Questions
What it is
Horizon scanning applied to public markets. It reads the primary record — preprints, patents, trial registries, contract awards, filings — three times a day, scores every candidate against a fixed rubric, and publishes every verdict, including the rejections.
No. PUMPKN.AI publishes research. It has no knowledge of you, your portfolio or your circumstances, and every subscriber sees the same output. It names companies exposed to a development. It never suggests what to do about them.
One person, who built it to do reading he could not do himself. The rules the engine runs on, the sources it reads and the ways it is forbidden to fail are published in full.
Read the method →Yes. The engine runs on a language model against a fixed prompt, with rules that constrain what it may claim and a separate verification pass that checks what happened to each signal afterwards.
The model is the reason the rules exist. It was caught inventing things, hedging invented things, and marking items assessed without assessing them. Each of those is now forbidden by name, and the list is public.
What the engine is forbidden to do →How it works
Preprint servers, patent and regulatory databases, code and model repositories, technical communities, practitioner forums and specialist trade press. The full list is published and the intake is fixed — the same sources every run.
The source list →Three times a day. Nothing enters a run more than hours after it was published; the median is hours.
Every factual claim comes from the item itself, a source read by search during that run, or knowledge established enough that it could not have changed. Anything else is left out rather than hedged.
Claim rules →Then nothing clears, and the day's log shows what was read and why each candidate was dropped. An empty day is a valid result. The engine is forbidden from raising a score because a run has produced nothing.
The signals
The default is 1, so every scored signal is visible without changing anything. You can raise it in settings if you only want higher-scored signals. Nothing is hidden from you by default.
It carries two states that move independently: where it sits in time, and what has happened to the thesis. Every verdict is dated and sourced, never inferred.
The lifecycle model →It ends, one way or the other. If the occasion arrived and was never a test — deferred, or the readout never addressed the question — the signal gets a new catalyst against a different observable. If the occasion arrived, was a test, and went against the thesis, it lapses there. Nothing is rolled forward a quarter at a time until it lands.
The lifecycle model →Because most windows are still open. Signals get a window sized to their implication timeframe — days to days end to end — and most of the archive has not reached the end of one.
The full breakdown →Yes, all of it, without subscribing. Catalyst fired, invalidated and lapsed are all public, with counts.
The public record →Because the rejections are the proof, and proof should be free. Anyone can take a story they already know, check whether it was read, and see the stated reason it was dropped. That is the part you should not have to pay to verify.
No. Each signal names the direct actor and, where they can be identified, who supplies the change, who builds on it, and who is worse off if it holds. Where a category is empty, the signal says so.
What a signal names →Trying it
Nothing automatic. There is no card on file, so nothing renews and nothing is charged. If you want to keep going you subscribe, and the rate you subscribe at is the rate you keep.
Yes, for as long as your subscription runs. It is set when you subscribe, not when the trial starts, and it goes if the subscription expires.
How the rate lock works →Because signals are inside their window today. Subscribe in a year and you still get all of them, since nothing is ever pulled from the archive — but by then their windows will have closed, and a signal read after its window is history rather than something you can still act on.
Any time, from your account. Access runs to the end of the period you have paid for.
Billing →No credit card required. Cancel anytime.