We describe poset stratifications of the product of the Ran space and the
nonnegative real numbers, as a universal space for the \v Cech construction of
simplicial complexes. This leads to a cosheaf valued in diagrams of simplicial
complexes for which every restriction to $\{P\}\times \mathbf{R}_{\geqslant 0}$
recovers the persistent homology of the data set $P$. For the stratification,
we describe a partial order on isomorphism classes of abstract simplicial
complexes, which allows spaces stratified by them to have entrance paths
uniquely interpreted as simplicial maps.