NarrowGateX does not hide uncertainty. It makes uncertainty visible.
Every fact in a Technology Baseline carries one of five grades. The point is not that everything reaches the top one. The point is that you can tell which facts did, and decide accordingly.
- 01Verified
- Evidence directly supports the record.A document says so, and the document is attached to the line.
- 02Supported
- Several signals make the record credible, but it has not reached Verified.Believable is not the same as proven, and the difference belongs on the page.
- 03Assumed
- Believed to be true, without evidence sufficient to support it.An assumption that is labeled can be checked. One that is not becomes a fact by repetition.
- 04Missing
- Information the record needs is absent.A blank filled with a plausible value is the most expensive kind of error.
- 05Conflicting
- The available evidence disagrees with itself.Two sources that contradict each other is a finding, not a rounding problem.
Five facts about one location, graded.
- VerifiedCircuit at Columbus HQ, 1 Gbps, $4,180/monthsigned order form attached
- SupportedContract runs to 14 July 2027invoice history and a renewal notice agree; no executed agreement on file
- AssumedAuto-renews for twelve monthsstandard for this provider; not evidenced for this site
- MissingNotice windowno document states one
- ConflictingSite ownerthe asset register and the provider portal name different people
Four of these five would be a single unqualified line in most estate records. The bottom three are the ones a decision breaks on, which is why they are on the page rather than rounded up. See a sample Baseline.
Both sides of every comparison.
Facts in the Baseline
Every location, provider, service, contract term, obligation and spend figure carries a grade, so you can see which parts of the record are proven and which are still inference.
Market evidence
Observations behind a benchmark are graded the same way. Evidence about the market is evidence, and it is held to the same test as evidence about you.
The comparisons themselves
A comparison inherits the weaker of its two sides. A proven position measured against an assumed rate produces an assumed comparison, not a proven one.
The rules this creates are the useful part.
A grading vocabulary is only worth having if it changes what gets published. These are the consequences it forces.
- A grade is never raised to make a picture look better. For the same reason, Wimbl fills a blank only from evidence and never overwrites a recorded value.
- Grades do not average. Five Assumed facts do not add up to a Verified one, and a composite score would let them appear to.
- Where evidence disagrees, both sides are shown. Conflicting is a finding, not a rounding problem.
- Where something is Missing, it appears in the deliverable rather than being left out of it.
- A figure that rests on an assumption is presented as a bound, never as a bare number.
The standard, and what the platform automates today.
This is the standard NarrowGateX holds its work to, and it applies to every engagement now. It is not a claim that the platform computes all five grades automatically everywhere in the product today.
Some of it is automated and some of it is applied by the people doing the work, and we are extending the platform to carry the whole standard.
The whole standard, applied to a constructed estate, including the part that could not be verified. See a sample Baseline.
See what holds up in your own estate.
A Technology Baseline establishes what you have, what you pay, what you are committed to, and what cannot yet be verified, at every location.