Cash-flow primacy. Disclosure-language analysis. Narrative versus numbers. External cross-references. Those four steps are the analytical sequence professional equity research has used for decades. The discipline is the constant. What changes is the visibility of the work.
Most public-facing AI stock analysis collapses those four steps into a single model’s confident summary. The discipline disappears into the synthesis. The Forensic Jury reverses that order. Each step runs as an independent lens with a different forensic mandate. Each step produces its own verdict before seeing the others. The synthesis is the last step, not the only step. If three lenses agree and one dissents, the dissent is the most informative output of the run.
The result is a process you can audit. Not a recommendation. Not a black box. Every assumption is sourced. Every dissent is preserved. Every override is documented. The same analytical discipline that runs inside research desks, run as a methodology with a public audit trail.
Each lens produces an independent verdict on a five-point scale (STRONG_SELL, SELL, HOLD, BUY, STRONG_BUY) plus a confidence rating. Verdicts are scored, weighted, and merged via weighted-mean with a deterministic rounding rule. The Auditor and the Architect carry more weight than the Storyteller and the Sentinel — cash flow integrity and disclosure language carry more decision-weight than narrative architecture or external context.
One override sits above the math: any single lens returning FLAGGED forces the merged verdict to FLAGGED at HIGH confidence regardless of the others. The Jury is built to amplify dissent, not suppress it.
Merged confidence reflects the spread between lenses. When one lens dissents at MEDIUM or HIGH confidence, or any lens votes at LOW confidence, the merged verdict cannot claim HIGH confidence. The methodology is structurally honest about its own uncertainty.
Not voting. The lenses are weighted, not equal. Verdicts are scored, not counted.
Not consensus optimization. Disagreement is preserved and surfaced — explicit conflict notes appear in every dossier where the lenses diverge.
Not majority rule. A single FLAGGED verdict overrides the others. Forensic dissent is treated as more informative than forensic agreement.
Not opinion aggregation. The lenses are not asked “what do you think?” — they are asked to apply specific forensic methodologies to the same source data.