// THE STANDARD

Most AI tools ship answers. We ship defensibility.

ICD 203 governs analytic tradecraft: objectivity, confidence, uncertainty, alternatives, and the separation of judgments, assumptions, and evidence. ICD 206 establishes sourcing requirements for disseminated analytic products. The Watch’s traceability standard links claims to supporting source material, passages, observations, datasets, or project-corpus identifiers.

The Watch was built around those standards. Human-led, AI-enabled workflows combine source-based research, verification, structured analysis, and review. These checks are designed to identify unsupported claims, distinguish evidence from judgment, and make uncertainty visible before release.

Most AI tools optimize for fluency. The Watch optimizes for defensibility. Every report is designed to show what is known, what is inferred, what is assumed, what could be wrong, and where the evidence sits.