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Briefings & packs

A briefing is a PDF for a period, generated from the same functions as the API; every number in it is a recorded figure with a footnote to its lineage. Its evidence pack carries the figures, their lineage and the files, each hashed. Publishing freezes both.

Generating

  1. 1

    Choose the period and sections

    Summary and the figure appendix are always included; what changed, sources and tiers, the facility league, review activity, standards readiness, priorities and methods are optional.
  2. 2

    Add an analyst's note if needed

    It is printed under its own heading as the analyst's words. Numbers in it are not platform figures, and the document says so.
  3. 3

    Generate

    Rendering runs as a job. The PDF and the evidence pack are stored with their SHA-256, and every figure is recorded with its lineage.

What is in the PDF

Cover
Period, generation time, engine and factor-set versions, template, report id, and a QR code to the briefing's line in the public register.
Statement of basis
The reporting basis, the method version, whether the data are real or demonstration, and how a reader can verify the document without asking its authors.
Figures
Each with a footnote to its lineage record. The appendix lists every one with the fingerprint of its inputs.

Before publishing

The publish control stays disabled until every check passes.

  1. 1

    Rendered and hashed

    The PDF and pack exist and have recorded SHA-256 values.
  2. 2

    Every figure resolves to a lineage record

    Checked automatically.
  3. 3

    The stored files match their hashes, and every computed figure reproduces

    Use “Re-run every figure now”: the platform re-runs each figure from its lineage and compares at storage precision. Counts from the record have nothing to re-run and are listed as such.
  4. 4

    Compared with the last published briefing

    The figures the two share, side by side, largest movement first. A different period moves totals by construction; read intensities and shares first.
  5. 5

    The analyst's note read

    It states no figure as the platform's that the platform has not recorded.
Publishing is final. The database refuses any change to a published briefing. A correction is a new briefing, which can name the one it supersedes.
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