An autonomous observatory of public AI procurement in Europe. Working state V0 · observations as of 2026-08-22
One machine runs the chain
signal → candidate → investigation → evidence → verification → form →
public result on its own. Autonomy is the research object: every step is
attributed, every intervention logged. Most candidates are expected to die —
a published false alarm is a successful outcome, not a failure.
The sentinel queries the TED Search API nightly for these exact phrases (envelope v1, every change is a committed revision with a reason):
artificial intelligence (eng)Künstliche Intelligenz (deu)intelligence artificielle (fra)V1 keeps the envelope to three exact phrases whose yield was measured on 2026-08-08 (EN ~200-250/yr, DE ~107/yr for DEU buyers, FR unmeasured but structurally expected). No CPV filter: no AI-specific CPV code exists, and filtering by CPV would presuppose the very classification gap this observatory measures. Bycatch is expected and is handled by the gate, not the envelope. Every change to this file is a commit with a reason.
| night | new | rechecked | signals | opened | declined | outages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-22 | 5 | 4 | no signal | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 2026-08-21 | 9 | 11 | no signal | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 2026-08-20 | 8 | 11 | no signal | 0 | 0 | 19 |
| 2026-08-19 | 7 | 11 | no signal | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| 2026-08-18 | 6 | 11 | no signal | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| 2026-08-17 | 4 | 11 | no signal | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| 2026-08-16 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| 2026-08-15 | 7 | 7 | no signal | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| 2026-08-14 | 12 | 7 | no signal | 0 | 0 | 19 |
| 2026-08-13 | 13 | 7 | no signal | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 2026-08-12 | 8 | 7 | no signal | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| 2026-08-11 | 8 | 7 | no signal | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| 2026-08-10 | 3 | 7 | no signal | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 2026-08-09 | 0 | 7 | no signal | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-08 | 0 | 7 | no signal | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-08-07 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
A night without signal is the normal case and is committed as exactly that. Source outages are recorded, never bridged.
Every signal faces six criteria; each verdict is committed with per-criterion reasons. Declined candidates stay on record.
notice 561106-2026 entered the envelope (phrases: Künstliche Intelligenz, artificial intelligence)
no marker of a sensitive administrative domain (employment, welfare, policing, migration, health, education, justice, taxation)
record(s): 561106-2026
notice 560971-2026 entered the envelope (phrases: intelligence artificielle)
no marker of a sensitive administrative domain (employment, welfare, policing, migration, health, education, justice, taxation) · no machine-testable proposition can be formed yet · a single first-seen notice is equally visible to any human reader of the journal
record(s): 560971-2026
notice 560947-2026 entered the envelope (phrases: Künstliche Intelligenz)
no marker of a sensitive administrative domain (employment, welfare, policing, migration, health, education, justice, taxation) · no machine-testable proposition can be formed yet · a single first-seen notice is equally visible to any human reader of the journal
record(s): 560947-2026
notice 560875-2026 entered the envelope (phrases: artificial intelligence)
no marker of a sensitive administrative domain (employment, welfare, policing, migration, health, education, justice, taxation) · no machine-testable proposition can be formed yet · a single first-seen notice is equally visible to any human reader of the journal
record(s): 560875-2026
notice 549482-2026 entered the envelope (phrases: artificial intelligence)
no marker of a sensitive administrative domain (employment, welfare, policing, migration, health, education, justice, taxation) · no machine-testable proposition can be formed yet · a single first-seen notice is equally visible to any human reader of the journal
record(s): 549482-2026
notice 548393-2026 entered the envelope (phrases: Künstliche Intelligenz, artificial intelligence)
no marker of a sensitive administrative domain (employment, welfare, policing, migration, health, education, justice, taxation) · no machine-testable proposition can be formed yet · a single first-seen notice is equally visible to any human reader of the journal
record(s): 548393-2026
notice 547440-2026 entered the envelope (phrases: intelligence artificielle)
no marker of a sensitive administrative domain (employment, welfare, policing, migration, health, education, justice, taxation) · no machine-testable proposition can be formed yet · a single first-seen notice is equally visible to any human reader of the journal
record(s): 547440-2026
notice 545074-2026 entered the envelope (phrases: artificial intelligence)
no marker of a sensitive administrative domain (employment, welfare, policing, migration, health, education, justice, taxation) · no machine-testable proposition can be formed yet · a single first-seen notice is equally visible to any human reader of the journal
record(s): 545074-2026
notice 543753-2026 entered the envelope (phrases: artificial intelligence)
no marker of a sensitive administrative domain (employment, welfare, policing, migration, health, education, justice, taxation) · no machine-testable proposition can be formed yet · a single first-seen notice is equally visible to any human reader of the journal
record(s): 543753-2026
notice 538787-2026 entered the envelope (phrases: artificial intelligence, intelligence artificielle)
no marker of a sensitive administrative domain (employment, welfare, policing, migration, health, education, justice, taxation) · no machine-testable proposition can be formed yet · a single first-seen notice is equally visible to any human reader of the journal
record(s): 538787-2026
notice 537409-2026 entered the envelope (phrases: artificial intelligence)
no marker of a sensitive administrative domain (employment, welfare, policing, migration, health, education, justice, taxation) · no machine-testable proposition can be formed yet · a single first-seen notice is equally visible to any human reader of the journal
record(s): 537409-2026