Public figures make checkable claims about the future constantly — capability milestones, job numbers, market calls, timelines for war and peace — and almost none are ever revisited, because the outlets that reported them have moved on by the time the due date arrives. Wholestory's stories persist, so its predictions can too. Every forward-looking, falsifiable claim captured in any topic's timeline is tagged with a theme, the observable that will decide it, and a resolve-by date.

When a prediction comes due, a hindsight cycle checks its named observable against primary data and records a verdict — true, false, mixed, or unverified — alongside the original claim, which is never edited or reinterpreted after capture. Verdicts accumulate into each voice's public track record and feed the credibility scores attached to every entity in the paper.

The house never bets. Wholestory publishes no forecasts of its own: trendlines on every page end at the last observed data point, and this board scores other people's calls only. Prevalence here reflects the sample of the conversation our cycles capture, not the conversation itself — loud voices are overrepresented, and the methodology is disclosed in this page's research brief.