What it is
Computed, declared, measured, read in, or the name of the engine that made it: where a figure came from. A provenance word is the one sub-word a figure may carry under or beside it, or in the column's heading standing for every cell beneath. Pressing it opens the trace: the read the figure resolves to, that read's as-of as words, and the inputs a derivation was computed from. Nothing on a page is typed by hand; every figure resolves to a read or a named derivation, and the word says which.
Two more words ride beside it on an engine's figure: the engine's basis word, which says what the engine stood on to produce it, and its confidence word, which is always a word and never a percentage.
How Tightly decides it
The words are the places a figure can come from. Computed is a derivation Tightly made on the page from other figures, such as open to commit from the ladder. Declared is a number a person typed and signed, such as the five terms of a plan. An engine's own output carries that engine's name instead: forecast, grades, the buy, price response, attribution, look-alikes. Measured is what actually happened, counted from your sales or your stock. Read in is taken as it arrived from a connected system: a purchase order, stock on hand, a price.
Each engine adds its basis. The forecast says Own record when a line is forecast from its own sales, Reference method when its own sales are read with a method chosen for products like it, From a predecessor when it has no record of its own and past products that sold like it stand in, and Fallback method when the chosen method could not run this time. A grade says measured, reference or brand. A price response says measured, reference or prior. An attribute says declared, measured, auto, default or connector. A buy line says from system, from a predecessor, past the forecast or lower confidence. A weekly verdict names the declaration it read or the header it mirrors.
The words on the face
| Engine | Basis words | Confidence words |
|---|---|---|
| Forecast | Own record · Reference method · From a predecessor · Fallback method | High · Medium · Low · New; a Low line prints Watch closely, with its reasons on hover, and a New line prints New item, with its weeks of sales on hover |
| Grade | measured · reference · brand | the basis word is the confidence word |
| Price response | measured · reference · prior | high · medium · low; the tier reads High · Moderate · Low · Inconsistent · Still learning |
| Attribute | declared · measured · auto · default · connector | a look-alike high · medium · low; a placement almost certainly · very likely · likely · below the floor; a size curve measured with the days it read |
| The buy | from system · from a predecessor · past the forecast | lower confidence |
| Weekly verdict | the declaration or the header it mirrors | firm · thin · not measured |
Where a clear majority of a column's cells would carry the same word, the header carries it instead, and those cells keep the word out of the ink and hand it back under the pointer; a cell with a different word keeps its own. Where a figure has no provenance because nobody measured it, the cell says so with an absence word, Not measured or Not on file, never a dash.
What you can do about it
Press the word for the trace when a figure surprises you: it shows the read, its date and its inputs, so you can see whether the number is old, a reference or declared before you act on it. A line reading From a predecessor or Fallback method is an estimate standing in for a record; on Tightly Pro, give a new product a better look-alike on Analogs and the next run reads from it. A line reading declared is yours to change, on Declaration for a commitment or on the product for an attribute. Confidence as a word and The forecast's words carry the fuller reading of each engine's own vocabulary.
Glossary line
Computed, declared, measured, read in, or the engine's name: where a figure came from.