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Reading the provenance panel
Every result here carries a panel titled “Where this came from”. This is the guided tour: what each field answers, and why it earns its place on the page.
Field notes
Honest data
Why truthful award data is rarer than it should be, and the specific ways this product renders what it knows and admits what it does not.
All field notes
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Why we publish our limitations
Our coverage page lists more programs we cannot search than programs we can, and says which lock is shut on each. Here is why the barrier column exists — and what it cost us to get honest about it.
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Why seat counts lie
A search result that says “4 seats” is making one of five different claims, and most tools flatten them into the most confident one. Here is how to tell them apart.
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The two clocks every search result should carry
“Live” award data is a spectrum, not a switch. The difference between when a tool looked and when the source last answered is where stale results hide.
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“No seats” is a claim, not a default
The most consequential distinction in award search is between a program saying “nothing available” and a tool failing to get an answer. Most tools render both the same way.