Trust & data
How Kestryl handles your inventory, evidence and results.
The commitments below apply to every Network Program and Campaign Check. They will formalise into contractual terms as the product matures.
- Is client inventory confidential?
- Yes. Panel lists, locations and geometry you share with Kestryl are used only to produce your results and are not shared with any other party.
- Are network results published?
- No. Network Program and Campaign Check results are confidential to the client who commissions them. The public Kestryl Obstruction Index reports market-level rates only, and never names owners, networks or individual panels.
- Which data may be aggregated?
- Market-level statistics, such as the share of panels in a market showing material obstruction, may be aggregated into the Index. Aggregates are constructed so that no owner, network or panel is identifiable.
- How current is a result?
- Every result carries the date of the survey it was measured from. Measured observations and forecasts are displayed separately, so it is always clear what is known and what is expected.
- What evidence supports a result?
- Each result records the aerial capture it was measured from, the geometry used, the contributing vegetation and an evidence grade. Results can be traced back to their source imagery.
- Are results human-reviewed?
- Yes. Raw detection disagrees with a human scorer on roughly one panel in ten, so every published result passes human review before release.
- What happens where evidence is incomplete?
- The panel is marked as requiring current evidence rather than being presented as a confident result. Kestryl does not fill evidence gaps with guesses.
- How are uploaded panel files stored?
- Submitted panel lists (KML, CSV or similar) are preserved as the source of record for your engagement, stored securely, and used only to produce your results.
- Who can access results?
- The client who commissioned them, and the Kestryl reviewers who produce them. Access is scoped per organisation.
- What is the role of forecasts?
- Forecasts indicate where visibility risk may increase before the next survey pass. They are always labelled as forecasts, tied to species growth evidence, and never presented as measurements.