Evidence, uncertainty, and the difference between a claim and its source.

An evidence-first civic product study designed around provenance, uncertainty, corrections, and the difference between a claim and the source beneath it.

Recordkind's design direction page, headed Warm, rigorous, memorable, above a preview of the public notebook it describes. — On screenScreen capture of the running software. Corey D.M. Johnson. Unmodified beyond resampling: no crop, no colour grade, no compositing.

The question

Civic software usually skips the hard parts: where evidence came from, how confident the system is, and what happens when it’s wrong. This was an attempt to design for exactly those.

Where it is now

An active prototype for evidence-first civic information.

A working prototype that continues to explore how civic information can expose its evidence, confidence, and corrections instead of flattening uncertainty away.

A few more things worth seeing

Recordkind’s issue index, headed Start with the question, where positions are assigned only from direct answers. — On screenScreen capture of the running software. Corey D.M. Johnson. Unmodified beyond resampling: no crop, no colour grade, no compositing.

Related work

This idea didn’t stay in its lane.

Ledgerline →Product Validation Lab →