Sources
The reference portfolios that feed your plan — dated, attributed, and honest about how old they are.
A source is a reference portfolio that can feed your plan. Three kinds exist, and they behave identically:
- a manager you track,
- your own strategy — the book you'd hold if you were starting today, written down deliberately rather than inherited by accident,
- an AI sleeve — a portfolio proposed by the AI, kept separate so you can watch it before you trust it.
Sources are inputs, not accounts. Your real brokerage holdings live under Portfolios; a source is something you're considering, not something you own. Keeping them apart is what makes it possible to ask the one question that matters: how far is what I own from what I meant to own?
Snapshots are dated and append-only
A snapshot is one dated record of what a source held on a given day: the positions, their weights or share counts, and a note about which disclosure it came from ("Manager snapshot, July 2026", "Weekly member update + portfolio sheet").
Snapshots are append-only. Recording a new one never overwrites the last, so the history is a real history — you can compare any two dates and see what moved. If you recorded something wrong, you file a correction, which supersedes the original while leaving the record of both. Nothing quietly rewrites the past.
This is what makes the questions in the next paragraph answerable at all. A diff between two snapshots shows entries, exits, adds and trims — and, next to them, any trades the manager actually disclosed. When a position vanishes and no disclosure accounts for it, that gap is visible instead of invisible.
Provenance: where a number came from
Every position carries provenance — the kind of evidence behind it:
| Provenance | What it means |
|---|---|
| Filing | A regulatory disclosure. The strongest evidence there is. |
| Interview / video / post | The manager said it publicly, but it isn't audited. |
| Inference | Someone (you, or an AI) concluded it. Weakest — and labeled as such. |
Provenance travels with the number for the rest of its life. Downstream, a figure from a dated filing and a figure inferred from an offhand comment are never treated as equally solid, and you can always see which one you're looking at.
Freshness: how old is this?
Every source view shows how old its data is, and the label is computed, not typed in: recent data reads as current, older data as stale, and data past the cadence that source promised reads as overdue.
Staleness isn't buried in a tooltip — it appears wherever the source's numbers are used. A plan built on a six-month-old disclosure tells you it's built on a six-month-old disclosure. If a source has never told the system how often it publishes, it is never labeled fresh, because nothing has earned that label.
Identity: one company, one line
Managers name things the way they talk, not the way exchanges list them — "Mainstreet", "Topicus", a name that trades under a different ticker in your country. The instrument aliases panel on the Sources page lets you confirm those mappings once, and from then on the same company stops showing up as two different positions in your plan.
The system will surface names it couldn't resolve and ask; it will not guess a mapping on your behalf. A wrong ticker is worse than an unresolved one.