GRIDINT RESEARCH · METHOD
The principles.
Our doctrine, as public creed. Every page on this site is built to it, and every figure can be checked against it.
- We never create data. We never provide data. We report, visualize, and explain what already exists — from reputable sources we can trace to the row. The source is always the authority; we are the lens.
- Every figure wears its source. Down to the accession number, the event ID, the archive row. A number without a receipt does not ship.
- Actuals never dress as projections. Different line styles, always; ranges are bands; the floor is the headline.
- Absence is stated, never implied clean. A gap in the data is a finding.
- Model outputs are labeled as model outputs. Ours included.
- Editions, not edits. Published work is dated and stands; updates arrive as new editions with their extensions named. (One ruled exception: our rolling flagship, which states its trailing window plainly.)
- Explain everything. Every visualization answers "what am I looking at," names its method, and admits its limits.
- Stay impartial. We study the records without an agenda; where we editorialize, we say so in the same breath.
How we work.
- USGS1,928earthquake records + M5.5+ catalog rowsFDSN event service
- EIA28,827hourly grid readings14 regions
- SEC EDGAR5,041filed capex rows + filed submissionsXBRL companyconcept
- NASA7,728events and worldsEONET · Exoplanet Archive
- NTSB30,968investigationsaccident database
- ClinicalTrials.gov987registered trialsAPI v2
- NASA GISS1,759monthly temperature recordsGISTEMP v4
- World Bank14,073fertility observationsSP.DYN.TFRT.IN
- U.S. Treasury8,616debt observationsFiscal Data
- OWID / Ember130generation-mix observationsEmber + Energy Institute
- CelesTrak16,472active satellites, every orbitGP catalog + named groups
- TeleGeography2,644cable paths and landingssubmarine cable map
- PeeringDB40,466facilities and networksfacility + network registry
- LBNL33,256interconnection requests (the source states the count)Queued Up 2025
- The layoffs ledger15tracked events, each class-markedCURATED BY US — not an official feed
- The circular machine21stated relationships, 12 with no figureCURATED BY US — not an official feed
- Data hubs7explore, filter, verify
- Reports29edition-dated, receipts on every figure
14 official sources and 2 sets we curate ourselves (named as such) · 192,931 records under management · 7 data hubs · 29 reports — every count read from the staged records at build.
- Every figure traces to an official record.
- Editions, never silent edits.
- Analysis is labeled as analysis.
- Nothing tracks the reader — no tiles, no third-party anything.
The mission.
GRIDINT was founded on a simple observation: the world produces more records than understanding. Filings pile up, sensors stream, registries grow — and the stories that would make them make sense go untold, or get told without receipts. We built a research house to close that gap: rigorous sourcing, publication-grade visualization, and the discipline to show our work on every figure. We never create data and we never provide it — the sources remain the authorities, and we are the lens that makes them legible. We are — deliberately — a consulting firm, an analysis desk, and a newsroom at once, because the intelligence worth paying for is the kind you can verify.
How the records work → · Security and data-handling, stated plainly → · The data hubs →