How we decide what to publish
Where the figures come from, what a piece has to clear before it is published, who decides, and what happens when something is wrong.
Two kinds of page, and they are not made the same way
Company reports, fact sheets and breakdowns are generated. Figures are computed from SEC filings and the sentences around them are written by fixed rules from those figures, so the same filings always produce the same page and no sentence on them is written by a language model.
Articles under News are written pieces. A model helps write them. The figures in an article are the same computed figures as the chart it is built around, and the piece names the sources it drew on.
How a story is chosen
Nobody browses for story ideas. Every covered company is checked against the same patterns - a segment taking share, a line arriving that was not there before, a company re-cutting its own disclosure, a price trend breaking - and each candidate is measured against every other.
A finding is only published if it stands out: the largest of its kind, or an outlier among the companies that break the same figure down. A move that is real but ordinary is not a story, and most candidates are discarded on that test.
What a piece has to clear
- Every figure comes from the filing and is drawn in the chart beside the sentence. An automatic check refuses any number in the prose that the chart cannot account for; anything from elsewhere is declared and named.
- The chart is frozen at publication. An article is a dated record, so its charts hold the numbers they had on the day rather than redrawing from live data - a sentence and the picture under it can never disagree.
- No forecasts, no ratings, no price targets. Every figure describes something already filed or already traded.
- Nothing publishes itself. Each piece is read and approved by a person before it goes live.
Who publishes it
TenQ publishes under its own name rather than a personal byline. That is a choice, not an omission. What matters on a page about money is that the method is stated, the independence is stated and there is a route to a person - all three are here and on About.
TenQ is independent. It is not owned by, paid by or affiliated with any company it covers, or with any broker, fund, issuer or data vendor. Companies cannot pay to be included, excluded or covered differently.
When something is wrong
Write to hello@tenq.co and say which page and which figure. A figure that is wrong is corrected at its source, so the fix reaches every page that uses it rather than the one that was reported.
An article that has been changed since publication shows the date it was updated beside the date it was published. Corrections are not made silently.
What we do not do
- Rewrite press releases or wire copy.
- Publish analyst estimates, consensus figures or price targets.
- Accept payment from a company in exchange for coverage.
- Estimate a figure a company has not reported. Missing data is shown as missing.