Read every article from every angle: sentiment, impact, topics
Ask the same fixed questions of every article, for every company, asset or topic you follow, and get calibrated probabilities you can aggregate into daily signals. The article is read once for all of them.
$0.09 per million input tokens · the scores are free
Calibrated answers for news analysis, at any scale
Many questions, one read
Sentiment toward each company, the expected impact, the topic, the events reported: all answered in one pass over the article. Placeholders ask the same question for every entity.
Calibrated, comparable scores
Every answer comes with its empty-content floor, so a score means the same across questions, sources and years. That is what makes daily aggregates stable.
Priced for archives
Backfill years of news for the price of a few model calls elsewhere: only the input is billed, and each question costs only its own tokens.
One article, three kinds of questions
Sentiment per company with a placeholder, and two yes/no event questions. The bars show p; the tick shows the floor, the same question asked with no article.
Northwind Motors shares fell 8% on Tuesday after the carmaker cut its full-year delivery target, citing a shortage of battery cells at its Nevada plant. Its cell supplier, Voltra, said it expects to restore full output by the end of the quarter.
For {company}, this news is (positive, neutral, or negative):
positive
0.19
neutral
0.44
negative
0.36
positive
0.41
neutral
0.43
negative
0.17
Does the article report a production or supply problem?
yes
0.85
no
0.15
Does the article report a change in guidance or targets?
yes
0.93
no
0.07
import os
import requests
resp = requests.post(
"https://api.spinf.com/v1/score",
headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['SPINF_API_KEY']}"},
json={
"model": "spinf-12b",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Northwind Motors shares fell 8% on Tuesday after the carmaker cut its full-year delivery target, citing a shortage of battery cells at its Nevada plant. Its cell supplier, Voltra, said it expects to restore full output by the end of the quarter."
}
],
"scoring": {
"queries": [
{
"id": "sentiment",
"template": "\n\nFor {company}, this news is (positive, neutral, or negative):{?}",
"options": [
" positive",
" neutral",
" negative"
],
"combinations": [
{
"company": "Northwind Motors"
},
{
"company": "Voltra"
}
]
},
{
"id": "supply_problem",
"template": "\n\nDoes the article report a production or supply problem?\nAnswer:{?}",
"options": [
" yes",
" no"
]
},
{
"id": "guidance_change",
"template": "\n\nDoes the article report a change in guidance or targets?\nAnswer:{?}",
"options": [
" yes",
" no"
]
}
]
}
},
)
for query in resp.json()["results"][0]["queries"]:
for combo in query["combinations"]:
print(query["id"], combo["values"], [(o["text"], o["p"], o["floor_p"]) for o in combo["options"]])Read the lift over the floor, not only the largest bar: for Northwind, "negative" is the answer the article raises most above the floor, while the largest raw bar, "neutral", is lifted less. Simple yes/no questions about events give the clearest reads.
Daily oil and equity indexes built on these reads
Thinking Text asks about five hundred fixed questions of every oil article and aggregates the answers into a daily read of the press. Not a forecast: a measured read of what the news says.
news articles
tokens processed
correlation with crude
of big 20-day moves
Figures from the Thinking Text oil index, published daily with its score card.
Read the Thinking Text storySentiment per company and events, measured
Measured on 108 synthetic news articles about fictional companies (255 company mentions), labelled by two reviewers, zero-shot and with 4 or 8 labelled example articles placed in the prompt.
correct sentiment per company
correct · supply problem?
correct · guidance change?
correct main topic (5)
Synthetic articles are cleaner than real news. On public financial-news posts (short and informal, 300 items), sentiment accuracy was 74% with 4 examples: test on a sample of your own sources.
From questions to numbers
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1
Write the questions
Plain-language templates with the answers you want scored: sentiment toward {company}, impact, topic, the events you track. Test them on a few hundred articles.
2
Backfill the archive
Send articles in batches with many inputs per call. Years of news run on the on-demand API; for the largest projects we also take files in bulk.
3
Aggregate into signals
Remove the floor, place each score on its own history, and combine per day, per entity and per source. Then compare with prices, flows or outcomes.
1M articles for about $117
Only input is billed, at $0.09 per million tokens: the content once per call, each question's own tokens, and one empty floor per question. The scores are free.
Assumes 800-token articles, 20 questions of about 25 tokens each. The first 50M tokens are free.
News analysis: questions, answered
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