Review the source
Schema, access path, robots behavior, rights, cadence, and allowed fields are pinned before any live-record capture.
Evidence method
Preserve first. Explain every transformation.
Permit Archive is designed so a published fact can be traced to a reviewed source snapshot. The process favors reproducibility over volume and stops when a source contract changes.
01 / Pipeline01 02 03 04 05 06
Six gates between a government source and a public page.
Capture narrowly
Only documented APIs or bulk files are requested. Per-source pacing, byte, row, page, and time limits fail closed.
Deny personal fields
A default-deny allowlist rejects names, emails, phone numbers, and contractor home or mailing addresses.
Hash the evidence
Sanitized evidence is streamed, compressed, hashed, and paired with a manifest before a checkpoint can advance.
Preserve revisions
Changed facts create new snapshots linked to prior evidence. Application code cannot rewrite immutable history.
Publish only after gates
Thin, stale, held, suppressed, or unverified record pages stay out of public rendering and search indexes.
02 / Claims
No unexplained scores. No generated record narratives.
Source facts remain distinct from calculated summaries.
Any future activity index must publish its formula, time window, coverage, and minimum sample. It may describe measured activity; it may not label a contractor reliable, unsafe, good, or bad.