--- title: Standards · HICONIUM description: "How the house works: what a file contains, the documentation bar, honest coverage, and the verification rules that decide what may touch a number." canonical_url: https://hiconium.dev/standards --- > HICONIUM · Index: https://hiconium.dev/llms.txt · Every page: append `.md` or send `Accept: text/markdown`. > Path: [Home](https://hiconium.dev/) › Standards > On this page: [Four layers, one chassis](#four-layers-one-chassis) · [Identity](#identity) · [Provenance](#provenance) · [Condition](#condition) · [The number](#the-number) · [The bar a record must clear](#the-bar-a-record-must-clear) · [Where the record honestly stands](#where-the-record-honestly-stands) · [One car carries the whole method](#one-car-carries-the-whole-method) · [The rules that touch the number](#the-rules-that-touch-the-number) · [Chassis first](#chassis-first) · [Estimates disclose their basis](#estimates-disclose-their-basis) · [Specialists at the top](#specialists-at-the-top) · [Auction data is weighted, never raw](#auction-data-is-weighted-never-raw) · [Research feeds ranges, bids make prices](#research-feeds-ranges-bids-make-prices) · [The partners who verify](#the-partners-who-verify) · [The vocabulary, pinned](#the-vocabulary-pinned) ![Raking light across bodywork under inspection, a cropped fender in the near foreground](https://hiconium.dev/_derived/images/standards/standards-hero-v1.jpg.w1920.q75.webp) Standards # A wrong fact costs more than a missing one Authority is won or lost at the top of the market. This page is the house method in the open: what a file contains, the documentation it must clear, where coverage honestly stands, and the rules that decide what may touch a number. 01 · What a file contains ## Four layers, one chassis 01 ### Identity Chassis number, engine, specification as built — the facts that make this car this car, each carrying its source on the record. 02 ### Provenance Owners, sales, restorations, awards and moves, in order, with documents behind them. History that cannot be traced is marked as exactly that. 03 ### Condition Inspections and expert reports, bound to the chassis and dated — condition is a reading with an author, never an adjective. 04 ### The number The market layer: documented results, the spectrum over comparable sales, and the confidence the record can actually carry. The reference is the [F40 file](https://hiconium.dev/vehicles/ferrari/f40): 26 documented sales, a census, and every layer above in one place. 02 · Documentation standards ## The bar a record must clear - Every material fact carries its source on the record — a document, a named archive, a dated inspection. Unsourced claims stay off the file. - Photography meets the house standard: consistent angles, honest light, no retouching that changes the car. Images are records, not advertising. - Documents are filed as originals — immutable once entered, superseded rather than overwritten, so the file’s history is itself documented. - Gaps are written down. A missing decade in a chain of ownership is stated on the page, because a confessed gap is information and a hidden one is a defect. 03 · Coverage & gaps ## Where the record honestly stands | Label | Value | | --- | --- | | Manufacturers on file | 62 | | Models documented | 219 | | Sales in the F40 ledger | 26 | Depth over breadth, deliberately: one car — the F40 — is documented to the standard every file will reach, and the catalogue grows toward it manufacturer by manufacturer. Where a model’s record is thin, its page says so; a stated gap is a work order, not an embarrassment. What is not on the platform is not claimed. ![Ferrari F40, the reference file](https://hiconium.dev/_derived/images/cars/ferrari-f40/hero-2560.jpg.w1920.q75.webp) The reference ## One car carries the whole method The F40 file holds every layer this page describes — 26 documented sales, a build board, the census work and the instruments above them. Every file in the catalogue grows toward it. [Open the F40 file](https://hiconium.dev/vehicles/ferrari/f40) 04 · How we verify ## The rules that touch the number Review is not an editorial afterthought; it is a product with rules. These are they, in full. 01 ### Chassis first Records are built on the individual chassis, never on the model in general. Every material fact carries its source on the record. 02 ### Estimates disclose their basis A reasoned estimate shows its anchor comparable, its adjustments and its cross-checks on the page. If the basis cannot be shown, the estimate is not published. 03 ### Specialists at the top Above defined value thresholds a named specialist source is mandatory; at the very top, two independent sources — or the record is flagged for manual verification, and shows it. 04 ### Auction data is weighted, never raw Results enter with source-trust weights. A manipulated result does not move the number. 05 ### Research feeds ranges, bids make prices Research values feed HICON-INDEX ranges only. A published HICON-PRICE comes exclusively from the live engine on real, score-weighted bids — a one-off launches with a disclosed estimate basis and a confidence score, never a fabricated price. ＋ ### The partners who verify Manufacturer registries and archives, factory heritage departments, race archives, long-standing historians, restorers’ build files and our registered experts. Verification work is credited visibly on the record — [bring an archive onto the layer](https://hiconium.dev/partners#restoration). 05 · Glossary ## The vocabulary, pinned | Label | Value | | --- | --- | | The file | A vehicle’s complete record on the platform: identity, provenance, condition and market layer for one chassis or one model. | | Chassis record | The per-vehicle ledger everything binds to — documents, moves, inspections, awards, sales. | | HICON-PRICE | One exact, evidence-backed value per chassis — never a range. Published only where the record and the rules below can carry it. | | HICON-INDEX | The research layer: documented results and reasoned ranges per model, with disclosed bases. | | HICON-BID | Sealed bidding by verified members whose buying power matches the asset. Bids are never public. | | HICON-SCORE | A member’s documented standing — grows with what the member puts on the record, and unlocks what standing earns. | | The spectrum | Quantiles over comparable sales, adjusted for condition, history and specification — the honest shape of a model’s market. | | Confidence | How much weight the record can carry. Thin ledgers make wide spectra, and the figure says so. |