The Consequential AI Evidence Monitor
How the Monitor is sourced and maintained
Published openly so the record can be checked, reused and criticised. A dataset whose rules are hidden is an opinion wearing a table.
Monitor · Method · Transactions · Duties · What systems prove
The source hierarchy
Primary means the issuing body itself: a court’s own opinion index, a regulator’s own notice, a legislature’s own bill page, a securities filing, or a company’s own announcement about its own transaction or product. Secondary means established press and analyst coverage.
Press is never primary. A press figure never outranks a filed figure, and a firm’s client alert never substitutes for the instrument it summarises.
The three evidence states
| State | Meaning | Where it may appear |
|---|---|---|
| Primary-source verified | The instrument, order, filing or announcement has been read at the issuing body’s own site. | Published entries. Only this state supports a stated fact or a figure. |
| Located, not yet read | The matter is known from citations by others; the underlying document has not been read. | The research queue. It does not appear as fact and carries no figures. |
| Source inaccessible | The jurisdiction or host refuses automated access. | Reported as explicitly unknown. Silence is never treated as evidence that nothing happened. |
The three states are never collapsed. “Nothing found”, “found but unread” and “source unreachable” are different statements, and reporting them as one is how an unverified matter migrates into a public record as fact.
Standing access disclosures
- Some legal databases, including the principal free case-law hosts for Canada and Australia, refuse automated access. Quiet from those jurisdictions is a limitation of access, not a finding.
- Some official hosts serve documents that cannot be machine-read. Those entries stay in the research queue until the document has been read.
Transaction price tiers
| Tier | Meaning |
|---|---|
| FILED | The consideration is recorded in a securities filing of the acquirer. This is the controlling figure. |
| PRESS | The figure comes from press reporting and was not confirmed by the parties. It is carried with attribution and replaced when a filed figure publishes. |
| LOI | The transaction is reported at the letter-of-intent stage. Neither the deal nor the figure is settled. |
A filed figure supersedes a press figure everywhere in the Monitor. One observation from the ledger itself, checkable row by row: in every case so far where a filed figure has followed a press figure, the filed figure has been lower.
The bounded-negative rule
The Monitor never asserts that a company, product or jurisdiction lacks something. The strongest negative it publishes is a bounded one: “Not located in reviewed public product materials”, or “none located in a search of the named register on the stated date”. A search has a scope and a date; an absence is a result of that search, not a fact about the world.
What the Monitor never publishes
- No valuation of any company, including Regulayer™, and no conclusion about what any transaction proves any company is worth.
- No financing terms, ownership positions or investment recommendations.
- No vendor scores, rankings or named-vendor comparisons. The typology page describes classes of evidence model, not products.
- No entry below the source standard, however useful the gap would be to fill.
Review and corrections
Entries are reviewed when material developments occur. Transaction rows are re-checked when the acquirer’s next periodic filing publishes. Legal rows are re-checked when the instrument’s status changes: a stay, an amendment, a delayed application date, or an enforcement development, and the row states the change with its date.
To report an error, write to hello@regulayer.com with the entry and the source you believe should be reviewed. Material changes and corrections are dated where they are made.
Publisher. Regulayer™ maintains this Monitor. Regulayer™ sells evidence infrastructure, and the reader should weigh the record with that interest in view. That is why every entry names a source the reader can open without trusting the publisher.
Last reviewed 27 August 2026. Information, not legal or financial advice.