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Sources, coverage, and knowing when they fail.
An intelligence source is anything that answers a question you have asked: open-source material, paid vendor feeds, community sharing, or your own internal telemetry. The distinction that matters is between a source, which supplies analysis and context, and a feed, which supplies raw data. Sources are chosen against requirements, blended for corroboration, and reviewed for whether they are still earning their place.
