Glassbox Auditing (glassboxauditing.com) · last updated 27 October 2026
How Glassbox Auditing decides what to show, how it joins one public record to another, and how it checks the
data. The standard is evidence and attribution: every item can be traced to where it came from.
The evidence standard
Every item names its source. Each section of a page carries its own source line, linked to the publisher,
and many give the date of the data.
A signal is a fact with evidence. A flag is a measurable condition in the data, shown with the numbers
behind it, never a verdict. A company cross-check names the pattern, why it matters, the ordinary explanations for
it, the evidence against it, and what would confirm or refute it.
Lawsuits are allegations until a court rules on them, and are described that way.
Missing is not zero. A value the site could not read shows as "—". A failed download is never stored as
zero, and the site does not fill gaps with made-up or placeholder numbers.
Stale data is labelled stale. When a source has not updated on time, the page says so instead of showing
old numbers as current.
How fresh is it?
Today's data is rebuilt about every five minutes from what the collectors have read.
Each source has its own cadence, set by its publisher: live and real-time feeds update continuously,
others daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly or yearly. The cadence, publisher and licence of each source are on
Sources.
Every data page shows its last-updated date: the later of its newest item and its latest charted reading,
and no date when it has neither. A reading is always shown with its own date, and a chart that has not been re-read
in the last three days is left out.
How items are joined
By ticker. Filings, lawsuits, Congress trades, options activity, hiring, outages and news about a company
meet on that company's page.
By topic and desk. Explore groups the day's items by topic, and every data page belongs to a desk by
subject (markets, options, companies, the economy, government, people and money, world events), so related public
records sit side by side.
Between pages. Pages are linked by documented real-economy connections (oil prices lead to pump prices,
which feed consumer prices), each with its direction, how fast it works and the primary source it rests on, and by
the companies, people, places and court cases that appear in both.
How the data is checked
Against its own history. A number is shown with where it sits in its own record, so an unusual reading
is visible as unusual.
Against a second source. Where an independent free provider publishes the same figure, the site compares
the two and says under the section whether they agree.
For gaps and impossible dates. Stored histories are checked every few hours for missing days, changes
measured across a gap, and dates that cannot be right. A gap the provider itself has is documented, never filled
with another source's number without a label.
What is original here
The underlying items belong to their publishers and stay attributed to them. The site's own work is built on top:
choosing and joining the records, the comparisons against history, the cross-checks and their explanations, the
map of how pages connect, and the notes on why each page matters. That analysis is written by the site; the facts
it rests on are linked to their sources.
Limits
Public sources are sometimes late, revised or wrong, and official statistics are often revised after first
release. The site shows what each publisher published, as of when it was read. It is not investment advice.
Corrections
When the site gets something wrong, it corrects it and says so. To report an error, email
[email protected] with the page link and what is wrong.