Every tier runs on the same primary-source pipeline: SEC Schedule 13D/G filings joined with Form 4 insider activity, institutional consensus, and short interest. Free gets the signal a market-safe 48 hours later. Paid gets it the moment it clears our pipeline.
The institutional alternatives charge twenty-thousand-plus a year and gate access through enterprise sales cycles. Retail tools cost forty dollars and stop at the headline filing. We sit deliberately in the middle: institutional-grade data joins, primary-source provenance, accessible to a fund actually running money.
| Capability | 13D Watch | Institutional incumbents | Retail tools |
|---|---|---|---|
| Activist filing feed | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Item 4 purpose text indexed | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Insider activity joined per filing | ✓ | limited | — |
| Institutional consensus on the same issuer | ✓ | limited | — |
| Short interest joined per filing | ✓ | — | — |
| Multi-activist clustering | ✓ | manual | — |
| Structured intent classification | ✓ | — | — |
| Real-time alerts (email + chat) | ✓ | basic | — |
| Commercial-use licensable API | ✓ | paid add-on | — |
The delay is the product boundary. Filings are public the moment EDGAR accepts them — the value we sell is the enriched, cross-referenced signal in real time. Two days later, that same signal is genuinely useful for research, journalism, and slower-moving strategies, so we give it away instead of crippling it.
Checkout is Stripe. The moment payment clears, every alert on your email flips to real-time automatically and your API key arrives by email. No sales call, no onboarding queue. Cancel anytime; your alerts drop back to the free 48-hour tier rather than disappearing.
Only when there is new activity worth flagging. The product is event-driven, not high-frequency — some weeks bring several filings, others bring none. We do not send empty digests to keep up a cadence.
Individual keys are for personal workflows; Team covers internal commercial use. Public redistribution — newsletters, embedded products, media syndication — is a separate license. Contact us for terms.
13D Watch is built and operated by Longstreet Consulting. Enterprise engagements include direct advisory from the team that built the data pipeline.
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