Data sources and disclaimers
Every signal we publish comes from one of the official sources below. This page is generated from the same source contracts the pipeline enforces, so what it says here is what the software actually does.
How to read a signal
A signal is a dated statement that a source published a particular record. It is not our opinion, not a current status, and not a judgement about any company or person. Each signal's evidence view shows the source record identifier, the hash of the exact source snapshot it was derived from, and the versioned transform and rule that produced it, so you can check it against the source yourself.
Where we add interpretation, it is labelled as ours and shown separately from the source facts. Source facts are never generated, rewritten, or inferred by a language model.
Sources
fda_device_enforcement
- How we obtain it
- rest api
- Update cadence
- Documented weekly. Observed on 2026-09-06: API meta.last_updated 2026-08-19 (18 days), bulk export_date 2026-08-27 (10 days). Treat weekly as a claim, not an SLO.
- Terms
- Public domain, commercial redistribution permitted (https://open.fda.gov/terms/, /license/). Results are explicitly unvalidated. FDA does not update recall status after classification.
- Contains personal data
- No
This data must not be presented as:
- public safety alerting service
- recall lifecycle tracking
- current recall status
- medical care decision support
- FDA-approved
- FDA-endorsed
- validated FDA data
Data provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (https://open.fda.gov)
fda_device_510k
- How we obtain it
- rest api
- Update cadence
- Observed on 2026-09-06: API meta.last_updated 2026-08-17 (20 days), bulk export_date 2026-09-04 (2 days). Bulk is materially fresher than the API for this dataset; 175879 records total.
- Terms
- Public domain, commercial redistribution permitted (https://open.fda.gov/terms/, /license/). Results are explicitly unvalidated. A clearance is not an FDA endorsement of the device.
- Contains personal data
- No
This data must not be presented as:
- FDA-approved
- FDA-endorsed
- device safety assurance
- medical care decision support
Data provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (https://open.fda.gov)
epa_echo_enforcement_cases
- How we obtain it
- bulk download
- Update cadence
- Observed 2026-09-06: case_downloads.zip Last-Modified 2026-09-05, newest ACTIVITY_STATUS_DATE 2026-09-03 (3-day lag). 136327 CASE_ENFORCEMENTS records. Refresh appears daily; treat the measured lag per run as the truth.
- Terms
- U.S. federal government public record. EPA states ECHO data may contain errors and omissions and that facility compliance status can change; data is not a determination of violation.
- Contains personal data
- Yes — see the privacy notice
This data must not be presented as:
- current compliance status
- EPA-certified
- determination of violation
- environmental safety assurance
Source: U.S. EPA Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO)
sec_iapd_adviser_feed
- How we obtain it
- bulk download
- Update cadence
- Monthly. Feed IA_FIRM_SEC_Feed_MM_01_YYYY.xml.gz, GenOn 2026-09-01, retrieved 2026-09-06 (5-day lag), 7.3 MB gzip / 82 MB XML, 23797 SEC-registered advisers. Only the current month is served: the 08_01_2026 URL returns HTTP 403, and the SEC FOIA structured Form ADV archive stops at 2024 data. Snapshot history must be accumulated by us.
- Terms
- U.S. federal government public record. Form ADV content is self-reported by the adviser and is not verified or endorsed by the SEC; registration is not an endorsement.
- Contains personal data
- Yes — see the privacy notice
This data must not be presented as:
- SEC-approved
- SEC-endorsed
- verified adviser data
- investment advice
- adviser fitness assessment
Source: SEC Investment Adviser Public Disclosure (IAPD) Form ADV data
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