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A press kit a journalist can work from — approved boilerplate, stats that come straight from the dataset, brand assets, and ready-to-paste citations. The firm is independent and intentionally anonymous; quotes are the firm's, under the Brierly Research Team byline.

About Brierly — approved boilerplate

Brierly is the independent ratings and research firm for event markets — the integrity layer a $1T-trajectory asset class is currently missing. Brierly is an independent ratings and research firm for event markets: it publishes 0–100 settlement-risk grades on liquid Kalshi and Polymarket contracts under the firm's own name, each backed by a public methodology, quoted source evidence, and a Brier-scored, publicly auditable track record. The firm is staffed by the Brierly Research Team and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any exchange.

Mission, in one line: Brierly is the independent ratings and research firm for event markets — the integrity layer a $1T-trajectory asset class is currently missing. Media contact: founders@brierlyresearch.com.

Coded disputes

2025–26, both venues, every case sourced

Disputed volume

$1.1B+

de-duplicated reported volume

Failure modes

the recurring settlement-failure taxonomy

Markets graded

live

top by 24h volume, both venues

The five failure modes

the taxonomy behind every grade and the dispute database

● Source dependence

Resolution hinges on specific named sources reporting (or failing to report) an observable fact. The world and the source diverge — the source wins.

● Scalar carve-out

Numeric thresholds, rounding, first-print-vs-revision, and boundary handling. The number moves after settlement, or the boundary itself is ambiguous.

● Definitional vagueness

A key term ('suit', 'ban', 'invasion', 'go live') is undefined or defined differently than traders assumed.

● Disclosure timing

The event happened, but confirmation landed outside the market window — or the window itself was read in conflicting ways.

● Oracle manipulation

Token-weighted oracle voting is captured or steered by economically interested whales.

The full coded record is the Brierly Dispute Database; the rubric is the published methodology.

Brand & logo assets

The Brierly mark: a plumb line inside a seal — the old symbol of impartial measurement. Use the mark with the “Brierly” wordmark; do not recolor or distort it.

Favicon (SVG) App icon (PNG)

Vector mark and icons only — no third-party image host. The SVG inherits its color from the page; on a dark background the mark renders in the firm's brass accent.

Cite Brierly

News / wire style

Brierly Research, Brierly Dispute Database, brierlyresearch.com (accessed 2026-06-17).

APA style

Brierly Research. (2026). Brierly Dispute Database. https://brierlyresearch.com/disputes

The dispute database and records registry are published under CC BY 4.0 — attribution to Brierly Research is required; no further permission is needed.

Recent & notable

The first call resolves: the June FOMC hold, and what a public scored record actually buys · Jun 17, 2026
Reading the June 2026 CFTC NPRM through the five failure modes · Jun 16, 2026
The World Cup settlement window: outcome contracts grade cleaner than the markets around them · Jun 15, 2026
Turning an opinion into a rating: methodology, evidence, and a public scored record · Jun 14, 2026
The Brierly Dispute Database — the coded record behind the grades.
The firm's CFTC NPRM comment — a settlement-integrity standard, grounded in the dataset.

Media contact

For interviews, data questions, or fact-checks, write the firm directly:

founders@brierlyresearch.com

Use this address until a dedicated press alias exists. The firm responds under the Brierly Research Team byline; there are no individual spokespeople.

Brierly grades are independent editorial opinions about event-contract structure, resolution ambiguity, and market-integrity risk. They are not predictions about the outcome of any event, and they are not investment, legal, or tax advice.