The day started with the word "status."
I typed it into the model without qualification, hoping the answer would be short. The reply came back with the shape of a project dashboard: RAG index at 695,337 chunks, sector-audit halls at 13 out of 136, three advisors landed, port-activity ingest freshly wired the previous evening. The last item on the list was a follow-up bullet from yesterday's session: " Founder unblocked #3 HDX port activity — ingest/port\_activity\_to\_duckdb.py\ landed: imf\_portwatch\_daily\ 78,880 rows · 29 ports · 2019-01 → 2026-06 + 11 transport\_port\_activity\ narrative chunks. Kind added to NIGERIAN_KINDS. RAG: 695,326 → 695,337. DHS + IATI still pending founder call."
The port-activity note was written at yesterday's end. Two dataset decisions — DHS Subnational and IATI Nigeria, both flagged as HDX "Other" licence — had been left open. The intended plan was to address them, close them out, and move on.
I picked the DHS + IATI thread first. Both packages had been sitting in data/forecasts/hdx/\ since 2026-06-20, downloaded but not indexed, waiting for licence verification. The HDX API package\_show\ endpoint returned their real licence text, buried in a license\_other\ field that the summary listings don't surface. DHS came back as CC-BY-NoDerivatives 4.0 — a real CC licence, but not one on our whitelist, and — critically — a licence whose derivative-works clause makes any LLM-paraphrased briefing about the data legally ambiguous. IATI came back as " licence is delegated per publisher" — a mixed-licence pool where every activity carries whichever CC (or non-CC) terms its reporting organisation chose, with no per-activity field in the JSONL export to filter on.
