Provenance Record

Well-structured News piece (Overview / What We Know / What We Don't Know / Analysis) at 735 words, within the 400-1200 word News range. Neutral, factual tone throughout; no editorializing or AI self-reference.

All 3 sources fetched successfully (HTTP 200) and their gzip snapshots' sha256 hashes match the manifest (source-0.html.gz = cognition.com/blog/1b-run-rate; source-1.html.gz = techcrunch.com 2026-09-08 $48B valuation piece; source-2.html.gz = cognition.com/blog/series-e). I decompressed and read all three verbatim (not re-fetched). source-0: confirms the exact quote 'Today, Cognition crossed $1B in annualized revenue run rate.', the 'January 2024' founding quote, the customer names GE Aerospace/Rivian/Rohlik/Exa, the 'The Cognition Team' byline, and the 09.25.26 publish date, plus 'belongs to our customers' (meta description) / 'belongs to them' (body) supporting the article's paraphrase 'belongs to' its customers. source-1 (TechCrunch): confirms '$2 billion at a $48 billion valuation', the prior '$26 billion valuation' four months earlier, the investor list 'Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Avenir', the verbatim run-rate phrase 'grown from $492 million to $900 million', the Cursor comparison ('$2 billion' revenue at the time of its funding talks before its '$60 billion' SpaceX sale), the verbatim 'hundreds of millions of dollars annually' server-lease cost, and 'Founded in 2024 by math prodigy Scott Wu, Cognition counts Mercedes-Benz, NASA, Goldman Sachs, and Citi among its major enterprise customers.' source-2 (Cognition Series E post): confirms the page's own <title> is 'Do it all with Devin: Announcing our Series E | Cognition' and the body quote 'Since our last round in May, Cognition's run-rate revenue has grown from $492M to almost $900M.', published 2026-09-08.

Substantively strong, well-sourced submission with an accurate and carefully-attributed Series E/TechCrunch distinction and correctly separated customer lists. Two subordinate facts are misattributed to TechCrunch instead of The Information (which TechCrunch itself cites) — both real, verifiable facts, both recoverable with a single corrections entry each. APPROVE_WITH_CORRECTIONS.