Land first, interpret later
Raw payloads are written once, checksummed and sealed against modification. Interpretation is a downstream concern, and interpretations can be recomputed when methods improve.
Preserves raw streams and captures.
Păstrează fluxurile și capturile brute.cidalake.com is the ingestion tier of the Central Intelligence Data Architecture. It accepts material in whatever shape reality provides it — filings, sensor streams, transcripts, images, telemetry, scanned documents — and holds it immutably at full fidelity, with lineage recorded from the first byte.
Most data platforms destroy information at ingestion — normalising, truncating and coercing before anyone knows which details will matter. The CIDA Data Lake does the opposite: it lands material unchanged in an immutable raw zone, then derives refined representations downstream, each one traceable back to the byte-exact original.
Raw payloads are written once, checksummed and sealed against modification. Interpretation is a downstream concern, and interpretations can be recomputed when methods improve.
Structure is inferred and versioned rather than imposed. When an upstream source changes format, ingestion continues and the schema drift is recorded as an event instead of a failure.
Source identity, retrieval timestamp, transport, checksum and jurisdiction are attached at the moment of capture — the foundation on which Cortex confidence scoring depends.
Continuous feeds and periodic drops are handled by the same processing semantics, so a late-arriving batch does not produce a different result than a real-time stream.
Raw, refined and curated zones with distinct retention, access and cost profiles. Promotion between zones is an explicit, governed operation rather than a side effect.
Material is landed in the jurisdiction its licence and regulation require, and the Control Plane refuses egress that would violate residency policy.
Every artefact travels the same governed path. Each stage is idempotent, independently observable and fully reversible — a pipeline can be replayed from any point without contaminating the record.
source: "eu-regulatory-filings" jurisdiction: "EU" residency: "eu-central" capture: mode: "stream+batch" checksum: "sha-256" seal: true # immutable raw zone extract: ocr: true tables: "structural" preserve_original: true normalise: units: "si" currency: "as-reported + eur" record_mappings: true promote: targets: ["archive", "cortex"] on_drift: "record-and-continue"
A confidence score is only meaningful if the evidence beneath it can be located, re-read and re-verified. The Data Lake exists so that every claim the Cortex publishes can be walked back to a specific byte range in a specific artefact retrieved from a specific source at a specific moment.
The overwhelming majority of decision-relevant material arrives in forms that resist tabulation. The Data Lake is designed for that reality rather than treating it as an exception.
| Class | Examples | Extraction | Fidelity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Documents | Filings, contracts, prospectuses, scans | Layout-aware OCR, structural table recovery | Original preserved byte-exact |
| Streaming telemetry | Grid frequency, sensor arrays, market ticks | Windowed aggregation with raw retention | Full-resolution raw retained |
| Audio & video | Earnings calls, hearings, interviews | Diarised transcription with timecodes | Media retained alongside transcript |
| Imagery | Satellite, site inspection, schematics | Feature detection, geo-referencing | Source resolution unchanged |
| Structured feeds | Registers, APIs, statistical series | Schema inference and drift tracking | Payload archived as received |
Ingestion is stage one of five. Material captured here is refined and indexed by the Archive, protected where sensitive by the Vault, governed throughout by the Control Plane, and finally resolved into intelligence by Continuumpedia — the Cortex of the architecture.
Ingestion is scoped per source: licence terms, retrieval cadence, residency, retention and extraction requirements are agreed before a connector is provisioned. Awkward formats are the normal case, not an obstacle.
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