Every type a signal can be
17 TYPES · 6 FAMILIES · ONE TYPE PER SIGNAL
Classification is the third gate: every surviving candidate is assigned exactly one of these, or it is dropped. The colour is a data encoding for the family, the same one the feed uses — it is not brand paint.
The catch-all is deliberately the hardest type to earn. A signal routed to Other Notable ships only if it clears a materiality bar the named types are not held to — what dies at that gate.
Which source catches which move
Most moves show up in more than one place, and the order matters: a price change appears on the pricing page before it appears in press. Filled means this is where the family usually originates. A ring means it corroborates but rarely breaks it.
Three tempos, not one crawl
COLLECTION SCHEDULE
Sources move at different speeds, so they are read at different speeds. A pricing page is worth a daily snapshot because the change is silent; a headcount band is not worth more than a weekly read.
Collection tempo is the same on every plan. What differs by plan is how many competitors you track, how often signals are delivered to you, and how far back your history goes — never the quality of what is collected.
Wide coverage, one line each
Broad collection is only an asset if it collapses. One funding round is covered by nine outlets, a press release, an executive post and a filing — and it is one event. Candidates are clustered before classification, so the count you see is the number of moves, not the number of articles.
The cluster keeps its members. Every source that reported the move stays attached to the signal, so corroboration is visible without being a second notification. This is the difference between a fire hose and a briefing.
Where covered signals land
Coverage that only exists inside a dashboard is coverage you will forget to check. Every verified signal is pushed to the places you already work, and every one of them carries the source it was verified against.
The same record is queryable over the REST API and a hosted MCP server, filtered by competitor and by any of the seventeen types.
What coverage does not include
The honest edge of the record. These are not roadmap items — most of them are things we have decided not to collect, and the rest are things that were never published.
THE LINES WE WILL NOT CROSS
Credentials, purchased personal data, confidential material, pretexting — the full list, written to be held against us in a security review, is on the trust and data sourcing page.