Dimension — truth
Whose word it is, and how strong.
A plan, a figure a system worked out on its own, a physical reading and a signature are four different statements about the same thing. Flatten them into one field and you have thrown away what lets anyone decide.
Nothing in an operational system is simply true. Every statement was made by somebody, or inferred by something, under some authority, and that provenance is the difference between a number you act on and a number you check first.
Selira keeps each statement as a claim, with who made it and on what authority. Claims about the same thing live side by side and are never averaged, and every answer tells you which one it used, and why.
We are careful about a word here. Selira never tells you where something really is, because no system can. It tells you what has been claimed, by whom, and how strongly — and which claim answers your question, and why.
The ladder
Four claims about one shelf
All four can be live at once. A plan says what is meant to happen; the other three say what did — and they are not equal.
Intent
Planned
Somebody says it will be there. A commitment, not an observation — and it must never outrank one. For a date ahead, it is the only claim there is.
Evidence · weakest
Inferred
A system or a model worked it out on its own, and nobody has looked yet. Perfectly useful, and you should know that is what it is.
Evidence
Asserted
A person scanned it, counted it or inspected it. However the record reached Selira, a scan stays a scan.
Evidence · strongest
Certified
Somebody authorised to say so signed it. A signature recorded in your maintenance system arrives as a signature, with that system named.
Whose word, on whose authority
A claim is only as good as the authority behind it — an organisation’s approval, a certifying engineer’s authorisation, the stores that own a count. Selira keeps that authority with the claim, so it can be challenged, not just recorded.
When a claim is withdrawn, nothing is rewritten: you can still see what was believed before, and who changed it.
And you choose what counts. Ask for confirmed claims only, and every position nobody checked empties out — often the most informative thing you can do to a report.
What you can ask
- Which won
- Which claim answers here, what did it outrank, and by which rule?
- Only if
- Show me this report counting only what somebody physically confirmed.
- Whose
- Under whose authority does this stand, and was the signer authorised for it on the day?
- Plan vs actual
- Where does the plan still say one thing and the floor say another?
See what your strongest claim actually is.
Bring a report you rely on. We will show what each number stood on.