# User Guide The conceptual core of `numeraire`: the mental model behind the point-in-time views, the capability layer, the walk-forward engine family, the evaluators and the result schema, the portfolio simulator, the open registries, and the one dependency rule that keeps the whole thing honest — and then the method-comparison workflow that scores competing pricing models on one shared panel of test assets. ```{toctree} :maxdepth: 2 architecture comparison ```