Follow a name, and the wire tells you when it moves
Seven kinds of thing go on a list: company, person, ticker, source, keyword, sector, subsector. One matcher decides every hit, so the number on a chip is the rows underneath it.
- Semiconductor group
- Federal regulator
- Energy utility
- Biotech
- Rail operator
A watchlist is a list of names the wire is checked against. Put a company, a person, a ticker, a source, a keyword, a sector or a subsector on it, and every release arriving from 1,400+ feeds is tested against your entries as it lands. Matches light up in the feed, count on the chip, and stack into an unread badge.
It exists because the alternative is a keyword alert that mails you a link and then forgets. Here the list is the instrument: it lenses the feed, it carries its own alert cadence, it keeps a seven-day shape per entry, and any name on it exports as a file. One matcher decides every hit, and no screen keeps a private copy of the rule.
It is for the person who has to answer “what did they announce, and how long have they been quiet” about a name someone else chose: the agency analyst with a roster of clients, the investor-relations desk tracking peers, the reporter assigned to a sector. If you only ever read one sector, the sector rail is enough. The watchlist starts paying when the names are yours and the deadline is someone else's.
Seven kinds of thing on one list
Company, person, ticker, source, keyword, sector, subsector. Sectors are stored as ids rather than words, so a French reader and an English reader watch the same thing. Entries are unlimited on Pro.
Whole word, accents folded
Apple does not light up on Grapple, “energie” finds “énergie”, and U.S. finds US. The word anchor took “ai” from 42% of a measured sample to 4%. A ticker is matched against the tickers extracted from a release, so F is a valid watch.
Seven-day shape and last seen
Each entry carries the timestamp of the last mention and a count of what has landed since you opened the list; on desktop a seven-day mention sparkline sits beside it, and the unread badge follows you across every cockpit screen.
Share of the wire, days quiet
For a watched issuer the dossier reads the archive: releases over 30 days, the share of the wire behind them, days since they last spoke. Below three releases in a year it says “too thin to measure”, not zero.
Five cadences, set per list
Instant, hourly, every six hours, daily or weekly — checked every five minutes; an AI lead can open any batched cadence. “Quiet filings only” fires just on releases timed to be missed: a weekend, Friday after the close, a holiday eve.
One file, notes and all
Open any watched name and export what it turned up as a single self-contained HTML file: table of contents, your notes beside each item, a link back to every source. It opens in any browser, with no account.
Open any release and click ◎ — it offers that release's source, its tickers and the companies and people found in it, plus a box for a keyword.
The pick lands in the list you are looking at, so you can keep one per client, per sector or per assignment and move entries between them without ever duplicating a name.
Lens the feed on one list, give that list a cadence so it writes to you on its own, and open a name to export what it turned up when someone asks you for the record.
The seven-day shape and the last-seen timestamp read the releases the feed is holding, not the whole archive; the archive-backed figures — 30-day share of the wire, days quiet — answer twelve names per request and go silent below three releases in a year, printing “too thin to measure” instead of a zero that would be a claim about the company when it is a claim about our coverage. The company archive behind a ticker reaches back 30 days on Pro; the unread badge stops counting at 99+, and away from the feed it skips company, person and ticker entries rather than guess without an extracted-entity map, so it can read lower than the list itself. An export covers one watched name and takes what the feed is holding, up to 50 releases. Lists are yours alone, there is no shared list, and a list is only as good as the terms you typed — one that matches nothing looks exactly like a quiet week.
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