METHOD

Methodology

How AQ26 inventories evidence, applies gates, separates public/protected outputs and limits claims.

Methodology

AQ26 harvests primary observations first, applies quality controls and target-neutral screening, then executes transparent cross-source joins. Facilities are introduced only after discovery as possible context. Legacy Google Drive material is excluded unless the original source, date, authority, SHA-256, lineage, parser and scientific quality are validated.

How AQ26 works

1Source acquisition
2Provenance logging
3Classification
4Strict target matching
5Readiness gates
6Public-safe output
7Expert challenge

Source-attribution caution

Stack emissionspermit and stack-test evidence
Ambient concentrationmonitoring and meteorology context
Population exposurereceptors, time and activity patterns
Health outcomeepidemiology and clinical/public-health review

The automated site must not collapse these evidence classes into a single causal claim.

Evidence gates

  1. Source acquired
  2. Provenance recorded
  3. Parser validated
  4. Time alignment checked
  5. Monitor role checked
  6. Meteorology checked
  7. Comparator checked
  8. Reviewer challenge recorded

Matching discipline

Public records are linked to a target only by target-specific phrases or identifiers. Generic terms such as ERF, EfW, incinerator and energy recovery require a nearby target-specific anchor and are not enough on their own.

Public-safety rule

The public build excludes protected bundles, service-account keys, credentials, ZIP evidence packages and unredacted registers. The deployment guard fails if these appear in the public folder.

AQ26 Evidence Assurance Framework

Four controls govern every public release

VVIP is the internal technical shorthand. Public outputs use the full assurance language and never imply external approval or endorsement.

Validation

Requirements, source contracts, calculations, models, accessibility and publication rules are tested before release.

Verification

The live website and published social assets must match the exact reviewed evidence package and release receipt.

Integrity

Secret leakage, unsupported claims, duplicate publication, unreviewed routes and evidence substitution are refused.

Provenance

Sources, requests, transformations, model versions, artifacts, deployment and platform publication remain traceable.

Latest reviewed package timestamp: 2026-07-25T06:16:55+00:00. See sources, readiness and external review material.