Every published company, ranked on one fixed scale. The scale is sixty established companies with the deepest evidence on the tape, pinned on 2026-08-30 — a score only means something measured against outcomes you can already check. Each company ranks by where its activity, capital, infrastructure, hiring and ecosystem signals would place it among those sixty, so an early-stage company sitting low is expected: it reads "early against the benchmark", not "weak". The pre-consensus names this index exists to find are on Discover and Prospects — and they now carry a score here too.
219 of 391 companies clear the evidence gate (≥2 components with data); the other 172 show no score — insufficient evidence is stated, never averaged over. Every score is a rank against the pinned sixty-company scale. Calibration receipts: COMPOSITE-V0-STEP3-2026-09-02, COMPOSITE-EXTENSION-2026-10-21.
60 companies have enough dated readings to show direction; 8 more started their series and will join as readings accrue. A shrinking count is shown as honestly as a growing one.
A certificate is infrastructure, not a product — but new surface precedes launches, and the detection is a dated public record. Detection coverage itself is still growing.
Counts from the open ecosyste.ms package index, recorded as dated observations — adoption that precedes revenue. Some packages lag the index; treat low counts as a floor, not a verdict.
Companies with realized federal contract awards — the highest-credibility, hardest-to-fake signal we track. A dollar-denominated public record beats any rumor. Strong-confidence name matches only.
Companies publishing models on HuggingFace, ranked by adoption. Shipped, downloaded capability is observable proof — ahead of any product announcement.
Every company with a signal, three provenance layers side by side — reported (Tier 2 · press/commentary), filed (Tier 0 · SEC Form D), and chatter (Tier 3 · Hacker News, unverified). Divergences surface first: a reported raise with no matching filing is an evidence gap to investigate, not proof of anything. Cross-source claims mined from the registry live on the Signal feed →
Attention vs money HN chatter across · reported raise up (log, $10B cap)
Each dot is a company with a reported raise: up = more money claimed, right = more Hacker News chatter. Dots are fanned apart so none hide behind another — height still reads money exactly. The dashed line is the median raise; gold dots below it and to the right (loud but cheap, no filing) are the alpha worth investigating. Reported figures above $10B pin to the top lane.
Reported capital by verdict
A reported round with no Form D isn't proof of anything — filings lag and exemptions exist — but it's exactly where evidence-first diligence starts. Separately, 90 companies filed with the SEC without a round in OUR funding data — which is a gap in our data, not proof the raise went unreported.