Editorial Policy & AI Disclosure

Human Editorial Oversight

Machine generation does not remove human accountability. A named editor owns our standards, approves changes to the generation prompts and templates, reviews a sample of published output, and is the person responsible for issuing corrections.

Accountable for corrections:

Dustin Hubbard

Contact:

[[PENDING: editor contact address]]

StockAlpha.ai is a publisher, not an investment adviser. Neither Jefferson Equity Derivatives & Intelligence LLC nor its principals are registered as an investment adviser or broker-dealer, and nothing published here is personalised investment advice.

Individual articles do not currently carry a byline, because no human wrote them. We will not attach a human name to a machine-written article to make it look hand-written.

Source Hierarchy

When sources disagree, the higher tier wins. A claim that only exists at tier 4 or 5 is presented as a report or a signal, never as an established fact.

1. Issuer and regulator filings. SEC EDGAR 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, Form 4 insider transactions, and 13F institutional holdings. These are the authority for financial statement figures, share counts, insider activity and ownership.
2. Exchange and market data feeds. Finnhub for quotes and company profiles, Financial Modeling Prep for fundamentals and estimates, FINRA for short interest. These are the authority for prices, volumes and market-derived metrics.
3. Company communications. Press releases and earnings call transcripts. Authoritative for what a company said; not authoritative for whether it is true.
4. Established financial news outlets. Used for event context and for stories not yet reflected in filings.
5. Attention and sentiment signals. Google Trends search interest, aggregated social mentions, options and dark-pool activity. Treated as measurements of crowd behavior only. These are never the sole basis for a factual claim about a company.

How Facts Are Checked

Our main defense against fabrication is structural: the model is not asked to recall numbers. Prices, fundamentals, filing figures and dates are pulled from our databases and injected into the prompt, and the model is instructed to reason over that supplied data rather than produce figures from memory.

On top of that:

• Ticker symbols in article text are resolved against our security master before becoming links.
• Sentiment and rating labels are model outputs, and are labeled as such — they are opinions, not measurements.
• Every reader-reported error is triaged and, if confirmed, logged publicly on our corrections page.

What we do not do, stated plainly:

• We do not have a human read and verify every sentence of every article before it publishes. At our volume, nobody does.
• We do not conduct original reporting, interviews, or primary-source investigation.
• We cannot guarantee that a generated article is free of errors, stale data, or misinterpretation. Language models make confident mistakes.

Because of this, our content is educational and informational only. Verify anything you intend to act on. See our full disclaimer and our methodology, which documents the specific limitations of each content type.

The Paid-Content Firewall

StockAlpha.ai is operated by Jefferson Equity Derivatives & Intelligence LLC, which sells investor-relations services. A small number of the companies we cover pay us. That relationship is managed by the following rules:

• Sponsored content is labeled sponsored, on the page itself. Compensated articles and landing pages carry a compensation disclosure identifying the paying issuer, the amount, and the contract term.
• Sponsored content is never presented as independent research. It is advertising. We say so on it. Our opinions about a company that pays us are neither unbiased nor independent, and we state that rather than implying otherwise.
• The overwhelming majority of our content is not sponsored. Ticker reports, sector briefs, market recaps and educational articles are generated on a schedule across a fixed universe of securities. No issuer buys inclusion in them.
• A paying client cannot buy, edit, veto or influence non-sponsored coverage, and cannot buy a rating, a sentiment score, or placement in our model-driven rankings.
• Sponsored companies are not in the Alpha Picks universe, which is limited to S&P 500 constituents and scored by a model with no input for who is paying us.
• We hold no positions in the securities of any company with which we have an active paid engagement. See the positions disclosure in our disclaimer.

How the Sponsored Program Works

An issuer, or a third party acting for an issuer, contracts us for a fixed term at a fixed cash fee to produce and distribute marketing content. We are paid for the work, not for the outcome: compensation is never contingent on the article being positive, on trading volume, or on the share price.

Every campaign we have ever run — the company, the amount, who paid it, the contract term, and whether it is still active — is recorded in a single public compensation table: Disclosures & Disclaimers. Ended campaigns stay on that page. We do not delete history when a contract expires.

Sponsored securities are frequently micro-cap or small-cap and carry a substantial risk of total loss. That risk language is on the disclosures page and on the sponsored content itself.

Corrections

When we get something wrong, we correct it and we log it publicly with a date. We do not silently edit a page and pretend the error never happened. Read the log, and report anything you believe is wrong, at our corrections page.

Changes to This Policy

We update this policy when our practices change, and we date the update below. If a change is material — a new revenue relationship, a change in how content is produced or reviewed — it will also appear as an entry on the corrections page.

Questions about this policy: support@jeffersonequityintelligence.com

Last updated: August 13, 2026