Methodology

How a ticker becomes a timeline.

No black box. Here's the entire pipeline that runs every time you add a name to your watchlist.

01Fetch

For each ticker, we hit the live ASX market-data endpoint and pull the 20 most-recent announcements. Run on-demand, never pre-indexed.

02Parse

Each announcement is normalised to (date, title, type, market-sensitive flag, source URL). Cached for 30 minutes to spare the upstream API.

03Extract

Our AI extraction engine reads the recent announcement set as a single context. With a cached system prompt, it identifies forward-looking commitments and outputs structured JSON.

04Grade

Each catalyst gets a confidence score (High / Medium / Low) with an inline reason — a judgement on date/event certainty, not a price-action prediction — plus the ASX market-sensitive flag where applicable.

05Plot

Catalysts land on the unified timeline coloured by ticker, with a confidence dot and market-sensitive marker. Hover for a tooltip; click for source.

06Refresh

New filings re-trigger the pipeline. If a company re-guides a date, we re-extract, update the timeline, and re-arm matching alerts.

Confidence grading

We tell you how sure we are.

High

The company has given an explicit calendar date in a release. Lowest extraction error.

Medium

A guided window like "late Q2" or "1H FY26". We assign the midpoint.

Low

Inferred from cadence (e.g. quarterly reporting lands on day 18). Useful awareness, not a precise date.

Limitations

What this won't tell you.

Whether to trade it.A catalyst date is not a recommendation. It's information.

Direction or magnitude.We surface that an event is coming. We don't predict the price reaction.

Unannounced events.If the company hasn't told the market, we don't know. No leaks, no rumours.

Late-breaking changes.If a company re-guides at 4:01pm, we'll catch it within the next refresh window — not instantly.

Catalyst Ahead is a research tool, not financial advice. See .

Not financial advice.Catalyst Ahead is an AI-driven research tool. All projections are inferences from public company announcements. Always do your own research and consult a licensed adviser before trading.