WEF–Columbus recursive research pass — Depth 5

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  "_id": "starintel:research-pass:wef-columbus-depth-5-2026-07-26",
  "assessment": {
    "confidence": 0.97
  },
  "data": {
    "agent_identity": "GPT-5.6 Thinking",
    "classification_rules": [
      "Separate authorized ceilings from confirmed outlays.",
      "Separate organization listing from verified workshare or payment.",
      "Separate public availability of code from proven downstream deployment.",
      "Separate WEF association and task-force participation from control over specific local decisions.",
      "Represent missing primary records as queued targets rather than claims."
    ],
    "completed_at": "2026-07-26T04:05:00Z",
    "finding_ids": [
      "starintel:media:columbus-green-it-playbook-2-0-2025",
      "starintel:event:central-ohio-living-lab-launch-2025",
      "starintel:event:hntb-smart-lighting-phase-4-modification-2026",
      "starintel:financial-observation:andhealth-downtown-office-incentive-payment-2024",
      "starintel:product:urbanos-smart-cities-data-platform",
      "starintel:analysis:wef-columbus-depth-5-policy-contract-implementation"
    ],
    "findings": [
      {
        "confidence": 0.97,
        "finding": "Green IT guidance reached documented organizational implementation at Bread Financial."
      },
      {
        "confidence": 0.98,
        "finding": "The Central Ohio Living Lab launched three projects in 2025 and planned three more in 2026; project-level records remain unresolved."
      },
      {
        "confidence": 0.99,
        "finding": "HNTB Phase 4 supports procurement and product evaluation; identified lifecycle authorization reached $1,675,811.18."
      },
      {
        "confidence": 0.99,
        "finding": "AndHealth received a documented $47,727.97 City incentive payment for tax year 2024."
      },
      {
        "confidence": 0.95,
        "finding": "UrbanOS code is publicly available, but external adoption was not established."
      },
      {
        "confidence": 0.97,
        "finding": "No reviewed record establishes WEF control over these specific local programs or transactions."
      }
    ],
    "iteration": 5,
    "method": "Primary-source recursive OSINT across municipal legislation, official organizational publications, economic-development records, WEF materials, and public code repositories.",
    "narrative_role": "recursive evidence expansion",
    "research_question": "What concrete programs, contracts, incentives, technical artifacts, and unresolved network records sit below the documented WEF–Columbus association?",
    "started_at": "2026-07-26T02:30:00Z",
    "supporting_record_ids": [
      "starintel:org:rackspace-technology",
      "starintel:org:bread-financial",
      "starintel:org:honda",
      "starintel:org:urbanos-public",
      "starintel:person:ben-blanquera",
      "starintel:person:marcus-carano",
      "starintel:media:columbus-green-it-playbook-2-0-2025",
      "starintel:event:central-ohio-living-lab-launch-2025",
      "starintel:contract:andhealth-columbus-downtown-office-incentive-2022",
      "starintel:financial-observation:andhealth-downtown-office-incentive-payment-2024",
      "starintel:event:hntb-smart-lighting-phase-4-modification-2026",
      "starintel:product:urbanos-smart-cities-data-platform",
      "starintel:relation:green-it-playbook-authored-by-smart-columbus-rackspace",
      "starintel:relation:ben-blanquera-employed-by-rackspace",
      "starintel:relation:marcus-carano-employed-by-smart-columbus",
      "starintel:relation:bread-financial-implemented-green-it-playbook",
      "starintel:relation:smart-columbus-partnered-honda-living-lab",
      "starintel:relation:city-authorized-andhealth-downtown-office-incentive",
      "starintel:relation:city-authorized-andhealth-incentive-payment-2024",
      "starintel:relation:hntb-phase-4-uses-emht-barr-subconsultants",
      "starintel:relation:urbanos-public-publishes-smart-cities-data-platform",
      "starintel:analysis:wef-columbus-depth-5-policy-contract-implementation"
    ],
    "unresolved_target_ids": [
      "starintel:investigation-target:wef-depth-6-hntb-smart-lighting-procurement-records",
      "starintel:investigation-target:wef-depth-6-andhealth-incentive-ledger",
      "starintel:investigation-target:wef-depth-6-green-it-working-group",
      "starintel:investigation-target:wef-depth-6-central-ohio-living-lab-projects",
      "starintel:investigation-target:wef-depth-6-urbanos-reuse-lineage",
      "starintel:investigation-target:wef-depth-6-wef-columbus-agreements",
      "starintel:investigation-target:wef-depth-6-global-shapers-columbus-status",
      "starintel:investigation-target:wef-depth-6-smart-columbus-staff-project-map"
    ]
  },
  "dataset": "wef",
  "date_added": "2026-07-26T04:05:00Z",
  "date_updated": "2026-07-26T04:05:00Z",
  "dtype": "research-pass",
  "evidence": [],
  "lineage": {
    "derived_from": [
      "starintel:research-pass:wef-columbus-depth-4-2026-07-25"
    ],
    "generation": 5
  },
  "provenance": {
    "agent": "GPT-5.6 Thinking",
    "method": "Primary-source recursive OSINT with bounded inference",
    "run_id": "wef-columbus-depth-5-2026-07-26",
    "skill": "auto-dig;web-research;create-starintel-documents;select-recursive-targets"
  },
  "schema_version": "0.9.0",
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    {
      "accessed_at": "2026-07-26T04:05:00Z",
      "credibility": 0.95,
      "kind": "official_webpage",
      "publisher": "Smart Columbus",
      "title": "A year of impact: 2025 by the numbers",
      "uri": "https://smartcolumbus.com/insights/2025-12-year-of-impact",
      "url": "https://smartcolumbus.com/insights/2025-12-year-of-impact"
    },
    {
      "accessed_at": "2026-07-26T04:05:00Z",
      "credibility": 0.95,
      "kind": "official_webpage",
      "publisher": "Smart Columbus",
      "title": "Columbus leads the way: Evolving our Green IT ambition",
      "uri": "https://smartcolumbus.com/insights/2025-10-cie-vendor-announcement-83p85",
      "url": "https://smartcolumbus.com/insights/2025-10-cie-vendor-announcement-83p85"
    },
    {
      "accessed_at": "2026-07-26T04:05:00Z",
      "credibility": 0.99,
      "kind": "government_record",
      "publisher": "City of Columbus",
      "title": "Columbus Ordinance 1424-2026",
      "uri": "https://columbus.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?FullText=1&GUID=039FBB6C-BE67-4AC2-9C13-59B8B8EFE96F&ID=8117826&Options=&Search=",
      "url": "https://columbus.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?FullText=1&GUID=039FBB6C-BE67-4AC2-9C13-59B8B8EFE96F&ID=8117826&Options=&Search="
    },
    {
      "accessed_at": "2026-07-26T04:05:00Z",
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      "kind": "government_record",
      "publisher": "City of Columbus",
      "title": "Columbus Ordinance 2014-2022",
      "uri": "https://columbus.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?GUID=8A04AD26-94FE-4964-BCCC-44203F01D559&ID=5726301&Options=&Search=",
      "url": "https://columbus.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?GUID=8A04AD26-94FE-4964-BCCC-44203F01D559&ID=5726301&Options=&Search="
    },
    {
      "accessed_at": "2026-07-26T04:05:00Z",
      "credibility": 0.99,
      "kind": "government_record",
      "notes": "The title and background identify the Downtown Office Incentive program; Section 6 uses Jobs Growth Incentive wording.",
      "publisher": "City of Columbus",
      "title": "Columbus Ordinance 1885-2025",
      "uri": "https://columbus.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?FullText=1&GUID=DE71F085-A673-490A-93D8-BED794B120CB&ID=7489845&Options=&Search=",
      "url": "https://columbus.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?FullText=1&GUID=DE71F085-A673-490A-93D8-BED794B120CB&ID=7489845&Options=&Search="
    },
    {
      "accessed_at": "2026-07-26T04:05:00Z",
      "credibility": 0.97,
      "kind": "official_project_record",
      "publisher": "JobsOhio",
      "title": "AndHealth Expanding Office Space in Downtown Columbus",
      "uri": "https://www.jobsohio.com/newsroom/news-press/andhealth-expanding-office-space-in-downtown-columbus",
      "url": "https://www.jobsohio.com/newsroom/news-press/andhealth-expanding-office-space-in-downtown-columbus"
    },
    {
      "accessed_at": "2026-07-26T04:05:00Z",
      "credibility": 0.99,
      "kind": "official_project_record",
      "publisher": "World Economic Forum",
      "title": "Implementing a Life-Cycle Approach to Infrastructure: a Policy Roadmap for Cities",
      "uri": "https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-urban-transformation/infrastructure-lifecycle",
      "url": "https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-urban-transformation/infrastructure-lifecycle"
    },
    {
      "accessed_at": "2026-07-26T04:05:00Z",
      "credibility": 0.98,
      "kind": "official_organization",
      "publisher": "Global Shapers Community",
      "title": "Global Shapers: About",
      "uri": "https://www.globalshapers.org/about",
      "url": "https://www.globalshapers.org/about"
    },
    {
      "accessed_at": "2026-07-26T04:05:00Z",
      "credibility": 0.98,
      "kind": "source_repository",
      "publisher": "UrbanOS-Public",
      "title": "UrbanOS-Public/smartcitiesdata",
      "uri": "https://github.com/UrbanOS-Public/smartcitiesdata",
      "url": "https://github.com/UrbanOS-Public/smartcitiesdata"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Completed the queued Depth 5 implementation branches and emitted eight documentary Depth 6 targets.",
  "tags": [
    "wef",
    "columbus",
    "recursive-research",
    "depth-5"
  ],
  "title": "WEF–Columbus recursive research pass — Depth 5",
  "verification": {
    "status": "source-backed",
    "verified": true
  },
  "version": 1,
  "workflow": {
    "max_depth": 6,
    "recursion_depth": 5,
    "research_status": "completed",
    "root_target_id": "starintel:org:city-of-columbus"
  }
}