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Getting Started

Welcome to Palanor

What Palanor is, what it is not, and how to get oriented in the first ten minutes.

Updated 2026-10-21

Finding your way: scopes and the menu

One menu on your own pages and in your organization: a scope switcher at the top, your scope's pages on the left, the world below them, ⌘K for anything, and one bell.

Updated 2026-10-22

The Onboarding Course

A fifteen-minute, four-part walk through Signals, Context News, Futures and Scenarios, and Studies.

Updated 2026-10-22

Ask: One Question In

Say what you are watching for. Numen names the shape it should take — Signal, Study, Scenario, Futures Frame, Report or Screen — and prefills it.

Updated 2026-10-20

Your First Week

A sensible cadence for the first five working days inside Palanor.

Updated 2026-10-21

Mobile Navigation

On a phone, the menu opens from the button at the top left, with the scope switcher at its head.

Updated 2026-10-22

Narrowing the menu

The menu on the left is 252 pixels wide with names, or 56 with icons only. ⌘\ switches; Palanor remembers your choice.

Updated 2026-10-22

The Palanor status page

How to read palanor.com/status — what the surfaces are, what each state means, and what the page does not tell you.

Updated 2026-05-17

Your Company Profile

Edit what Palanor knows about your organization, classify it, look up its size from a public source, and refresh it from your website.

Updated 2026-10-09

The Resources Pillar

Five surfaces of your own house — Cadence, Workstream, Finance Watch, Capital Watch, Charge — weighed against the world Intelligence is reading outside.

Updated 2026-05-20

Reader, Pro, or Palanor Enterprise — which account is yours

Two Terminal tiers for individuals (Reader free, Pro paid) and one plan for organizations.

Updated 2026-10-22

Reader basics — your first ten minutes

What you get free, what to do first, and how to find the signal you care about fastest.

Updated 2026-10-22

Pro — what you unlock

Signal Builder, Weave, the Workspace Lab, data exports, the magenta compass and more Numen credits.

Updated 2026-10-21

Palanor Data in Python, Excel and Google Sheets

Read Palanor signals, Foresight, saved screens and the company graph from Python or straight into Excel or Google Sheets with your API key, and see where every value comes from.

Updated 2026-10-22

The six spreadsheet functions

LAST, HISTORY, FORESIGHT, SEARCH, SCREEN and ENTITY: what each returns in Excel, Google Sheets and Python, and what each costs.

Updated 2026-10-20

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