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The research existed.
The access didn't.

Large institutions have teams of analysts, proprietary data feeds and nine-figure research budgets. Independent investors have Google and gut instinct.

Ticker Mavericks exists to close that gap: 8-section memos, four-pillar scoring, an audit on every flag and a public record, without the fees, the gatekeeping or the four-figure invoice.

The price

The research was never the hard part. The invoice was.

Rigorous research has always existed. It has been priced for people who can absorb a four-figure invoice without blinking. This is $29 a month, and $0 while we're in beta.

Whole market

Coverage without a floor of analysts.

An automated pipeline screens the US market every morning, ground that used to take a room full of people. That is what lets one desk cover everything, and what lets research like this be priced for an individual.

Show the work

A memo, an audit, and two records.

Every flag comes with its reasoning, a Curator's Audit that tests it, and a place in the published record. You can check all of it.

The founder

I built the screen. Then I audit what it finds.

Michael Harlan, founder and curator of Ticker Mavericks
Michael HarlanFounder and curator

I started investing in 2020, which is a bit like learning to drive in a hurricane. Markets fell apart and put themselves back together in the space of a few weeks, and the lesson stuck: the story a stock tells you and the numbers underneath it are two different things, and the gap between them is where the work is.

So I did what everyone does. I read. I subscribed. I paid, and what arrived once a week told me what to think without ever showing me why. I spent my mornings scanning, and I still went to bed most nights certain something had slipped past me, because it had. There are 2,600 stocks worth reading. There is one of me.

Eventually I stopped trying to read faster and started building instead. I wrote the screening rules. I set the thresholds. I designed the governance, and I revise it continuously. I wasn't trying to beat the institutions at their own game. I was trying to do this work without their budget, so it could reach the rest of us. And then, every morning, I let it publish without me.

I'm its architect. Then I read what it surfaces at the same moment you do, and I audit every flag it publishes.

How the research is made

No one reviews the engine's flags before you see them.

Every morning, an automated system screens the US equity market, applies a fixed set of screening rules, scores what passes on a four-pillar composite, and hands a shortlist to a series of AI agents that write the flags, memos and charts. It runs on a fixed schedule and publishes on completion. No one reviews a flag before it is published, and that is deliberate. It is what lets one desk cover the whole market, and what makes the two records worth comparing.

After a flag publishes, I write a Curator's Audit on it: what the pitch leaves out, how I tried to break it, the three tests, and what would change my view. Every audit is published, whatever it concludes.

Since first flag measures the engine. Since added measures my promotions. We publish both, and the gap between them measures whether the curation adds anything, stated as a number, in public, where it can be wrong.

The record has never been reset. It starts on Jul 7, 2026, the engine's first day, and includes the early months when we were still testing and calibrating it. Our database doesn't allow deletions, and we wouldn't want it to.

The conflict, stated plainly

Assume I own what we cover.

I invest my own money, including in individual securities, and I may hold a position in any name we cover. That is a conflict of interest. I don't dress it up as an alignment story. I constrain it, and I tell you it's there.

Under a written policy I've voluntarily adopted, I can't touch a name from the moment it enters our shortlist until seven trading days after you've read about it, not to buy, not to sell. I can't act ahead of you, and I can't sell into a move our own work caused. I can't hold anything that profits from a company we cover going down: no shorts, no puts, no written calls. And no company has ever paid to appear here.

What I don't do is publish my positions. Not which names, not the direction, not the size, not the dates. So don't read our research as though you know where I stand on any given name. You don't, and you shouldn't assume otherwise.

None of that eliminates the conflict. Assume one exists in everything we publish, and weigh our research accordingly. The full Conflicts of Interest statement is worth two minutes.

What we won't do

Process over prediction. Research over advice.

Ticker Mavericks isn't built on predicting the market. It's built on a disciplined, repeatable process, applied the same way every morning. Some of the companies it surfaces are ones the market doubts, and most of those deserve the doubt. We read the numbers to find the few that might not, and we say so when the answer is no.

We won't tell you what to do. Every flag comes with full structured data, balanced bull-and-bear framing, a Curator's Audit and a clear disclaimer. We show the work, always. No black boxes, no overpromising.

And we'll tell you where it's weak. The screen looks at companies large and small. The smaller ones are more volatile, less liquid and quicker to fall. The market is sometimes right. And the agents that write the memos can misread data or state things that aren't so, which is part of why every flag gets an audit. We'd rather you heard that from us.

So, plainly: Ticker Mavericks is an educational research publication of general circulation. Every subscriber receives the same content. We don't manage money, hold positions on your behalf, connect to your brokerage, or offer advice tailored to your situation. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell any security. You are a reader and a subscriber, not a client. Do your own due diligence, consider your own financial situation, and consult a licensed advisor before making any investment decision. Investing involves risk, including possible loss of principal.

Read it yourself.
Then decide if I'm any good at this.

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