A corporate intelligence archive of the case files, people, companies and evidence that make up the Henry Grant universe. How much of this is fiction?
STATUS: RELEASED. AURORA is the decision-support system AeroFly Group built with Aurora Decision Systems Ltd. to remove human bias from procurement approvals. In its first four months of live operation, training data improved decision quality on low-value approvals by roughly seventeen percent against a human outcome-variance baseline of thirty-eight percent.
"The system is learning faster than the model predicted."
One of the world's largest aerospace firms, headquartered in Haussmannian offices in Paris. Governed by an eleven-member Board under Chairman Heinrich Vogel and CEO Marta Reyes-Solano, with an internal audit function known as the Inspection, led by Inspecteur Général Juergen Krebs.
A rival systems house whose personnel history overlaps with Aurora Decision Systems Ltd. more closely than either company has disclosed. Cross-referenced against Swiss civil and professional registries.
Chief Procurement Officer, AeroFly Group. Twenty-one years' tenure. Architect of AURORA. Currently under an eight-week Board-mandated investigation into eleven procurement transactions his own biometric authentication is recorded as having approved.
Managing Director, Aurora Decision Systems Ltd. Oxford-educated. Designed and built AURORA from a thirty-month development programme following the AeroFly Spares Inc. review. Regarded within the Inspection as a witness, not yet a suspect.
Investigative correspondent, The New York Times. Twenty-two years covering heads of state, central bank governors and a man who briefly controlled seventeen percent of the world's shipping capacity. Currently pursuing the AURORA story.
7:15am, May 6th 2027. A fatality at AeroFly Group Shared Services, Kraków, logged internally as 'the incident.' A locker at Kraków Główny railway station is emptied within the hour. Cross-reference: FILE 0043.
New files are declassified as Invoice approaches launch.