The method is the product
Connection queue times are measured differently in every country. Land prices come in incomparable units. Permitting regimes have no common structure. The hard part of comparing European markets is not gathering the data, it is normalising it — and that normalisation is what we are asking you to trust.
Four states, and no fifth
Every claim in the system, at every layer, carries exactly one of these. They are distinguishable by shape as well as tone, so they survive greyscale printing, photocopying and colour-blindness.
The four things we will not do
Never emit a number we cannot source
Absence of data is a valid output. It is reported as absence, with the reason and who could resolve it.
Never present dated figures as live
Grid data moves monthly. Every figure carries the day it was read, and reopening old work shows the dates as they were, flagging what has since changed.
Never hide a source that failed
A timed-out or unreachable source is recorded, dated and carried into the document. A silent gap is worse than a stated one.
Never let coverage be discovered by collision
Depth per country is visible before the click, and the honest "not at this depth yet" answer is a designed screen with what we do have.
Normalising eleven criteria across fourteen markets
Each criterion is reduced to a comparable scale with the transformation written down: what the underlying figure is, what unit it arrives in, how it was converted, and which source and date it came from. Where a country reports something in a way that cannot be compared, we say so rather than forcing it onto the scale.
Weights are yours. The method is ours, versioned, and published with the ranking so anyone reviewing your work can reconstruct it.
Named sources, read in the original
Site depth is deep national data integration: language-locked, expensive, and it compounds per country. Poland is where we do it first, and every field points back to one of these registries with the day it was read.
Source documents are Polish. Field labels and summaries are written as clean English equivalents, with the original clause quoted alongside.
