Atlas

Where a record is heading, not just where it stands. In development, and deliberately unreleased — a forecast is a bigger claim than a measurement.

See Signal

Momentum, not a horoscope

Floors move before charts do. Atlas is about reading that movement early — which sounds are gathering, where, and how fast.

Direction, not just position

Where a record or an artist is heading, rather than a snapshot of where they stand this week.

Early, because floors are early

A crowd reacts months before the numbers online reflect it. That gap is the whole opportunity.

Bounded claims

It will say what it can support and nothing beyond it. A confident wrong answer is worse than no answer.

We would rather ship it late than oversell it

Measuring how a crowd responded and predicting what will succeed are different claims, and only one of them is currently supported. Selling the second on the strength of the first is the one thing that would cost us the trust the rest of this is built on.

Until it exists, we say so

Atlas has a page because it is being built, not because it is available. Nothing here is a product you can buy today.

It ships when it survives the same scrutiny as Signal

The bar is the one we already hold ourselves to, published in full.

Nothing on this site claims to predict anything

Everything else nine71 publishes is a measurement of something that already happened.

The negative results get published too

What did not work is on the research page beside what did.

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