{
  "name": "Strategic Signal Senate Transaction Disclosures Methodology",
  "version": "1.1.0",
  "principles": [
    "Preserve transaction date and filing date separately.",
    "Report statutory dollar ranges as ranges; do not convert them into exact position sizes.",
    "Preserve disclosed ownership labels such as self, spouse, dependent, or joint without inferring who directed a trade.",
    "Treat purchases and sales as public disclosures, not recommendations, predictions, or evidence of motive.",
    "Resolve duplicate and amended filing chains before publishing a normalized research record.",
    "Keep political evaluation out of the dataset: no senator rankings, performance scores, conflict scores, or implied misconduct.",
    "Use transaction records as leads for independent company and market research, not as standalone investment theses.",
    "Limit the published dataset to publicly traded securities; exclude private stock, private companies, LLC or partnership interests, hedge funds, private equity and other non-public investments."
  ],
  "initial_release_note": "Version 1.0.0 publishes three previously validated research signals from a September 4, 2026 snapshot that screened 25 transactions across five validated filings. It is intentionally not a comprehensive Senate history."
}