How we work
The Evidence Standard.
A versioned statement of how this firm handles evidence in its own work: what each class means, what it may carry, and how a record is corrected.
Evidence classes
- 01Verified fact
- 02High-confidence inference
- 03Unverified intelligence
- 04Client assertion
- 05Material contradiction
- 06Unknown / insufficient evidence
Version and effective date
- Version
- 1.0
- Effective from
- 2026-08-26
- Status
- Current
What we mean by each class of evidence
Classification keeps the difference between what is demonstrated, inferred, asserted and unknown visible after the engagement ends.
- Verified fact
A matter established from a primary or authoritative source that has been examined directly, with the source, its date and its custody recorded.
- High-confidence inference
A conclusion not directly observed but supported by corroborating verified material and a stated reasoning chain.
- Unverified intelligence
Market, institutional or counterparty information from a source that has not been independently confirmed, including single-source reporting and informed commentary.
- Client assertion
Information provided by the client, its advisers or its counterparty, which the firm has not independently tested.
- Material contradiction
Two or more items of evidence that cannot both be true and whose difference would change the decision or its conditions.
- Unknown / insufficient evidence
A question material to the decision on which the available evidence does not support a position.
VERIFIED
INFERENCE
INTELLIGENCE
CLIENT ASSERTION
CONTRADICTION
INSUFFICIENT
The rules we hold ourselves to
Ten provisions, applied to mandate work and to the firm's own public statements alike.
- 01
Provenance
Every material item carries its source class, how it was obtained, the date it was obtained and the date it describes. An item whose provenance cannot be stated is treated as unverified intelligence at best.
- 02
Freshness and temporal relevance
Evidence is assessed as at a stated date. Where a finding depends on conditions that move — regulatory posture, counterparty capacity, pricing environment, institutional appointments — the date of observation is recorded with the finding, and staleness is treated as a change in confidence, not a neutral fact.
- 03
Corroboration
A conclusion material to a consequential decision is not carried by a single uncorroborated source. Where corroboration is unavailable, the finding is stated at the lower class and the gap is named.
- 04
Evidence does not confer authority
Evidence informs a decision; it does not make one. Who may recommend, who may approve and who is accountable are recorded separately from the evidence base, and a strong evidence position never substitutes for an authority that has not been exercised.
- 05
Contradictions are not averaged away
A material contradiction is surfaced to the decision-maker in its unresolved form, with a disposition — resolved, mitigated, deferred or escalated — recorded against it. A decision may proceed over an open contradiction; it may not proceed as though the contradiction were absent.
- 06
Correction by supersession
Records are corrected by issuing a superseding version that states what changed and why. Historical records are not silently overwritten, because a decision basis that can be edited after the fact cannot be examined after the fact.
- 07
Confidence discipline
Confidence is expressed at the coarseness the evidence supports. The firm does not attach spurious numeric precision to judgemental positions, and it applies no universal numeric threshold; where a mandate establishes a threshold, that threshold has an owner, a rationale and a stated scope.
- 08
Source rights
Possessing information does not grant the right to retain, transform, redistribute or reproduce it. Retention and reuse follow the client, purpose, jurisdiction and record class agreed for the mandate.
- 09
Human review of any machine output
No automated or model-generated output is issued as an Alomarada judgement. Where technology assists the work, its output is an input to a named practitioner's review, and the practitioner is accountable for what is issued.
- 10
Public claims are evidence-controlled
The same standard governs the firm's own statements about itself. Alomarada publishes no client names, testimonials, case studies, coverage claims, adoption figures or performance metrics that it could not evidence on examination.
Formal limitations
Alomarada provides commercial and strategic judgement. It does not represent its counterparty and market work as any of the regulated or specialist services below unless a specific mandate is separately authorised and structured to provide them. Where a decision requires that scope, we say so early and it is commissioned from an appropriately authorised provider alongside our work.
Where this site refers to a defensible decision, it means a decision whose basis can be reconstructed and examined afterwards: what was known, when, on whose authority, and on what conditions. It does not mean legal defence, regulatory protection, litigation protection, safe harbour, compliance certification or any protection against liability.
- Legal advice or legal opinion
- Statutory audit or assurance under an audit framework
- Forensic accounting or forensic investigation
- AML / KYC certification
- Sanctions screening or sanctions certification
- Regulated investment advice
Supersession you can reconstruct
Each issue has an explicit effective period and supersession relationship.
v1.0
Current
Effective 2026-08-26. Initial public issue: six evidence classes, ten conduct provisions, scope exclusions and the decision-defensibility limitation.
Initial issue; supersedes no earlier standard.
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