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QuickTick AI

Markets · Research

If The Wake tells you what happened, QuickTick tells you why the market is moving on it. Two pillars: Sentinel Alpha, a four-layer engine that scans social signals, clusters them into narratives, and runs psychological analysis on them — refreshed nine times every trading day. And Company Research: institutional-depth AI research on 3,486 US public companies, fifteen sections per report, with a probability-weighted fair value estimate.

Built by a friend of the Wake. Daily-updated, US equities focused, designed for self-directed investors who want institutional-grade work without the institutional fee.

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