Glossary · First-party term
Holding claim
Also known as: tracked claim, AM claim, OPS claim
A single declarative sentence the publication has asserted, registered with an immutable ID (AM-NNN or OPS-NNN), a publish date, a current verdict, a next-review date, and an appended-only correction log.
How this publication uses it
Every published article asserts exactly one primary claim. The claim text never changes — if the sentence was wrong, the correction log explains; the original stays visible. This is non-negotiable: silently rewriting a published claim is the failure mode the system exists to prevent.
Etymology
ID prefix conventions: AM-NNN for the parent register (enterprise IT reporting), OPS-NNN for the operators register (solo founders / micro-SMB).
Tracked claims that use this term
- AM-101· HoldingAcross the named analyst-publication comparable set (Stratechery, The Information, the Substack analyst stack, the Big-4 research blogs, Ga…
- AM-001· Holding70% of AI-implementation failure is people and process, not technology — cultural transformation is the strongest predictor of AI ROI at th…
- OPS-001· HoldingFor a 4–10 person ops team running ~50 automations including five agentic steps in 2026, the platform choice is binary between n8n self-hos…
Articles that analyse this term
Primary sources
- Agent Mode AI. Editorial standards