee that a person will see the satellite, and a pass is not an imaging schedule. Export calculations retains the orbital epoch, analysis clock, actual calculation time and assumptions.

Transit: real source positions, bounded coverage

Select an operator in Mobility Intel → Transit positions, choose Go to operator and Load / refresh positions. The initial enabled sources are Toronto TTC, Hamilton HSR, Durham Region Transit, Boston MBTA, Netherlands OVapi and Norway Entur. The Austin entry remains disabled pending qualification of a changing source download. Other agencies are outside this release.

The feed's native vehicle timestamp is preferred; a feed timestamp fallback is labelled. Positions older than ten minutes or materially future-dated are excluded. Unknown clocks remain explicitly unknown. Source speed is metres per second; no speed, bearing or movement is fabricated. TTC is a surface-vehicle feed and does not provide subway positions.

Filter loaded records by route, name or ID and inspect a marker for its original clock and source. Refresh each minute works only while this view is visible; source caching, capacity limits and permission/rate pauses still apply. An empty or partial feed does not mean that no vehicles are operating. Source evidence exports retain these qualifications and attribution.

Canadian AQHI and public camera stills

Weather Alerts → Canadian AQHI and Cameras → Canadian traffic stills offer ECCC's Canadian Air Quality Health Index and reviewed DriveBC, Calgary and Toronto traffic-camera sources. Use Go to source to orient the map. AQHI is Canada's 1–10+ scale: low 1–3, moderate 4–6, high 7–10 and very high above 10. It is not US AQI and should not be compared numerically as if it were a universal pollution scale. The display flags aging observations and withholds the current value after six hours; a last reported value keeps its own observation time.

Camera entries are public reference locations and source-published still images. They are not guaranteed live video. A Watchtower image-check time is not the frame's capture time. Source camera direction can be unknown, and Calgary address quadrants are not compass bearings. DriveBC partner credits are retained and third-party imagery awaiting rights review is withheld. Ontario511's reviewed catalogue was unavailable at qualification; no camera inventory is inferred from that failure.

Dated imagery: discover first, compare with context

1. Open Satellite & Sensor Data → Compare imagery and pan/zoom to a study area no larger than 25 square degrees on one side of the date line.
2. Choose HLS Sentinel-2, HLS Landsat 8/9 or both. Search a window of up to 32 days within the last year.
3. Inspect acquisition dates, source granule footprints and cloud metadata. Use as A/B fills the comparison controls. The read is bounded to 200 recent granules per product.
4. Choose Load A / B comparison. Both NASA Worldview Snapshot responses must explicitly confirm pixels before the paired preview appears. Drag the reveal control to inspect the two dated images, then Export comparison recipe to retain products, dates, area and check times.

HLS previews are 30 m products. The optional VIIRS NOAA-21 daily overview is 250 m and uses manually selected dates; it is not an HLS acquisition listing. The date labels describe source products, not continuous live imaging. A footprint or low whole-granule cloud percentage does not establish clear pixels everywhere in your selected area. Cloud, season, illumination and sensor differences can explain apparent change. This is visual comparison, not an automated change-detection or attribution model.

Map briefings: a guided map story

Open Infrastructure → Map briefings, name the scene and capture a map view with a shot name, duration and notes. A shot records the camera and visible private-layer references. Optionally include up to 3,000 loaded public evidence geometries with their source clocks. Capture several shots, reorder them, edit duration/notes, preview a shot and use Play, Pause or Stop / restore view. A scene supports 1–40 shots and at most ten minutes total.

Playback uses captured metadata by default. The explicit Refresh public source recipes during playback option requests current public data instead. Imported evidence is supplied by the scene author and is not independently authenticated. Captured camera/photo metadata does not archive image bytes or reproduce an old live camera frame. Private Mapillary output is excluded from captured shared evidence.

Save scene to workspace retains the scene in session; Save in this browser persists the workspace. Export scene JSON shares a portable definition. Referenced private geometry is excluded by default. Enable Include referenced private geometry only when you want recipients to receive and read that data; up to twelve layers may be included. Importing a scene is a local operation. Reviewing its notes and provenance remains important even when its schema validates.

A practical combined workflow

Import a study boundary you are entitled to use, locate it, and add a named research pin. Inspect dated street imagery around the pin, then compare two suitable satellite-preview dates. If relevant, add public transit or Canadian AQHI/camera context. Capture a short scene with explicit notes about what each source can and cannot establish. Save locally and export the scene with only the private geometry you deliberately intend to share.

The Integrated map-source methods document the source list, limits, attribution and failure behavior. Third-party software notices retain the licences for selected adapted God’s Eye View algorithms and bundled viewer/parser libraries.

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Find the exact rated object

Open Global Bonds → Ratings & CDS. Use Issuer ratings or Funds, vehicles & instruments, then narrow by name, agency reporting code, country, rated object, horizon, exact issuer LEI or instrument ISIN. Companies & Commodities Ratings, issuer profiles and company dossiers provide contextual entry points. Bank Run Monitor and Financial Stress link to the wider reference workspace.

These are source-qualified agency opinions. A parent, subsidiary, issuer, bond, programme, tranche and fund can be different rated objects. A fund holding’s grade is not a fund-wide rating. A name search returns candidates; even an exact dossier-supplied LEI lookup does not independently verify the earlier dossier identity resolution. National/global scales and different agencies are not silently converted into one ordinal score.

Read original action time, register update time, retrieval time, agency and status. ‘No withdrawal flag reported’ is not independent certification of current validity. Source record counts include multiple agencies/horizons/objects and can include historical references. Vehicle discovery also includes relevant source-category/name matches; it is not an exhaustive legal-fund taxonomy.

Read a CDS disclosure

Choose CDS disclosures, a reporting jurisdiction, product and publication-day window. Open a reported reference group or an individual row. Distinguish single-name/index CDS, tranches, options and other credit derivatives. The retained window concerns publication days, not necessarily execution dates.

Spread notation 3 is decimal × 10,000 basis points; 4 is already basis points. Keep raw values/codes. A fixed coupon, upfront payment, monetary price, capped notional and missing spread are different fields. Reserved/unknown values do not become zero; genuine reported zero is preserved. No probability of default or par spread is invented from a coupon/upfront.

Read original/correction/superseding identifiers, lifecycle and the exact currency/effective/expiry terms. Reporting jurisdictions/provinces can overlap; report counts are not unique trades or net exposure. Generic product labels are not company names. Reported underlier names and UPI/obligation identifiers are not automatic issuer matches.

The existing BSW/CMA-ICE five-year bank reference remains a separate selected-issuer table, and earlier model CDS proxies retain their model label. These records are research evidence with original dates, not an executable continuous quote feed.

Credit ratings and CDS methods · Bank CDS methods

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Choose a topic and an observation year

Open Countries → Demographics. Select a country/territory and use the age/sex, families/health, education/work, migration/living and cultural-reference topics. Read each indicator’s source year, definition, unit and coverage before comparing countries. The full reference directory is not full statistical coverage.

Read a population pyramid

The population pyramid uses compatible same-year age/sex inputs. Within-sex age shares are different from shares of the total population; the stated sex shares convert the denominators. Missing cohorts or incompatible years remain unavailable rather than being interpolated into a complete-looking pyramid. The representation follows the source categories and does not enumerate every possible individual gender identity.

Keep social/cultural references qualified

Religious affiliation, belief, language, origin and ethnicity use different concepts. Archived source statements can overlap and can have different dates and geographical scopes. A historical affiliation label is not an inference about a person’s beliefs, practice, politics or identity. These references are not country-risk scores.

Select a common source year for statistical comparisons where supported; changing that selector does not re-date archived prose. Inspect the original wording and source links, then export the selected evidence with its definitions.

Country demographics methods

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A practical task chooser

Open Assistant, choose a task, write a focused question, and review the public context/source selection. Use Preview evidence before Run AI. The account’s configured OpenAI connection, access, request limits and provider availability apply. The interactive Simple/Extended learning guide works without that connection.

Follow the evidence trail

Open Evidence to inspect citations, original source links and qualifications. Plans show the interpreted query and any supported deterministic calculation. Model statements need source support; support checks do not prove the publisher’s claim. Source instructions are data, not commands to the assistant.

Explicit actions and context

Navigation, supported filters/highlights, Deep Analyst handoff and unsaved alert drafts require explicit user actions and current context. The assistant does not automatically read private cases, portfolios, browser storage or provider secrets. Attachments are explicit per-request inputs, not an automatic import of private work. Account/replay changes clear or cancel in-flight private context.

Document input is bounded: text and selected PDF excerpts have limits, and image-only pages can require labelled AI transcription. Original legal/source wording and exceptions take precedence over a summary. Read the actual tool’s current size and usage limits.

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