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Proprietary information

StatVault's value to fans, operators, and partners is the credibility of Knox — and credibility is a product of the system behind the answer, not the answer itself. To keep that system durable, the components below are proprietary to VaultSpark Studios and are not disclosed through any public API, page, embed, prompt, response payload, or documentation.

What is proprietary

1. The Knox IQ scoring algorithm

Knox Current (KC), Knox Value (KV), and every Knox IQ score (player, matchup, market, league, season) are computed by a proprietary engine. The following are confidential:

  • The per-position, per-sport weighting tables used to combine raw and derived statistics into a Knox score
  • The era-normalization coefficients applied across decades and rule changes
  • The efficiency, role-stability, availability, and context adjustments layered on top of the base score
  • The scaling, floor/ceiling, and confidence-calibration steps that produce the final 0–100 surface
  • The interaction effects between components

2. Model intelligence factors

Knox's confidence labels, grounding behaviour, retrieval ranking, and the rules that decide which evidence anchors a Knox answer are proprietary. So is the calibration data accumulated over time that tunes all of the above.

3. The Knox Oracle trust + triangulation engine

The Oracle's source weighting, disagreement resolution, consistency validation, and the compiled trust history are proprietary. Public Oracle responses redact provider identities to opaque stable ids and expose only the source category and an aggregate trust band.

4. Internal databases and ledgers

Evidence ledgers, receipt stores, route-cost ledgers, demand signals, disagreement logs, and per-source trust state are confidential operating data.

What we do disclose

We hold transparency as a core promise of the product, so the following are disclosed in plain language:

  • Pillars and intent: the four KC pillars (Production, Trend, Availability, Confidence) and KV pillars are explained on the methodology page.
  • Score interpretation: which ranges count as elite, strong, average, or below, and how those map to UI labels.
  • Cadence and freshness: when batches run, when live data refreshes, and the freshness label that ships with every value.
  • Sourcing posture: every upstream the Oracle uses is either an official feed, an open-license dataset, a low-key aggregator, or a founder-licensed upload. See data sourcing transparency for the public version of the policy. The auditable founder attestation lives in our internal Creative Direction Record.
  • Verifiability: every Knox answer can be tied to a deterministic receipt id (rc_*). Receipts include an evidence footprint and a Merkle root snapshot that anyone can verify.

Legal basis

The Knox IQ engine, the Knox Oracle, the trust calibration, and all accompanying weights, models, indices, ledgers, code, and accumulated operating data are protected as confidential trade secrets of VaultSpark Studios and as copyrighted software. The names "StatVault", "Knox", "Knox Current", "Knox Value", "Knox IQ", "Knox Oracle", "Beat the Vault", and "ForgeQuery" are trademarks of VaultSpark Studios.

Reverse engineering, decompiling, scraping, or otherwise attempting to derive the underlying weights, models, or interaction effects from observable outputs is prohibited.

Operator audit

Authorized operators (founders, on-call engineers, contracted auditors, legal counsel) can unlock the un-redacted view of Oracle source identities, trust scores, and triangulation footprints by presenting an operator key. The audit path is documented in the internal Creative Direction Record and is the only sanctioned mechanism for stepping outside the public surface.

Reporting attempts to extract proprietary internals

If you observe behaviour that suggests another party is attempting to reconstruct the Knox IQ algorithm from response patterns, report it to legal@statvault.org. Disclosure attempts are logged and rate-limited regardless of authentication status.

Last updated 2026-05-18. Codified in our internal Creative Direction Record under the "Knox IQ algorithm internals" entry of the same date.