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The Pendulum shows its work.
The full method behind every Pendulum score is now public, with worked examples. No black box. You can see exactly why a metro reads the way it does.
June 12, 20261 min read
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Agents kept asking the same fair question. How is the score actually built?
So we published the whole method.
What shipped
- A full methodology page. Every signal, every source, every weight behind a metro's Pendulum score, written out with worked examples. It lives at /research/pendulum/methodology.
- Worked examples, not hand-waving. You can follow a real metro from its raw inputs to its final reading. The four forces, how they combine, what a +30 or a -40 actually means.
What it means for you
When a client asks why their market reads the way it does, you point to the method, not just the number. The score holds up because the work is in the open.
What we learned
Trust comes from showing the work. A score an agent can audit beats a score they have to take on faith.