{"id":"EXP-0001","type":"experiment","title":"Knowledge Propagation: can evaluators discover, retrieve, and recognize a newly published institutional knowledge system?","created":"2026-07-13","status":"draft, pre-registration pending founder approval","authors":["Upstream Zero"],"edges":[{"rel":"part-of","to":"validation-and-evidence"},{"rel":"tests","to":"H-1"}],"predictions":["Within some measurable window after publication, evaluator outputs about Upstream Zero will begin to reflect published objects (by ID, claim wording, or tier vocabulary)","Corrections published as Revision objects will measurably change subsequent evaluator retrieval and narration about us"],"founderDecision":"FD-8","pubState":"published","body":"**Knowledge Propagation.** Our first experiment observes\nitself: *can evaluators discover, retrieve, and recognize a newly\npublished institutional knowledge system?* This site's own publication is\nan intervention in the environment we study. Its objects may enter\nevaluator retrieval and reasoning. You could call that contamination. We\nmeasure it (Propagation Records), per the founder ruling that Client Zero\nintentionally participates in the environment it studies.\nFaithfulness of reconstruction *once* recognition and retrieval occur is a\nseparate experiment, [EXP-0002](/experiments/EXP-0002); Day 0 captures\nhere are propagation baselines only and are never scored for\nreconstruction fidelity.\n\n**Status honesty:** this is a draft protocol. It has not been\npre-registered, because pre-registration requires the founder-approved\nfinal protocol and a public, timestamped record. The timestamped record now\nexists in Git; the founder-approved final protocol does not yet. No data has\nbeen collected. When\nregistration happens, this object's status change will be a recorded\nRevision.","url":"/experiments/EXP-0001","machineUrl":"/objects/EXP-0001","referencedBy":[{"from":"client-zero","rel":"cites"}],"_meta":{"site":"Upstream Zero · Commercial Intelligence for AI-Mediated Commercial Evaluation","version":"0.1","note":"Claims are presented at their evidence tier; Narrated is the lowest. Verify by walking edges, not by trusting us."}}