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INVESTIGATIVE OBJECTS

Distinct objects form factual memory without becoming interchangeable.

Sources, evidence, records, actors, relationships, contexts, and dossiers play different roles. This distinction lets memory grow without turning a claim into fact, proximity into a conclusion, or synthesis into evidence.

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CENTRAL QUESTION

How can an investigation be represented without turning everything into loose text?

01Source
02Evidence
03Record
04Actor / context
05Dossier
WHAT TRAILON BUILDS

Six objects.
One navigable investigation.

Sources, evidence, records, contexts, actors, and dossiers work together without becoming interchangeable.

Sources

The original material remains whole.

Documents, conversations, media, and files are inventoried, preserved, and versioned. Investigative work begins without replacing the source with an interpretation.

payment_investigation.zip finance_conversation.txt invoices.pdf approval_matrix.xlsx
01 · ORIGIN

Sources and evidence preserve what came from the material.

The source is the received object. Evidence is a located literal excerpt within it. Neither automatically establishes a conclusion.

  1. Immutable, versioned source
  2. Citable literal excerpt
  3. Verifiable locator
02 · STRUCTURE

Records turn material into reviewable propositions.

Claims, events, admissions, subjective states, and hypotheses retain attribution, epistemic status, and review state.

  1. Attribution
  2. Narrated date
  3. Confirmation, correction, or rejection
03 · RELATIONSHIPS

Actors and contexts organize participation and episodes.

Mentions and aliases remain separate from confirmed identities. Contexts group elements without turning proximity into guilt or automatic relevance.

  1. Conservative registry
  2. Roles and aliases
  3. Reviewable contexts
04 · READING

A dossier is a composition over the foundation, not the foundation itself.

The same investigation can produce a factual dossier, chronology, evidence matrix, or executive report without erasing counterevidence or gaps.

  1. Multiple formats
  2. Citations for each claim
  3. Explicit limits
WHAT THIS LAYER DELIVERS

The result takes reviewable forms.

01Consistent investigative vocabulary
02Review by object type
03Navigable relationships
04Multiple outputs retaining traceability
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