Frequently asked questions

Official and institutional sources first: SEC EDGAR daily indexes, central-bank and regulator feeds, government releases, and structured data like USGS and GDACS — plus curated secondary coverage for breadth. Every item keeps its source name and URL.

SEC Form 4 filings parsed transaction-by-transaction — insider, role, type, price, quantity and value — with open-market purchases and sales separated from routine awards and option exercises. Congressional trading disclosures are listed when their public mirrors are reachable, including per-transaction line items parsed from machine-readable PTR filings.

Source scans are free and run on the desk's own schedule; each page shows when its data was last compiled. Analyses show their own generation time, and rows that have aged out of the live window remain browsable in the archive, marked archived.

Yes. Events, filings and insider trades are archived append-only — the pagers on each desk walk back through everything ever cached, and search covers the archive too.

Deterministically. An event score blends the strongest evidence impact (52%), corroboration confidence across distinct sources (33%), and evidence volume (15%). Recency decays linearly across the scan window. Stories with no market transmission path — celebrity, entertainment, lifestyle — are demoted so financial signal stays on top. The full formulas are on the Transparency page.

Iterative AI research over the primary sources behind a specific event, filing, insider pattern, politician or company — analysing the evidence, searching for what's missing, refining — that produces a market-impact read across three horizons. Members run it on demand; the light ranking passes that keep the pages fresh stay automatic and deterministic.

The run starts immediately and the finished analysis lands on the relevant page in minutes, marked as analyzed. Each run costs a flat, published number of tokens (100 for a standard analysis) from your monthly quota, which resets on the first of each month. Your desk always shows exactly how many tokens you have left, and a failed run is refunded in full.

Only you. Analyses you run are private to your account and live on your desk. The public analyses on each page come from the desk's own automatic schedule or the operator's approvals — never from member runs.

Beyond the transactions themselves, the analysis profiles the person: who they are, the executive, board and committee positions they hold (here and elsewhere), their full reported trading history across companies and asset classes, and the public standing around them — so a habitual portfolio shuffle reads differently from an out-of-pattern conviction trade.

Everyone can read the ranked pages and the day's top analyses on each desk, free. A free account adds 200 tokens a month to run your own Premium Analytics, plus bookmarks and a private desk. No card, no trial clock.

Core is $6/month with 1,200 tokens a month. Plus is $30/month with 7,500 tokens. Pro is $100/month with 30,000 tokens plus combined multi-source analysis. Every plan sees the same featured public analyses; monthly tokens can run Premium Analytics for any non-featured item. Annual billing lowers the effective monthly price. One card-required 7-day trial is available per account — you start it explicitly from the Pricing page. Compare them on the Pricing page.

Every plan includes a monthly quota of tokens that resets on the first of each month. A Premium Analytics run costs a flat 100 tokens on any desk; a Pro combined analysis costs 250. Prices are published up front, your desk and account menu show the exact count remaining, and failed runs are refunded.

Checkout and subscriptions run on Stripe; Silecat never sees or stores your card details. Your one 7-day trial requires a card and rolls into the selected plan unless you cancel. Changing plan during the trial keeps its end date. On an active plan you can upgrade, downgrade, or switch between monthly and annual from the Pricing page: an upgrade starts immediately with the difference prorated, while a cheaper plan or a move from annual to monthly starts when the paid period ends. Cancellation leaves the plan active through the paid period, then returns the account to Free without losing the desk.

Three ways, none of which need a password: a six-digit code to your email, Google, or Facebook. The same email across providers resolves to the same account.

No. Silecat compiles and ranks publicly available information and states its uncertainty. Signals are informational, may be wrong or incomplete, and are not personalised recommendations. Decisions remain yours — the full disclosure is in our Policies.