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Run your first report and read the output

If this is your first time on Sentinellis, start here. These four articles walk you through running an analysis, navigating the report, and trusting what you see.

Run your first company analysis

After signing in you land on /app. The big input at the top is where you type a company name — anything from Apple to Volkswagen AG or a ticker like NVDA. Press Enter or click Analyze.

A staged progress card appears while the pipeline runs. Typical end-to-end time is 30–60 seconds. If the same company was analyzed in the last 24 hours, your request returns instantly from cache and does not count against your quota.

  1. Type the company name (or ticker) into the analyze box.
  2. Wait for the four progress steps to complete.
  3. The report renders below; it's also saved to your history on the left.

If you're on the Free tier, you have 3 reports total (lifetime). Paid tiers refill monthly. Cached reports are always free.

How to read a Sentinellis report

Every report has the same structure so you know where to look for what:

  • Header — company name, ticker, sector, logo. A Simple / Analyst toggle on the right controls how dense the rest of the page is.
  • AI Analysis — plain-English summary, what they do, risks, opportunities, and a confidence score (1–10). Every claim has a [Source] tag.
  • Recent News — the last ~7 days, relevance-ranked. Each article has a one-sentence summary in your locale.
  • Company Snapshot & Financials (Analyst mode) — Piotroski F-Score, Altman Z-Score, Sentinellis Health, margins, growth, valuation, debt — about 100 metrics with green/yellow/red status colors.
  • Leadership — CEO, CFO, top executives with compensation when public.

New to financial vocabulary? Stay in Simple mode — it surfaces the three or four numbers that matter and skips ratios. Hovering on metric labels in Analyst mode opens a plain-English explanation.

What is the confidence score?

The confidence score (1–10) at the bottom of the AI Analysis estimates how complete and reliable the underlying data was for this specific report. It is not a buy or sell signal.

Lower scores typically mean one or more of the following:

  • The company is small, private, or listed outside the US/EU — upstream sources have thin coverage.
  • News volume in the last 7 days was very low.
  • Key financial statements (income, balance sheet, cash flow) are missing or stale.
  • The ticker resolution was ambiguous (we picked the closest match).

When the score is below 5, the synthesis explicitly flags which inputs were weak so you can adjust how much weight to put on the conclusions.

Understanding inline citations

Every factual claim in the AI Analysis section is tagged with a source — for example [Yahoo Finance], [Reuters], or [Company Overview]. This is intentional. It lets you trace any number or quote back to where it came from.

Source categories you'll see:

  • Financial data — Yahoo Finance, EODHD fundamentals.
  • News — Reuters, Bloomberg, CNBC, MarketWatch, FT, and other licensed publishers.
  • Company-reported — official filings, investor relations.
  • Computed — derived metrics we calculate (ROIC, WACC, etc.).

If you want the full data-pipeline rundown, see docs/data-sources.

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