Evidence first, review before authority

Institutional voice

Articles use the byline Flynnstone or Flynnstone Research. The publication does not create a fictional named analyst. The masthead accepts responsibility for sourcing, review, corrections, and the distinction between reported evidence and editorial interpretation.

AI-assisted process

Automated systems may help monitor public releases, organize source material, prepare a draft, check structure, or identify possible inconsistencies. These systems do not receive authority to invent facts or widen the approved source boundary. Fetched material is treated as untrusted data. Quantitative statements must pass the same claim record checks regardless of whether a person, script, or model first proposed the sentence.

Sourcing and review

Every quantitative article claim records its statement, value, source URL, source name, access date, exact evidence excerpt, locator, and snapshot identifier. The source host must appear in the public catalog. The excerpt must appear in the saved source, and the normalized value must appear in that excerpt. Mechanical validation does not replace editorial judgment; a reviewer must still decide whether the evidence supports the article’s wording and context.

Indexing gate

Draft and published-but-unreviewed analysis carries noindex and stays out of the sitemap. Human review advances analysis to indexed status. Deterministic recurring reports may follow a pre-reviewed template, but freshly generated analysis does not inherit that exception. The site uses a signed publishing request to revalidate an approved page and the sitemap.

Material connections

When an article features Prospect Butcher Co, the article front matter must identify that coverage. The top of the article body then displays this exact, conspicuous line:

Disclosure: a principal of Flynnstone holds an interest in Prospect Butcher Co.

The disclosure applies only to articles that feature that company. General coverage does not carry it. The claim checker rejects a company mention without the required flag, and the page renderer derives the disclosure from that flag so it cannot be buried in a footer.

Corrections

Flynnstone reviews reported errors against the source and stored snapshot. A substantive correction should identify the original error and the change. Quiet copy edits may fix spelling or formatting when they do not alter meaning. Readers can submit evidence through the contact page.