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Methodology · Record and evidence

A living view.A preserved record.

Crene keeps an investment question, the evidence behind it and the human decisions it informs connected as the view evolves.

This page explains how the record is structured, how forecasts are evaluated and where the evidence stops. Public measurement results and private workspace track records have separate populations.

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One connected record

  1. 01The exact question and horizon
  2. 02Dated evidence and its source
  3. 03Model estimates and disagreement
  4. 04The explicit human decision
  5. 05The earlier states and rationale
On this pageThe recordQuestion typesEvidence and reviewScoringLimitationsPublic archive
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, with its rationale attached.

04

Preserve

Keep prior states, finalized decisions, provenance and version history available for later review.

Question and representation

Different investment questions require different governed record types.

A defined binary question, a continuous driver and a set of coherent futures need different representations. Their histories can be preserved without treating their outputs as interchangeable.

Theses

Binary thesis maps

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

Binary conviction

An estimate is a probability that the exact saved question resolves Yes. Its definition, target date, resolution criteria and source establish what is being assessed.

Factors

Continuous distributions

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

A range, with units

Factors use p5, p25, p50, p75 and p95 outputs. Rates, prices, growth and other continuous outcomes require suitable continuous scoring rules.

Scenarios

Coherent world states

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

Several possible futures

Joint state reasoning connects binary and continuous components. Pathway labels and distributions are editorial framings, not probability weights.

Definition changes and assessment history
Proposed amendments are reviewed before saving. A successor record preserves the earlier definition and history. A model estimate belongs to the definition it assessed and is withheld when that match cannot be verified. Assumption selection and structure remain editorial choices.
Factor construction and calibration
Meaningful factor calibration needs multiple resolved horizons. Interval coverage, percentile hit rates or other suitable continuous scoring rules can then be evaluated. This page does not report a validated continuous-outcome performance record.
Scenario construction
Pathways fix load bearing variables and leave other variables to be assessed by the models. A pathway count describes authored coverage; it does not measure likelihood.
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.
Time and record discipline

Four event types change the record.

Observation, reassessment, human governance and resolution are recorded separately. Viewing saved work does not refresh models. A new assessment has its own review and confirmation; recurring monitoring is controlled separately.

Observation
Evidence, model reads and governed factor observations are timestamped when they enter the record according to the relevant workflow. A source publication date, retrieval time and forecast date describe different events.
Reassessment
A Thesis, Factor or Scenario can be reassessed against new information while its prior version remains available for comparison. Fresh evidence does not silently replace a saved estimate.
Human governance
Structural changes and finalized decisions require explicit human action. The rationale and resulting state remain attached to the decision.
On resolution
Where an eligible resolvable forecast exists, a recorded outcome supplies the evidence needed for scoring and calibration. A due date calls for review; it does not establish an outcome.

The workflow follows the relevant question and enabled monitoring settings rather than one universal daily schedule. Pausing future updates does not stop requests already started.

Research patterns

A pattern is a reason to investigate.

The historical research workflow used preset detector rules to identify candidate findings in saved thesis states. These examples explain the method; they do not imply that retired public examples or every private component are being monitored today.

Coordinated repricing

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

Moving disagreement

An important assumption 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.

Historical selection and ranking
Candidate findings were ranked by detector score, decision weight, movement, spread and mechanism coverage. Type caps limited how much of the selected set one detector could occupy. A detector identified an observable pattern; it did not establish a verdict, forecast accuracy or portfolio action.
From finding to review

Connect the finding to what would change the view.

Research and review suggestions are useful when they identify the evidence that would distinguish competing interpretations.

  1. 01

    Finding

    Describe the observable pattern in the saved record.

  2. 02

    Suggested action

    Tie the pattern to a research, review, escalation or thesis maintenance step.

  3. 03

    Resolution branches

    Explain how the thesis state could change under different resolutions.

  4. 04

    Observable trigger

    Identify the evidence that would make each branch more consistent with the record.

Suggested review steps are not instructions to buy, sell, hedge or size a position. Portfolio decisions also depend on mandate, exposure, liquidity, risk and correlation context.

Govern and preserve

How human decisions become part of the record.

Timestamped inputs, versioned structure, finalized decisions, and frozen review states help a later reviewer reconstruct what was known, what changed and what the team chose at the time.

Preserved state

Saved review snapshots retain the available estimates, model reads, disagreement, freshness and definition references from that review. They describe the evidence available at that time.

Versioned structure

Reviewed changes to definitions, assumptions, pathways and relationships preserve the earlier state and the reason for the change. Model views and the team decision remain distinct.

No substituted history

A later answer is not evidence of what a model said earlier. Historical cadence-specific freezes and saved decision history preserve the original read for comparison.

Historical coverage

What the public archive contains.

These figures describe the retained historical corpus. Automated public example updates have been retired. They do not measure the current private workspace forecasts.

Questions marked active
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Stored binary anchors and assumptions are retained for historical inspection.

Archived scenario records
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Preserved scenario maps with API supplied component and pathway coverage.

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

Reported model families
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Historical families and versions. Shared evidence and related questions can introduce dependence.

Public corpus statistics response: Source time unavailable. This is the response time, not a forecast or outcome date. The benchmark and confidence chart below have separate source populations.

Calibration evidence

Evaluate a forecast against its outcome.

Crene's public scoring corpus comes from an earlier phase focused on short horizon events. The snapshot benchmark, broad corpus and confidence chart have different stored populations and selection rules. They do not establish current private workspace accuracy, investment returns or the reliability of a long horizon thesis.

For a binary event, the Brier score is the squared difference between the forecast probability and the outcome: (p − y)², where Yes is 1 and No is 0. Scores range from 0 to 1; lower is better.

Calibration asks a different question: across repeated events forecast at a given probability, how often did they happen? Small samples and related events limit what the comparison can establish.

Illustrative score · one 70% Yes forecast
If the event resolves Yes
0.09
If the event resolves No
0.49

A constant 50% forecast scores 0.25 for either outcome. That is a reference, not a universal best baseline.

Historical binary forecast metrics with each reported sample and its interpretation limits.
MetricReported BrierSamplePopulation and interpretation
Snapshot consensus · 24h resolution gap—n=—Latest retained estimate per available model at least 24 hours before recorded resolution. Coverage can vary. Same-sample base-rate Brier: —; reported Brier improvement: —. The recorded-resolution gap does not establish when outcome evidence became public or independently rule out information leakage.
Macro ex earnings0.2305n=383A separately filtered macro population. Its sample and score cannot be combined with the benchmark or broad corpus.
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Your private workspace track record
In chat, ask “Show my track record for this workspace.” Personal forecasts, saved model cohorts and reviewed binary outcomes have separate eligible samples. A dated forecast must precede the checked evidence cutoff and match the resolved definition before it can be scored. Team decisions and starting views do not become personal forecasts.

Until an eligible outcome exists, the workspace shows Not scored. Inactive or superseded events are excluded from current scores while their history remains preserved. Related events can overstate the apparent amount of independent evidence.

Outcome evidence is an editor attestation, not independent source verification. Numeric outcomes and scenario pathways need different scoring rules. Private workspace results do not enter this historical public summary.

Reading the benchmark improvement
Reported Brier improvement is the same-sample outcome base-rate Brier minus the snapshot consensus Brier. It is an absolute score difference, not a normalized skill score. A 24-hour gap before recorded resolution does not establish when the outcome first became knowable.
Model cohorts

Interpret each score with its population.

The legacy leaderboard and Brier analytics use different filters and can cover different events. Joining them by a model-family name would imply a shared evaluation cohort that has not been established.

The Data page reports model-family Brier, directional accuracy and sample counts from the canonical historical statistics endpoint. Versions can be combined within a family; the reported identifier is not a current-model benchmark. These rows are not a controlled model ranking.

The legacy model-family row count is not currently available. Availability does not establish that models were independent or used the same event sample.

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Evidence boundary

What the evidence does and does not prove.

What is measured or recorded

Timestamped probabilities, resolved outcomes, Brier scores, calibration bins, definition versions, saved model responses, explicit decisions and preserved review history.

What is structural

Assumption maps, mechanisms, pathways, driver families, authored relationships, ontology fields and editorial taxonomies. Structure is not scored forecast evidence.

What remains open

Whether recorded changes improve team decisions, whether disagreement identifies useful uncertainty and how performance holds up across future questions, model versions and market regimes.

What the record does not establish
  • That AI forecasts outperform liquid prediction markets.
  • That model agreement reliably predicts correctness.
  • That a probability determines the outcome.
  • That calibration validates a thesis decomposition.
  • That suggested review actions are trading recommendations.
Configuration and robustness
Prompt design, model selection, taxonomy, probability bands, weighting and category structure can change results. Retained configuration and structure references help interpret a historical read. Full robustness across configurations has not been established.
Thin samples and related events
Category scores are exploratory where sample sizes are small. Shared information, repeated snapshots and related events can make the apparent volume of evidence larger than its effective independent sample. Calibration is a measurement layer; it does not, by itself, validate the full decision workflow.
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