offdiagonal

When a model predicted the world, what did it actually know — and was it right?

offdiagonal is a working laboratory that replays forecasts against reality from their decision cutoff. Nothing is interpolated, nothing is scored against information it could not have had.

receipts captured

0

outcomes resolved

0

producers tracked

0

sites observed

0

evidence cache temporarily unavailable — showing nothing rather than something stale

Error grows with how far ahead you ask

Mean absolute error against lead time, per producer and channel, computed from resolved receipts — not from any published accuracy claim.

lead-time curves unavailable — the summary cache has not been refreshed

What survives the replay rules

Most captured evidence does not qualify. Rows whose clock is assumed rather than measured are excluded and counted, never quietly kept.

captured in the panel5,203
excluded — clock assumed, not measured3,757
excluded — no admissible reference130
admitted under the replay rules1,316

clock basis of the admitted rows

derived by replay 1,316

No row yet carries a measured availability clock: today's admitted rows are eligible under replay assumptions, not proof of prospective availability. Measured clocks are being collected forward from now.

2 of 16 lineages contribute admitted rows across 12 calendar days · panel fp-panel-20260810-20260909 · training_eligible=false

How it works

  1. 01

    Capture

    Every prediction is recorded with its clock — what was emitted, when, and what was knowable at that moment.

  2. 02

    Wait

    Reality arrives. Outcomes are captured as separate, versioned evidence — never back-written into the forecast.

  3. 03

    Replay

    Each forecast is scored only against information available at its decision cutoff. Assumed or unknown clocks are excluded, not guessed.

  4. 04

    Preserve

    Receipts are immutable and append-only. Any result can be replayed, audited, and challenged.

Why it matters

Forecasts are everywhere; accountability is not. Models are compared on marketing claims and retrospective scores computed against information nobody had at the time. offdiagonal makes model behaviour measurable, comparable, and replayable — evidence infrastructure for anyone building, buying, or auditing predictive systems.

Said honestly: usable evidence is narrow today — the figures above show exactly how narrow. That narrowness is published, not hidden; the credibility is the point.

The full corpus is public and machine-readable.

Read the API contractEndpoint catalogueoffdiagonal.space/api/public/v1