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Forty transcripts, one question.

The answer is somewhere in the prepared remarks and the Q&A of every one of them, phrased differently each time and occasionally not given at all. Ragextract reads the corpus once and returns the column, including the rows where the question was dodged.

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Q3 transcripts — guidance
Four quarterly earnings transcripts compared on pricing guidance, product launch dates and headcount changes, each answer citing the page it was read from.
RowDocumentsPricing guidanceLaunch datesHeadcountPeriod
Kestrel Systems Q3.pdfList prices held; discounting to normalise in Q4
p.6
Platform v4 in Q1; hardware refresh mid-year
p.9
Hiring paused outside engineering
p.11
Q3
p.1
Harlow Group Q3.pdf3–4% increase from January
p.4
No launches mentionedRestructuring, 200 roles
p.8
Q3
p.1
Pelham Industrial Q3.pdfDeclined to guide on pricing
p.14
New line commissioning in H2
p.7
Headcount flat year on year
p.5
Q3
p.1
Kestrel Systems Q2.pdfDiscounting elevated, expected to persist
p.5
Platform v4 in Q4
p.8
Hiring across all functions
p.10
Q2
p.1
Rows 1 and 4 are the same company, two quarters apartThe launch slipped a quarter and the hiring posture reversed — the table shows both

A quote you can put in the note.

Research output lives or dies on attribution. A claim about what management said in Q3 is worth having only if the page it was said on travels with it, and a summary that cannot be traced back is a summary somebody else has to redo.

Every cell carries its page and a confidence score, so the checking goes to the answers that look thin rather than back through the corpus. What the table changes is the ratio of reading to writing, not whether the reading happens.

How citations and confidence work

Two published papers compared on sample size and disclosed conflicts, each citing the page it came from.
DocumentSample sizeFunding conflict
Cohort study, 20241,284
p.3
Yes — industry-funded
p.11
Meta-analysis, 202517 studies, 9,402 participants
p.2
No
p.14
A number column and a yes/no across a literature setRow 2 answers in two units at once — which is why the citation matters

A row is one subject, one period.

This is the decision that makes a corpus into a series. One company across four quarters is four rows, not one, and a period column is what lets the table be read down as well as across — which is where the interesting answer usually is.

Bundling is the exception rather than the rule here. A transcript and its accompanying slide deck are one event and belong together; two quarters of the same company are two events and do not. Bundle the first, never the second.

Set the output type to match what you will do with the answer. Sample size is a number so it can be sorted; launch dates are a list because there are usually several; “declined to guide” is a legitimate text answer and a much more useful one than a blank.

Two of the types answer with a picture rather than a sentence, which is what the literature case has always wanted. The Academia preset asks for every figure presenting a study’s results, with its axis labels and legend, and puts them in the row — so a methodological comparison across forty papers can be looked at rather than described.

The eight output types

Where it fits.

Two very different corpora, one job: find the handful of fields that make the members comparable, and put them side by side.

Four kinds of research work, what a row represents in each, and which set of columns to start from.
The workWhat a row is
Earnings and transcript workOne company, one quarter
Literature and evidence reviewA published paper
Competitive and market scanningA filing, report or release
Longitudinal trackingOne subject, one period

Both presets ship in the application, and both are the ones not yet worked through under use cases — so start from columns, which covers the output types and how to write a prompt that holds up, and take the closest worked setup for the shape.

Reading is charged once.

A corpus is billed for the pages it reads, not for the questions asked of them. Next quarter’s question, asked of last quarter’s transcripts, costs only its own column — which is the difference between a corpus you maintain and one you rebuild.

Credit rates in full

What reading a 40-transcript quarter costs in credits at the published rates.
One quarter, 40 companiesVolumeCost
40 transcripts, 30 pages each — read once1,200 pages1,200 credits
3 typed questions asked of all 40120 cells120 credits
Launch dates, as a list column40 cells120 credits
1,440 credits · $14.40 at parThe list column is quoted at the top of its 2–3 band

Start with two quarters of one company.

Upload them, write the column you would have gone looking for by hand, and read both citations. Two rows of a company you already follow is the fastest way to find out whether the answers are the ones you would have written down yourself.

Nothing on this page is investment or research advice, and the presets are not methodological definitions.