Market Sentinel is a live investigative data pipeline. Not a newsletter. Not a dashboard. An ongoing surveillance operation with published findings, proprietary methodology, and a pricing structure that takes serious users seriously.
One event sequence, any instrument set, any date range. Market Sentinel runs the pipeline, the findings are reviewed for accuracy, and the complete analysis is delivered as a signed brief. Each report is a standalone, defensible research document.
For policy shops, law firms, and government affairs teams that need ongoing coverage across the legislative calendar. Up to three complete reports per month, priority turnaround, and direct contact for follow-up questions between reports.
For working journalists and academic researchers. One complete report per request. Approval is manual and at our discretion. Citation of PolicyTorque and Market Sentinel in any published work using this data is required.
When Market Sentinel detects anomalous equity volume above the threshold, you get an email. That's the product. No reports, no query interface — just the signal, when it fires, before it becomes a public article.
Market Sentinel does not sell software access. It sells a verified research document produced by a proprietary instrument and reviewed by the engineer who built it.
A senior analyst at a hedge fund, policy shop, or law firm costs their organization roughly $400 per billable hour all-in. A Market Sentinel report covering a multi-instrument event sequence would take that analyst four to six days to produce manually — sourcing the data, building the baselines, running the comparisons, validating the outputs, writing the brief. That is somewhere between $12,800 and $19,200 in analyst time.
At $2,500 per report, the question is not whether Market Sentinel is worth it. The question is how many reports you need per month — because at three, the retained tier pays for itself.
The reduced press and academic tier exists because citation matters. A working journalist who uses Market Sentinel data in a published investigation is worth more to this project than the fee. An academic who cites the methodology in peer-reviewed work advances the credibility of the entire investigation.
Reports are $500 per request for approved press and academic applicants. We approve applications manually. We're not looking for credentials. We're looking for intent and seriousness of purpose.