Chaos to Clarity, Two Years On

In 2024 we published a survey. With hindsight we were half wrong — and the half we got right was not the half anyone expected.

Two years ago we published a survey. With hindsight we were half wrong — and the half we got right was not the half anyone expected.

It was called Chaos to Clarity. We asked more than 120 mining executives and financiers across 23 countries one question: how much of your working week disappears just finding, aggregating, and cross-checking data? The answer was 40%. Not a rounding error — 40% of the senior working week, gone before a single decision had been made.

Then AI solved the easy half. The "searching" is close to free now. Ask a machine, get an answer. If the whole problem had been search volume, we would have been made redundant by a $20-a-month API key.

But the biggest frustration in that survey was never speed. 24% named the same thing — finding accurate information. Accurate. Not fast. Not comprehensive. Accurate.

So we spent two years on the unglamorous half. The platform now reads tens of thousands of mining documents a month across 16 exchanges and eight languages, validates every figure against its source, and carries the lineage all the way back to the page and the table cell that produced the number. Not a summary of what the document said. The actual number, with the chain of custody intact.

In 2024 we said "less searching." The market got that for free. "More strategising" only works if you can trust what is underneath the strategy. That is the half we went back and fixed. It is the half that still separates a defensible memo from a beautiful hallucination.

Less searching. More strategising.™