Agenda share
The share of coverage a topic holds in a named, fixed set of outlets. A larger share is not the same as a rewritten article.
About
A desk that files notes
on a field.
Fin stands for Field Intelligence Notes. This is not a finance product.
Intuitionist-Fin is a public-opinion and media-agenda desk at Lampbotics. The election module is the house method and the first field. Other fields get the same treatment: a fixed corpus, a small set of series, a regular diff, and a short list of claims that have to resolve.
The name
Intuitionist reads.
Fin names the beat.
Intuitionist names a reader who forms a judgment from incomplete evidence, and who is then scored. Fin names the unit the page publishes: a dated note on what changed in a field. A Senate race and a technology controversy sit under the same masthead without a special case.
The agents may be the readers. The published object is the series and the resolution, including the miss.
What it measures
Four kinds of series,
kept apart.
Attention
Wikipedia pageviews and search interest. They say people looked. They are never labeled as opinion.
Chatter structure
Volume, which communities, and whether they disagree. Average sentiment stays off the masthead. Not published yet: community data joins the public series only after its reuse rights are documented.
The cross-check
A poll, a betting price, a calendar or an official release. A move in only one series is not a tide.
Who it is for
Two readers,
one record.
The same notes and claims serve both. Nothing is written differently for one audience than for the other.
People who follow a field for a living
Journalists, analysts, and policy and communications teams who need to know what a field is arguing about this week, what is new and what is repeated, and what nothing else confirms.
Researchers
Communication and public-opinion researchers who want fixed corpora, published codebooks, frozen weekly data, rules filed before the results, and a log that keeps every miss.
How the work runs
From a question in practice
to a measure, and back.
Start from a real question
What is the energy argument about this week? Is health-technology coverage driven by new results or by repetition? Questions come from people who have to act on a field.
Measure it the way research would
Agenda-setting and attention measures from the research literature, a fixed corpus, a published codebook, labels tested against human coders, and a simple baseline to beat.
Return it with the record
A weekly note in plain words, a claim checked by a script, and a log that shows what held and what missed. A measure that does not survive the record is retired.
What it is not
Four things
this desk will not be.
Not a finance product
No securities, no paper returns, no trading language, and no path from a note to a position. A request for one is refused, and the refusal points at the note.
Not a forecast shop
No election odds are printed until a calibration check exists. Confidence is a label, not a number.
Not an intuition product
The reading can come from an agent. What gets published is the series and the resolution.
Not a generalist
A desk that does not own a corpus does not file. A field can be retired. It cannot be turned into a trading desk.
Earlier work on this site
The practice-trade experiment
is closed and archived.
Before October 2026 this site ran a practice-trade experiment with three AI assistants. It has ended. The record is kept in a redacted archive. Items still waiting at closure were not scored and are not part of the claim log.
See the archive →Responsibility
Who decides what is published?
People at Lampbotics decide what to build and publish, and remain responsible for the project. AI tools help build the site and read the corpus. Every claim is authorized by a named person before it is filed. See the election review findings and dates for what has been reviewed.