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Six report shapes.
One honest standard.

Every LodeIQ report is one of six shapes — each with a fixed, professional structure. Every claim carries a source and a confidence level, and a report is never presented as more certain than its verification supports. Our coverage is deepest on the Canada–US critical-minerals corridor—cobalt, graphite, and nickel—and the examples below reflect that.

Every sample below is a real render through our verification pipeline — never a mock-up. Each carries the confidence rating it actually earned, on the artifact itself.

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The report is checked for faithfulness and coherence — its confidence rating is capped at what the verification actually supports

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Regulatory Scan

Production

What rules apply — and what's coming?

A neutral, timeline-first survey of the rules in scope — a dated chronology of filings, proposed and final rules, and enforcement actions, each tied to its source. No verdict, no recommendation: the survey, not a call.

3–6 pages · ~8 min read

What's inside

01Scope & Key Points

States the materials, jurisdictions, and timeframe covered, then 3–6 key points summarizing the scan.

02Regulatory Context

Neutral framing of the governing statutes, the authorities involved, and the current implementation phase.

03Timeline of Actions

A dated, chronological table of the regulatory actions in scope — each cited to a primary source.

04Substance Summary per Action

For each load-bearing action, 1–3 neutral sentences on what it does and whom it affects, with a confidence tag.

05Monitoring: What to Watch

Named forward-looking triggers — pending reviews, phase-in dates, proposed rules — plus a freshness note.

06Data Limitations & Confidence

Exactly what is thin or missing in the data and what would raise confidence.

07Methodology

How the report was produced, plus the standing not-legal-advice note.

Questions this shape answers

What regulations govern cobalt sourcing and trade across the US, EU, and Canada?

Survey the lithium rules in force or pending across the US, EU, and Canada — dated, sourced, chronological.

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Lithium — US / EU / Canada

HIGH CONFIDENCE

Cobalt — US / EU / Canada

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Decision Brief

Production

Should we? Does it qualify?

A first-person recommendation on a named decision — should we, does it qualify, which option — landing a clear verdict with a three-axis rating, the reasoning behind it, the risks to the call, and the alternatives weighed. The Compliance-Decision variant answers eligibility questions (does X qualify for this credit / program).

4–8 pages · ~10 min read

What's inside

01Recommendation

The headline call in one sentence, with a three-axis rating: certainty · time horizon · risk exposure.

02Rationale

3–5 thesis paragraphs supporting the call, each load-bearing claim carrying an inline confidence tag.

03Risks to the recommendation

The load-bearing assumptions whose failure would change the call — what would change our mind.

04Alternatives considered

Two or more options weighed and rejected, each with a one-sentence reason for rejection.

05Confidence, freshness & outlook

The top-line rating restated, drivers of and limits on confidence, freshness, and a re-assessment trigger.

06Data Limitations & Confidence

Exactly what is thin or unresolved and what would raise confidence.

07Methodology & Disclosures

Methodology and conflicts disclosures, plus the standing not-advice note.

Questions this shape answers

Does an Ontario cobalt refinery qualify for the US §45X credit under current FEOC rules?

Should we dual-source graphite anode supply outside China in the next 18 months?

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§45X eligibility — Ontario cobalt

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Market Landscape

Beta — delivers with limits

What does this market actually look like?

A descriptive state-and-outlook of a named market over a timeframe — who participates, how material moves, and where it's heading under named scenarios. Neutral voice, no verdict: the lay of the land, with a balance-of-risks read.

5–10 pages · ~12 min read

What's inside

01Scope & Executive Summary

Names the market, geography, timeframe, and scenario set, with a topic-sentence-led summary.

02Scenario framing

Two or more named scenarios defined up front and used consistently through every projection.

03Thematic outlook

Sections whose titles are the finding, developed with scenario-consistent figures and sourced captions.

04Methodology / alternative-scenarios note

A short box covering the method, alternative scenarios, or a bounded special topic, naming sources and limits.

05Balance of risks

One explicit statement of which way the risks tilt, with the drivers behind it.

06Freshness & outlook

Source freshness, how long the landscape holds without refresh, and a closing outlook.

07Data Limitations & Confidence

Exactly what is thin or missing in the data and what would raise confidence.

08Methodology

How the report was produced, plus the standing not-advice note.

Questions this shape answers

Who participates in lithium processing and recycling across North America — and where is it heading?

How are graphite trade flows into North America shifting, and under what scenarios?

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Lithium processing & recycling — North America

LOW CONFIDENCE

Graphite flows into North America

LOW CONFIDENCE

Risk Assessment

Beta — delivers with limits

Where are we exposed?

Ranks the named threats to a subject over a timeframe — ordered exposures with probability bands, concentration metrics, an assumptions check, and the triggers that would change the picture. Neutral voice, enumerative over threats.

5–9 pages · ~12 min read

What's inside

01Scope + framing

States the subject, timeframe, geography, and the quality of the underlying sources.

02Key assumptions check

The load-bearing assumptions, each with what it rests on and the implication if it's wrong.

03Threats & likelihood × impact

Enumerated threat vectors with probability bands and impact tiers, rendered as a matrix.

04Ranked exposures

Exposures ordered by magnitude, each carrying a source-reliability tag.

05Analysis of alternatives

Three or more alternative outcomes spanning the ways the load-bearing assumptions could fail.

06Mitigations & triggers

Mitigations ranked by lead time, plus the 'what would change my mind' triggers.

07Confidence + outlook

A three-axis rating with drivers of and limits on confidence, plus freshness and outlook.

08Data Limitations & Confidence

Exactly what is thin or missing and what would raise confidence.

09Methodology

How the report was produced, plus the standing not-advice note.

Questions this shape answers

Where is cobalt refining concentration most dangerous for our supply chain?

Rank the FEOC exposure across the lithium supply base we can see.

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Cobalt refining concentration

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Lithium FEOC exposure

LOW CONFIDENCE

Entity Dossier

Beta — delivers with limits

Who exactly are we dealing with?

A profile of a single named entity — a company, facility, country, port, vessel, or trade route — covering its recent events, dependencies, commercial and technical profile, the triggers to watch, and its identity. Decision-support-first, neutral voice.

4–8 pages · ~10 min read

What's inside

01Events, Trends, and Issues

Recent developments affecting the entity — project status, policy actions, disruptions, price moves.

02Dependencies

Feedstock in, offtake out, regulatory and government-contract exposure.

03Commercial profile

Offtake agreements, customers, pricing reference, and terms where disclosed.

04Triggers to watch

Monitorable conditions whose change would update the dossier.

05Technical profile

Capacity, process route, product specs, grade, and operating status.

06Identity

Name, location, operator, ownership, standing codes and registration details.

07Data Limitations & Confidence

Retrieval-confidence summary, freshness, half-life, and the source provenance index.

Questions this shape answers

Profile Nouveau Monde Graphite — position, dependencies, and the triggers to watch.

Give me a dossier on the Bécancour anode facility.

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Electra Battery Materials

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Nouveau Monde Graphite

LOW CONFIDENCE

Signal Brief

Beta — delivers with limits

What just changed?

An alert-shaped product that fires on a threshold crossing or fresh development — a signal headline, the trigger context, 2–3 cited evidence claims, a signal-strength rating, and what fires next. Terse, observational, recency-driven.

1–3 pages · ~4 min read

What's inside

01Signal headline

Names the trigger, the threshold, the size of the crossing, and the timeframe.

02Trigger context

What the threshold logic was, what the signal is bound to, and how the trigger moved.

03Evidence claims

2–3 cited evidence items, each with a confidence tag and source-reliability tag.

04Methodology

The divergence metric, the explicit threshold logic, and the data's freshness and half-life.

05Signal-strength rating

A three-axis rating: signal strength · time horizon · risk of being wrong.

06Recent-window framing + what fires next

The trigger's recent lifecycle and 1–3 related triggers that may fire as a consequence.

07Data Limitations & Confidence

Exactly what is thin in the signal's underlying data and what would sharpen the signal.

08Methodology

How the report was produced, plus the standing not-advice note.

Questions this shape answers

What just changed in US trade actions on Chinese battery-adjacent inputs?

Flag any divergence between lithium spot and contract pricing.

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Nickel price movement

LOW CONFIDENCE

Honest about limits, by construction

“Production” shapes have cleared our faithfulness and coherence checks across repeated runs. The rest deliver today with a confidence banner and a clear Data Limitations section — a report is never presented as more certain than its verification supports, and where our data is thin, the report says so instead of guessing.

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