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METHODOLOGY READ-ONLY

Live source health and methodology

Radar Six is a single-operator desk. The cohort and the Phase B gates are public, and the operating rules behind the verdict ladder are documented in full. There is no closed editorial loop.

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Source health

Six canonical surfaces. Each row shows the last observation we have recorded and the count over the last 24 hours. See the glossary for the tier vocabulary used here.

  1. Reddit

    active

    GTA-adjacent subreddits, scored on thread velocity

    33 observations in 24h last seen

  2. Rockstar

    active

    Their channels, watched for cadence shifts

    1 observation in 24h last seen

  3. YouTube

    idle

    Creators we trust to leak early

    0 observations in 24h last seen never

  4. Search

    idle

    Google interest deltas across the topic graph

    0 observations in 24h last seen never

  5. X

    idle

    Surface-level chatter, weighted for noise floor

    0 observations in 24h last seen never

  6. Press

    active

    IGN, Eurogamer, Polygon, the rest, ranked by drop frequency

    3 observations in 24h last seen

Phase B gates

The desk runs in Phase A. Six gates control what the desk is allowed to do. Phase B is the next activation step; until then, what is locked stays locked.

  1. unlocked

    Account creation

    The operator can create platform accounts as the cohort grows.

  2. unlocked

    Live source adapters

    Live RSS, search, and platform adapters are running on the cohort.

  3. locked

    Image and video generation

    No image or video output is produced. Phase B will enable.

  4. locked

    Paid model generation

    No paid LLM calls. Phase B will enable under a capped budget.

  5. locked

    Content mutation

    No automated edits or rewrites. The desk only observes.

  6. locked

    Platform publishing

    No automated posts. Posts to @RadarSixHQ are written by the operator.

How the desk classifies a signal

Classification
Every observation is mapped to one of six canonical surfaces. The mapping is rule-based and auditable; there is no model deciding what counts as which surface.
Source chain
A claim that travels from a Tier 1 origin (an issuer, a regulator, a first-party channel) into Tier 2 amplification (press, creators) is tracked as a chain. The origin record stays attached to every downstream observation.
Confidence
A signal gets a confidence band based on origin tier, prior reliability of the source, and whether other surfaces are co-signaling at the same moment. Bands are exposed; no opaque score.
Verdict ladder
Each claim on the register carries a verdict that reflects evidence strength. Confirmed at confidence 80 or higher. Corroborated at 60 to 79. Watching at 40 to 59. Contested when an entry in the evidence chain contradicts the others. Killed when a Tier 1 source retires the claim. The ladder is canonical and versioned in the desk's editorial system.
Cadence
Freshness floor is six hours. The live feed retains the last seven days. Older observations move to the archive.
Dry-mode posture
The desk is in dry mode. It tracks and audits. It does not generate, mutate, or automatically publish. The dry-mode lock is enforced at the backend, not at the page boundary.
Amplification record
When the desk posts a claim, the post is linked back to the source chain it came from. Operator-authored posts on @RadarSixHQ are the only publish surface today.