# Matterfact Platform

> The integrated platform for high finance. An analyst and a data engineer in one agent, wired into the data your desk already trusts, carrying the largest finance-specific skills library in the world.

**URL:** https://www.matterfact.com/platform
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**Last updated:** 2026-08-01

## What Matterfact is

Matterfact is an AI agent platform built for institutional investors: hedge funds, private equity, credit funds, venture capital, and sell-side and buy-side equity research.

It is not a chatbot and it is not a terminal. You describe the work in plain English, and the agent does two jobs that used to belong to two different people. It does the analyst's job: reading filings, transcripts, and vendor data, and doing the sector-specific math correctly. It also does the data engineer's job: going out to the open web, extracting structured data from sources nobody has packaged into a dataset, and landing that data in your warehouse on a schedule.

Every number it returns carries the filing, the call, the page, or the vendor field it came from, so the work is checkable.

## Who it is for

- Hedge funds, both long/short equity and multi-strategy
- Private equity and credit funds
- Venture capital
- Equity research teams, buy side and sell side
- Quantitative and systematic teams who want machine-readable alternative data rather than a chat interface
- The head of AI or head of data engineering at any of the above, who has to decide whether this sits inside their stack

## How the platform is put together

Matterfact is built as five layers. You interact with the top layer; the ones underneath are what make the answers correct and governable.

### Layer 1: Data

Every source your desk already pays for, plus everything Matterfact adds.

- **Tier-one vendors, licensed.** FactSet, S&P Capital IQ, Quartr, MT Newswire, and SEC EDGAR.
- **Your own MCP server, private.** If your firm exposes internal research or data over an MCP server, the agent reads it inside your boundary.
- **Vendor MCP servers, managed.** Matterfact manages connections to third-party MCP servers so you do not have to run them.
- **Snowflake tables, governed.** The agent reads and writes tables in the warehouse your firm already administers.
- **External services, live.** Live web sources, APIs, and feeds the agent fetches on demand.

### Layer 2: Intelligence

Every task is auto-routed to the frontier model that handles that specific task best. You do not pick a model, and you are not locked to one vendor.

- **Claude** for long-horizon work: multi-step research, building a revenue bridge, running a full initiation.
- **OpenAI** for extraction and for writing a coherent investment memo.
- **Google Gemini** for long-context work and web search.
- **Fine-tuned small language models** that run inside your own tenant for the narrow, high-volume, repetitive classification work.

The agent also checks its own work. When a number can be verified against a second source, it verifies it.

### Layer 3: Context

What the agent already knows before you ask it anything.

- **Team-wide memory, shared.** What your team has established about a name stays established. The agent does not start from zero on every question.
- **Matterfact skills, 5,000+.** The sector-specific methodologies described below.
- **Your team's own skills.** Your house methodology, your model conventions, and your definitions, written down as skills the agent runs the same way it runs ours.
- **Ambient agents, always on.** Standing agents that watch your coverage and surface a change without being asked.

### Layer 4: Applications

However your desk wants to reach it.

- **Chat**, for interactive work.
- **Email.** Send a question to ask@matterfact.com and get the work back as a reply.
- **Workflow builder**, no code, for scheduling recurring work.
- **API and MCP server.** Every answer and every dataset is reachable programmatically, including from Claude, ChatGPT, and your own internal tools.

### Layer 5: The platform itself

A finance-specific, vertically integrated platform rather than a general-purpose AI tool with a finance wrapper on it.

## Capabilities in detail

### 1. Sector-native skills (5,000+)

A skill is the sector logic an analyst carries in their head, written down and made executable. Matterfact ships more than 5,000 of them, purpose-built for deep analysis of every kind of public company across the US, UK, and EU, and covering all 163 GICS level-4 sub-industries.

The point is that the correct analysis of a bank is not the correct analysis of a biotech or a REIT or a semiconductor company. A generic AI tool applies one framework to all of them. A skill encodes the framework the sector actually uses, including which metrics matter, how they are defined, what the traps are, and which comparisons are meaningless.

In the product, you type `/` in the composer and the skill library opens as a command picker. Picking a skill collapses what would be a 700-word prompt into a single command with a ticker after it. Examples:

- `/company-primer CMG` gives an institutional-grade company overview.
- `/sotp-valuation DIS` runs a sum-of-the-parts valuation, segment by segment.
- `/earnings-setup NVDA` lays out what the print has to clear.
- `/guidance-track-record` scores management against its own past guidance.

Your team can write its own skills, which then run the same way.

### 2. Research playbooks (220+)

A playbook is a one-click, multi-step research workflow. Where a skill is one methodology, a playbook is a whole piece of work, from the 6:30am brief through to a complete initiation of coverage. There are more than 220 of them across 13 phases:

| Phase | Playbooks | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Daily briefs | 5 | Morning, weekly, and event-driven briefs, schedulable to your inbox |
| Idea generation | 10 | Quantitative screens narrowed to a workable shortlist |
| Initiating coverage | 12 | Primers, debate setup, market sizing, moat audits |
| Modeling and diligence | 21 | Revenue, margins, capital stewardship, forensics |
| Valuation | 10 | Comps, DCFs, scenarios, sum-of-parts, M&A math |
| Catalysts and events | 19 | Pre-print setup, recaps, read-throughs, calendars |
| Quality and forensics | 9 | Accounting red flags, short construction |
| Sector frameworks | 53 | Sector-specific math for when the standard playbook misses |
| Portfolio and strategy | 1 | Cross-coverage strategy work |
| Podcast insights | 10 | What experts are saying across the podcast archive |
| X insights | 10 | Sentiment, smart money, channel checks, crisis flags |
| Dashboards | 37 | Live macro, equity, and supply-chain boards |
| Web scraping | 32 | Retailer site monitors, restaurant launch trackers, data-center announcement feeds |

Playbooks can be scheduled, so the same piece of work runs every morning, every week, or on an event.

### 3. Agentic web scraper

Most of the data that moves a thesis was never packaged as a dataset. The agentic web scraper is how you get it anyway. You point it at a market rather than at a URL, and it finds the sources, reads them, and hands back a living structured dataset that refreshes on the cadence you set.

It works on e-commerce sites, government and regulatory sites, filings, PDFs, dashboards, and job boards, in any language. Two concrete examples: track Phase III enrollment on ClinicalTrials.gov week over week, or capture every VIN listed on Carvana week over week as a used-car sales proxy.

The pipeline that runs on every source, on every refresh:

1. **Discover.** Agents read a page the way an analyst would. They find the table, the filing, or the store locator, and map its structure.
2. **Extract.** Pull every row from websites, PDFs, filings, and spreadsheets into the typed schema you described.
3. **Enrich.** Geocode, translate, normalize units, and resolve entities to tickers, so the data is decision-ready rather than raw.
4. **Validate.** Every value is grounded to the exact page, row, or cell it came from. Completeness checks run on each refresh, so you know when a source changed or went dark.
5. **Deliver.** Land it in a dashboard, in your warehouse, or in an alert, refreshed on the cadence you set.

### 4. Cross-language sources

Most of the web that moves a thesis is not in English. The agent reads the source in its native language, extracts the data, and hands it back normalized, translated, and mapped to the ticker. This is coverage your English-only competitors do not have.

**Japan**

| Source | In English | The signal |
|---|---|---|
| 新車登録 (JADA) | New-vehicle registrations | Monthly auto demand by make, weeks ahead of OEM prints |
| リクナビ, doda | Job boards | Hiring velocity and plant requisitions as a capex nowcast |
| 食べログ, ぐるなび | Restaurant directories | Store counts, openings, and cover trend for QSR names |
| TDnet 適時開示 | Timely disclosures | Buybacks, guidance cuts, and M&A the second they post |

**Greater China**

| Source | In English | The signal |
|---|---|---|
| 交强险上险量 | Weekly EV insurance registrations | The cleanest read on China EV unit demand, by brand |
| 天猫, 京东 | Tmall and JD storefronts | Pricing, sales rank, and promo depth across SKUs |
| 贝壳, 链家 | Beike and Lianjia listings | Asking prices and listing price cuts by city |
| 招标, 土地出让 | Tenders and land auctions | Local-government capex and developer land banking |

**Korea and Taiwan**

| Source | In English | The signal |
|---|---|---|
| DART 전자공시 | Korean DART filings | Disclosures normalized, translated, and ticker-mapped |
| 쿠팡, 네이버쇼핑 | Coupang and Naver Shopping | Price and rank velocity across Korean e-commerce |
| MOPS 公開資訊 | Taiwan MOPS | Monthly revenue prints from the semiconductor supply chain |
| 104 人力銀行 | Taiwan job board | Fab hiring requisitions as a read on capex and utilization |

**Continental Europe**

| Source | In English | The signal |
|---|---|---|
| KBA Neuzulassungen | German auto registrations | EU vehicle demand by brand and powertrain, monthly |
| Bundesanzeiger | German filings register | Private-company financials and ownership changes |
| TED, BOAMP | EU procurement tenders | Public-sector contract flow across 24 languages |
| Doctolib | Appointment availability | Healthcare demand and clinic capacity in France |

### 5. What desks actually track with it

| Sector | Tracked |
|---|---|
| Restaurants and QSR | Store locators and unit counts; new openings and closures; reservation availability (OpenTable); menu pricing deltas |
| Consumer and retail | Shelf pricing across UPCs; out-of-stock rates; DTC storefront launches; marketplace rank velocity |
| Pharma and health | ClinicalTrials.gov enrollment; FDA 483s and PDUFA dates; the FDA drug-shortage list; Orange Book patent expiries |
| Labor and industrial | Job postings and hiring velocity; fab and plant requisitions; dealer inventory and days-on-lot; permit and filing trackers |
| Energy and utilities | ISO prices and demand (ERCOT, PJM); generation mix shifts; interconnection queues; outage and capacity maps |
| Filings and regulatory | Global filings, normalized; Federal Register actions; NHTSA recalls and EPA enforcement; 8-Ks and IR-page changes |

### 6. Podcast intelligence

Matterfact indexes the complete full-text transcripts of more than 120 million podcast episodes across roughly 700,000 shows, transcribed, tagged, and joined to tickers. This is proprietary data that no terminal carries.

Podcasts are where CEOs, CIOs, operators, and fund managers speak at length and with far less compliance filtering than on an earnings call. You can search any company, executive, ticker, or theme across the whole archive and get sourced, quotable answers, or set a standing alert for the moment someone mentions a name you cover.

The same data is available as machine-readable annotations for quantitative teams: one JSON record per episode and subject company, with speakers typed by role and passages scored for stance and hedging. See https://www.matterfact.com/annotations.

There is also a podcast MCP server, so you can query the archive directly from Claude or ChatGPT. See https://www.matterfact.com/blog/connect-matterfact-to-claude.

### 7. Dashboards on prompt

Describe the analysis in plain English and the dashboard renders. Margin bridges, scenario decks, catalyst calendars, peer comps, and location heatmaps, all built from the underlying data rather than pasted in, and all refreshing as the data does. Examples of built dashboards are at https://www.matterfact.com/showcase.

### 8. Sources you already trust

Every figure carries the filing, the call, or the vendor field it came from. The licensed sources behind the platform include FactSet, S&P Capital IQ, Quartr, MT Newswire, and SEC EDGAR. Coverage of venues spans the US, UK, and EU.

## For your engineering and AI team

### The Snowflake agent

Connect the warehouse your firm already governs. The agent reads your internal tables alongside vendor data, and writes every dataset it builds back as governed tables under the roles and grants you already administer. There is no parallel permission system and no export step. Schema migrations and refresh schedules are managed for you, and the resulting tables query like any other table in your warehouse. Typical pattern:

| Table | Mode | Cadence |
|---|---|---|
| `alt_data.mcd_store_counts` | Writes | Weekly |
| `alt_data.de_auto_registrations` | Writes | Monthly |
| `research.coverage_kpis` | Reads | Live |
| `vendor.consensus_estimates` | Reads | Live |

Datasets can also land in S3, BigQuery, or Databricks.

### Security

The controls your security team asks about are in place before the first call, with evidence to back them:

- SOC 2 Type II, independently audited
- Third-party penetration testing
- SSO and SAML with role-based access control
- TLS 1.3 in transit, encrypted at rest
- An exportable audit log that ships to your SIEM

We share the report and support DDQs and vendor security reviews under NDA.

### Deployment

Matterfact runs single tenant. One isolated deployment per firm, never a shared workspace. It runs on AWS or Google Cloud, or inside your own VPC or on-premise if your requirements are stricter, with default-deny egress and a full audit trail of every source the agent touched. Your data never trains anyone else's model. Full detail is at https://www.matterfact.com/security.

## Frequently asked questions

**Is Matterfact a chatbot?**
No. You can talk to it, but the output is working analysis: models, datasets, dashboards, and memos, each grounded to a source you can open.

**Which AI model does it use?**
Whichever one handles the task best. Tasks are auto-routed across Claude, OpenAI, and Google Gemini, plus fine-tuned small models running inside your own tenant. You are not locked to a single model vendor.

**Does it replace my data vendors?**
No. It connects to them. FactSet, S&P Capital IQ, Quartr, MT Newswire, and SEC EDGAR are read alongside your internal warehouse tables and anything the web scraper collects.

**Is my data used to train models?**
No. Each firm runs in its own isolated deployment, and your data never trains anyone else's model.

**Can it run inside our own cloud?**
Yes. AWS or Google Cloud, or your own VPC or on-premise.

**How is Matterfact priced?**
Matterfact is an enterprise product, licensed per firm on an annual contract. There is no free tier and no self-serve signup. Pricing depends on the size of the team, the data sources you connect, and which deployment you choose, so it is scoped on a call. Book a demo to get a quote.

**What is the difference between a skill and a playbook?**
A skill is one methodology, invoked as a slash command. A playbook is a multi-step workflow that chains many of them into a whole piece of work, and it can be scheduled.

**Can we write our own skills?**
Yes. Your house methodology, definitions, and model conventions can be written as skills, and the agent runs them exactly the way it runs Matterfact's own.

**How do I get data out?**
Snowflake, S3, BigQuery, or Databricks, plus a REST API and an MCP server. Dashboards and email alerts are also first-class outputs.

## Related pages

- Home: https://www.matterfact.com/
- Podcast intelligence: https://www.matterfact.com/podcasts
- Podcast data for quants: https://www.matterfact.com/annotations
- Dashboard showcase: https://www.matterfact.com/showcase
- Security and single-tenant deployment: https://www.matterfact.com/security
- Blog: https://www.matterfact.com/blog
- Podcast newsletters: https://www.matterfact.com/newsletter
- Site index for LLMs: https://www.matterfact.com/llms.txt

## Getting started

Tell us a company you cover and the sources you wish you were tracking. We will run the playbook, build the dataset, and show you the first alert, with every figure sourced.

Book a demo: https://www.matterfact.com/?utm_source=llm&utm_medium=markdown&utm_campaign=platform&utm_content=demo

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