Kortex
snapshot · 2026-07-18
Kortex · worked example · screening-grade

Five candidate sites. One screen. Every verdict carries its evidence.

This is the deliverable a screening engagement produces, shown in full. Five illustrative candidate coordinates went into the candidate-site screen (POST /v2/insights/siting/sites, methodology v1.7) on 12–13 July 2026; what came back is an exception ledger: each site gets one of four verdicts (proceed, investigate, reject or insufficient evidence), with the material findings, the evidence behind them, the coverage gaps stated per check, and a frozen, retrievable answer receipt. The coordinates are illustrative; the evidence, the verdicts and the receipt are real and pinned to the run below. There is no score: a site with no visible connection path fails a gate, and a site whose evidence is too thin is abstained on, never ranked low.

input 5 candidate sites target load 300 MW (Candidate B: 150 MW) connection gate ≥ 275 kV within 40 km run 2026-07-12 · frozen by receipt queue evidence US (LBNL/ISO) + GB (ECR) + IE (EirGrid/ESB) published capacity GB (NPG · UKPN · SPEN) + IE (ESB) + PT (E-Redes) planning pipeline GB (REPD + NSIP) water & flood EA CAMS + Flood Zones (England)

The exception ledger

verdicts are gate- and evidence-driven, not scored; the ledger is sorted so the exceptions surface first
CandidateVerdictMaterial finding / basisNext action
D · Tromsø, NO 300 MW reject Nearest ≥275 kV substation (Balsfjord, 420 kV) is 52.1 km away; beyond the 40 km connection gate. No visible EHV connection path at screening grain. Stop, or supply connection evidence Kortex cannot see.
A · Teesside, GB 300 MW investigate 400 kV substation 3.1 km away and 18 EHV points within 25 km; but the operator’s own published demand headroom at the nearest connection-grade point (Seal Sands, 66 kV supply point, 2.5 km) is 60.4 MW against a 300 MW target, and 7,375 MW is already accepted-to-connect within 50 km (225 projects, ECR vintage 2026-02-17), a further 10.4 GW of transmission-level pipeline at 10 stitched TEC connection sites, 4,615 MW in the local planning pipeline (116 REPD projects) and three live NSIP hydrogen cases within 20 km. Operator feasibility inquiry, or evidence of a different connection point.
C · Permian Basin, US-TX 300 MW investigate 345 kV substation 6.8 km away, 59 queue projects within 50 km (30% completion); but basin baseline water stress is extremely high: a wet-cooled load needs a cooling-water story before the site can carry it. Confirm cooling technology and water source; dry/hybrid cooling changes this materially.
B · Leeds fringe, GB 150 MW investigate 275 kV substation 6.1 km away and published demand headroom at Kirkstall B GSP (132 kV, 6.2 km) is 202.6 MW against a 150 MW target, RAG green; but 11,165 MW is already accepted-to-connect within 50 km (396 projects, ECR vintage 2026-02-17): a heavy contracted pipeline competes for local network capacity ahead of a new application. Check DNO headroom and the queue position implied by the local accepted pipeline before committing.
E · Dublin fringe, IE 300 MW investigate 400 kV converter station 13.6 km away and low-medium water stress; but ESB Networks’ own published demand availability at the nearest connection-grade point (Finglas 220 kV station, 38 kV group, 5.6 km) is 0.0 MVA against a 300 MW target; the Dublin connection constraint, visible in the operator’s July 2026 publication; with 21 projects (452 MW) already contracted or in assessment at connection nodes within 50 km (EirGrid + ESB DSO lists). Operator feasibility inquiry, or evidence of a different connection point.

The fourth verdict, insufficient_evidence, is returned when fewer than three checks produce evidence at a site: the decision cannot be defended, so the screen abstains instead of scoring. None of these five triggered it; the thinnest non-rejected dossiers are Candidates C and E at 5 of 8.

The same shortlist, re-screened twice. These exact five candidates were screened three times on 12 July 2026 as the graph grew, and each run is frozen by its own receipt: 56da6c4a (morning), 19e2acc7 (after the GB connection registers landed), and the run on this page. Candidate B flipped proceedinvestigate when the GB Embedded Capacity Register exposed an 11.2 GW accepted pipeline nearby; Candidate E flipped when ESB Networks’ published capacity exposed 0.0 MVA demand availability around Dublin. Both facts existed all along; they were public, just not connected. Two more enrichments the same night added the Irish connection registers (EirGrid TSO contracted + ESB DSO lists) and the GB planning pipeline (REPD + the NSIP register); and a final enrichment added the EA regulatory water layers (CAMS abstraction classes + Flood Zones 2/3); the screen ran eight checks that night, and the GB candidates carried 7 of 8 with evidence; the screen has since grown further (the path-to-power ledger, land fabric). Comparing any two receipts shows exactly what changed and why. That is what re-screening a saved shortlist against a growing graph looks like.

One dossier in full · Candidate A, Teesside

every check reports presence or absence explicitly, with its grain; absence is a coverage statement, never a clean bill
connection site
Saltholme Substation, 400 kV, 3.1 km straight-line; 18 substations ≥275 kV within 25 km. Distance to real mapped topology; not a routed connection, not a capacity statement.
published headroom site
Nearest published point: Spencerbeck, 11 kV primary, 1.8 km (distribution grain; says nothing about a transmission-connected load). Nearest connection-grade point: Seal Sands, 66 kV supply point, 2.5 km; demand headroom 60.4 MW, RAG green; generation headroom 0.0 MW, RAG red. The operator’s own published figures, verbatim, never recomputed.
water basin
Baseline water stress low (0.16, WRI Aqueduct). EA abstraction reality (CAMS): reliability at low flows (Q95) is “at least 95%” in the nearest EA water body (241 m away); the regulator’s own class for whether new abstraction licensing is available. Aqueduct says how stressed the basin is; CAMS says whether the EA would let you take water.
flood site (EA polygon)
Zone 1 (by absence from Zones 2/3, inside EA jurisdiction); with the nearest Zone 3 polygon 252 m away (rivers and sea): low probability at planning grain for the point itself, but proximity worth knowing on an estuary site. Not a site flood-risk assessment.
zone context zone
Zone GB: 35,145 MW clean-firm installed, wholesale ~$58/MWh (imputed, and labelled so), dominant fuel wind. Supply in the zone is not supply at the site.
queue 50 km radius
GB Embedded Capacity Register (all DNOs): 571 embedded connections within 50 km; 225 accepted-to-connect (7,375 MW), 346 connected (1,228 MW). Register vintage 2026-02-17, stated on the wire. NESO TEC + Embedded registers: 28 transmission-level projects at 10 stitched connection sites within 50 km; 25 in the pipeline (10,371 MW), 3 built. Exact name join (~41% of register rows stitched; a floor, not a ceiling).
planning 25 km radius
REPD Q1 2026 + NSIP register: 4,615 MW of renewables/storage in the local planning pipeline (116 projects), 27 in application. Live NSIP cases nearby: Lighthouse Green Fuels (2.9 km), H2NorthEast (3.5 km), East Coast Hydrogen Teesside Pipeline (19.4 km); all pre-application. A planning application is intent, not a connection agreement.
hazard county
Absent; outside FEMA NRI coverage (US counties only).
Material finding: published demand headroom at the nearest connection-grade point (Seal Sands, 66 kV supply point, 2.5 km) is 60.4 MW against a 300 MW target; the power thesis is unsupported by the operator’s published figures at this grain.
evidence quality: high (operator-published, connection-grade point) · next action: operator feasibility inquiry, or evidence of a different connection point
Material finding: 7,375 MW already accepted-to-connect within 50 km (225 projects, ECR vintage 2026-02-17); a heavy contracted pipeline competes for local network capacity ahead of a new application.
evidence quality: medium (operator-published register, distribution grain) · next action: check DNO headroom and the queue position implied by the local accepted pipeline
Material finding: 4,615 MW of renewables/storage is in the local planning pipeline within 25 km (116 projects, REPD Q1 2026); a heavy pre-queue pipeline signals competition for the same network capacity and land before it even reaches a connection register.
evidence quality: medium (planning register, pre-queue signal) · next action: cross-check which pipeline projects hold or seek connection agreements at the nodes this site would use

The receipt

the whole answer above is frozen and retrievable; forward it to whoever will try to shoot it down

This run was archived at computation time. The receipt returns the canonical answer exactly as computed (not a recomputation) with the request parameters, the per-source register records and each source’s dataset_version fingerprint as they stood. graph_snapshot_id pins the schema/source register; data_snapshot_id pins the observed data state of every contributing source.

receipt_id        26aa555c-754c-4810-b69d-aee868119569
computed_at       2026-07-13T02:27:00Z
graph_snapshot    a9bf4e98efe40f92
data_snapshot     eb06a7bcba693f49

curl https://kortex.orkora.com/v2/receipts/26aa555c-754c-4810-b69d-aee868119569

Receipt retrieval is public: anyone you forward this to can pull the frozen answer without a key and verify the response hash. Re-running the screen returns the current graph’s answer, which may differ; that difference is the point of the receipt.

Take the deliverable itself: the same frozen answer as the client-ready artifact; download XLSX (exception ledger · findings · evidence · provenance sheets) or download PDF (the screening memo). Both are rendered from the receipt, never recomputed, and carry the snapshot ids and response hash for verification.

What this screen does not claim

Worked example #2 · counterparty diligence · screening-grade

Six counterparties. One screen. The same contract: verdicts with evidence.

The second screen template shares the first one’s discipline. Six illustrative counterparties; identified by LEI, Companies House number, or bare legal name; went into the diligence screen (POST /v2/insights/diligence/entities, methodology v1.0) on 14 July 2026. Same four verdicts, same exception-ledger shape, same receipt. There is no risk score: an exact primary sanctions-list match fails a gate; an entity the registers cannot identify is abstained on, never guessed at.

input 6 counterparties (LEI · CH number · name) run 2026-07-14 · frozen by receipt sanctions OFAC SDN + UK OFSI (vintage 2026-07-13) registers GLEIF · Companies House · PSC · ICIJ structure ownership-network analytics (341k entities)

The exception ledger

sorted so the exceptions surface first; the counterparties are illustrative; the registry facts, the verdicts and the receipt are real
CounterpartyVerdictMaterial finding / basisNext action
E · submitted as a bare name “BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA” reject Exact primary sanctions-list match: BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA (OFAC SDN, programs: CUBA). The gate fires on the submitted name even though the registries cannot resolve the identity; a designation match must not hide behind a resolution failure. Refer to sanctions counsel before ANY further step.
F · submitted as a bare name “Meridian Consolidated Energy Partners” insufficient_evidence No register (GLEIF, 3.36M entities, or Companies House, 5.73M) carries this name, exactly or punctuation-normalised. The screen abstains and lists the closest register candidates; it never guesses an identity into a verdict. Supply an LEI or Companies House number.
B · BlackRock, Inc. LEI 529900VBK4… investigate One high-confidence ICIJ offshore-leaks candidate: “Blackrock Fund Inc.” (St Kitts & Nevis, match score 0.737); a namesake to adjudicate, not a finding of wrongdoing. Ownership-network position on-row: 100th-percentile centrality, 115 reported direct children, a control family of 73,617 entities. Review the ICIJ records and confirm identity before drawing conclusions.
D · Eagle New Energy Ltd CH 06367329 investigate Companies House status: Liquidation; and 6 outstanding registered charges (2 satisfied): assets are pledged as security, scope unknown at count grain. Dossier in full below. Obtain the insolvency practitioner’s filings before any reliance.
A · Iberdrola SA submitted “IBERDROLA, S.A.” proceed Resolved by punctuation-normalised name to LEI 5QK37QC7…; ACTIVE in GLEIF; sanctions searched (zero exact matches, vintage on-row); ICIJ searched (zero); observed footprint in the Kortex graph: 173 stitched generators, 47.0 GW across six fuels, modelled attributed revenue $2.4B. No visible screening-level disqualifier; merits confirmatory KYC.
C · Savills IM LLP CH OC306423 proceed CH number joins GLEIF through the registration-authority map (LEI 529900ZIX1…); Active + ACTIVE on both registers; PSC names a corporate controller (Savills IM Holdings Limited); zero outstanding charges; 8 of 9 checks with evidence. No visible screening-level disqualifier; merits confirmatory KYC.

Verdict order is the contract: reject = a gate failed (sanctions, or a legally dead entity) · insufficient_evidence = identity unresolved or the dossier is too thin to defend · investigate = material findings need resolving · proceed = no visible screening-level disqualifier, never a clean bill.

One dossier in full · Counterparty D, Eagle New Energy Ltd

every check reports presence or absence explicitly, with its grain; a UK-register check absent for a non-UK entity is a jurisdiction gap, not opacity
identity registry
EAGLE NEW ENERGY LIMITED, Companies House 06367329, private limited company, incorporated 2007-09-11. No LEI on file; Companies House register only.
registry status registry
Liquidation; the register’s own status ladder, verbatim (bulk-file vintage on-row).
sanctions exact-name vs primary lists
Searched OFAC SDN + UK OFSI (vintage 2026-07-13) + OpenSanctions flags: zero matches; a negative assertion bounded by exact-name testing, never a certification.
beneficial control UK PSC register
One active PSC: Architectural Glazing Limited (corporate person with significant control); the control chain continues into another CH company.
encumbrances CH charge counts
6 outstanding registered charges, 2 satisfied. Counts only; charge particulars need the CH API (key pending), and the dossier says so.
offshore leaks LEI-keyed
Absent; ICIJ matching is LEI-keyed; no LEI, no adjudicated matches.
ownership structure GLEIF
Absent; no LEI, so no GLEIF parent chain; the PSC record above is the control evidence.
asset footprint Kortex graph
Absent; no generators stitched to this entity. Context only, not evidence of no operations.
Material finding: Companies House status: Liquidation; the company is in, or headed into, an insolvency process.
evidence quality: high (CH live register) · next action: obtain the insolvency practitioner’s filings before any reliance
Material finding: 6 outstanding registered charges; assets are pledged as security; scope and assets charged are unknown at this grain.
evidence quality: high (register count), low (particulars unknown) · next action: pull the charge particulars from the CH register before valuing assets

The receipt

the whole diligence answer above is frozen and retrievable; same capability model as the site screen’s receipt
receipt_id        c93dc919-2a2b-4328-8213-0ed809875f5c
computed_at       2026-07-14T02:13:40Z
graph_snapshot    c77503da11cd844e
data_snapshot     707ed0728e2de441

curl https://kortex.orkora.com/v2/receipts/c93dc919-2a2b-4328-8213-0ed809875f5c

Take the deliverable itself: download XLSX (exception ledger · findings · evidence · provenance sheets) or download PDF (the screening memo). Rendered from the frozen receipt, never recomputed.

What this screen does not claim

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Sources for this run: OpenInfraMap (topology) · Northern Powergrid + UK Power Networks + SP Energy Networks (published capacity, GB) · E-Redes (published capacity, PT) · ESB Networks heatmap (published capacity, IE; under licence review, disclosed as such) · National Embedded Capacity Register, all GB DNOs (distribution queue) · NESO TEC + Embedded registers (GB transmission queue, stitched connection sites) · EirGrid contracted + ESB DSO lists (IE queue, connection-node grain) · REPD Q1 2026 + NSIP register (GB planning pipeline) · EA CAMS + Flood Map for Planning (England water & flood) · LBNL / ISO queues (US) · WRI Aqueduct (water stress) · FEMA NRI (US hazard) · ENTSO-E / EIA (zone context). Evidence as of 2026-07-12, frozen by the receipt above; the live endpoint answers against the current graph. Candidate coordinates are illustrative points chosen to exercise every verdict; no customer data appears on this page.

Sources for the diligence run: GLEIF golden copy (identity, parents, reporting exceptions; CC0) · Companies House bulk register + PSC register (status, control, charge counts; OGL) · OFAC SDN + UK OFSI consolidated list (primary sanctions, quoted) · OpenSanctions (long-tail match flags only, CC BY-NC licence rail) · ICIJ Offshore Leaks (candidate matches, ODbL, attribution) · Kortex ownership-network analytics + asset graph (derived, /methodology). Evidence as of 2026-07-14, frozen by the diligence receipt above. Counterparties are illustrative entities chosen to exercise every verdict; no customer data appears on this page.