My Statement / About
How this desk was built
About this project, and how the desk was made
This desk is one of a series, and the series has a method. This page states it: what the samples are, how the figures are derived, what every page carries, and why a desk about a statement names no operator and refuses to be a route to reversing a loss.
Desk spec
- samples
- 10 invented
- pages
- 18
- desk number
- 73
- published
- 30 September 2026
the lineOne transaction, with a date, a type, an amount and a running balance. The sample month holds 240 of them, and every one belongs to a category.
the running balanceThe balance after each line, in the statement's own order. It is not the balance you can withdraw, because a bonus credit sits inside it: 312.00 shown against 292.00 settled.
the pending lineA line that has been recorded but not settled. Of 500 lines in the sample, 43 were pending and 21 were reversed, against 436 settled.
Direct answer
Every figure on this desk derives from ten invented samples, defined on the overview and used identically across all eighteen pages. Each page carries a direct answer, a worked example whose arithmetic can be re-derived, a table, and a short checklist. No real operator, product, statement or account is described anywhere on the site.
The five steps of the method
- Define the samples first. Ten sets of counts, amounts and windows are fixed on the overview before any page is written, so no figure can be adjusted to suit a sentence.
- Derive every figure from them. Each number on each page is a share, a multiplication or a subtraction of the samples, and the arithmetic is printed beside it rather than asserted.
- Answer first. Every page opens with a direct answer of forty to sixty words, then develops it, so the answer survives being quoted alone.
- Show the check, not only the claim. Each page ends with a short checklist, because a reader who can test a claim does not have to believe it.
- Name the boundary. The desk says what a statement can prove and what it cannot, and it is not a way to reverse a loss or recover a stake.
The ten samples
Eight samples are defined and used across the desk, and two further ones are defined on the pages that need them. All ten are invented, and the derivation is one step in every case.
| Sample | Subject | Defined on | Key figure |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | the statement lines | the overview | 240 lines |
| B | the disagreements | the overview | 113 of 300 |
| C | the four causes | the overview | 74 / 58 / 41 / 27 |
| D | pending and settled | the overview | 436 / 43 / 21 |
| E | the pending window | the overview | 71 / 33 / 16 |
| F | the export and retention | the overview | 79 / 61 / 21 |
| G | the reconciled month | the overview | 312.00 / 292.00 |
| H | the balance split | the overview | 292.00 cash |
| I | the statement as evidence | the evidence page | 100 of 100 |
| J | the reader reconciliation | the reconcile page | 15 minutes |
| ten samples | one derivation each | two pages | no observed data |
the method, in one example
the claim: stakes are 61.7% of a month
sample A gives the counts: 240 lines, 148 stakes
148 / 240 = 0.6167 -> 61.7%
the claim: the cash is 93.6% of the shown balance
sample H gives the amounts: 312.00 shown, 292.00 cash
292.00 / 312.00 = 0.9359 -> 93.6%
the claim: a disagreement has one of four causes
sample C gives the counts: 200 disagreements, 74 pending / 58 bonus / 41 other / 27 reversed
74 + 58 + 41 + 27 = 200 -> the four causes are exhaustive on the samples
every figure on the desk is one of these moves: a share, a subtraction
or a sum, applied to a sample that was fixed before the page was written.
The eight components every page carries
a direct answer - forty to sixty words, before any preamble, so the page is quotable on its own.
a worked example - the arithmetic printed, so the figure can be re-derived rather than believed.
a table - the samples in rows, because a distribution is easier to read than a list.
a checklist - five short tests, written to be used on a live statement rather than admired.
a read-next block - four links, each to the page that answers the next question rather than a footer of them.
the disclosure band - the funding position of the site, stated on every page above the copy.
the terms strip - the three words the desk rests on, defined identically on every page.
the risk notice - included in the footer of every page, with the controls that actually bind an account.
Check the method on any figure on this desk
- Find the sample the figure comes from, on the overview or on the page that defines it.
- Re-derive it with the arithmetic printed beside it.
- Check that the same sample produces the same figure on every page that uses it.
- Check that no page introduces a number the samples do not contain.
- Check that the figure is labelled illustrative wherever it appears.