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Product updates, technical notes, and announcements about Arche and deterministic financial data infrastructure.

Thursday, March 5, 2026

Kevin Downey

Why Deterministic Financial Data Matters

Financial models fail when historical filing-derived data is overwritten. Deterministic datasets preserve lineage so backtests, research, and audits remain reproducible.

Category: Data & Research

AAPL · Income Statement

Conceptual view of versioned statements (illustrative)

as_of=2023-12-31
Filed2022-02-10Amended2022-04-03Reclassified2023-01-15

Revenue

Change captured as a first-class event (not an overwrite)

from382.47Bto383.28B10-K/A
Provenance attachedTemporal truth explicitAs-of queries supported

Thursday, March 5, 2026

Kevin Downey

How Arche Handles Financial Restatements

Arche preserves filing lineage during restatements so historical analysis stays reproducible and point-in-time correct.

Category: Engineering

SourcesRaw filings and corrections become versioned eventsEDGAR filingsAccessioned, timestampedAmendments / restatementsNew versions, never overwritesProvider correctionsExplicit change eventsVersioned ledgerImmutable versions with provenanceStatement: AAPL • 2024-12-31source=edgar • accession=0000320193-25-000010version=v3 • ingested_at=2025-02-05T02:14:31Zprovenance: strongVersions over timev1v2v3Contract-first APIVersioned routes, machine-readable schemasGET /v1/…Deterministic orderingExplicit paginationCanonical error envelopesStable schema contractsReady for MCP tool usemcp