Atri glossary

Every term here names something the engine actually computes.

Cascade order (first, second, third): How many steps removed an effect is from the original event. A first-order effect hits the company named in the news; a second-order effect hits something that company depends on or supplies; a third-order effect is one step further out. Each step is stated separately so you can see where the reasoning becomes thinner.
Impact score: A 0-100 number blending a company's financial health and leverage, the macro picture, and structural signals. It is a deterministic calculation, not a model opinion, and the weights are held in the database rather than hard-coded.
Cost-pressure direction: Whether a development points toward your costs rising or easing. It is deliberately expressed as cost language rather than as a buy, sell or hold call — Atri is an operational early-warning tool, not investment advice.
Abstention: When the evidence does not support a conclusion, Atri says so instead of guessing. An abstained analysis is not a failure — it is the system declining to assert something it cannot back, and it is recorded as its own outcome rather than hidden.
Undercurrent: A slow drift that has not yet become news: several weak signals aligning on the same company, sector or region over time. Detected by tracking each measure against its own recent baseline rather than against a fixed threshold.
Entity resolution: Deciding which real company or person a name in a news story refers to. A hard public identifier — a company number, a ticker, an LEI — wins outright; a weaker name match is either queued for review or left unresolved. A name alone never creates a link.
Evidence strength: How much weight a claim carries, based on where it came from. Filing-grade government records rank above market data, which ranks above general reporting. Weaker signals are capped, shown last, and never raise an alert on their own.
Watchlist dependency: Something your business actually relies on — a supplier, customer, lender, landlord, utility, haulier or regulator, or a named director or officer behind one. Atri stays silent until a cascade reaches one of these.