Decisions & changelog

A home for every reader: the subscriber dashboard

There is a quiet gap between keeping a record and being able to read it. Orion has kept a record of its readings for a while. What changed is that every reader now has a home for that record, a place where they can see exactly the readings their access entitles them to, and exactly how those readings have actually performed.

A record you can hold

The record used to be one public page, the same view for everyone. Now there is a subscriber dashboard. Three named tiers, Observer, Analyst, and Cartographer, deepen what you can see. The deeper your tier, the fuller the read. A lower tier never sees data it has not unlocked, and the dashboard says so plainly instead of hiding the boundary.

We keep the tier mapping private, because the exact lineup is part of the edge. What matters is the principle: more access means a fuller picture, and the picture you get is the one you unlocked, nothing borrowed from above.

An accuracy figure that waits

The part we are most careful about is the accuracy number, because an accuracy figure is only worth anything if it measures a real, closed outcome.

A reading does not count the day it fires. That would be grading a guess before the answer exists. Instead, a read counts only once its thirty-day window has closed, once the market has actually had time to move and the outcome is a fact rather than a forecast. Before that window closes, the read stays visible but unscored. It sits in the record as data, not as evidence for or against the method.

That discipline is the whole point. An honest record is one that is willing to show a blank where it does not yet have the answer, rather than a confident figure it cannot stand behind.

Scored from your own sample

There is a second layer to the honesty. The accuracy a reader sees is scored from the readings their own tier unlocks, not from a single global number that flatters everyone equally. A lower tier reads a smaller sample, so its figure builds more slowly, and the dashboard says so rather than hiding it. Next to your own figure, it shows an honest look at what a deeper tier would add.

The result is an accuracy number that is scoped, dated, and honest about its own limits, instead of a single headline percentage that means something different depending on who is reading.

A record as a product

None of this is a promise about what happens next. It is a record, kept in the open, scored by a rule that refuses to grade itself before the answers are in. The dashboard is simply a home for it, a place where every reader can see exactly the record their access entitles them to, and exactly how that record has actually performed, no more and no less.


For how the engine reads the market, see How Orion reads the market, or the language behind the record in A weather report, not a tip service.