How the Pulse is built
Every figure on the Pulse comes straight from an official source and is computed, never written by a language model. Here is exactly how each series is sourced, refreshed and checked.
Sources
Series are drawn from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) PxStat API and the Companies Registration Office (CRO) Open Services API. CSO data is reused under the Creative Commons BY 4.0 licence. Where a matching series exists, an EU-median comparison line may be added from Eurostat. We never scrape source websites; we read their published APIs.
No model in the data path
No figure shown on the Pulse is generated by an AI model. The ingestion step writes only the raw, normalised observations returned by the official API. Derived figures - month-on-month, year-on-year, the twelve-period trend and records such as "highest since" - are computed from those observations by a single, shared calculation. The short commentary on some pages is the only model-written text, and it is constrained: every number in a draft is checked against the source series, and if any number does not match, the commentary is dropped and the page renders the data on its own.
Refresh schedule
Each series refreshes monthly, on the day after its source's scheduled release where a release calendar exists. The observation history is append-only: each month adds the new period rather than overwriting the series. The canonical page URL always shows the latest figure, and each period has its own anchor so a specific month can be cited directly.
Revisions and late releases
Official statistics are sometimes revised. When a source revises a past period, we overwrite that value and record the change in the revisions log on the series page, so the history stays accurate and the change is transparent. If a release is late or skipped, the series shows an "awaiting release" state rather than presenting an old figure as if it were current.
How to cite
Cite as "Vendors.ie Irish Business Pulse" with the series name, the reference period and the retrieval date shown on the page, and link to the underlying CSO or CRO source. Each series offers a CSV download and a schema.org Dataset descriptor for machine reuse.
Limitations
The Pulse is informational and is not financial, legal or investment advice. Registry counts (registrations, strike-offs) reflect administrative activity and are not a formal insolvency measure. Indices such as the Retail Sales Index and Consumer Price Index follow the CSO's current base period. Confirm any figure on the source's own site before relying on it.