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August 2026

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.