Method
How we work
Frontier Intelligence is a sourcing and verification method first. Here is what happens between a claim appearing and a figure reaching our pages.
01The pipeline
Collect, verify, structure, maintain.
What goes in, what happens to it, and what comes out.
In
- Papers and preprints
- Press wires
- Government laboratories
- Company newsrooms
- Filings
- Public registers
- 01
Collect
We watch the primary record.
Research papers and preprints, peer-reviewed journals, press wires, government laboratory announcements, company newsrooms and regulatory filings, every day.
- 02
Verify
We check it against the source.
We check numbers, names, dates and quotes against their sources before we publish, using automated checks and editorial review. What we cannot verify is left out or marked as unverified.
If a check failsHeld back for review.
- 03
Structure
Each company gets a sourced record.
Companies become profiles: location, technology, founding date, people, funding and listings, each fact with its source, matched to public registers where one exists.
- 04
Maintain
The record stays current.
News goes out daily. Records are updated as rounds close and milestones are verified, and corrected when a reader sends a source.
A reader’s correction, or a new source, sends a record back to Verify.
Out
PublicationsDaily news and analysis, linked to its sources.
Company intelligenceOrganisation profiles, each fact with its source.
02Sources
Where facts come from.
We start from the primary record and work outwards. Other reporting is where a check starts, and the figure is then traced to the document behind it.
Research
Peer-reviewed journals and preprint servers, and announcements from government and national laboratories.
Companies
Company newsrooms and press wires, earnings and regulatory filings.
Registers
SEC EDGAR, Companies House, the LEI register and Wikidata, to pin each organisation to a legal entity.
03The verification standard
The checks behind a record.
Our editorial rule, and the checks behind every record.
01
Trace claims to sources
Numbers, names, dates, affiliations and quotes should point to the sentence in the source that supports them. If they cannot, they come out.
02
Results, not roadmaps
Hardware claims such as qubit counts and gate fidelities are checked against papers and official announcements, and targets are kept apart from what has been shown.
03
Match to registers
In quantum computing and space, organisations are matched to a public register where one exists, such as SEC EDGAR, Companies House, the LEI register or Wikidata.
04
Cross-reference
Funding is checked against official announcements; locations against company headquarters; acquired and defunct companies are marked as such.
05
Hold what fails
Records that fail our checks are held back for review. What cannot be confirmed is left out or clearly marked as unverified.
06
Software and people
We use software, including AI tools, to gather sources and to draft and check copy. Our editors are responsible for what we publish.
04A worked example
One funding report, checked against the filing.
In May 2024 Connecticut business press reported that Quantum Circuits, Inc. of New Haven had raised $26.5 million. This is the funding check applied to that report, using only public documents.
| Step | What the document says | What the check concludes |
|---|---|---|
| Reported | $26.5 million, an extended Series B (May 2024). Report republished by the Yale Quantum Institute | A lead. Press reports are where a check starts. |
| Filed | $26,608,680 of equity sold in an offering of $27,000,000, to 15 investors, under Rule 506(b). SEC Form D, filed 2 May 2024 (accession 0001669391-24-000001) | Matches the report to within rounding, and confirms the legal name, Quantum Circuits, Inc., incorporated in Delaware. |
- Issuer
- Quantum Circuits, Inc.
- Incorporated in
- Delaware
- Principal place of business
- New Haven, Connecticut
- Securities
- Equity
- Exemption
- Rule 506(b)
- Total offering
- $27,000,000
- Amount sold
- $26,608,680
- Investors
- 15
Prepared from public documents and checked on 25 Sep 2026. It shows how the check works and is not an excerpt from one of our databases.
05Company records
What a record can hold.
Coverage varies by field, and not every record has every field.
- Legal entity
- Registered name and register identifiers such as SEC EDGAR, Companies House, LEI and Wikidata, where they exist
- Location
- Headquarters city and country
- Founding date
- Year founded
- Technology and category
- What the organisation works on, placed in a category for its field
- People
- Founders and key leadership
- Funding
- Rounds, amounts and investors, and valuations where they are public
- Public listing
- Exchange and ticker for listed companies
- Hardware
- For quantum hardware, physical and logical qubits and gate fidelities
- Status
- Active, acquired or closed
- Sources
- The documents a figure came from, where recorded
06Corrections and independence
Keeping the record honest.
- CorrectionsSend the link to the page or profile and the source that shows the right figure to info@hadamard2.com. We check it against the source before we change the record.
- IndependenceWe don’t change a record’s data because someone pays or asks.
If we can’t trace it to a source, it shouldn’t run.
Our editorial rule
Get in touch.
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