Conflict detection

Once people, bodies and roles sit on one graph, some shapes repeat. The same person holds active office in more than one tracked organisation. A director of a commissioning body also directs a delivery body that body oversees. A private directorship sits in a sector that the public role touches. Those shapes can be stated as rules. The platform runs the rules and writes a flag: type, severity, the description of the pattern, a link back to the person and the documents.

A flag is a structural signal. It is not a finding of misconduct and it is not an allegation. Status starts at pending. Review is the point at which a person reads the primary records and confirms, dismisses, or leaves it pending. The platform does not write the conclusion. It writes the shape that made the conclusion worth asking. That distinction is the methodology. Collapse it and the layer becomes a charge sheet, which Institrace is not.

It does the pass that a conflict-check or an investigation always starts with and almost never finishes at national scale: look across institutions, not inside one register. Council sites will not flag a BID directorship. Companies House will not flag a scrutiny role. A newsroom graph will not sit on the live index. Institrace is the only layer that raises these signals on the joined public record and keeps them labelled as signals.

Use the flags to decide where to read. Then read. The original minute, the appointment, the title, the filing remain the evidence. The flag is the index entry that told you to open them.