Materials for journalists

SpotValue is an automated research dossier on every ASX-listed company, built for the self-directed investor who wants to read businesses the way Buffett and Graham taught, but cannot read every annual report. The pipeline ingests each company’s public filings and extracts them, one fiscal year at a time, against a fixed schema. The result is one dossier per company: ten sections, in the same order for every company, each answering one of the ten questions a value investor asks before buying a business. What the business does, what one is asked to pay per dollar of ownership, whether it is getting better or worse, how management returns capital, what the assets are doing, who is running it, whether they do what they say, what has happened and what is coming, what the moat is, and what could change the outcome.

The signature feature is the Promise Tracker. Every measurable commitment management makes (production and financial guidance, capex envelopes, capital returns, milestones) enters a ledger with its statement, date, and source filing. When the outcome is disclosed, the verdict is an arithmetic comparison under a published, versioned rubric: hit, missed, partial, or reframed. Silence after a due date is recorded as a miss. Hit rates are computed by fixed, disclosed formulas, and every verdict can be audited by any reader against the public Standard.

SpotValue publishes no ratings, scores, price targets, or recommendations of any kind. It presents factual information from company disclosures and market data, and leaves the decision with the reader. The stance is summarised in the brand promise: we show, you decide. Coverage begins deep on the ASX 200 with five years of history and expands on a public roadmap to the full market of roughly 1,800 listed companies, including the small- and micro-caps where professional research is thinnest.