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Validation Scoreboard

We compare each finalized BNOW country digest with the same-day top-line findings in ISW's assessment, showing what matched, what was missed, how early evidence appeared, and how strongly BNOW's claims were sourced.

ISW's Russia assessment covers the wider Russia–Ukraine theater, while BNOW scores separate country digests. Coverage and divergence are therefore directional comparisons, not like-for-like measures of report completeness.

37%
avg event coverage vs ISW
target ≥ 80% · nonzero days: 43% (n=51)
5%
avg thin-sourced rate
target < 2%
+18.2h
median information lead vs ISW publish
target within ±6h
60
validation runs
datetheatercoveragethin-sourcedlead (h)agree / isw-only / ours-only
2026-07-29ir
33%
evidence available at ISW publish: 33%
0%+22.73 / 6 / 5detail
2026-07-29ru
0%
evidence available at ISW publish: 0%
9%0 / 6 / 11detail
2026-07-29ua
0%
evidence available at ISW publish: 0%
11%0 / 9 / 9detail
2026-07-28ir
14%
evidence available at ISW publish: 14%
0%+7.11 / 6 / 6detail
2026-07-28ru
40%
evidence available at ISW publish: 40%
0%+13.52 / 3 / 10detail
2026-07-28ua
43%
evidence available at ISW publish: 43%
0%+18.53 / 4 / 6detail
2026-07-27ir
67%
evidence available at ISW publish: 67%
50%+16.92 / 1 / 4detail
2026-07-27ru
17%
evidence available at ISW publish: 17%
0%+10.41 / 5 / 7detail
2026-07-27ua
33%
evidence available at ISW publish: 33%
0%+17.72 / 4 / 8detail
2026-07-26ir
67%
evidence available at ISW publish: 67%
0%+18.22 / 1 / 10detail
2026-07-26ru
40%
evidence available at ISW publish: 40%
0%+17.62 / 3 / 9detail
2026-07-26ua
0%
evidence available at ISW publish: 0%
0%0 / 5 / 10detail
2026-07-25ir
25%
evidence available at ISW publish: 25%
0%+19.21 / 3 / 3detail
2026-07-25ru
50%
evidence available at ISW publish: 50%
0%+10.93 / 3 / 10detail
2026-07-25ua
17%
evidence available at ISW publish: 17%
0%+11.81 / 5 / 4detail
2026-07-24ir
20%
evidence available at ISW publish: 20%
0%+18.21 / 4 / 7detail
2026-07-24ru
50%
evidence available at ISW publish: 50%
0%+20.13 / 3 / 9detail
2026-07-24ua
0%
evidence available at ISW publish: 0%
0%0 / 6 / 5detail
2026-07-23ir
83%
evidence available at ISW publish: 83%
0%+19.05 / 1 / 8detail
2026-07-23ru
0%
evidence available at ISW publish: 0%
0%0 / 4 / 13detail
2026-07-23ua
0%
evidence available at ISW publish: 0%
0%0 / 4 / 8detail
2026-07-22ir
50%
evidence available at ISW publish: 50%
8%+22.92 / 2 / 11detail
2026-07-22ru
40%
evidence available at ISW publish: 40%
8%+19.52 / 3 / 10detail
2026-07-22ua
33%
evidence available at ISW publish: 33%
0%+20.52 / 4 / 6detail
2026-07-21ir
80%
evidence available at ISW publish: 80%
14%+21.34 / 1 / 5detail
2026-07-21ru
20%
evidence available at ISW publish: 20%
17%+4.71 / 4 / 11detail
2026-07-21ua
50%
evidence available at ISW publish: 50%
0%+7.83 / 3 / 8detail
2026-07-20ir
71%
evidence available at ISW publish: 71%
17%+21.85 / 2 / 8detail
2026-07-20ru
40%
evidence available at ISW publish: 40%
0%+17.52 / 3 / 5detail
2026-07-20ua
40%
evidence available at ISW publish: 40%
13%+15.52 / 3 / 6detail
2026-07-19ir
50%
evidence available at ISW publish: 50%
0%+11.92 / 2 / 10detail
2026-07-19ru
100%
evidence available at ISW publish: 100%
0%+23.31 / 0 / 10detail
2026-07-19ua
50%
evidence available at ISW publish: 50%
0%+14.21 / 1 / 11detail
2026-07-18ir
38%
evidence available at ISW publish: 38%
0%+4.63 / 5 / 5detail
2026-07-18ru
17%
evidence available at ISW publish: 17%
0%+14.91 / 5 / 9detail
2026-07-18ua
29%
evidence available at ISW publish: 29%
0%+20.72 / 5 / 9detail
2026-07-17ir
80%
evidence available at ISW publish: 80%
0%+15.24 / 1 / 2detail
2026-07-17ru
33%
evidence available at ISW publish: 33%
7%+21.12 / 4 / 13detail
2026-07-17ua
0%
evidence available at ISW publish: 0%
0%0 / 6 / 8detail
2026-07-16ir
67%
evidence available at ISW publish: 67%
20%+24.82 / 1 / 3detail
2026-07-16ru
29%
evidence available at ISW publish: 29%
0%+19.72 / 5 / 9detail
2026-07-16ua
13%
evidence available at ISW publish: 13%
0%+10.61 / 7 / 5detail
2026-07-15ir
25%
evidence available at ISW publish: 25%
0%+16.71 / 3 / 5detail
2026-07-15ru
38%
evidence available at ISW publish: 38%
0%+11.93 / 5 / 7detail
2026-07-15ua
50%
evidence available at ISW publish: 50%
0%+18.34 / 4 / 6detail
2026-07-14ir
67%
evidence available at ISW publish: 67%
10%+24.02 / 1 / 8detail
2026-07-14ru
14%
evidence available at ISW publish: 14%
0%+23.51 / 6 / 8detail
2026-07-14ua
38%
evidence available at ISW publish: 38%
7%+19.73 / 5 / 11detail
2026-07-13ir
100%
evidence available at ISW publish: 100%
0%+22.74 / 0 / 9detail
2026-07-13ru
20%
evidence available at ISW publish: 20%
0%+17.01 / 4 / 5detail
2026-07-13ua
0%
evidence available at ISW publish: 0%
0%0 / 5 / 5detail
2026-07-12ir
33%
evidence available at ISW publish: 33%
33%+18.51 / 2 / 8detail
2026-07-12ru
50%
evidence available at ISW publish: 50%
0%+23.22 / 2 / 8detail
2026-07-12ua
20%
evidence available at ISW publish: 20%
9%+12.31 / 4 / 10detail
2026-07-11ir
100%
evidence available at ISW publish: 0%
7%-2.03 / 0 / 11detail
2026-07-11ru
0%
evidence available at ISW publish: 0%
0%0 / 7 / 6detail
2026-07-11ua
38%
evidence available at ISW publish: 25%
25%+15.73 / 5 / 10detail
2026-07-10ir
17%
evidence available at ISW publish: 17%
0%+21.51 / 5 / 6detail
2026-07-10ru
20%
evidence available at ISW publish: 20%
11%+12.41 / 4 / 8detail
2026-07-10ua
40%
evidence available at ISW publish: 40%
33%+20.12 / 3 / 5detail
How to read these numbers

We score our own output. Every day we compare this system's digest against expert human analysis — ISW's Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment and other baselines — measuring whether we surfaced the same events, how early, and how much of what we published rests on more than one source. We publish the results, including the misses, because analysts should know exactly how much to trust an automated feed. Unlike a finished prose report, every claim here links back to its source document, is searchable, and can land hours earlier — this page shows what that speed costs in coverage.

  • Coverage % — the share of ISW's same-day takeaways our digest also matched. The headline number scores our finalized digest (published ~10:00 PM ET), after ISW's report is already out.
  • Evidence available at ISW publish (proxy) — of the same matched takeaways, the share whose supporting evidence we had already ingested before ISW published. It gauges what evidence was in hand at that moment; it does not prove the claim appeared in our published digest then. RU and UA are currently scored as separate country digests against the same ROCA report and denominator.
  • Information lead — median hours between our earliest supporting source document and ISW's publish time, across matched events; positive means we had it first.
  • Thin-sourced % — the share of our claims resting on a single source while still hedged as claimed or unverified, never stated as settled fact. Lower is better.
  • Agreement / ISW-only / ours-only — events both sides reported, events ISW reported that we missed, and events we reported that ISW didn't carry. An ours-only item counts as a potential lead only when confirmed; unconfirmed items are labeled with their hedge.