Mike Oustamanolakis, PhD

Every figure, with its source

People choosing where to set up a company weigh rules that conflict, so I show the source and refuse to grade.

Problem

Low tax, easy banking, a residency route and the reporting burden often pull against each other, so no single score can answer the question.

The directories people use are often copied from each other, and undated.

What I did

  • Put the source beside every figure, with the date it was read and the words it rests on.
  • Refused to grade. A gap is recorded with its reason and shown as a gap, never guessed.
  • Let no model check its own work. One agent collects, code validates, a second agent re-reads the source.

Where it stands

7,918

answers, each with a quotation from its source.

Of 14,399 fields, across 847 company types in 187 jurisdictions; recounted 10 November 2026. Nobody but me has been observed using it.

ElsewhereOn incp.pro
Directories and calculators, often copied from each other, and undated
The figure, its source and the date it was read, side by side
A grade or a score for each place
No grades. The figure is stated, and the decision stays with the reader
Missing data left blank, or guessed
A gap is recorded with its reason, and shown as a gap
An AI answer taken as returned
A second agent re-reads the source before a fact counts

A live product, since October 2026. Nobody but me has been observed using it.

Who

Client
None. My own product, published by Naisu Limited
Status
Live at incp.pro since October 2026
Scale
847 company types in 187 jurisdictions
My role
I wrote the rules and made the design decisions. AI agents wrote code and collected data inside those rules.

The situation

Low tax, easy banking, a residency route and the reporting burden often pull against each other, so no single score can answer the question. What a person needs is the rule, who says so, and when it was read. That is my design position. It does not come from user testing.

Where the rules can be read today.

What I decided

  1. The authority’s own page only. A list copied from a law firm or a formation agent is refused. A registry that cannot be read is recorded as unreachable, with the pages tried.
  2. No grades. A grade puts regimes with different purposes on one scale, and hides the figure and its source.
  3. A gap is a datapoint. It is recorded with its reason and shown on the page, never guessed. An unanswered field never counts against a jurisdiction.
  4. No model checks its own work. One agent collects. Code validates. A second agent re-reads the source and answers yes or no.
  5. Banking is “listed by”, never “accepts you”. The site shows which providers publish a place on their own list, and claims nothing more.

The failure that set the rule

Early on, one AI return invented its central finding: seventeen omissions, none of them real. It still passed the format checks, because format checks do not test whether something is true. So a second agent now re-reads the source, and the tooling refuses a check filed under the model that did the work. It is a second reading, and I describe it as no more than that.

No: rejected and collected again. This is how invented records are caught.

How a fact earns its place.

The screens

Three screens re-created from the live site, with its figures as read on 10 November 2026.

A fact shows its source, its date and the words it rests on

  1. Who says so. “Official” and the site it was read on sit directly under the figure, never in a footnote.
  2. When it was read. Rules change, so every figure carries its date.
  3. The words it rests on. The quotation from the source opens under the figure, so the reader can judge it without leaving the page.
Re-created from incp.pro, the Private Limited Company page, with the quotations opened.

A place is described, not graded

  1. “Providers list it”, not “you can open an account”. Four of the twelve providers publish this place on their own list. The site says only that.
  2. Each company type has its own figures. There is no single number, grade or rank for the country.
  3. The sources are one step away. Every card opens on the page where each figure shows where it was read.
Re-created from incp.pro, the United Kingdom page.

When there is no answer, the page says so

  1. A gap is shown as a gap. Where the site holds no answer it says so in the same place a figure would be.
  2. What the official rule says, and what it does not. A note where practice can differ from the rule.
Re-created from incp.pro, the home page example.

Where it stands

  • 7,947Answered, with its source
  • 4,289Source read; it does not state this
  • 1,621Does not apply to this company type
  • 529Unreachable; the pages tried are recorded
  • 13No record yet, and shown as open
All 14,399 fields: 847 company types, 17 fields each. Recounted 10 November 2026.

What this case cannot say

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