Pipeline/Data sources
Data sources

Current signal and historical memory

New candidates need today's momentum. Retrospective underwriting needs a strict historical window. FanOrNot keeps those two evidence classes separate.

Arctic Shift

Ready
Historical Reddit posts and comments

Bounded by subreddit, query, and before/after dates through the underlying archive API.

Native Reddit + YouTube

Ready in live mode
Current first-party public pages

Best-effort metadata and top-post collection used in live mode alongside the broader adapter.

Golden fixtures

Active fallback
Deterministic investor demo

A cited Backrooms replay keeps the product usable when community services or model providers are unavailable.

Backrooms replay query
The archive request represented by the demo
Query
backrooms
Community
r/backrooms
After
2019-05-01
Before
2020-01-01

Arctic Shift is a community-run research service with no uptime guarantee. The adapter is best-effort, uses bounded requests, and returns an empty result on failure so the fixture path remains reliable.