How it works
Why SigB exists, what turns at its centre, and what it does for anyone who comes in.
The readers changed, so we built a station.
Every day the world writes thousands of stories. A person can read a few of them.
So people skimmed. They trusted some papers more than others and discounted a wild headline. Each reader sorted what was worth believing.
Machines started reading. They read everything, all at once, and they believe what they read.
A machine acts on a wild headline the moment it reads it: it books the ship, reroutes the cargo, sends the alert.
Reading is now the easy part. The valuable part is knowing which information is safe to act on.
SigB is a station in the sea of news. Its job is to make information safe to act on.
Stories stream toward it all day: thousands of new ones, from newsrooms, governments and filings, in many languages. We keep every page we can, because more material makes a better picture.
We call it an attention factory. It takes in what the world is paying attention to and turns it into a sourced record you can act on.
Let's follow one real story through it.
One real story, from five newsrooms to the words at the source.
Our story, step 1 of 5: arriving
Our story: on 26 September 2026, Trump rejected Iran's seven-day ceasefire proposal. Over the next few days five outlets report it, each on its own, and their pages stream toward the ring at the station's heart.
Inside the station is a ring shaped like a doughnut. Engineers call that shape a tokamak.
In a physics lab, a tokamak's field holds plasma too hot for any wall. Ours holds the world: its events, its people, its places, and how they connect.
The field keeps everything circling, so each thing is seen from every side. Everything stays on the record. When something turns out wrong, the ring corrects today and keeps the past readable.
To get into the ring, our story's pages must pass one gate.
Our story, step 2 of 5: at the throat
Stories swirl in like water down a drain and reach one narrow gate. We call it the throat.
The throat runs on fixed rules. They work the same way every time, so anyone can check the result. Only the rules decide what gets in.
Our five pages pass the rules, and go in.
Our story, step 3 of 5: inside the ring
Five outlets reported our story, each on its own. In the ring, their reports join into one supported fact, worth more than any one alone.
Every strand keeps its link back to where it came from. We never separate a thing from its source.
Only what links back to its source gets passed along. Everything else is kept and counted, out of view. Every quote is word for word.
45more claims we couldn't tie to a source. Counted, kept, not shown.
The fact is ready. Next, it comes out as a reading.
How to read a reading
The facts, each one tied to its sources.
The silence is news too.
Said out loud, every time.
primary maritime and government feeds were not wired during this window· Hormuz record
Our story, step 4 of 5: coming out
Every reading says plainly what it saw and what it could not see, so a machine acting on it always knows which is which.
Every answer opens, all the way down. Let's open ours.
Our story, step 5 of 5: back to the source
Every reading works the same way, at every size. Try it on our story.
Go deep. Open it one level at a time until you reach the bottom: the original source, a single observation, or an honest "we could not see."
Pan back out. Every level knows its parent, so you never get lost.
Follow the threads. Every connection leads somewhere else in the web, like a spider's silk. Pull one and the next thing comes into view.
That is one story's whole trip, from seven newsrooms to the words at the source.
How a visitor comes in, and what each room gives.
You have followed a story in. Now come in yourself. Each ring goes a little deeper and a little more specialized.
Tap a ring to look inside. At the very centre is the ring itself.
The same Watch works through every door.
It chews everything again and again until it stops finding anything new. Then it waits to be fed.
Empty. Feed it to begin.
Inside: nothing yet.
Every room serves the same ring. Next, point that ring at a world of your own.
One station, many factories. Here are six running today, and then yours.
Factory 1 of 6 · Running today
Five newsrooms. One confirmed fact over the water. This is where our story came from: a live record of a narrow strait that ships depend on.
Servesanyone who ships, insures or trades through the strait. It is open to all.
On the recordSee the live Hormuz record
Available to buildA Desk would add your own fleet and routes, so the record names which of your ships a change touches.
Factory 2 of 6 · Running today
Every new paper and trial, read the morning it appears. A daily research update for patients, families and care teams, with a longer digest every Sunday.
Servessomeone following the research for a family member.
From the 2 October briefBlood-based MRD testing shows prognostic value beyond 12 months after surgery (opens in a new tab)
Available to buildA Desk would add a care team's own trial criteria, so each morning names the new trials that fit, with a weekly shortlist ready to send.
Factory 3 of 6 · Running today
When a state changes the rules, practitioners hear about it the next morning. A brief for multi-state tax practitioners, sorted by nexus alerts, law changes and state updates.
Servesa CPA practice.
From the 2 October briefWashington State Millionaire Tax Faces Repeal Referendum (opens in a new tab) Kiplinger Tax
Available to buildA Desk would add your own client list, so the brief names which of your clients a new rule touches.
Factory 4 of 6 · Running today
Federal awards, state policy and the companies in between. A morning brief for the people steering Arizona's aerospace and defense economy.
Servesa state technology council.
From the 2 October briefSpace Force picks two companies to build new 'space-to-space' satellites by 2028 (opens in a new tab) Defense News
Available to buildA Desk would add your members' companies, so the brief names which member a new contract or rule touches, with a weekly digest ready to send.
Factory 5 of 6 · Running today
How deals are built, read the morning after they are announced. A brief on transactions, how they are structured, and the capital moving before them.
Servesa global strategy consultancy.
From the 2 October briefAdHawk's investors sue over a merger earnout (opens in a new tab) Law 360 Securities
Available to buildA Desk would add the firm's own live deals and target list, so the brief names which deal a new filing or comparable touches.
Factory 6 of 6 · Running today
Funding, missions and the researchers behind them. A morning brief that follows space research funding and the people who win it.
Servesa public research university's space program.
From the 2 October briefNASA plans unpiloted Starliner test flight at end of year (opens in a new tab) Spaceflight Now
Available to buildA Desk would add your own researchers and open proposals, so the brief says which new solicitation fits which team.
Each of these is a running newsletter. When we build a whole factory around one customer, we call it a Desk. Here is one.
The whole station can be pointed at one person's world. It reads that world all night, and it is ready when you are.
It keeps a sourced picture of right now and tells you what changed. When we build one around you, we call it a Desk. Here is one running today, then yours.
In What it eats
25 news feeds, and the government's own spending records
Space news, defense and aerospace, NASA and government, regional business news, and the federal contract records.
Ring What it does
Keeps only what matters to the space economy
Each item is tied to its source and checked against it. Anything it can't trace stays out.
Out Every morning
A brief, sorted six ways
1 · Start from a running newsletter, or your own world
2 · What to feed it
3 · How many Watches
One Watch is one standing question about your world.
4 · How it reaches you
Your newsletter starts from space research in Arizona. It eats news in many languages and government filings, and reaches you as a morning email.
3 Watches: 3 standing questions about space research in Arizona