BounceWatch Signal Intelligence

Previous value: -"How long this call may block waiting for the scan, 0-25. Default 20. Returns the moment the scan finishes; still free."New value: +"How long this call may block waiting for the scan, 0-25. Default 20. It returns the moment the scan finishes, and waiting the full 25 costs exactly what waiting 1 costs — so there is nothing to gain by polling with a low value."

Previous value: -"Lookback window in days. Default 30. Max 365 when you filter by signal_keys or categories, 90 without a filter. Shorter windows mean sharper timing."New value: +"Lookback window in days. Default 30. Max 365. Shorter windows mean sharper timing."

Previous value: -"Only companies founded in or after this year, e.g. 2023. Companies whose founding year we do not hold are excluded when this is set — about 6% of the set we observe. The result says so."New value: +"Only companies founded in or after this year, e.g. 2023. Companies whose founding year we do not hold are excluded when this is set, and the result says so."

Previous value: -"Funding stage, e.g. \"Seed\", \"Series A\", \"Pre Seed\". Spacing, case and hyphens are normalised; a value that matches nothing is rejected with the valid list rather than returning a near-empty result. This is the costliest filter here: we hold a stage for only about 60% of the companies we observe, and the rest are excluded rather than guessed at — so it narrows the field twice, once by stage and once by what we know."New value: +"Funding stage, e.g. \"Seed\", \"Series A\", \"Pre Seed\". Spacing, case and hyphens are normalised; a value that matches nothing is rejected with the valid list rather than returning a near-empty result. This is the costliest filter here: a company whose stage we do not hold is excluded rather than guessed at, so it narrows the field twice — once by stage, once by what we know."

Previous value: -"Only companies founded in or after this year, e.g. 2023. Companies whose founding year we do not hold are excluded when this is set — about 6% of the set we observe. The result says so."New value: +"Only companies founded in or after this year, e.g. 2023. Companies whose founding year we do not hold are excluded when this is set, and the result says so."

Previous value: -"Funding stage, e.g. \"Seed\", \"Series A\", \"Pre Seed\". Spacing, case and hyphens are normalised; a value that matches nothing is rejected with the valid list rather than returning a near-empty result. This is the costliest filter here: we hold a stage for only about 60% of the companies we observe, and the rest are excluded rather than guessed at — so it narrows the field twice, once by stage and once by what we know."New value: +"Funding stage, e.g. \"Seed\", \"Series A\", \"Pre Seed\". Spacing, case and hyphens are normalised; a value that matches nothing is rejected with the valid list rather than returning a near-empty result. This is the costliest filter here: a company whose stage we do not hold is excluded rather than guessed at, so it narrows the field twice — once by stage, once by what we know."

Previous value: -"Only count signals worth at least this much, 1-10. Background chatter (event attendance, news mentions, follower drift) sits at 1-2 and is a third of everything we hold; 3 or 4 searches on substance and is the useful setting. Above 7 you are asking for rare events — funding, acquisitions, shutdowns are under 1% of what happens in any window, because that is how often they happen, not how well we see them. Searching for those usually returns little; watch_company is how you catch them. Default 0 (everything)."New value: +"Only count signals worth at least this much, 1-10. Background chatter (event attendance, news mentions, follower drift) sits at 1-2 and dominates an unfiltered result; 3 or 4 searches on substance and is the useful setting. Above 7 you are asking for rare events — funding, acquisitions, shutdowns are seldom what a window contains, because that is how often they happen, not how well we see them. Searching for those usually returns little; watch_company is how you catch them. Default 0 (everything)."