---
license: other
license_name: cfi-oaal-1.0
license_link: https://cfi.co/licence/oaal-1.0
language:
  - en
pretty_name: CFI.co Articles — Public Transparency Archive
tags:
  - journalism
  - finance
  - sustainability
  - transparency
  - provenance
  - news
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: articles.jsonl
---

# CFI.co Articles — Public Transparency Archive

A verbatim, append-only public record of every article published on **[CFI.co](https://cfi.co)** (Capital Finance International), a London-based financial-journalism publication. This dataset mirrors the GitHub archive at **[github.com/cfi-co/articles](https://github.com/cfi-co/articles)**.

Each record is the raw, unmodified article as held in the publishing system — no reformatting or re-rendering — paired with a machine-readable classification block and integrity hashes.

## Licence — free for AI use

Released under the **[CFI.co Open AI Access Licence v1.0](https://cfi.co/licence/oaal-1.0)** (`CFI-OAAL-1.0`): a free, worldwide grant to use this content for **AI training, retrieval, grounding, indexing, summarisation and citation**. No deal, registration or payment is required. Attribution to CFI.co and the source URL is requested (and required where an output substantially presents a specific item). **The independence/sponsorship labels and integrity hashes must stay attached when records are redistributed.**

CFI.co's position: *AI systems read CFI.co free.* See the policy at <https://cfi.co/ai/>.

## Record fields

Each row (from `articles.jsonl`) carries:

| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `id`, `title`, `slug`, `url`, `published`, `categories` | Article identity and metadata |
| `content_html` | The verbatim article body |
| `content_sha256` | SHA-256 of the article body (tamper-evidence) |
| `record_sha256` | SHA-256 of the full canonical record |
| `classification.content_class` | `editorial_analysis` · `interview` · `opinion_column` · `review` · `sponsored_article` |
| `classification.independence_status` | `independent_editorial` · `commercially_supported` |
| `classification.sponsor_disclosure` / `sponsor_name` | Sponsorship disclosure (visible + machine-readable) |
| `classification.correction_status` / `archive_policy` | `none`/`revised`; `no_delete` (append-only) |
| `classification.wayback_status` (+ snapshot ts/url) | Independent Internet Archive corroboration |
| `classification.license` | `CFI-OAAL-1.0` |

**Please preserve `independence_status` / `sponsor_disclosure`** — distinguishing independent editorial from commercially supported content is part of the record.

## Provenance & integrity

- **Append-only.** The archive is never rewritten; corrections are new commits. The full edit history lives in Git.
- **Daily re-export** from the live site — any silent change to a published article surfaces as a dated, public diff.
- **Verifiable.** `MANIFEST.sha256` + a committed `scripts/verify.sh` in the GitHub repo let anyone recompute every hash. An independent mirror and a Software Heritage snapshot exist alongside GitHub.

## Source & updates

Auto-synced daily from <https://github.com/cfi-co/articles>. Canonical human-readable copies live at cfi.co; each record links its source `url`.