Atlas public notes boundary for market research, macro calendar and source evidence

Public lane

Atlas notes are now bounded to public market research, macro calendar context, source evidence and Atlas route methodology. The notebook should help a reader understand what Atlas covers, which public sources support that coverage and how the public route families fit together. It should not publish private build detail, adjacent product material or raw runtime traces.

The public lane has four useful anchors. The symbol directory at Atlas symbol coverage carries the public market pages. The Hot1000 rail at Atlas Hot1000 gives the priority equity universe. The macro calendar at Atlas Macro Radar gives dated economic events and source attribution. The notebook at Atlas notes records public methodology and research commentary that belongs on Atlas itself.

Source boundary

Atlas can name official public sources. SEC EDGAR, NASDAQ Trader, TradingView, CoinGecko, BLS, BEA, the Federal Reserve, ONS, ECB and EIA are valid public source names when the note is explaining market coverage or economic-calendar context. A note may also cite a public Atlas route when the route itself is the evidence: a symbol page, a calendar region page, the public data catalog, the docs page, the security page or the Atlas Pro page.

Atlas notes should not use private paths, private process names, private monitor state or unpublished implementation detail as public proof. Those details may be useful for maintaining the product, but they are not useful to a retail reader deciding whether the Atlas research surface is coherent. Public confidence should come from stable routes, clear source names, current timestamps and a visible distinction between free public snapshots and the paid Atlas Pro report.

Product contract

The public contract is deliberately simple. A visitor can read the free public snapshot on a symbol or macro route. A paying Atlas Pro user can run a fuller research report and receive supporting exports from that same report. Source metadata, PDF, CSV and email delivery are evidence and transport layers. They are not separate products competing with the report.

That distinction matters because it removes a common research-terminal failure mode: a user sees too many output labels and cannot tell what the site actually sells. Atlas sells the report. The evidence rail supports the report. The public page proves the route and source boundary before a user pays.

Notes index rule

The notes index now lists only pages that pass the Atlas boundary. If a historical URL carries material outside the Atlas public lane, it is left as an archived noindex page instead of being promoted through the current notes card rail, RSS feed or notes sitemap. That keeps old inbound URLs from breaking abruptly while preventing search engines and users from treating the historical material as current Atlas research.

The result should feel stricter and quieter. Atlas notes should discuss market research, official source context, public route coverage, macro calendar methodology and the limits of the current research surface. They should not read like a private build notebook. They should not mix unrelated research systems into the Atlas archive. They should not expose raw addresses, private state, implementation paths or low-level runtime detail.

Reader expectation

A reader opening Atlas notes should be able to answer three questions quickly. What market or macro question is this note about? Which public source or Atlas route supports the claim? What is the boundary of the claim? If a note cannot answer those questions without leaning on private implementation detail, it does not belong in the public Atlas note rail.

This boundary is not a retreat from evidence. It is a higher standard for evidence. Public evidence is route-visible, source-named and useful to the reader. Private maintenance detail belongs in operator logs, not in the public research notebook.