Architecture complete. Development pending. Crowdfunding active.
About These Updates
Updates on this page document real progress — what was built, what it produced, what comes next. They are not promotional. They are field reports from an active investigation infrastructure.
Where findings are referenced, they meet the same confidence standards that govern all publications from this initiative. No update contains claims that have not passed the defined threshold. The methodology is the accountability structure.
Log
Public Funding Campaign Launched
The crowdfunding campaign for OpenEpsteinFiles.ai is live. The initial goal of $10,000 funds infrastructure build, the first analysis sprint, and legal structure formation — the minimum viable proof that this system works.
This is not the full cost of the investigation. The archive is not static, and a multi-year analysis effort will require sustained funding. But $10,000 is the ignition. It proves the project is real and produces the first tangible outputs: infrastructure deployed, documents ingested, initial entity extraction running.
Fund allocation will be reported publicly on this page as the project progresses. Every dollar received and every dollar spent will be disclosed.
System Architecture Finalized — Seven Layers Specified
The complete architecture for the OpenEpsteinFiles.ai analysis engine has been designed and specified. Seven processing layers — from evidence ingestion through legal framework mapping to reviewed publication — have been defined with full methodological detail at three tiers of depth.
Every layer specifies what it does, how it does it, and why it matters. The design decisions that govern the system — how entities are disambiguated, how confidence is scored, how legal thresholds are mapped — are documented and published before a single line of production code is written.
The full system specification is available on The System page. It represents the analytical blueprint that development will implement. The architecture is open for public scrutiny.
Document Index
A running record of document types ingested into the system, updated as ingestion progresses.
| Document Type | Source | Date Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ingestion has not yet begun. This index will populate as documents are processed. | |||