Crene Logo
Review a thesisLive exampleMethodology
Crene
Platform
Review a thesisLive example
Data
Methodology
Company
About
Sign in
Explore
Review a thesisLive exampleExample libraryAbout
Research
Methodology
Legal
TermsPrivacySupport
© 2026 Crene, Inc.

Crene Methodology

Methodology · SEP 2026

A timestamped record of an investment thesis.

Crene represents the investment view a team is actually reviewing, with the question, current state, horizon, assumptions, drivers, evidence, and decision context kept connected.New evidence is brought back against the preserved view. Human decisions are recorded explicitly, and prior states remain available so a later reviewer can reconstruct what changed and why.
Decision record lifecycle

Represent. Reassess. Govern. Preserve.

Each stage is explicit so the record can change without erasing what came before.

01
Represent

Define the investment question, current view, horizon, assumptions, drivers, and observable conditions.

02
Reassess

Bring new evidence and changed conditions back against the preserved view.

03
Govern

Make Maintain, Revise, or Retire an explicit human decision rather than a silent rewrite.

04
Preserve

Keep prior states, finalized decisions, provenance, and version history.

Time and record discipline

Four event types change the record.

Observation, reassessment, human governance, and resolution are recorded separately. Their cadence depends on the record type rather than one universal daily schedule.

Observation

Evidence, model reads, and governed factor observations are timestamped when they enter the record according to the relevant workflow.

Reassessment

A Thesis, Factor, or Scenario can be reassessed against new information while its prior version remains available for comparison.

Human governance

Structural changes and finalized decisions require explicit human action and are preserved with their rationale and resulting state.

On resolution

Where a resolvable forecast exists, the recorded outcome updates scoring, calibration, and the forward measurement record.

Candidate findings

The detector identifies a pattern. It does not declare a verdict.

Crene evaluates the latest thesis state against preset detector rules. The public language is constrained to what the evidence actually establishes.

Coordinated repricing

Several important assumptions move materially in the same direction during the review window.

Moving disagreement

An assumption important to the decision moves quickly while the model ensemble remains materially divided.

Masked disagreement

The headline spread appears tighter than disagreement across important assumptions underneath it.

Conflicting movement

Support and resistance move inside the same mechanism, including asymmetric tilts.

Evidence concentration

A disproportionate share of weighted support comes from one mechanism or narrative cluster.

Stale thesis state

Underlying conditions move materially while the anchor remains comparatively unchanged.

Selection and ranking

Findings are ranked by detector score, decision weight, movement, spread, and mechanism coverage. Type caps prevent one detector from filling the entire public set. The selected findings can therefore change from one daily run to the next as the thesis state changes.

From finding to review path

Crene proposes what to examine next and what would distinguish the branches.

Suggested actions are constrained to research, review, escalation, and thesis maintenance. They are not portfolio instructions.

01
Finding

A detector establishes an observable pattern in the thesis map.

02
Suggested action

A constrained rule proposes a research or review step tied to the detected pattern.

03
Resolution branches

Plausible branches explain how the thesis state would change under different resolutions.

04
Observable trigger

Each branch identifies the evidence that would make that resolution more consistent with the observed record.

The action layer does not recommend buying, selling, hedging, or position sizing. Portfolio decisions require mandate, exposure, liquidity, risk, and correlation context that the public thesis page does not possess.

Govern and preserve

How human decisions become part of the record.

Timestamped inputs, versioned structure, finalized decisions, and frozen review states preserve what was known, what changed, and what the team chose at the time.

Immutable state

A completed weekly record preserves consensus, available model reads, spread, movement, freshness, and the active structure reference.

Versioned structure

Promoted assumption, taxonomy, pathway, or relationship changes create a new structure version with a changelog.

No backfilling

A native weekly freeze records what the system said during that week. It does not resample or substitute a later answer.

Live corpus

Current system coverage

These figures are loaded from the live Crene APIs. Counts change as questions resolve and scenario, cluster, and factor records are updated.

—
active binary questions

Active binary anchors and assumptions are supplied by the live analytics API.

—
archived scenario records

Preserved scenario maps with API supplied component and pathway coverage.

—
resolved short horizon questions

Earlier short horizon events resolved against named sources and included in the scoring layer.

—
independent models

Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok are polled without seeing one another.

Calibration evidence

Calibration is the trust layer, not the product claim.

Crene's resolved scoring corpus comes from an earlier phase focused on short horizon events. It demonstrates that the forecasting pipeline operates end to end, from advance question definition and independent model polling through source governed resolution and scoring. It does not establish the accuracy of Crene's current long horizon thesis maps, which are a different question class and are now building their own forward record.

MetricCurrent valuePopulationPurpose
Leakage controlled consensus—n=—Tests ensemble calibration against a — base rate Brier. Reported skill: —.
Macro ex earnings0.2330n=360Supplementary evidence for a thinner macro population. Reported separately from the leakage controlled benchmark.
Calibration record updates from the live Crene analytics layer.
As of SEP 2026. The resolved corpus and calibration bins update as new outcomes are recorded.
Evidence boundary

What the evidence does and does not prove.

What is measured or recorded

Timestamped probabilities, resolved outcomes, Brier scores, calibration bins, movement, model spread, detector inputs, governed decisions, version history, and frozen review records.

What is structural

Assumption maps, mechanisms, pathways, driver families, authored relationships, ontology fields, and editorial taxonomies.

What remains open

Whether daily movement contains incremental decision value, whether detector findings improve outcomes, and whether disagreement across models predicts realized uncertainty.

Crene does not claim
  • That AI forecasts outperform liquid prediction markets.
  • That model agreement reliably predicts correctness.
  • That a probability is a deterministic outcome.
  • That calibration automatically validates a thesis decomposition.
  • That suggested actions are trading recommendations.
That calibration validates decomposition
Prompt design, model selection, taxonomy, probability bands, weighting, and category structure can change results. Public records preserve the configuration and structure version needed to interpret a historical read, but full robustness across configurations has not yet been established.
That thin categories establish domain specific skill
Several categories remain statistically thin. Category level Brier and accuracy rows are exploratory when sample sizes are small. The page reports sample counts so a reader can distinguish evidence from apparent precision.
Decomposition systems

Different investment questions require different governed record types.

Crene uses Theses for binary conviction, Factors for continuous variables, and Scenarios for multiple coherent futures. Each record can be reassessed, versioned, governed, and preserved without pretending the three question shapes are identical.

Theses
Binary thesis maps

A binary investment thesis is decomposed into governed, falsifiable assumptions grouped by mechanisms or categories.

Factors
Continuous distributions

A continuous anchor is represented as model percentile distributions and a driver matrix.

Scenarios
Coherent world states

A strategic question is represented as multiple internally coherent pathways rather than one compressed probability.

Thesis construction
Candidate assumptions are generated, filtered for falsifiability and specificity, screened for useful probability range, deduplicated, and manually curated before entering the live map. The taxonomy and probability band are editorial choices, not neutral truths.
Factor construction and calibration
Factors use p5, p25, p50, p75, and p95 outputs rather than binary probabilities. Meaningful factor calibration requires multiple resolved horizons and will be evaluated using interval coverage, percentile hit rates, and continuous ranked probability score.
Scenario construction
Scenarios use joint state reasoning across binary and continuous components. Pathways fix only load bearing variables and leave other variables determined by the models. Pathway labels and distributions are editorial framings rather than probability weights.
Relationship and ontology discipline
Structural recurrence means the same theme appears across multiple anchors. It does not, by itself, establish covariance, statistical dependence, predictive correlation, or causal influence. Those require separate empirical evidence.
Inspect the system

Follow the methodology into the live record.

Inspect a live thesis, review the resolved corpus, or see the broader map of scenarios and factors.

Live thesis →Resolved record →