How we work
How the number stays neutral.
An index is only worth citing if the number means the same thing no matter who publishes it, and if no one can lean on it. LOADSTAR holds that with three rules: no side in any deal, a fixed method over public signals, and an open record of when we are wrong.
We take no side in any deal.
No developer, utility, hyperscaler, or investor pays us to move a number, and we hold no position in the projects we score. The same number is public to everyone, at the same time — the opposite of a tool sold privately to one party in a docket. Our only incentive is to be the number people can trust enough to cite.
A rule applied to public signals, not an opinion.
Every score is produced by a fixed rule run over public data: same inputs, same number, no human thumb on a specific region. We don't decide a region is real or phantom; the signals do, and the calculation is open. What moves the number is the evidence, not us.
When we are wrong, the record shows it.
We publish predictions dated and sealed before the outcome is known, and the record is append-only, so we can't quietly edit a miss. When we find an error in a number or a label, we correct it in the open, date the correction, and keep the original in the history. For example, in July 2026 we caught and relabeled a queue figure that mixed generation with load, and left the change on the record. A record you can trust has to include the misses.
Open method, one address.
The full methodology is public and dated, so anyone can reproduce a number and see when it changed. We are faceless by design, because the authority is the evidence and the ledger, not a person to quote. One address handles every question and correction: [email protected].
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