Lodestar Stamp

DRAFT · Chicago HVAC · August 2026 edition Soft launch. One market, three assistants, monthly editions. Read the method

File a correction.

A fact on a receipt can be wrong. Email watch@lodestarstamp.com with the evidence. A person files an append-only record, and the correction is re-checked in the next edition. Filing does not change the receipt by itself.

How to file

  1. Email watch@lodestarstamp.com.
  2. Say whether you are the owner or a member of the public.
  3. Name the business, the fact, and the evidence.
  4. A person reads the mailbox and writes a new record. Nobody overwrites an old one.

Payment never touches the record. A filed correction does not change a dated receipt. Applying a claimed overlay to a receipt is a later step, not this page.

Clocks

These are the only clocks. They are printed here and encoded on every record.

Clock
ack ≤2 business days
Clock
resolve ≤10 business days
Clock
pre-pub 14 days

Filed corrections

No owner or public filings yet. A new filing is a new JSON file in the repo. An existing id is never overwritten.

Example record (scaffold shape)

example-0001 · EXAMPLE · fixture

Example HVAC (fixture) · example.invalid

Filer: example · Filed 2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

Claimed fact: licensed — Example asserted an Illinois HVAC license number for the fixture only.

FIXTURE — not a live shop correction. Scaffold shape only. Does not change a receipt.

Where to next

See the Chicago HVAC record

Every business in the covered market, on one dated record.

Methodology

Battery, probe protocol, and publish gates.

Who keeps the record

Independence charter. Payment never touches the record.