The Continuity Project

Participate — Sitter / family

Volunteering a person for blinded continuity research

Families or representatives may volunteer a deceased individual as a research target.

A target is never named in study records. The moment an enrollment begins, the person receives a randomized study code such as TCP-T-A83F, and that code is the only identifier any operational record carries.

This section contains highly sensitive information. Access is restricted by role, every read is recorded, and no participating medium can reach any part of it under any circumstances.

Access controls

Mediums have zero access
The medium role cannot read target applications, private profiles, information items, sealed answers, or verifier records. This holds even if the same person later takes another role in the project.
Judges have zero access until judging opens
Judging material is released only under the preregistered judging protocol, and never before.
Statisticians see coded data only
Analysts can read the coded target record — code, coded years, enrollment state — and nothing identifying.
Researchers have protocol-defined access
Researchers may read private profiles and information items, but sealed answers stay closed until a coordinator releases them.
Coordinators hold operational access
Coordinators manage enrollment states, verifier contact and answer release.
Administrators are audited
Administrative access is permitted but always written to the target exposure history.

Information categories

Every piece of information you provide is classified by how discoverable it is. This distinction decides what a claim can prove, and it is the difference between an impressive-sounding session and an interpretable one.

  1. 01Publicly searchable — Findable by anyone with a search engine. Carries no evidential weight and is used for exclusion.
  2. 02Known to sitter — Known to the person representing the family and therefore vulnerable to cueing.
  3. 03Known to limited family members — Held by a small number of named people who can be asked independently.
  4. 04Documented but unlikely publicly available — Exists in records or archives that are not realistically reachable by a medium.
  5. 05Private / verifiable — Not public, but confirmable by at least one independent verifier.
  6. 06Unknown to sitter but potentially archive-verifiable — The strongest class: the sitter cannot cue it, and an archive or third party can settle it afterwards.

A sealed answer is stored apart from the claim. Researchers, judges and analysts cannot read it until a coordinator releases it, so a claim can be settled after judging without contaminating it beforehand.

Enrollment status

  1. 01Applied — Application received and queued for review.
  2. 02Eligibility review — Coordinators are assessing standing and verifiability.
  3. 03Enrolled — You may prepare and submit target enrollments.
  4. 04Declined — Not eligible under the current protocol.
  5. 05Withdrawn — Withdrawn at your request.

Sitter application

This form asks only about you. No information about the deceased person is collected here — that happens inside the portal, after a randomized target code has been issued.

Neutrality

No participant is required to believe in survival after death. The project investigates measurable claims, not personal beliefs.