Last updated 2026-05-02

Legal & Disclosures

The full legal posture for Catalyst Edge: what we do, what we don't do, and the SEC framework we operate under.

Plain English: Catalyst Edge is an automated publisher, not an investment adviser. Everything on this site is a programmatic readout of public SEC filings + tier-1 wires. We never custody assets, never place trades for users, and never give personalized advice.

Publisher's Exemption (IAA § 202(a)(11)(D))

Catalyst Edge operates under the publisher's exemption from the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. The four conditions of Lowe v. SEC, 472 U.S. 181 (1985) apply:

Bona fide publication — auto-generated content from public sources; not a vehicle for promoter pumping
General & impersonal — same data shown to every visitor; no personalized recommendations tied to a user's financial situation
Disinterested commentary — Catalyst Edge does not custody assets, place trades, or take compensation from issuers. We have no financial interest in any specific ticker outcome.
Regular publication — daily refresh, public archives, no side-channel signal sales

What Catalyst Edge IS

An automated SEC-filing scanner that parses 8-K, 10-K, 10-Q, S-3, F-3, 4, and 13D filings within minutes of EDGAR publication
A scoring engine that combines 60+ public-data layers (insider clusters, dark-pool prints, RegSHO, FINRA short volume, options flow, etc.) into a single convergence score
A publisher of both winners and losers — see /trust/ for our full forward-return ledger including the picks that lost money

What Catalyst Edge is NOT

NOT an investment adviser, broker-dealer, or fiduciary
NOT a custodian — we never hold your assets
NOT an order-router — affiliate links open at your chosen broker; we never place trades on your behalf
NOT a research firm with privileged access — every input is public domain (SEC EDGAR, FINRA, FRED, USPTO, etc.)
NOT a tax, accounting, or legal advisor

No Investment Advice

Nothing on this site constitutes investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice. The convergence score, conviction labels (WATCH / ELEVATED / HIGH / MAXIMUM), audit severity, and dossier content are analytical signals derived from public data — not recommendations. You are solely responsible for your investment decisions. Past performance does not predict future results. Confirm independently before trading.

Audit Opinion Disclosure

Audit opinion clips and 2-host AI podcasts on /ticker/ are verbatim extractions from publicly filed auditor reports on EDGAR. The traffic-light severity (🟢 Clean / 🟡 Caution / 🔴 Adverse) is computed by lexicon match against the auditor's own language. We do not editorialize the auditor's conclusions. The 2-host podcast walkthroughs are AI-generated dialogue (Llama 3.1 + Microsoft Edge Neural TTS) summarizing the auditor's signed opinion — the source of truth remains the SEC filing itself.

Privacy & Data

Catalyst Edge does not sell user data. Self-hosted SQLite analytics capture page views and interactions without third-party cookies, fingerprinting, or cross-site trackers. Email is collected only for the optional sector-rotation digest and is never resold. See methodology for the data architecture.

Pricing & Refunds

Subscriptions are billed via Stripe. The retail tier is $9/month and can be cancelled at any time from your account page. Refunds for the current billing period are honored on request within 7 days of charge. Institutional tier ($9,000/year) is annual prepaid, refundable pro-rata within 30 days of activation if the service materially fails to deliver advertised functionality.

Errors & Omissions

Source data may contain errors, lag, or omissions due to upstream limitations (EDGAR rate-limits, vendor outages, parsing edge cases). Catalyst Edge maintains commercial Errors & Omissions insurance and publishes a daily heartbeat at /ops/. If you spot an error, email [email protected] — we'll review within one business day and publish a public correction on /trust/ if the error materially affected a published score.

Jurisdiction

Catalyst Edge is a U.S.-domiciled publisher. Foreign visitors may access the site, but specific filings (e.g., 20-F, 6-K) are clearly labeled as foreign-issuer documents and may be subject to local regulatory frameworks. EU/UK visitors: you can request data deletion or export by emailing [email protected].

Contact

Corrections / data errors: [email protected]
Privacy / data requests: [email protected]
Legal / press: [email protected]

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