How we validate every report

Confidence isn’t a label. It’s a process you can inspect.

Every figure in a BINarrator.ai report starts in a source document and keeps its reporting period. Software re-checks it, eight independent reviewers challenge it, and a named person approves it before it is published. This page shows each step, and what happens when something does not match.

Examples use Meridian Industrial Holdings, our fictional sample company.

From source to published findingEvery report
01
Source documentStored exactly as published, with a digital fingerprint
02
Extraction and checksFigures from structured data, quotes matched word for word, arithmetic re-run
03
Independent reviewEight reviewers; a serious finding blocks the report
04
Named approvalA person approves; anything missing is listed as a gap
A claim is something you can open and check, not a badge that says “verified”.
Every claimquoted from its source document
Eight reviewersindependent of the software that wrote the draft
A named approversigns off every report
Gaps listednever estimated or left out
From document to report

Seven checkpoints between a source document and your screen.

Automation does the reading and the arithmetic. People make the decisions that need judgment. If it can’t be shown, it isn’t published.

  1. 01

    Collect

    Public sources are checked every day. Each document is stored exactly as published, with a digital fingerprint that proves it was never altered.

  2. 02

    Extract

    Figures come from the document’s structured data and ratios are calculated, not guessed. Text is read one section at a time, and every proposed claim carries the exact words behind it.

  3. 03

    Verify

    Each quote is searched for in the stored document, word for word. A claim with no match is thrown away; figures are re-checked and the arithmetic re-run.

  4. 04

    Challenge

    Eight specialist reviewers re-check the whole draft before a person sees it. A serious finding blocks the report until it is fixed.

  5. 05

    Review

    A named reviewer signs in with a passkey, reads each summary beside its quote and the findings, and approves or rejects. Covenants and guarantees always need a person.

  6. 06

    Publish

    Approved claims join the report with their quote and link. Anything still missing is listed as a gap, never guessed.

  7. 07

    Watch

    A daily check reads new event reports and press releases. A new annual or quarterly report starts a fresh draft that goes through every checkpoint again.

Independent review

Eight reviewers, eight different ways to catch a mistake.

Each reviewer checks one part of the report against the source documents, apart from the software that wrote the draft, so a mistake is not graded by the process that made it.

01 · Figures

Financial figures

Re-calculated from the reported inputs, with periods, units and signs checked.

02 · Financing

Debt and liquidity

Every instrument, facility and lease accounted for; the bridge to total debt has to add up.

03 · Terms

Covenants and legal terms

Thresholds, compliance statements, guarantees and security read against the agreement’s own words.

04 · Operations

Operating measures

Each measure held to the company’s own definition.

05 · Timeline

Events after the year-end

Financings, deals and leadership changes dated, and marked announced, signed or completed.

06 · Conclusions

Credit conclusions

Every strength and risk must be supported by the figures beside it.

07 · Consistency

Brief against brief

The executive brief and the credit brief must state the same figures, dates and statuses.

08 · Completeness

Source completeness

Every report and press release since the annual report must be read, and what they disclose must appear.

When something doesn’t match

What happens when a number doesn’t reconcile?

An illustration with our fictional sample company. The steps are the ones every report follows.

Meridian Industrial HoldingsIllustration
Total debt · FY2025
$3.9 million
Blocked · needs correction
Source · Debt note, sample annual report
Total debt at December 31, 2025 was $3.9 billion.
  1. Draft kept $3.9 million, unchanged
  2. Finding Financial figures reviewer · serious · wrong unit
  3. Corrected $3.9 billion, re-checked against the source
  4. Approved by a named reviewer · published with its quote

Publication is blocked

The financial-figures reviewer finds that the draft gives total debt as $3.9 million. The source says $3.9 billion: the draft used the wrong unit. A serious finding blocks the report, so nothing is published.

A correction never overwrites history: the original draft, the finding, the correction and the approval are all kept.

Software and people

Clear about what software does, and what people decide.

Software

Checks that run the same way every time

  • Collects the source documents and fingerprints them
  • Takes figures from structured data and re-runs the arithmetic
  • Matches every quote to the stored document, word for word, and throws away claims that don’t match
  • Compares the executive brief with the credit brief
  • Puts the draft through eight specialist reviews before a person sees it
People

Decisions with a name on them

  • A named reviewer approves or rejects every report, signing in with a passkey
  • Covenants and guarantees always need a person
  • Material changes need a person’s approval
  • Nothing is published automatically
  • Every approval and edit is recorded, and the record cannot be erased
Tested before every release

Every release is tested on real companies before it ships.

  • Each release is run over about a hundred real public companies across seventeen sectors.
  • Hundreds of figures with known answers are compared. A release that newly gets any of them wrong does not ship.
  • A separate set of companies is held back and used only to measure quality on companies the checks were not tuned on.

The seventeen sectors every release is tested on

  • Restaurants
  • Airlines
  • Hotels
  • Banks and cards
  • Insurers
  • REITs
  • Utilities
  • Energy
  • Software and tech
  • Retail
  • Industrials
  • Telecom and media
  • Healthcare
  • Consumer
  • Autos
  • Materials and chemicals
  • Distribution
Know the limits

Trust is stronger when the boundaries are visible.

  • A figure the documents do not give is shown as a gap. It is never estimated.
  • Annual figures stay as reported. Later developments keep their own date and status: announced, signed or completed.
  • Reports cover U.S.-listed public companies, and the rivals, partners and suppliers named in their own documents.
  • Reports support your credit analysis. They are not investment advice and do not replace your own judgment.

What you can check for yourself

Any claimits exact words, its source and the checks it passed
The gapswhat the documents do not say, listed rather than filled in
The dateswhen each development happened, and its status
The sourceskept exactly as published, fingerprinted, for ten years
Put it to the test

Bring your questions. Inspect the evidence.

Bring a company you follow to a walkthrough, or open the sample report and check any figure yourself.