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How research becomes coordinated knowledge

Documents and streams flow into Ford, every company mention resolves to one Webster entity, and DealFlow & LP Flow read the same spine — links, never merges.

1 · What comes in

Documents — three doors, one pipeline

Filings, research reports, decks, benchmark books.

Emailford@rivent.dev
Uploadin the Ford app
Machine dropapps post directly

Streams — stay standalone, publish their residue

Each keeps its own product; only durable intel flows on.

Terminal Daily news & newsletter flow. Relevance-gated publisher, every 15 min. Archive delivered: 2,594 items. Live
Podcast Own RSS processing untouched. Publishes episode briefs, key facts, company mentions. Backfill: 3,059 episodes. Live
archive first → classify → extract per playbook
gate checks: tracked in DealFlow · portfolio · Webster

2 · The engine room

Ford

One ingestion pipeline, whatever the door. The email→shelf chain runs with zero human steps.

ArchiveRaw bytes stored before anything can fail.
ClassifyDocument type detected — research report, S-1, benchmark book…
ExtractThat type's playbook files the contents.
Artifact pageThe document, readable, every claim traceable to its page.
DatapointsEach value carries source page + as-of date, enforced.
SignalsAmber dot for uncertain matches — flagged, never blocked.

A company dossier shows everything in one place: filings + Terminal signals + podcast mentions.

every company & VC mention resolves to one spine entity

3 · One company, every book

DealFlow

Companies & VCs

~892 firms shared with LP Flow, including the 764-firm investor slice. Anything tracked here automatically passes Terminal's gate into Ford.

Badges live
Webster
Entity spine · internal

Every app keeps its own record; Webster links them to one entity. Links, never merges.

LP Flow

LPs & investors

Same spine, other book. "Also in the other book" badges surface the overlap; intel reaches each record via its registry link — nothing writes into a CRM directly.

Badges live
The one human step: 1,413 fuzzy name-matches wait in the review queue — they never auto-link. Until triaged at webster.rivent.dev, some Terminal / podcast mentions float unlinked to their DealFlow org. Links backfill once approved.

Underneath everything

Dewey — document substrate · internal One ingest, one embedding space, one search API: a document uploaded once is searchable everywhere with the same page-level citation. Entity mapping is Webster's job, not Dewey's.
Ford Quill Slide Library