My First Look

Your research, your streak, your people.

Check in on market days, answer the daily question, keep private notes, start a reader group and invite the people you trust. Every step earns First Look Points toward reader perks.

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Your Digital VIP Black Card

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Silver foil edition. Gold arrives at Insider (150 points), the full VIP finish at Founding reader (600). Drawn on your device; nothing is uploaded. A membership card, not a payment card.

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Is Thursday the right day for the weekly?

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Invite people you know

Each person who joins with your link and confirms their email earns you 50 points.

Your invitation says you get points if they join. Invite only people who would want it; points never come from posts about a company.

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  1. Readereveryone
    Your Digital VIP Black Card in silver foil, with your member number. The daily board, the weekly and the research library.
  2. Regular50 points
    Your questions go to the front of the reader Q&A in the weekly.
  3. Insider150 points
    The gold edition of your Black Card, and once a month a company of your choice at the front of our research queue (we still decide on the public record).
  4. Contributor300 points
    An invitation to the First Look readers' group on LinkedIn, moderated by the desk.
  5. Founding reader600 points
    The full VIP edition of your Black Card, and a seat at the quarterly live reader Q&A with the research desk.
  6. Patron1200 points
    Help choose a company for our next featured report, and your name (if you want it) in the weekly's founding readers list.

Points have no cash value and give no access to any investment. Never for posts about a company. The rules

Your watchlist

Star companies anywhere on the site; each new one earns 2 points.

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Your week

Star a few companies and your week fills itself.

Research for you

Pick your topics below and the matching research shows here.

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Your companies (none yet) come from your watchlist. The weekly leads with what you follow; everything stays research, never advice.

Your reader groups

Start a private group where your people already talk.

LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Slack, Discord, Telegram or Facebook: you run it, we give you the rules, the description and the newsletter to read together. Your first three groups earn 25 points each.

Groups run under their platform’s rules and their organizer’s care; a group listed with us is not run by us. Our rules are built into the description.

Your notes

Private notes on the companies you follow.

Kept in this browser only; we never see them. Turn any note into a take for your own network when you’re ready.

How points work, the perks and the rules: the community page and Subscriber Terms. Everything on this page except what you send to the desk stays in this browser.

Research of general circulation, not advice and not an offer of any security. Points have no cash value.