Wall Street's research.
Plain English.

Cue reads your portfolio the way a research desk would: fundamentals, earnings quality, institutional flows, sector positioning, then turns it into a long-term strategy you can actually understand. No jargon. No black box.

No trading experience required · Your data stays yours
NVDA
NVIDIA Corp.
Fills tech gap
+18.4% upside Strong earnings Institutions buying
Why Cue recommends this
Fills a 12-point gap versus your target Technology allocation. Earnings have beaten estimates for four straight quarters, and institutional ownership rose 6% last quarter, a signal Cue weighs alongside your existing risk profile.
+$41,200
5-YR PROJECTED GAIN
14.2%
STRATEGY RETURN
Low
EFFORT REQUIRED
Why Cue

The analyst's insight. The market's pulse. Your plan, fully visible.

Most investors are stuck picking one: blind trust, the herd, or years of self-teaching. Cue combines institutional-grade research with a real read on what the market's actually talking about, built into one diversified, fully transparent plan.

Institutional intelligence, personal delivery

Fundamentals, earnings data, and institutional flow signals, translated into a plain-English "why" behind every move.

A strategy, not a stock tip

Built around your whole portfolio's long-term plan. Individual picks serve the plan: they don't replace it.

Confidence through clarity

Every call shows its reasoning: upside, earnings quality, institutional accumulation, sector gap. Learn as you go, or don't: it's optional.

Autopilot, with a hand on the wheel

The strategy runs itself. Nothing is a black box: open any recommendation and see exactly what's behind it.

The alternative, side by side

You've had three options. None of them were great.

Here's how Cue stacks up against the ways people actually invest today.

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Traditional advisor Social media / forums DIY self-study Cue
Research qualityInstitutional-gradeUnverified, trend-drivenDepends on youInstitutional-grade
Personalized to your holdingsSometimesNeverIf you do the workAlways
Explains its reasoningRarely, in jargonRarelyN/AEvery time, plain English
Time requiredLowLow (but risky)HighLow
TransparencyBlack boxN/AFull (it's your work)Full — see every input
Who it's for

You don't need to be a certain kind of investor.

Cue meets you wherever you're starting from.

The busy professional

You have money in the market and no time to track earnings calls. Cue watches it for you and tells you when something actually matters.

The DIY investor

You already do your own research. Cue is the second opinion that checks your blind spots against institutional data.

The overwhelmed beginner

You know you should be investing. You just don't know where to start. Cue builds the plan and explains every step in plain English.

The long-term saver

You're not trying to beat the market this week. Cue is built for the multi-year plan, not the daily trade.

How it works

Three steps. No spreadsheets required.

Whether you're funding your first account or you've been holding stocks for years, Cue meets you where you are.

1

Upload your holdings

A CSV, an Excel export, or just a photo of your positions — no brokerage login needed. Or start with Market Data if you're not ready to share a portfolio yet.

2

Get your strategy

Cue analyzes your holdings against institutional-grade fundamentals and surfaces a long-term allocation plan, with reasoning for every recommendation.

3

Stay in the loop

Cue tracks earnings, institutional flows, and sector shifts continuously, and explains what changed and why every time you check back.


Methodology

What's actually happening behind "Get your strategy"

Cue's engine blends the same quantitative discipline institutional research desks run on with a language model built to explain it in plain terms, so the rigor doesn't stay locked in a black box. Here's what feeds every recommendation, without pulling back the curtain on the exact scoring logic itself.

01

Valuation & fundamentals

Every holding is screened against trailing and forward fundamentals: earnings, margins, balance-sheet health, and valuation multiples relative to sector peers, not in isolation.

Source: SEC filings (10-K/10-Q), consensus estimates
02

Earnings momentum & quality

Flags whether a company is beating, meeting, or missing estimates, and whether the beat is coming from real revenue growth or one-time items that won't repeat.

Source: Earnings call transcripts, guidance revisions
03

Institutional flow

Reads quarterly ownership filings to see whether large institutions are accumulating or distributing a position: visibility retail investors rarely get on their own.

Source: 13F institutional ownership filings
04

Portfolio fit & diversification

Every idea is scored on what it does to your specific portfolio: closing sector gaps, managing concentration, matching your stated risk tolerance.

Source: Your live holdings, sector & factor models
Quant discipline

A systematic scoring engine, not a hunch

Cue's screening draws on decades-old, peer-reviewed factor-investing research: the value, quality, and momentum factors that underpin most institutional asset management, applied consistently to every holding, every time. No headlines, no emotion, no chasing what's trending.

Language, not just numbers

A reasoning layer that explains itself

A language-reasoning layer sits on top of the scoring engine and turns the underlying signals into a specific, plain-English narrative for your situation, never a generic template. If Cue can't explain a recommendation in a sentence you'd trust from a smart friend, it doesn't surface it.

Daily fundamentals refresh
Prices, estimates, and screens re-run every trading day
Real-time earnings ingestion
New transcripts and guidance are read as they're released
Quarterly institutional-flow updates
Aligned to the 13F filing cadence institutions themselves follow

Cue doesn't predict the market or promise returns: no one honestly can. What it offers is a consistent, documented framework applied identically to every recommendation, with the reasoning shown so you can judge it for yourself instead of taking it on faith.

Security

Cue can see a snapshot. It can never touch your money.

During the MVP, Cue doesn't connect to any brokerage at all — there's no login to hand over and no account for anyone to touch. You upload a snapshot of what you hold; Cue reads it, analyzes it, and nothing more.

No brokerage connection

Cue never asks for a brokerage login or account credentials — there's nothing to connect, so there's nothing that can move money or place a trade.

Uploads aren't stored

Your CSV, Excel file, or photo is processed to extract your holdings and isn't kept afterward.

You're always in control

Delete your account and everything in it, anytime, no questions asked.

The transformation

See the strategy, not just the sales pitch

Every Cue plan shows exactly how your allocation shifts, and what that's worth in real dollars over time.

Sector allocation: before / after
Before
After
Technology
Financials
Energy
Other
Dollar impact
TodayOptimizedDifference
1yr$108,000$114,000+$6,000
3yr$125,971$148,154+$22,183
5yr$146,933$192,541+$45,608
Over 5 years, optimization could put an extra
+$45,608
in your pocket.
Ask Cue anything · Portfolio Optimizer

Your portfolio, one question away.

Once you've uploaded your holdings, the AI Portfolio Agent knows them, your plan, and the reasoning behind every recommendation. Ask it anything, in plain English.

You
Why did you drop my Energy allocation this month?
Cue
XOM's earnings missed on margin compression, and institutional ownership fell 4% last quarter. I shifted that 3% into Technology, where NVDA is showing the opposite signal.
You
Am I too concentrated in tech?
Cue
You're at 34% Technology versus a 22% target for your risk profile. Here's what I'd trim first, and why.
The newsletter

Today's Cue Briefs.

Three short reads, every trading day, on what actually moved and why it matters for your portfolio. No account required.

New today

NVDA beat on revenue but missed on margins

Here's what the margin compression means for your Tech allocation, in three sentences.

New today

Institutions quietly rotated out of Energy last quarter

13F filings show a 4% drop in institutional ownership across the sector. What that usually signals next.

New today

The Fed didn't move rates, but the language shifted

What changed in the statement, and why the bond market reacted more than stocks did.

Updated
Subscription

Two ways to use Cue.

Both are free to use, with no brokerage login required — pick the one that fits.

Market Data
Browse the market the way a research desk does. Search any ticker for institutional-grade research — earnings quality, institutional flow, sector context — plus Cue's daily pick, translated into plain English. No account connection required.
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  • Search any ticker for institutional-grade research
  • Cue's daily pick, in plain English
  • No account connection required

Cue provides general, educational market information. This is not personalized investment advice.

Questions

Before you upload anything.

Do I need to connect my brokerage account?

No. During the MVP, Cue doesn't connect to any brokerage at all. Portfolio Optimizer works from a CSV, an Excel export, or a photo of your holdings — no login, no credentials, nothing to authorize.

Is this personalized investment advice?

Cue provides general, educational market information and portfolio analysis to inform your decisions. It does not place trades on your behalf, and every recommendation is yours to accept or ignore.

What if I don't have a portfolio yet?

Start with Market Data — ticker research and Cue's daily pick, no upload required. Come back to Portfolio Optimizer once you have holdings to analyze.

Does Cue ever trade for me automatically?

No. Cue doesn't have brokerage access at all during the MVP, so there's nothing it could execute even if it wanted to. Every insight is yours to act on or ignore.

How is this different from a robo-advisor?

Robo-advisors mostly rebalance you into a generic model portfolio, and need account access to do it. Cue builds a plan around your specific holdings from a snapshot you control, and explains the reasoning behind every recommendation in plain English.

What does Market Data actually include?

Ticker search with institutional-grade research, sector context, and Cue's daily pick, in plain English — no upload or account connection required.

Give your portfolio a plan.

No finance degree required, just a willingness to let the data do the talking.

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