03 / TRACE THE SOURCE

Trace every answer to its evidence.

Shelob keeps the publisher, source URL, observation date, original record and projection details attached to every result.

WHAT IT MEANS

Attribution is part of each observation, not a citation added after the analysis. It survives joins, trajectories, agent queries, API responses and data exports.

SHELOB / inspect_evidenceILLUSTRATIVE
ASK SHELOB

Why did Shelob flag this logistics site as a rising flood-exposure risk?

DATA CONNECTED
PublisherSource URLOriginal recordObserved timeTransform history
WHAT COMES BACKThe conclusion can be checked source by source.
Publisher retainedSource URL viewableOriginal attributesTransform log
02 / WHAT SHELOB DOES

From a result back to every source record.

01

Open the original

Move from a conclusion to the publisher, source URL, original attributes, geometry and observation date behind it.

CONNECTS
Publisher · source URL · record ID · geometry · observed time
WHAT YOU GET
A result that can be checked against the evidence instead of accepted on faith.
02

See what changed

Inspect how a source record was normalised, resolved to place, compared through time or used in a derived relationship.

CONNECTS
Normalisation · place match · time window · relationship path
WHAT YOU GET
A visible chain from raw record to the answer Shelob returned.
03

Carry it downstream

Return attribution in a research brief, an MCP tool result, a REST response or a licensed dataset.

CONNECTS
Workspace · agents · API · export · model data
WHAT YOU GET
The source context remains intact as the answer moves into another system.
03 / EXAMPLE ANSWER

Why did Shelob flag this logistics site as a rising flood-exposure risk?

EVIDENCE RECORD / SITE S-14ILLUSTRATIVE
The conclusion can be checked source by source.

The result connects updated flood extents, drainage capacity, sealed-surface growth, freight activity and road access across 12 records from seven publishers. Each contributing observation opens to its original record and shows how it was matched to the site.

Publisher retainedSource URL viewableOriginal attributesTransform log
04 / PUT IT TO WORK

Make every spatial answer inspectable.

RESEARCH + RISK

Defend the conclusion

Open every contributing record, compare observation dates and include the evidence in a decision brief.

Source-linked brief · review trailAsk Shelob about a place ↗
AGENTS

Return evidence with the answer

Require every agent result to include source references, observation windows and the relationship path used.

Grounded tool output · fewer unsupported claimsConnect your agent ↗
PRODUCTS

Make provenance part of the interface

Expose source links and evidence details inside alerts, portfolio tools and customer-facing products.

Attributable JSON · auditable UXSet up the API ↗
FRONTIER AI

Build traceable training and evaluation data

Select attributed observations for training, retrieval and evaluation with the original evidence retained.

Record-level provenance · licensed deliveryTalk to our data team ↗

Keep the evidence attached from first question to production use.

Ask Shelob about a place ↗Connect your agent ↗Frontier AI data ↗