John Montgomery

I chase the primary source — the filing, the record, the money trail behind whatever narrative everyone has already accepted. SignalTrace is where I do that work for the public record: primary-source investigation, entity-network mapping, and fully-cited knowledge graphs that can be queried and audited long after the work is delivered.

For markets, the same method runs at EdenFinTech, where I have spent ten years running my own capital, published openly. Every trade I recommend there is one I have made myself. SignalTrace applies those same habits — verify before you trust, trace every claim to its document — to public accountability and high-stakes business questions.

The method

Epistemic research starts with a simple idea: before trusting any data, ask how it was formed. Numbers, narratives, and opinions are all built on assumptions, incentives, and sources that can be wrong. The work is to question them — to separate price from the business, headlines from evidence, and to understand who benefits from a particular story being told.

Every SignalTrace investigation ends as a queryable knowledge graph. Each entity is its own node with its own primary sources, so a reader never has to take my word for anything. Most research sells you an answer; epistemic research sells you a better-formed question, plus the paper trail to defend it.

Two domains, one method

EdenFinTech is the markets practice — research that runs a portfolio of my own capital. SignalTrace is the public-record practice — the same discipline applied to ownership structures, government contracts, geopolitics, and business strategy. The two are run by the same person and the same standard of evidence.

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