Signal Sensing — Live Propagation Data
What This Page Measures
This site publishes a public evidence database documenting a charter school racketeering network in Detroit. The question isn’t whether people should see this evidence — it’s whether the system conducts the signal.
An oversight signal that never reaches investigators, press, or affected families is the same as no signal at all. Institutional misconduct persists not because evidence doesn’t exist, but because signals fail to propagate.
This page publishes the measurement.
Methodology
We use receptor-based signal sensing — a cookieless, trackingless approach derived from biological quorum sensing.
- No cookies. We don’t know if you’ve been here before.
- No tracking pixels. Nothing executes in your browser.
- No IP addresses. Stripped before analysis.
- No identifying data. We can’t tell who you are. By design.
We measure one thing: did the signal propagate? Not who received it.
Visitors are classified by User-Agent string into six categories: Human, SearchBot, AIBot, SocialBot, ScraperBot, GenericBot. A “Human” classification means the visitor passed three behavioral checks (non-probe path, known-browser UA, human-speed velocity). The methodology, including all 30 probe prefixes and threshold values, is published and auditable.
Signal Status — Week of Oct 3, 2026
Emission (LuxI — outbound)
| Date | Event | Pages | IndexNow | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2 | Contact page updated | 213 | 212 URLs | ✅ HTTP 200 |
| Oct 3 | Coverage section launched (10 cross-index pages) | 233 | 232 URLs | ✅ HTTP 200 |
| Oct 3 | Signal transparency notice added to footer | 233 | 232 URLs | ✅ HTTP 200 |
| Oct 4 | Behavioral classification deployed | 233 | 232 URLs | ✅ HTTP 200 |
Every page publish triggers an IndexNow notification to Bing and a Google Search Console sitemap ping. The signal is emitted automatically — no manual submission required.
Reception (LuxR — inbound)
| Date | Total Requests | Human | Search Bot | AI Bot | Scraper Bot | Crawl Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2 | 78 | 25 | 29 | — | — | 39% (12/31) |
| Oct 3 | 166 | 9 | 138 | 2 | — | 63% (26/41) |
| Oct 4 (partial) | 19 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 46% (6/13) |
Oct 3 saw a 376% increase in search bot activity following the coverage section launch. Search engines are actively indexing the new cross-reference pages linking to Clutch Justice, Detroit Free Press, and Chalkbeat reporting.
Crawl Coverage Trend
Crawl coverage measures what fraction of unique pages on the site have been visited by at least one search engine crawler. Higher coverage means more of the evidence database is discoverable through search.
| Date | Pages in Sitemap | Unique Paths Seen | Bot-Crawled | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2 | 213 | 31 | 12 | 39% |
| Oct 3 | 233 | 41 | 26 | 63% |
Activation Patterns
“Activation” means a human navigated beyond a single page — they investigated.
Observed activation behaviors (Oct 2–4, aggregated, no identifying data):
Evidence → Contact: A human viewed FOIA financial evidence, left the site, returned 2.5 hours later, checked the contact page, then researched a specific individual in the network map and the dynasty analysis. This is investigation behavior — reading evidence, considering engagement, then mapping the network.
Coordinated access: Three different device types accessed the same two pages (a network actor + an entity) within 1 second of each other. This indicates shared links — someone distributed specific URLs to a group.
Deep evidence reads: Multiple humans accessed FOIA audit documents, investigation files, and the MDE evidence depot. These are not casual visitors — they’re reading primary source material.
Bot Ecosystem
| Bot Type | What It Means | Oct 3 Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Googlebot | Page will appear in Google search results | Active — crawling connections, entities, evidence |
| Bingbot | Page will appear in Bing search results | Active — deep-crawling network map |
| AI Bots | Content consumed by AI systems (GPT, Claude) | 2 hits — AI systems are reading the evidence |
| Social Bots | Someone shared a link on social media | 1 hit — a link was shared somewhere |
| Scraper Bots | Automated scanning, not reading | 23 hits (credential scanners, properly classified) |
What the Signal Tells Us
The system is conducting
Search engines are actively crawling the evidence database. Coverage rose from 39% to 63% in one day after the coverage section launch. IndexNow notifications are accepted (HTTP 200). The signal is entering the network.
Humans are activating
Multiple humans are not just visiting — they’re downloading evidence, checking specific individuals by name, visiting the contact page, and returning for subsequent sessions. This is investigation behavior, not casual browsing.
The coverage cross-index works
The new /coverage/ section — linking to Clutch Justice, Detroit Free Press, and Chalkbeat reporting — was crawled by search bots within hours of deployment. Outbound links to high-authority journalism domains signal to search engines that this site participates in a legitimate content network.
How to Read This Data
This is not web analytics. We don’t know how many “unique visitors” we have. We don’t know where they came from. We don’t know who they are.
What we know:
- The signal was emitted (pages published, search engines notified)
- The signal propagated (bots crawled, humans arrived)
- Investigation behavior occurred (evidence downloaded, network explored, contact considered)
- The signal is conducting through the network (search coverage increasing, AI systems consuming, social links shared)
What we don’t know and can’t know:
- Whether the person who read the RICO analysis is a journalist, an attorney, or a subject of the investigation checking their own exposure
- Whether the coordinated three-device access was a legal team, a community group, or individuals who happened to click the same shared link
- Whether anyone has acted on what they read
The receptor answers one question: did the signal get through?
The answer, as of this week: yes. The system is conducting.
Methodology: Signal Sensing Without Surveillance — published on sporePrint
This page will be updated weekly with new receptor data. No historical visitor data is retained — each report reflects the measurement window only.