News Signals

The articles Specter monitors, turned into structured, company-attributed events with an AI summary and an importance score.

Structured, company-attributed news from the articles Specter monitors. Each signal is one classified company mention within a single article — so an article naming three companies produces three signals — with an AI summary of what’s newsworthy and a 0–5 importance score.

Data categories

• Article — article_id (shared across signals from the same article), article_url, title, published_date, featured_image_url.
• Classification — meaningful_updates: REVENUE_UPDATE, PROFIT_UPDATE, TRACTION_UPDATE, FUNDING_UPDATE, DEAL_UPDATE.
• Summary & importance — whats_new (AI summary), score (0–5; 4+ is major news), traction.
• Company link — entity_id, company_name, company_domain.

Example (trimmed)

{
  "signal_id": 1234567,
  "article_url": "https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/15/acme-series-b/",
  "published_date": "2025-06-15",
  "title": "Acme raises $40M Series B led by Lead VC",
  "entity_id": "66d926166261234567890123",
  "company_name": "Acme",
  "meaningful_updates": ["FUNDING_UPDATE"],
  "whats_new": "Acme raised a $40M Series B led by Lead VC.",
  "score": 4
}

Endpoints

Method	Endpoint	Returns
GET	Get News Signals for a company	A company’s news history, newest first
GET	Get News Signals for a company list	Signals for the companies in a list
GET	Get News Signals for a saved company search	Signals for a saved company search
GET	Get News Signal by ID	A single news signal

How to use the API

Start with a group of companies

• A company → Get News Signals for a company.
• A list → Get News Signals for a company list.
• A saved search → Get News Signals for a saved company search.

Filter

• Set major_only=true to restrict to signals scoring ≥ 4.

Expand from a signal

• Company → follow entity_id to Get company by ID.
• Full detail → Get News Signal by ID.

Notes

• One signal = one company mention in one article. Articles naming multiple companies share an article_id.
• score runs 0–5; 4+ is treated as major news (major_only filters to those).
• meaningful_updates classifies the news: revenue, profitability, traction, funding, or deals.
• signal_id is a plain integer (not a prefixed string).
• The by-ID lookup costs 1 credit per request.