Methodology
Trinity Audit Engine
The Trinity Audit Engine (TAE) is our automated audit pipeline. Every Trinity chart is continuously cross-checked against public industry reference sources. When a discrepancy exceeds the declared tolerance, the affected metric is suspended pending investigation and resolution.
Why a continuous audit
Many analytics platforms operate on a trust model : 'here are our numbers, trust us'. Trinity Insights refuses that posture. Every value the platform returns must be verifiable against a publicly accessible external source.
The TAE enforces this discipline by running automated checks at a cadence matched to the data's nature (intra-day for real-time flows, daily for macro, etc.) and raising an internal alert as soon as a discrepancy crosses the tolerance declared for that metric.
What the TAE checks
- Source fidelity. Comparison between the value exposed by Trinity and the same value returned by the canonical public source (central banks, public registries, aggregated on-chain data, etc.).
- Temporal consistency. Detection of abrupt series anomalies (jump, plateau, impossible value, gap).
- Pipeline continuity. Verification that every connected source actually returns fresh data on its expected cadence.
- Semantic calibration. If a metric references an institutional standard, the TAE verifies that magnitudes stay within the expected range of that standard.
Reference sources
All reference sources the TAE uses are public and free of charge — central banks (Fed, ECB, BoJ, BIS), academic aggregators, public on-chain blockchain data, public registries. No commercial aggregator is part of the audit loop, to guarantee reproducibility and independence from competing analytics editors.
Tolerances and cryptographic properties
Each non-exclusive metric carries a declared tolerance — the maximum acceptable gap between the Trinity value and the public source value. Tolerances are defined at integration time and account for rounding, timestamp shifts, and per-source reconciliation conventions.
Audit results are stored append-only with cryptographic integrity : no past result can be retroactively modified. This property is essential for institutional traceability.
Trinity proprietary indicators
Trinity composites are proprietary models with no direct public industry equivalent. The TAE applies a specific protocol for them: verification of internal coherence (continuity, bounds, calibration vs an institutional reference cited in the documentation), instead of direct comparison.
When a discrepancy is detected
When a discrepancy crosses the declared tolerance, the TAE raises an internal alert, which triggers an investigation. The metric may be :
- kept in service with a public note if the discrepancy is explained (known methodological difference, publication lag, etc.) ;
- temporarily suspended if the discrepancy reflects a pipeline bug being fixed ;
- permanently removed from the platform if the source becomes unreliable or the formula is fundamentally incorrect.
This policy is intentionally asymmetric : Trinity prefers to remove a metric rather than display unverifiable data.
Operational status
The platform's operational status — including the audit chain — is published in real time at trinityinsights.io/status.