November 2026
- 2026-11-01Claims With Receipts: How the Pressure Test Turns a Narrative Into a List of Proof and a Named Failure ModeA diligence memo that says the story is unsupported gives you nothing to ask management; this post shows how the Pressure Test converts each narrative claim into the proof required, a curated precedent and a failure consequence, and where that precedent line stops being evidence.
- 2026-11-01The Checklist Before the Story: How an Expected-Evidence List Turns an Acquisition Thesis Into a Count of What Is MissingManagement tells a compelling acquisition story, but you have no fixed list of what proof should accompany it; this post shows how deciding the checklist first makes the gaps countable.
October 2026
- 2026-10-25Why a Restructuring Biotech Gets No Credit for Its Story: How Lifecycle Stage and Capital Intensity Reweight the Same Six PillarsA single composite score hides how much each dimension counted, so this post shows the published weighting arithmetic, with worked examples, so an analyst can see why two issuers with similar sub-scores land in different places.
- 2026-10-14Same Score, Different Confidence: Why a 40 Out of 100 With Thin Disclosure Is Not a 40 With Three Quarters of Segment DataA low score can mean a weak company or a company that simply disclosed little, and a single number hides which; here is how LacunaIndex reports how well-evidenced each score is, separately from the score itself.
- 2026-10-06The Undated Citation: Why a Governance Score Can Look Current While Its Evidence Is Two Years OldA report's timestamp tells you when it was scored, not when the disclosures behind it were actually said — this is how Lacuna surfaces a stale two-year-old citation hiding inside a freshly generated score.
- 2026-10-06Same Metric, Different Quarter: The Comparability Checks Behind a Peer MedianA peer median looks authoritative even when one company is reporting a different quarter, a different currency, or only a slice of its business; this post walks through the checks LacunaIndex runs before it lets a peer set produce a verdict.
September 2026
- 2026-09-20The Trophy Case Test: Why "Award-Winning" Should Make a Diligence Analyst More Suspicious, Not LessInvestor decks lean on award badges and "best of" lists as proof of market leadership, but many of those badges are bought rather than earned, and a credibility model that scores the issuer, not just the headline, is the only way to tell the difference.
- 2026-09-14The Hard Cap: Why "AI Credibility" Can't Score Above 35 Without a Revenue LineWhen a scoring rubric lets fluent narrative move the same dial as hard disclosure, the more persuasive management team always wins, so LacunaIndex clamps specific score dimensions to a fixed ceiling until named disclosure items exist, sector by sector, regardless of how the story reads.
- 2026-09-06No More Ghost Executives: Why Leadership Claims Need a Disclosure Trail, Not a Personality LabelWhen an AI-generated report calls an executive a "ghost" or scores them as a personality archetype, a diligence analyst has no way to check the claim against a filing -- LacunaIndex retired those labels and rebuilt leadership analysis around five disclosure-anchored fields instead.
August 2026
- 2026-08-30The Vintage Blend: What a Sector Valuation Median's "As Of" Date Doesn't Tell YouA sector median forward P/E stamped "as of today" is often built from peer observations taken days or weeks apart, and the timestamp rarely discloses that spread.
- 2026-08-30The Capital-Discipline Floor: Why a Profitable Core Can't Buy Cover for an Unprofitable BetWhen one segment prints most of the profit and another burns billions with no path to breakeven, LacunaIndex's scoring methodology nets the two for operating execution but refuses to net them for capital-allocation accountability once a fixed loss threshold is crossed.
- 2026-08-24The Partial Restatement Problem: Why "Use the Latest Filing" Corrupts Financial CompsWhen a company amends a prior filing to fix one line item, a pipeline that just grabs "the latest filing" can silently blend the corrected figure with unrelated numbers the amendment never touched, and diligence teams have no way to tell which cells actually came from a restatement.
- 2026-08-15When Buybacks Stop Being Bullish: Broadridge, GM, and the Capital Allocation TestTwo companies can buy back stock aggressively and tell completely different stories. The signal isn't the size of the authorization — it's whether cash flow, reinvestment, share retirement, valuation discipline, and operating performance confirm what management wants investors to believe.
- 2026-08-15Scheduled Sale or Signal? Why Insider Selling Needs a Rule 10b5-1 Split Before It Means AnythingBuy-side analysts treat a headline insider-sale number as a single data point, but pre-scheduled Rule 10b5-1 trades and discretionary trades carry opposite signal value, and LacunaIndex's Form 4 pipeline tags every transaction with its plan status so the two never get averaged into a false signal.
- 2026-08-09Three Peers or No Verdict: A Hard Gate Against Fake CompsA premium-to-peers or discount-to-peers claim is only as trustworthy as the number of comparable companies behind it, and most displays never say what that number is.
- 2026-08-04The Pressure Test: Turning a Growth Narrative Into a Falsifiable ClaimDiligence analysts need a fast way to tell whether a company's growth story is testable or just persuasive, and LacunaIndex's Pressure Test module answers that by matching each claim to one of seven named historical failure patterns and naming the exact disclosure that would rebut it.
- 2026-08-03Announced Is Not Verified: A Five-State Ladder for Grading What a Company Says It DidDiligence trackers usually record whether a claimed corporate initiative was announced or delivered, but not how strong the evidence behind that label actually is — here is a five-state disclosure ladder analysts can apply to any company's claimed wins themselves.
July 2026
- 2026-07-31Grading the Promise, Not the Prose: A Verbatim Ledger for Executive HedgingDiligence analysts flag management hedging by feel on an earnings call; a verbatim, dated ledger of exact quotes, specificity scores, and language drift turns that gut check into evidence you can point to instead of an impression you have to defend.
- 2026-07-27Sep-End vs. Dec-End: The Silent Bug That Breaks Every Peer CompPeer-multiple tables assume every row measures the same thing over the same period on the same accounting basis, an assumption that fails silently far more often than diligence analysts check for, and we built (then had to fix) a guard that catches it.
- 2026-07-19Five States of a Premium: Watching a Stock's Valuation Story Change Before the Price DoesDiligence analysts usually notice a stretched valuation premium cracking only after the price has already moved, and LacunaIndex's five-state valuation-spread classification is built to flag that shift in peer-relative pricing before it shows up as a headline move.
- 2026-07-19Leadership Accountability: Scoring Executive Presence and Insider Buying TogetherBuy-side diligence teams have no repeatable way to catch a management team quietly checking out before a miss — LacunaIndex's Leadership Accountability scoring cross-references public presence (calls, conferences, press, LinkedIn) with Form 4 insider-buying patterns to flag it early.