What Exists Under The Platform
The intelligence engine contains a private source inventory and extracted document warehouse. It should power public source packs and future reviewed research outputs, not be dumped raw into the index. The public library is the curated front of that inventory; the full archive remains closed and quality-controlled.
Internal Source Inventory
| Asset | Current Scale | Best Use |
|---|---|---|
| Raw source archive | 4.1GB, 78 source folders, 4,251 files | Internal review inventory; not a public download library |
| Documents table | 14,226 documents | Search, source packs, document profiles, and future reviewed exports |
| Extracted text | About 315M text characters | Search, summarization, fact extraction, topic expansion |
| Financial references | 57,251 extracted figures | Review queue, data pages, and future reviewed financial notes |
| Tables | 45,186 extracted tables in the integrated parser output | Datasets, charts, source-pack evidence, and future review files |
| Validation records | 97 cross-validated claims | High-confidence public evidence and future restricted dossiers |
Source Categories
Official
Government Records
Angola, DRC, Zambia, US, EU, and other official records for policy, regulation, financing, infrastructure, trade, and statistics.
Finance
DFI Disclosures
DFC, DBSA, AfDB, AFC, EIB, World Bank, IFC, MCC, EXIM, and related public finance records.
Operators
Rail, Port, Logistics
LAR, Port of Lobito, CFB, SNCC, concession documents, terminal data, route claims, and operational disclosures.
Mining
Company Reporting
Mining companies, traders, commodity groups, annual reports, technical notes, project updates, and offtake signals.
Research
Think Tanks and Policy
Atlantic Council, Brookings, ECFR, Chatham House, and policy research that frames corridor competition and strategic risk.
Media
Specialist Reporting
Africa infrastructure, mining, finance, policy, and regional media sources that provide timing, context, and early signal.
Publication Rule
Source material becomes public only when it supports a page with clear corridor relevance, clean metadata, valid dates, usable source attribution, no empty modules, and no low-confidence financial noise. Everything else stays in the engine until reviewed.
Evidence Workflows
| Workflow | Public Surface | Restricted / Future Surface |
|---|---|---|
| Source packs | Source lists attached to public pages | Document-level packets with provenance, extraction notes, and citation trails, if productized later |
| Entity dossiers | Company, country, DFI, mine, and operator profiles | Relationship evidence, source counts, risks, documents, and reviewed facts |
| Deal evidence | Clean deal pages and finance explainers | Review queues, extracted figures, confidence notes, and source conflict checks |
| Validation records | High-confidence claims inside editorial pages | Cross-source verification tables and analyst review status |
View Terminal Source Profiles Corridor Guide View Document Preview Editorial Methodology