Outclarity

Capabilities

Nine things it does, and what each refuses.

Every one of these is a piece of code rather than a claim, and each is defined as much by what it will not assert as by what it will. That second half is the part that separates this from every tool that produces a number.

How often is often research/analysis.py · BANDS
1+lowone or two people said it
6+mediumenough people that it is not chance
20+highsaid this often, on this many platforms

How many times a thing was said is arithmetic, so it is counted here and the model is handed the answer. Asking a language model whether something is a common complaint gets you a confident adjective and no number behind it.

What a report does 9 capabilities

01

Reading every platform your trade is reviewed on

Google is one source of nine, and rarely the one that decides anything.

It does not read anything behind a login, and it never submits a form.
02

The same complaint, on separate sites

Three people in a bad week is not the same fact as three platforms independently.

It does not treat a pile-on as a pattern.
03

Counting, rather than asking a model how common a thing is

Every frequency in a report is arithmetic this codebase performed.

It does not let the model say “many”, “most” or “frequently”.
04

Checking that a quote is in the page it cites

A quotation nobody verified is a quotation somebody invented.

It does not print a quotation it could not find.
05

Making sure it is your business, before anything else

A confident report about a company with a similar name is worse than no report.

It does not guess which business you are.
06

Saying where it looked and found nothing

A platform you are absent from is a finding, not a gap in ours.

It does not let an unread source look like a clean one.
07

What moved since your last issue

The second issue is mostly this, and it is what a fortnightly report is for.

It does not manufacture a change to have something to report.
08

Weighting what was said recently

A complaint that stopped a year ago is history; the same complaint this month is a problem.

It does not treat a fixed problem as a current one.
09

Keeping what it saw, not just what it concluded

A finding you cannot trace is a finding you cannot argue with.

It does not ask you to take its word for anything.
The model is given the measurements and cannot add one. Every frequency in a report is arithmetic this codebase performed.

Confidence bands are fixed at 20, 6 and 1 findings