RED THREADSCONSPIRACY UNRAVELER
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RED THREADS

CONSPIRACY UNRAVELER

Follow the money.
Find the mechanism.

Power has a paper trail. Sometimes it has a missing page.

Give your AI the craft to investigate money, influence, and hidden ties—with a case you can explore, challenge, and keep.

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OPEN FILE / THE MERIDIAN CASE

The money is real.
What does it buy?

A fictional teaching case. Every actor, amount, and record here is invented. The distinctions are the point.

TRACE THE MECHANISM3 RECORDS / 3 DIFFERENT CLAIMS
RELATIONSHIP MAPSELECT A RECORD TO FOLLOW ITS THREAD
Funding, approval, and an exercised right Cobalt Foundation awarded a grant to Meridian Institute and holds approval rights over the funded Licensing policy brief. Leo Venn requested in-scope revisions to that brief. The separate allegation that Cobalt directed Astera AI is disputed: no orders are supplied. Read the record inspector for sources and scope. RESEARCH GRANT APPROVAL RIGHT REVISION REQUEST ALLEGED DIRECTIONDISPUTED · NO ORDER SUPPLIED FUNDERCobalt Foundation POLICY INSTITUTEMeridian Institute FUNDED DELIVERABLELicensing policybrief PROGRAM LIAISONLeo Venn SEPARATE COMPANYAstera AI
Documented relationshipDisputed allegation

Position is a reading aid. A line earns its meaning from the record.

The wider claim / disputed

Cobalt Foundation → allegedly directed the licensing campaign of → Astera AI

No orders are supplied. The allegation traces back to the grant notice about Meridian.

EXAMINE THE RECORD

01 / AWARD NOTICE / 10 JAN 2025

$1.8 million.
One funding relationship.

Cobalt Foundationawarded a research grant toMeridian Institute

The notice establishes a two-year research award. It supplies no editorial orders.

The $900,000 first installment is part of that award. Add them together and you have invented $900,000.

SOURCE / s-awardFictional grant announcement, paragraph 2. Installment: agreement, remittance appendix B.

THE NEXT QUESTIONDoes the agreement give the funder any decision rights?

02 / SIGNED AGREEMENT / 15 JAN 2025

A right to approve.
A boundary around it.

Cobalt Foundationholds approval rights overLicensing policy brief

Section 4 requires liaison approval for the funded brief. The contract establishes a specific mechanism: review and revision of this deliverable.

It grants no general authority over Meridian or the separate company Astera AI.

SOURCE / s-agreementFictional signed grant agreement, section 4. Teaching paraphrase; limited to the research scope.

THE NEXT QUESTIONWas that approval right ever exercised?

03 / REVISION REGISTER / 02 JUL 2025

Now there’s
an action to trace.

Leo Venn, program liaisonrequested in-scope revisions toLicensing policy brief

Record R-07 asks for clarification of the audit-threshold section before approval. The limited right was used.

That supports influence over this brief. A claim about directing Astera’s wider campaign still needs its own evidence.

SOURCE / s-revisionsFictional revision register, R-07, read with agreement section 4. Teaching paraphrase.

THE NEXT QUESTIONWhat record would establish a route to Astera?

Follow the verb. “Funded” and “ordered” have different receipts.

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THERE’S MORE IN THE FILE

The map is where
the questions start.

Take the four-stop field tour
01 / SOURCESThree headlines. One origin.Trace a claim through Sentinel, Ledger, and Streamcast. Count independent evidence, not URLs.02 / TIMELINEThe calendar has an objection.Astera’s endorsement predates the briefing packet. Find the record that could explain the earlier agreement.03 / ACTOR GAMESWho can credibly do what?Inspect objectives, constraints, outside options, and the assumptions behind a strategic move.
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Connections are the beginning of the inquiry.

YOUR FIRST THREAD

Bring a hunch.
Keep the receipts.

Research, intuition, rival explanations, and game theory—working inside one portable investigation.

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INSIDE THE COMPLETE SKILL ZIP

Investigative craft
One self-contained AI skill with references for mechanisms, source ancestry, rival hypotheses, and strategy.
A case you can carry
A worked fictional investigation, local Python tools, an offline HTML atlas, and CSV exports.
A place to pick up again
Your case.json holds the evidence. Save revisions, inspect corrections, and return to the strongest unresolved lead.

Your host supplies the AI, browsing, and source access. Python 3.10+ runs the bundled case tools. The renderer displays the case; it performs no research.

Install it. Open your first case.

THE FIELD MANUAL

Less guessing.
More investigating.