Method
How each edition is built.
A data publication earns its authority from its sources and its discipline, not from its tone. This page sets out both.
The frame
ForesightLoop combines two proprietary analytical models with eight categories of authoritative public data: national company registries, government open datasets, professional associations, regulatory filings, sector directories, financial regulators, real-estate transaction registries, and industry publications.
The categories are the same in every market. The specific sources differ country by country, because every country's public record is different.
Four stages
1 · Ingestion
Public records are read directly from their official source, in their original form, with the capture date recorded. No third-party databases are bought and no intermediate aggregators are reused, so every figure keeps its provenance.
2 · Normalisation
Records are brought into a common shape — geography, date, entity, value — so they can be compared. Where a field arrives incomplete from the source, it is marked incomplete rather than estimated.
3 · Signal
Signals are computed on that base: the patterns that matter to one specific trade. A signal is not a loose number — it is a dated reading with a stated geography and a reproducible method.
4 · Editing
Every edition is written and reviewed before it goes out. Anything that cannot be traced to a primary record is not published.
What is not done
Personal information about private individuals is not published. Where a public record contains natural persons, ForesightLoop works with aggregates or with corporate entities.
Subscriber contact details are never sold or passed to third parties. This site sets no cookies and loads no third-party resources.
Unsolicited commercial email is not sent. Every contact starts from express consent, consistent with CASL.
Licence and attribution
Canadian open data is used under the terms each publisher sets — principally the Open Government Licence in its federal, provincial and municipal forms, which permit commercial reuse on condition of attribution.
Where a licence requires an attribution statement, that statement is carried alongside the analysis it applies to, in the exact wording the publisher specifies. Sources whose terms do not permit this use are excluded rather than worked around.
A source register — licence, publisher, refresh cadence and clearance status for every dataset — is maintained internally and reviewed before any source enters production.
Technical note
ForesightLoop uses a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) approach to query public databases and ground each analysis in a primary source record: retrieve first, write second. All editorial content is reviewed under human supervision before publication. The full disclosure is on the legal page.