About these archives

These terms govern every archive operated under CaseStudies.Chat. Individual sites may add requirements of their own; nothing set out below is optional.

What is accepted

• Real organisations, documented outcomes. Every case identifies the parties, states what it cost or earned, and cites where that is recorded. Hypotheticals are not accepted.
• The source must be traceable. A link, or the source named plainly in prose — either alone suffices. What cannot be traced cannot be filed.
• Each archive sets its own threshold. mistake.club admits decisions that cost something. genius.wiki admits solutions clever enough to stop a reader — obvious in hindsight is not obvious at the time. change.archi admits transformations: what an organisation was, what it decided, what it became.
• Any period, any size, any market. A municipal office in the 1930s and a startup last quarter are equally eligible. Prominence is not a criterion; instructiveness is.
• One case, filed once. A story submitted twice is returned. The first filing keeps the entry.
• Decisions, not politics. Contemporary politics is not admitted as a subject, nor is any case whose point is harm to a particular group.
• Restraint where people were harmed. Casualties are stated soberly. They are never priced and never treated as amusing.

Review

The archives are curated by CaseStudies.Chat. Every case is examined before publication: the claim itself, the source it rests on, and whether the archive already holds it.

Accounts and access

A single account, created at account.casestudies.chat, signs in to every archive. It is not a mistake.club account or a genius.wiki account; it is the account that reads all of them.

The newest 200 cases in each archive are open to everyone, with no account. Membership opens the rest, the search, and the questions. What is metered is asking — the answer box on each archive's homepage, where a reader enters a question and the archive returns a sourced answer drawn from its cases. Each question is processed by an AI model that bills per token, and that is what a subscription pays for. Pricing for your market is shown on the Pricing page.

The limits of the record

The archives report what documented sources state occurred, for the purpose of learning. They do not constitute legal, financial or professional advice. Where an account is disputed, allegations are stated as allegations. The full terms appear in the Disclaimer below and apply to every archive.

Reporting an error

Every case page carries a report link. Each report is read by a person. A case found to be wrong is corrected or withdrawn, and the reason is recorded.

Disclaimer

This applies to every archive in the family.

This is a collection, not reporting.

CaseStudies.Chat does not investigate. Every case here summarises events already documented by others — news organisations, regulators, courts, company filings — and every entry carries links to those sources so you can read them yourself. Where an entry and its source disagree, the source is right and we want to know.

Verified is not guaranteed.

We check every case before it goes up and reject what we cannot source. That is a filter, not a warranty. Public records get corrected, reporting gets retracted, and we will get things wrong. Treat every entry as a starting point you can check, not a settled fact.

Inclusion is not an accusation.

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It is reference, not advice.

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Your decisions stay yours.

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