Method
From your holdings to a briefing you'll actually read.
Four moving parts and a schedule. Here is the whole thing, in order.
- Step 01
You connect a portfolio
Link a brokerage account read-only, upload a CSV from your broker, or type in tickers. Claroo reads positions and weights — it cannot place trades, move money, or change anything in your account. Within a few minutes you have a coverage set: the specific list of companies Claroo is now responsible for.
- Step 02
Claroo builds the file
For each holding, Claroo pulls the full document history — annual and quarterly reports, current reports, proxies, insider filings, the last several earnings calls — and builds a Position File. Financial data comes from XBRL, so the numbers tie to the filing rather than to a scraped table. This backfill runs once and typically takes under an hour.
- Step 03
Claroo watches the sources
From then on it runs on a schedule: EDGAR polled continuously, transcripts processed when they are released, licensed news feeds monitored throughout the day. When a document lands it is diffed against the last one, the changes are classified, and anything material is queued for the next brief — or, if it cannot wait, sent as an alert immediately.
- Step 04
You get one page, before the open
At 5:30am ET the brief compiles: what changed overnight across your holdings, ranked by materiality, each item two or three sentences with a link to the document it came from. On a quiet morning it is four lines long. That is the point — the brief is a function of what happened, not of a content quota.
- Step 05
You ask, and everything cites its source
Ask a question across your whole portfolio and Claroo answers from the documents, with every claim linked to the paragraph it came from. Export any of it as a memo you can send to a client, a partner, or your future self. Then you decide what to do, which is the only part of this that was ever interesting.
Step 04 · The output
One page, before the open.
At 5:30am ET the brief compiles. Items are ordered by materiality rather than recency, each one is two or three sentences, and every one carries the document it came from. The strip at the bottom lists everything the system reviewed and cleared — proof that a quiet brief means a quiet night, not a lazy system.
The pipeline
What happens between a filing landing and you reading about it.
Ingest
EDGAR submissions, full-text search and the XBRL company-facts API are polled continuously for every issuer in any coverage set: 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, DEF 14A, S-1/S-3, 13D/G and Forms 3/4/5. Financial statement data comes from XBRL facts rather than parsed HTML tables, which is why the numbers reconcile to the filing. Transcripts and newswires arrive from licensed providers.
Normalise
Documents are segmented structurally, not as flat text: Item 1A stays Item 1A, MD&A stays MD&A, the Q&A portion of a call is separated from prepared remarks. Entities are resolved across ticker, CIK, ISIN and LEI, so a position maps to the right filer even after a ticker change, a spin-off or a re-domiciliation.
Diff
Filing comparison is section-aligned and paragraph-matched, then each change is classified: added, removed, materially reworded, or cosmetic. Cosmetic changes — renumbering, date rolls, formatting — are suppressed by default. This is the difference between a diff you will read and a diff that returns four hundred highlighted lines.
Retrieve
Every document is chunked with its structural metadata intact and indexed for hybrid retrieval, lexical and semantic, followed by reranking. When Claroo answers a question it retrieves spans first and reads only those spans. It does not answer from model memory.
Ground
Every factual sentence is anchored to a specific span in a specific document at a specific accession number. A verification pass re-checks each claim against its cited span before anything is published, and claims that fail verification are dropped rather than hedged.
Schedule
EDGAR is polled on a tight interval during filing windows and after the close, when 8-Ks cluster. Transcripts are processed on availability. Briefs compile at 05:30 ET. Alerts fire on ingest, not on a batch.
Step 05 · Grounding
A citation is a span, not a link to a PDF.
Linking to a 140-page annual report and calling it a source is a gesture, not a citation — nobody goes and finds the paragraph, which means nobody catches you when the paragraph does not say what you claimed.
In Claroo a citation is an accession number, a section identifier and a character range. Click it and the filing opens scrolled to that passage, highlighted in place.
First brief lands the next morning.
Connect a portfolio, or just paste in ten tickers.
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