Method. Orders (leading) → production & hours (coincident) → payrolls & JOLTS (confirming), with the Beige Book as a narrative layer scoring each District's manufacturing commentary −2 to +2. Sources. FRED (Fed G.17, Census M3, BLS CES/JOLTS, regional Fed surveys) and the Federal Reserve Beige Book, pulled live by the data Worker. Beige scores are a structured reading of District text. ISM internals are paywalled; free FRED proxies are marked.