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The trust layer

Two kinds of fact

Some answers are a standard formula this warehouse can already compute. Those are facts without a person signing them, and they stop being offered if the inputs go away. Anyone can save any other answer. Only an administrator can vouch for one of those.

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Saving is not vouching. An administrator reads the question, the meaning, and the SQL.

A saved answer becomes a fact when someone vouches for it.

Why the two origins matter

A formula-fact is true because the inputs exist here. A vouched fact is true because a person read the question, the meaning, and the SQL.

Without that second step every saved number drifts towards looking official, and the word trusted stops carrying information. A vouched-for fact teaches the system how your business asks its questions. It never answers on its own, because a fact confirmed in error would then be repeated identically forever, and the only way to notice would be for someone to read the query.

An evaluation copy is not an empty library. Standard formulas this warehouse can compute are already facts. An administrator has also vouched for a first set of saved answers, so the first session has facts to read rather than a blank tab.

The facts library: formulas this warehouse can already compute, and answers an administrator has vouched for

Where to go next

Who enforces what: Trust and security. How a first session goes: How it works. Worked answers: Business questions.

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