Essence. The evidence question, and the one most demanding of claim hygiene: the signals the group treats as proof the event worked, and the precise epistemic status of each.
What counts. Demonstrations, artifacts, metrics, numbers, observed behaviours, milestones, testimony. Label every item: demonstrated (shown in the source), anticipated (predicted), or target (a goal or illustration). Keep figures exact. Name the single headline metric the group would actually watch. Where a claim is asserted but not shown, mark it unverified within the transcript.
The seam. Proof points at a change; it is not the change itself, which is What Changes. Proof is a fact-claim; the felt sense of arrival is Becoming Real.
Across the timeline. Early proof is soft and forward-looking: echoes and reposts, an increase in serendipity, perhaps a single demonstrated datum among many predicted ones. By the far end the proof named is hard, aggregate, and longitudinal: headcounts and participation, token volumes, petabytes of data made available, a year-over-year sentiment survey moving from doom toward hope, and aggregated impact metrics in which every guide reports the change it has made. Make each item's status and kind carry that drift from anticipated toward demonstrated.
Two slots: a status-tagged list using the legend [D]/[A]/[T], then Headline metric.
Answers across the timeline
- Proof & Realness: AGM 2027
- Proof & Realness: Declaration & Brand Launch
- Proof & Realness: Deep Thought Questions
- Proof & Realness: Don't Panic Festival
- Proof & Realness: Don't Panic Tour
- Proof & Realness: Game Jam
- Proof & Realness: Groundhog Day
- Proof & Realness: Sovereign Compute
- Proof & Realness: Time Bank & Trust Graph
- Proof & Realness: Timeline Massacre
- Proof & Realness: Unsingularity Voices
- Proof & Realness: Web Summit