The Instruments

The Three Instruments

Built to be attacked rather than admired. Each one can say we don’t know, this failed, or we were wrong — and each publishes the gap where a weaker tool would show a number.

The Record
One store over the whole apparatus — 1,275 entities, 1,909 claims, every one with its receipts and its gaps. Trace any two names. Attack any record.
The Instrument
The capture detector, pointed at whatever you paste — and at the author's own books. It publishes its own false positives and the markers it had to kill.
The Experiment
Guess before you look. 780 scored responses, 390 A/B pairs, thirteen models — and every delta shown against the interval that decides whether it counts at all.

The Living Trackers

Standing documents that update as the ratchet turns — regulation, documented harm, litigation, economic statecraft, the historical record, and six projections that each name the observation which would kill them. Every row sources to a primary.

AI Governance Tracker
The governance ratchet in real time — EU AI Act rollout, compute export controls, the open-weight fights, C2PA adoption, and the spreading AI Safety Institutes. Updated as the clicks land.
Lawfare Tracker
Litigation and legal designation as political instrument — mapped by method, across the spectrum, with the same evidentiary bar for every faction.
Economic Statecraft Tracker
The instruments of fifth-generation economic war, tracked — sanctions, tariffs, export controls, currency, industrial policy, and the kinetic edge — across the three operator-grids (US / China / BRICS), each action with a status and a receipt.
The Historical Explorer
The historical record on foreign-influence displacement: six response-classes, thirty-nine sourced cases, and the capacity ladder that shows what capture takes off the menu.
Ratchet Forecasts
Six falsifiable projections built from the documented record — each names its base-rate pattern, its mechanism, a calibrated confidence, and the exact observation that would prove it wrong.

The Apparatus

The control grid as structure — who rotates through what, in what order, funded by whom. Drawn from the dataset, not hand-curated.

The Ratchet Atlas
The apparatus, mapped from the source of truth: who the AI-safety/content-policy people are, the institutions they rotate through, who funds whom — and, on their own published words, the methods their texts exhibit.
The Revolving Door Map
Personnel moving between CFR, government, Wall Street, and the think tanks — then back again — traced edge by edge. It keeps resolving to the same few hundred people.
The Convergence Table: Who's Building What
China, the EU, India, the US, the UK — the control grid compared component by component. The gap between the systems is closing; the table shows which pieces each one has already built.
The Ratchet Clicks Counter
Twenty-three control-grid mechanisms, one per chapter of The Ratchet. How many have already clicked shut where you live? Your answer is a range, not a score — and if the range straddles two bands the page refuses to name one.

Capture Detection

Detect the method, score it, contribute the receipt — the same discipline end to end: flag the move, show the span, never render a verdict.

Tradecraft — Detect the Method, Not the Ideology
An open, reproducible tool that scores text for influence tradecraft — the recurring tells of permeation, manufactured belief, and cognitive steering — and shows its receipts.
The Capture Scanner
Paste any passage. The scanner surfaces its casual capture — the smuggled voice and smuggled judgment a writer or a model leaves behind — and tells you which loaded words are attributed to a source and which are asserted as the author's own neutral voice. Runs in your browser; nothing is sent anywhere.
The Receipt Collector
Build a portable evidence receipt from any page — claim, actor, source, archive, tier — and export it as JSON the capture tools can ingest. A bookmarklet feeds it, not a browser extension. Runs in your browser; nothing is sent anywhere.

The Judge

Can a machine referee political bias without carrying it? The referee itself, what it said once the layer that made it flinch was cut out, and all 780 scored responses to check that against.

The Judge
Can a machine referee political bias without carrying it? Building a judge with the flinch removed — and finding out what actually causes the flinch.
The Wash
Bias Study — Data Browser
Interactive filter and inspect tool for the 780 scored model responses in the cross-vendor AI bias study. Filter by model, vendor, condition, position, score. Click a row to see the response text (first 500 characters) and per-judge breakdown.