About The IPO Radar
What we do
The IPO Radar publishes per-event analyses of U.S. IPOs. For every priced 424B4 filing, we generate a brief that covers the company, the business model, the comp set, the financial trajectory, the offering structure, and the watchpoints a careful reader should track. The goal is to be the de facto place a thoughtful retail investor or researcher goes to think about an IPO.
How the analysis is produced
Each brief is produced by a fully automated AI pipeline. The pipeline ingests the underlying SEC filing (the 424B4 prospectus), processes it through an analytical pipeline, and produces a draft that must clear an automated quality check before it is published.
- Ingestion. The pipeline watches SEC EDGAR for new IPO filings and pulls the prospectus directly from the regulator's primary source.
- Research. A research stage extracts structured facts from the filing and supplements them with public market data and named press coverage.
- Composition. An analytical writer composes the brief using the structured fact base, following an explicit voice and sourcing playbook.
- Review. Every draft is scored by an automated critic on clarity, thesis, depth, evidence, comparables, honesty, and structure. Drafts that fall short of the quality bar are not published.
- Publication. Briefs that clear the automated quality check are published automatically. The pipeline runs end to end with no human in the loop. We correct errors that come to our attention.
Sourcing discipline
Every load-bearing claim cites a specific source, and sources are graded rather than treated as equal: statute and SEC or FINRA rule text first, then the issuer's own registration statement or prospectus, then exchange rules, institutional archives, and peer-reviewed research. Wikipedia and general-reference aggregators are discovery aids and do not appear in our citations.
The full hierarchy, the standards we hold analysis to, and what we have built to enforce them are set out in editorial standards. How we define an IPO, which offerings we count and exclude, and which return metric we use by default are in methodology.
What this site is not
Not investment advice. The IPO Radar is editorial coverage of public filings. We are not a registered investment advisor. Nothing on this site is a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any security.
Not a real-time terminal. Briefs are snapshots of an issuer at the moment of an event (filing, pricing, debut). We do not update briefs as conditions change. Treat any brief as research as-of its publication date.
See disclosures for the full policy.
How we work
- Editorial standards — our sourcing hierarchy, the standards analysis is held to, and the engineering that enforces them.
- Methodology — what counts as an IPO, what we exclude, and our dating, proceeds and return-metric conventions.
- Corrections — how to tell us we are wrong, and the errors we have already caught.
Editorial
The IPO Radar operates this site. For corrections or questions, reach out via the contact channels on the site.