# How we read > Where every fact comes from. > Source: https://forgeby.com/how-we-read.html > Figures on the landing follow the nightly count and carry the date they were counted. Figures on > the static pages are snapshots and are not re-counted. A number here was true when it was > counted, not when you asked. # What you get. What we refuse. How sure we are. Forgeby hands you one thing: an account worth a meeting, with the next step drafted and the confidence stated. Counted 14 August 2026, and not re-counted since. Country is a filter, not a gate. Every workspace sees the whole library. ## Four categories, and we name all four. Everything in the library comes from one of four places, and they are the same four named in the Article 14 notice, which is the version that governs. Nothing from a list nobody can account for. ### Official public business registers Each market's public register, read at the source under its own terms. Never somebody's copy. ### Licensed business data providers Companies whose business is compiling business contact information, licensed under contract. Each one is named in Annex B of the data processing agreement, and each warrants its own lawful basis to us in writing. ### Public web pages and search results What a company shows the open internet, read as any visitor reads it, under robots.txt and at a rate our crawler page states, and decision-makers found in public search results, including public professional profiles those results return. Never behind a login. ### Our founder's own network export Contacts our founder exported from his own account on a professional network, using that network's own export feature, where a connection already existed. Names, roles and profile links. ### And what you bring stays yours. Records you upload, a connections export a member makes from their own account included, sit in your workspace, isolated from every other partner's. Not trained on, not resold. You remain the controller for them, which is why they are not one of the four categories above: those four are ours to account for. ### Full provenance, per attribute, on request. Every attribute we hold can be traced to the category it came from and to the named source behind that category, in writing, under the data processing agreement. Ask and we answer. The data processing agreement · the privacy policy · privacy@forgeby.com ## One account, ready to be worked. Not a list. One account at a time, with the reason to meet written and the last step left to a person. ### What it runs, and how sure we are The cloud posture as a band, with the confidence and the date attached. A thin read says it is thin. ### The next step, named The next mail or meeting is drafted from what the desk already holds, with the reason it fits. ### The opener, in the buyer's language Written for the role that owns the decision, in their own language. Kvasir drafts. Today you approve every send. Autopilot is coming: an admin will be able to let workers send follow-ups inside your rules. When we run the motion, the deliverable is a held meeting , with the account read and the next step drafted. Booked is not held. Attempted is not held. The relationship and the inbox. Every message leaves from your own mailbox, in your name, and lands on the record. ## Measured from the outside. Dated on every read. Every read carries a band, its date and its honest state. A band we cannot stand behind is not shown. ### Outreach grade The read stands on its own evidence, and we will put a person's name against it. ### Still being checked Good enough to look at, not good enough to claim, and labelled candidate everywhere it appears. ### Held, not claimed Held with no measurement yet, and never counted as a negative result. ### A measurement is not a confession. We read what a company publishes to the open internet. That shows where something runs today, not a contract, a private network, or a decision not yet visible. We never turn silence into a claim. ## Why this account, and why now. Every account comes with the reason to meet, its source and its date, and the next step named. ## The market decides the channel. The same company, in two countries, is two different jobs. The product applies the lawful contact channel for each market at the moment of outreach. Every record carries the lawful way in for its market before anything is drafted. Where a market runs a public objection or advertising-protection register, it is applied before a draft exists. Flagged means not contacted, in the product, not in a promise. We do not publish the per-market rule set. It reaches you inside the product, and in writing under the data processing agreement. ## What we will not do. Each one costs us rows, and we take the loss. ### No scraper behind a login We run none. Licensed person data comes from a provider named in Annex B that warrants its own lawful basis. ### Every source accountable We can tell any person which of the four categories their own record came from. Ask at privacy@forgeby.com. ### No person-level data in public Public pages and open answers to an agent show people by role only. ### Person data only behind sign-in People open inside a workspace, behind sign-in, with a named owner and a route out. ### Suppression is honoured Where a market publishes an objection or advertising-protection register, it is applied before anything is written. ### Nothing sends outside your rules Every message leaves from the seller's own mailbox, in the seller's own name. Today the seller approves each one. Autopilot is coming: an admin will be able to let workers send follow-ups, with a cancel window and each send on the record. ### A person signs what binds Payments, contracts and partner filings never go out on their own. ### No guessing A thin read says it is thin, and a blank stays a blank. ### No live inference on the agent surface An agent gets the last read with its date, never a guess dressed as live. ## Where the picture stops. Three things that decide what a number here is worth. A band is what the outside showed at the last read. It does not rank spend, name a contract, or know what the company decided this morning. Held, not measured, and never counted as a negative. In public you get the shape of a market. Names, roles and contact routes open inside a workspace, behind sign-in, with a named owner and a route out. The shape is free. The people are not public.