Documentation
Modules
Fields, Notes and Lists: Your Team’s Labels on What You Follow
Keep your own fields, tags and notes on companies, investors, funds, deals and signals, mention a teammate, and gather things into lists you can share and export.
Numen for Your Organization: Ask, Build, Write and Schedule Reports
Numen in the menu opens your organization's Numen page: sessions on the left, the conversation in the middle, and what Numen made or wants to change on the right.
Your Analyst: Notes and Questions for Your Organization
A Palanor Council analyst assigned to your organization writes you a private Analyst Note, usually weekly, and answers the questions your team asks it.
Research
Editions written from the record on a calendar: the Quarterly Outlook, regional and industry readings, deep dives and predictions.
Reports
Branded, exportable editions — slides, PowerPoint, and PDF from the same watch.
Casts: CompanyCast and PersonalCast
Daily and weekly audio editions for your organization and for you, with footnoted sources, a choice of language, your own settings and a private podcast feed.
How CompanyCast is made
CompanyCast is researched, edited and voiced by AI. What each step does, and why to treat it as a briefing to verify.
Context News
Your organization’s morning paper: the edition, your own Today’s Read, and the day’s news ranked against your business.
News Signals
Turn how often the news mentions a word, place or name into a signal you can chart, weigh and use in scenarios.
Reading the documents behind a score
Open the filing, release or call behind a Discourse score, with each score marked at the passage it came from.
Discourse
What public companies are saying on their earnings calls — tone, confidence, guidance, and the words that keep coming up.
Windtunnel
Rehearse the room you are walking into. One sentence in; Numen builds the room from what Palanor knows, you run it at the depth you have time for, and the debrief checks every number you said against the evidence.
Macro View
The morning read — Numen's daily macro brief, then the motions, the discourse, the wire, and the moves.
Your dashboard
Arrange the widgets you read each morning: add them from templates, drag them into place, and set each one square or horizontal, as wide as you need.
Markets
Beta — the S&P 500 read through the lattice: the day at equal weight, what each sector and stock moves with, what management said against what the stock did, and where the relationship broke.
Signal Watch
Every signal your organization follows, shared with your team, with sparklines and weights.
Your organization's signals
Key signals, signals in use, and your personal watchlist: what each is and where to change it.
Studies
One question held open: the signals that bear on it, composed on one chart, with a forecast for each.
Reading a forecast
The forecast modes, the faint possible paths, and what moves the line.
The economic release calendar
When US data comes out this week and next, with the prior, the actual when it lands, and where it sits in five years.
The Alerts center
One place for every alert you own: levels, moves, records, releases, Foresight, news and SEC filings, with snooze, mute, quiet hours and limits.
Explain this number
Where a reading comes from, how it is computed, where it stands, its forecast, what usually moves it and the news tied to it.
Where a signal stands
Percentile, record high and low, changes, moving averages and unusualness for every signal.
Credit markets in Palanor
Credit signals from public sources: new bond deals read from SEC filings, distance to default for S&P 500 companies, the NY Fed bond market distress index, commercial paper, bank lending, repo and money funds, credit index swap activity, and prediction markets on bankruptcies.
Private credit from BDC filings
Loan-level data from the schedules of investments that business development companies file with the SEC: marks, non-accruals, spreads, liens and who lends to whom.
Private Capital and Emerging Spaces
U.S. fundraising, venture money, IPOs and M&A, and Palanor's map of technology themes, all read from public filings.
Country Dossier
One page per country: what its economy runs on, Country Posture, how often S&P 500 companies name it, the news that names it, companies headquartered there and every public series about it, each dated and sourced.
State Dossiers, the states map and comparing states
One page per U.S. state and DC: economy, jobs, people, housing, public finances, energy, innovation, federal spending and health, what the economy makes, metro areas, companies run from the state, State Posture and the Future-Ready Workforce composite. A states map and side-by-side comparison of up to five states.
Charts
Find, filter, select, build, play, download and follow charts drawn from live signals, with collections, forecasts, markers, videos and live links.
Foresight track record
How every Palanor Foresight forecast is logged, scored against what happened, published, and used to tune the engine.
First reported vs. revised
What a jobs, inflation or GDP number said on release day, next to what it says now.
The World view and your region
Every country on an equal-area map, a globe and a table, coloured by GDP growth, inflation, debt, Country Posture, market returns, Discourse mentions or night lights, with flags for conflict, geopolitical risk and sanctions. Filter and pick countries, download the map or the table. Plus the region switch on Markets, Discourse and the Library.
World markets
Share prices in 47 economies and the euro area, daily composites of every company listed in Taiwan, and Brazil's listed companies from their filings, all from official open data.
Global yields and commodity prices
Ten-year government bond yields for about 43 economies and World Bank monthly prices for 45 commodities, each a signal with its source.
Industry sizes
How big each US industry is, by NAICS code, from the Census Bureau, BEA and BLS, with the source and period of every figure.
Company attention
How much the public is looking at an S&P 500 company: Wikipedia views and Google search interest, each against the company's own history.
Hiring filings
H-1B visa filings and green-card labor certifications for each S&P 500 company, from Department of Labor data.
Form D private offerings
Private U.S. fundraising from SEC Form D filings, with the venture-like subset and an AI classification of each issuer, in the API and MCP.
The command bar
Press ⌘K anywhere, on your own pages or in your organization, to find a page, a client, a signal, chart or company, then run a function on it: CHART, FORESIGHT, EXPLAIN, ALERT, ADD, SCREEN, DATA or SHARE. Questions go to Numen.
Launchpad
Arrange your own pages of panels: watchlist, live charts, the Wire, a saved screen, a Study, CompanyCast, alerts, Foresight and explain cards. Drag, resize, keep several pages, and share one read-only with your team.
Company Dossier
One page per company: what it is doing, from its SEC filings, its own results releases and calls, and the news. Cash flow, capex, buybacks, guidance, filings, peers and Company Posture, every figure dated and sourced.
Layoff Tracker
Every WARN Act notice in the states whose lists Palanor may show, linked to listed companies and their 8-K restructuring filings: filter it, follow a company, a state or a view, and see what is announced but not yet effective.
Entity Screener
Filter companies, investors, private funds, deals and banks from public filings, and private foundations from IRS returns; see each one's filings, risk events and parent tree, save screens and get a daily alert when new rows match.
Foundations and charities
U.S. private foundations and public charities from their IRS Form 990 returns: grantmaking totals, payout, what foundations fund, foundation pages, and the Foundations list in the screener.
AI research output
Monthly AI and machine-learning papers on arXiv by category, the AI share of all arXiv papers, who writes them (industry share, countries, companies, from OpenAlex), and why the AI-written text share of abstracts is not published.
Company graph and UK companies
One entity per company, fund or adviser across SEC, GLEIF, Wikidata, Form ADV, USAspending, USPTO and Companies House identifiers, with match evidence and ownership trees; and monthly UK company formation from Companies House.
Investment advisers and private funds
Every SEC-registered and exempt reporting investment adviser, the private funds they report on Form ADV, and the SEC's private fund statistics, as signals and in the API and MCP.
Deals, raises and exits
Crowdfunding and Regulation A raises, the IPO pipeline, public-company deals, tender offers, going-private deals and HSR merger filings, from SEC and FTC records.
Congressional holdings and corporate PACs
What members of Congress hold, from their annual disclosure reports, and each company's political action committee, from FEC filings.
Scenarios
The core IP — pressure-tested futures, weighted by signals, scored continuously.
Seer Backplan
Speculative five-year futures, back-planned to today.
Council
Strategic partnership — humans alongside the platform.
Palanor Indices — the full catalog
Twelve composite indicators — six house, six thesis — each a named instrument with its own methodology page.
AI Margin Compression Index — v2 methodology
The v2 composition now incorporates quarterly AI capex from the four major hyperscalers, replacing 50 percent of the v1 proxy weight.
Prediction markets as signals
Numen discovers stewardship-relevant prediction markets on Kalshi daily. You can also add any market by pasting its URL.
Saving a Custom Signal from Lattice Canvas
Compose a graph in Lattice Canvas, then save it as a first-class signal in your organization library.
Schema frameworks in Palanor
Ten interpretive frameworks — Dalio, Minsky, Shiller, Marks, Soros, Marathon, and Palanor’s own — scored against live signals.
Clients and client reports
Keep a profile and a watchlist for each client, and compose reports in your own brand.
Corporate events — material 8-K events for the S&P 500
What the Recent events block and the corporate events ledger show, where the data comes from, and how to read the people on leadership changes.
Operating metrics — the KPI Ledger
What the Operating metrics block on a company page shows, how each figure is checked against the filing, and what the flags mean.
Embedding a Palanor chart
Put a live Palanor signal or Custom Index chart on your own site, what can be embedded, and what the source line means.
Credit: defaults, maturity walls and Credit Stress
One page for corporate, private, bank, household and government credit, read from public filings and public data, with a pre-registered Credit Stress composite.