Framework

What TEA ECO Actually Means

The six-part structure behind every NLR signal brief.

TEA ECO is not branding copy. It is the desk method that keeps every brief disciplined.

A publishable NLR signal starts with a trigger, documents the evidence, checks historical analogs, tests plausible explanations, states confidence honestly, and finishes with a concrete observation window.

Key points

Trigger keeps the brief anchored to something that actually changed.
Evidence forces a real source trail.
Analogs stop us from treating every event as unprecedented.
Confidence is about signal quality, not certainty about the future.

This explainer exists so readers can understand the desk method without reverse-engineering a dozen signal pages.