Four things I do. Each one has a number next to it and a date attached to it. No discovery calls to establish whether there is a project — if you want to know how I work, buy the smallest one.
Every candidate surfaced by the public radar is written to an append-only ledger committed to a public repository, so the record of when something entered the system is timestamped by git rather than asserted by me. The ledger includes what the system got wrong.