In the Research Terminal, Ask HEY first answers a question about a project from HEY's own records: the ships, sources, contracts and status HEY keeps, each with its evidence. Below that answer it may add a research interpretation (AI-assisted): a language model's reading of the same records. This page says what that reading is and what it can never be.
What an interpretation is
- Written from HEY's evidence only. The model is given one project's records from HEY's own tables — ships, sources, contracts, status history and what HEY does not know — and nothing else. It reads no website, no social feed and no reader data, and HEY sends it no secret or private repository.
- Cited. Every observation names the evidence it rests on, and each citation opens that evidence. An interpretation says, in words, how well the evidence carries it — "evidence supports", "evidence mixed", "limited evidence", "insufficient evidence" or "needs review" — and lists the evidence for and against.
- Checked before anyone sees it. HEY checks every reply before it is shown, and shows it whole or not at all. A reply is withheld if it cites evidence HEY does not hold, invents a commit, release, transaction, address or link, treats a repository HEY keeps as context as the project's own, contradicts one of HEY's recorded facts without saying so, speaks of intent (fraud, scam, rug, abandoned) or of buying, selling or price, or gives a probability or a rating. A withheld reply reads "not published"; the evidence answer above it is unaffected.
- Labelled. It is marked AI-assisted, with when it was written and by which model. No badge, colour or warning is taken from it.
- Never canonical. An interpretation is a reading, never a fact HEY records. It never reaches activity status, Build Momentum, Still Building, the Discovery Gap, the Radar, a badge, a signal, a ship, a research level, token verification or a project's identity, and it never promotes or demotes a project. A test fails the build if any of those reads it.
Questions about price
HEY gives no view on price or trading. A question such as "will this go up?" or "should I buy?" gets that one sentence and nothing more.
Review
An interpretation that says "needs review" is passed to HEY's staff. If a person checks the evidence and it stands, they record it the usual way — never the model.
When it is offered
Only in the Research Terminal's Ask HEY, and only when HEY has switched the model on: it is off unless configured, and HEY works fully without it. Answers are kept and reused for the same question on the same evidence; no page calls a model while it loads, and spending has a daily cap. When the model is off or the cap is reached, Ask HEY still gives its evidence answer.