How we cite
AIGI publishes intelligence, not aggregation.
Every brief is generated against a primary source — a government document or an authored research publication. We never summarize someone else's summary.
Three citation classes
Laws, regulations, court opinions, enforcement actions. Documents authored by a government body that bind, regulate, adjudicate, or enforce. Federal Register, EUR-Lex, Congress.gov, EU Commission, state legislatures, courts, agencies, attorneys general — the things that have legal force.
Original analysis from authoritative organizations. Reports, papers, and studies that interpret primary government documents for sophisticated audiences. Brookings, AI Now, CSET, Stanford HAI, RAND, NIST, EFF, CDT, and others. Has a name on it; is itself citable in a memo.
News commentary that pointed us to a primary document. Shown as context — never as the headline. The citation in your board memo is to the primary, not the news story.
What this means in practice
When a Reuters article reports on a new EU AI Act amendment, we follow the link to EUR-Lex and write our brief against the regulation itself. Reuters appears as "Via" attribution. The citation in your board memo is to EUR-Lex.
The rule is structural, not editorial. Our database physically refuses to publish a customer-facing item without a verified primary URL — enforced by a schema constraint, not by reviewer vigilance.
Source freshness — what "quiet" means
Coverage isn't a static number. On any given day, a source is in one of three states. We publish all three on our coverage page so a prospective buyer can audit our claim before the contract is signed.
Producing
The fetcher runs on schedule and the upstream published new items in the last cadence window. Tier-1 sources (EU AI Office, NIST, US Federal Register) are expected here most of the time.
Quiet upstream
The fetcher runs on schedule. The upstream simply hasn't published anything in the last cadence window. A state attorney general that releases AI-related actions twice a year will spend most of the year quiet — and that's correct behavior, not breakage. We don't claim coverage we're not delivering, and we don't quietly drop sources that are genuinely silent.
Broken
The fetcher itself is failing — a 403 from the upstream, a parser regression, or a structural site change. Broken sources fail the nightly SLO gate. The number on /coverage should be zero. When it isn't, we have a tracked issue and an open commit.
Most regulatory-intelligence products report coverage as a single number — every major jurisdiction, hundreds of sources — and never explain what that means when the customer asks. We publish the breakdown because the only honest answer to "how much is your tracker actually tracking right now?" is to point at the live number.
Disclosures
AIGI Intelligence Briefs and Intelligence Service
AIGI is a regulatory intelligence and primary-source aggregation service focused on AI laws, regulations, enforcement actions, and policy signals worldwide. AIGI is not a law firm, accounting firm, audit firm, advisory firm, or registered investment adviser, and no member of AIGI's editorial team holds themselves out as practicing law, providing legal advice, or providing professional services in any regulated capacity to subscribers.
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