Trust
Integrity commitments
A review function is only useful if its own standards are visible and testable. These are the commitments the Institute holds itself to, including the limits of what it claims.
- Applied to all public material
- Always disclosed
- Published with the reason
- Not provided
Statements
What the Institute commits to
- Every substantive statement in Institute material carries the state of the evidence behind it: observed, measured, replicated, inferred, modelled, simulated, synthetic, contradicted, unresolved, or superseded.
- The Institute does not present figures as data when they are constructions, does not cite work it has not examined, and does not describe its own review as a guarantee.
- Contradicting records are registered and continue to act on the release state until resolved or superseded on stated grounds.
- Reviewer disagreement appears in the output. A record with the disagreement removed would misrepresent the review.
- Revised material is marked as superseded with its history intact rather than removed.
- Errors in Institute public material are corrected publicly, with the reason and the date stated.
Notation
Evidentiary states used throughout
- Observed
- A recorded event or phenomenon reported by an instrument or observer, prior to interpretation.
- Measured
- A quantity produced by a traceable measurement procedure with a stated uncertainty budget.
- Replicated
- Independently reproduced under stated conditions by a group not dependent on the original analysis chain.
- Inferred
- A conclusion reached through reasoning over observations and assumptions rather than direct measurement.
- Modeled
- A quantity produced by an analytic or numerical model, conditional on the model's assumptions.
- Simulated
- A computational realisation of a model. Simulation is not observation and cannot substitute for it.
- Synthetic
- Material constructed for demonstration or education. It contains no laboratory data and describes no real programme.
- Contradicted
- Evidence exists that conflicts with the claim. Contradiction is retained as information, not removed.
- Unresolved
- The available evidence does not discriminate between competing explanations at the stated confidence.
- Superseded
- A later record replaces this one. The earlier record is preserved with its revision history.
- Decision-relevant
- This item materially changes which decision the evidence permits at the current review stage.
Material on this website
Synthetic and illustrative content
Every visualisation on this website is either a conceptual diagram of reasoning structure or a synthetic construction built for demonstration. None of them contains laboratory data, and none represents a specific experiment, group, instrument, or result. Each figure carries its classification and, where relevant, an explicit synthetic-material notice.
This is a deliberate constraint rather than a limitation of the website. Presenting invented data as measurement — even decoratively — would violate the standard the Institute applies to the work it reviews.
Handling
Records, confidentiality, and submissions
- The forms on this website accept only non-sensitive information. They do not accept file uploads, and they should never be used for confidential, classified, export-controlled, embargoed, or personally sensitive material.
- Submissions are protected by a challenge that must be completed for each submission. A submission is only reported as received when the receiving system confirms it.
- Where record access is required for an engagement, it is read-only, defined by the partner, established after eligibility review, and withdrawable at any time.
- Engagement output is confidential to the partner. Publication occurs only with written consent, and then with the contradiction register and decision state intact.
- No system credentials are present in this website. Any privileged access used in an engagement is held server-side and never exposed to a browser.
Limits
What a clean review does not mean
- It does not mean the claim is true. It means a specific class of error was looked for and not found within the stated scope.
- It does not certify, license, or accredit anything.
- It does not transfer risk. The partner remains responsible for its own decisions.
- It does not extend beyond the scope agreed in writing. Findings do not generalise to the rest of a programme.