Create the supplyThe public-source engineReaches the public record

Crawl

Turns the scattered public record into a maintained hub.

StatusSpec

Crawl is the agentic public-source engine. Where Frame and Forge create first-party supply from the field, Crawl reaches the public record: the registries, portals, reports, and datasets that already exist but sit scattered, in incompatible shapes, at unknown freshness, behind no single front door. It runs a four-move loop, scan, verify, organise, maintain, under human curation.

It produces two things from one engine. A human-facing Hub: a curated, source-rated, maintained reference anyone can use, from local stakeholders and researchers to app users who need context alongside their own records. And a supply stream: the same organised public data, which becomes tradable once Scribe renders it into conforming records and Spine exchanges it, exactly as any external database or data dump does.

The method is the most field-proven in the suite. Hand-run crawls already maintain live reference hubs for cobalt, extractives transparency, artisanal mining, and Global-South climate. What is being built now is the sector-agnostic engine underneath them, configured per sector rather than rewritten.

Where it sits. A public-data supply source. Its Hub output is standalone; its market-facing output flows through Scribe to conform, then Spine to exchange, the same path any external source follows.

What it does
01
Source-anchored scan
Enumerate the authoritative registers first, then the periphery, so registry-listed facts stop slipping through a keyword search.
02
Verified, not scraped
Every record carries a corroboration rating and its sources; a single-source claim is labelled as such, never dressed as corroborated.
03
Kept fresh
Per-record last-verified stamps and link-health, re-scanned on a cadence, because the public record decays and a maintained hub is the moat.
Crawl in the suite
FIG.01 · five products, two supply paths, one foundation
A · Create the supplyB · Make the marketForgeagents build appsFramethe app frameworkappscapture field databuildsrun onPublic sourcesregistries · portals · reportsCrawlscan · verify · organiseScribemap · reconcile · conformpublic weborganisedpublishesPublic hubopen · source-rated · kept freshSpineexchange, at sourcecaptured dataconformedIntelligencethe demand-side payoffpriced accessrisk managementimpact measurementdue diligenceopportunity assessmentwithin-appcross-systemThe foundationShared conventionsidentity · schema · provenance · sharing rules
DAAC product — Spine, in copper, is the load-bearing gateApps built on Frame — the ecosystem that captures the supplyExternal — public sources scanned in, intelligence served out