Trust · Provenance

Regional data you can defend

Before a number goes in front of your board, you need to know it holds up. SkyMind is built around one question — "where does this come from?" — answered for every figure, across 47 countries.

Only official sources·No forecasts·Reproducible·One schema, 47 countries
Every number has a story: official statistics from Eurostat, CBS, ONS, INSEE, Destatis, ISTAT and other agencies flow through five steps — find, verify, document, analyze, publish. Trust is not assumed, it is documented.

What you're actually buying

Not the data — most of it is public, published by national statistics offices anyone can download. What's hard, slow, and expensive is everything around it: pulling dozens of government sources, reconciling geography, normalizing inconsistent metrics, forcing it all into one comparable schema, and keeping it current.

You're buying the guarantee that the dirty work is done — and that you can check it.

That's the same thing Bloomberg, S&P and FactSet actually sell. The value isn't a secret algorithm. It's: "if the figure is in here, you can stand behind it."

Five things we guarantee

01Only official sources

Every figure traces back to a national statistics office or official open-data portal — Eurostat, INSEE, CBS, GASTAT, data.gov.il, Dubai Land Department, PSA Qatar, the World Bank. The small number of derived or estimated values are labeled as such — never disguised as measured. We'd rather show you the seam than hide it.

02No forecasts. No magic.

SkyMind is descriptive. It shows the measured state of a region from official data. It does not predict events, score "risk," or claim to see the future. We retired a predictive engine in May 2026 after it failed our own honesty tests — the absence of magic is a feature.

03The official number, unchanged

Every raw figure is the official published value — pull it from the source agency and you get exactly the same number. Our scoring methodology is transparent and reproducible: min-max normalisation within a country, documented openly. If a figure doesn't match the source, that's a bug and we want to hear about it.

04One schema, 47 countries

A district in Germany sits in the same comparable structure as one in Qatar — same English labels, same units, same unified schema, every figure cited to its source. Cross-country comparability isn't an afterthought; it's the whole point.

05Traceable, and getting more so

Every country's sources are documented today (below). We're extending that to per-metric, clickable lineage — source, agency, original indicator code, update date — metric by metric. We'll ship it when it's true for all 47 countries, not before.

Where every number comes from

Country-level sourcing is complete and public. This is the backbone the per-metric lineage is built on.

CountryCoverageOfficial sources
🇩🇪 Germany401 KreiseEurostat NUTS-3
🇮🇱 Israel255 localitiesCBS (Lamas) · data.gov.il
🇦🇪 UAE340 unitsDubai Land Department · Dubai Statistics Center · World Bank
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia51 governoratesGASTAT · World Bank · Census 2022
🇶🇦 Qatar8 municipalities (official)Qatar PSA (data.gov.qa) · World Bank
🇫🇷 France96 departmentsEurostat NUTS-3 · INSEE
🇪🇺 EU & neighbours29 countries · 1,014 regionsEurostat NUTS-3  +  national offices for GDP (BFS, CSB, CBS, INE, StatFin, SSB)
your value = the official figure, unchanged  — we only add the English label, the unit & the cited source
🇨🇭 Confirmed with the source. Switzerland's cantonal GDP figures come from the Federal Statistical Office (BFS). Their terms require written permission for commercial redistribution — so we asked. BFS confirmed on 1 July 2026: free to use, source indicated, which is what we already do for every country here.

What we do not claim

The standards behind this

None of the above is our invention — it's the discipline official statistics already lives by. We mapped SkyMind point-by-point to SDMX (ISO 17369), the European Statistics Code of Practice (all 16 principles) and the FAIR principles, plus the Gulf open-data frameworks — with a checkable proof link per claim, and the places our own rules are stricter. See Standards & conformance.

And rather than asking you to take the discipline on faith, we put it on screen: an interactive replay of a real ingestion — the validation battery running check by check on actual values, and the load gate refusing the data when a synthetic value is injected.

The bottom line

The honest question isn't "why trust SkyMind?" — it's "how long would it take me to build this myself?" Dozens of sources, unified geography, one schema, kept current, every figure checkable. For most teams that's 6–12 months of an analyst's time. We've done it for 47 countries.

If a figure is in SkyMind, you can defend it.

See where every number comes from → Read the full methodology → Standards & conformance Data quality report Found an error? Dispute it