The Lab

Models


What the model market actually buys, measured every morning whether or not anyone is watching.

Nobody sells the history of this market. The gateways publish what is true today and replace it tomorrow, so the only way to have a series is to have been recording. This instrument records: one sweep a day, every model with traffic, every provider serving it, every price they ask.

Outside sources sit alongside that sweep — a second gateway that does publish its history, the public model hub where weights either are or are not, and a curated registry of notable models. Where they disagree, they are kept apart and the disagreement is the finding.