Getting started
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Three minutes, five steps. Sign up, pick a plan, and the feed opens tuned to you. The goal of setup is a feed that only shows you what you'd want to know first.
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Create an account
Sign up with an email address, pick Capture or Terminal and you're in. Billing is self-serve; cancel any time. A short onboarding asks what you follow so the feed opens already tuned instead of raw.
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Read the record
Both plans search every company, public or private. On Capture the product is the record itself: any federal contractor's awards, agency mix, vehicles and recompetes, plus the events browsers (FDA, M&A, regulatory, grants, subawards, sanctions) and departments research. Terminal adds the scored feed on top: every signal with horizon performance, what comparable past signals actually did over 7/20/60/90 trading days.
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Build your watchlist
Watch the targets you actually follow: companies by name or UEI, specific contracts, or events (up to 50 slots on Capture, 500 on Terminal). The watchlist is what the daily brief and alerts key on; Arcthane never notifies you about a target you didn't ask about.
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Turn on alerts
Email and push alerts fire when something meaningful lands on a watchlisted target: read the moment it publishes, not when the news cycle finds it. The weekly digest sweeps up everything below the alert threshold.
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Log your positions (optional)
Portfolio tracking is manual and stays that way; we never connect to a broker. Log a position and Arcthane scores it continuously, alerting you when the historical edge behind your entry has faded.