Our Methodology

Every Orbis Management report is built on a source hierarchy and passes through an independent verification step before it’s published. This page explains both, including a real example of what our process has caught and corrected.

Source Hierarchy

We build every report on primary and official sources first: central banks, ministries of finance, national statistics institutes, and ITA Country Commercial Guides, supplemented by IMF and World Bank data. AI-assisted research tools are used only as a first-pass aggregator to speed up the research process — never as a source of record. Every material figure in a published report traces back to a named primary source.

Independent Verification

Before publication, every report undergoes a separate verification pass that cross-checks each material figure against primary sources and checks internal consistency — does the fiscal table agree with the GDP narrative? Does a stated credit-rating claim match the rating agency’s actual action? This step is independent of the drafting process, precisely so it can catch what the drafting process might miss.

A real example: during verification of our Paraguay Country Intelligence Report, our process identified and corrected three material issues from an earlier draft — a sovereign credit rating that had been misclassified, a GDP growth figure inconsistent with the underlying fiscal accounts, and a fiscal-outlook narrative that did not reconcile with the report’s own data tables. All three were corrected before publication. The current edition reflects the verified figures, including Paraguay’s two investment-grade ratings as of December 2025.

Revision Transparency

We publish a data cutoff for every country report and disclose material corrections rather than quietly folding them into the next edition. Showing our verification record is more useful to you than claiming the first draft was perfect — it’s evidence the process actually catches things.

Data Provenance Labeling

Inside every report, we label each economic figure as Actual, Estimate, or Forecast, so you always know how much confidence to place in a given number. This convention is never applied to statutory rates or legal provisions, which don’t carry the same kind of uncertainty. It’s a small detail, but it’s one that most AI-generated country summaries don’t disclose at all.

Read more about the team behind this process on Quiénes somos, or see the reports themselves on Productos.