Press Kit
HillSignal
Congressional and corporate market intelligence, sourced entirely from public government filings.
About
HillSignal monitors Congress.gov, USAspending.gov, SEC EDGAR, and congressional stock-trade disclosures continuously, then uses AI to translate raw government activity into market intelligence: affected tickers, sector exposure, and a 1-10 impact score.
The platform cross-references those sources to surface connections others miss. When a lawmaker trades a stock while their committee oversees that company, or a company wins a federal contract for technology it just patented, HillSignal flags the connection and explains the overlap in plain English.
Signal and trade detail pages are free to read with no account required. A paid Pro tier adds undelayed alerts, full history, and advanced analytical tools.
One-line boilerplate
“HillSignal tracks Congressional bills, federal contracts, and lawmaker stock trades and translates them into actionable market intelligence for retail investors. Free to read, with an optional Pro tier.”
Fact Sheet
- •Data sources: congressional bills and resolutions (Congress.gov), federal contract awards above $10M (USAspending.gov), SEC filings including Form 4 insider trades, Form D private placements, 8-K, S-1, and 13F, STOCK Act stock-trade disclosures from both the House and the Senate, and FEC campaign-finance records for PAC contributions to members of Congress
- •Coverage: 12 market sectors (Defense, Healthcare, Technology, Energy, Finance, Agriculture, Manufacturing, Infrastructure, Telecommunications, Transportation, Consumer, Real Estate), with congressional committee assignments mapped to GICS sector codes to flag committee-conflict trades
- •RSS feeds: Bills & Contracts (updated hourly), Congressional Trades & SEC Filings (updated every 30 minutes), which carries House and Senate stock-trade disclosures flagged for committee conflicts, SEC Form 4 corporate insider buys and sells above $100K, and SEC Form D private placements above $5M, and Factual Connections (updated hourly), a sourced person-to-company graph built from those same filings: committee-conflict trades, corporate insiders and members of Congress converging on the same stock, PAC money flowing to candidates, and bill-sponsor-to-contract-award chains, ranked by dollars at stake. All three feeds are unauthenticated and work in any newsroom RSS reader.
- •Built and run by a solo founder. Launched 2026.
Story Angles
Congress moves markets. Now anyone can watch it happen as it is filed.
Bills, federal contracts over $10M, and congressional stock trades are cross-referenced and AI-scored within hours of publication. The transparency tooling that once required a Bloomberg terminal and a K Street subscription is now public and free to read.
The regulatory capture arc: legislation, funding, contracts, insider trades
HillSignal detects multi-source convergence: the 12-18 month sequence where a bill, an appropriation, a contract award, and surgically-timed insider purchases line up. A data-driven story about how Washington money flows become market events.
Backtested: which sectors actually move when Congress acts
A standing backtest measures whether congressional signals actually move markets across 30, 60, and 90-day windows. Some sectors (Infrastructure, Telecom, Manufacturing) hit well above coin-flip rates; others (Finance, Agriculture) do not. Current methodology and the full dataset, including where the signals fail, are available on request.
Solo founder vs. the political-intelligence incumbents
Built by one person using public data (Congress.gov, USAspending.gov, SEC EDGAR) and modern AI tooling. A story about what small teams can ship when the underlying data is public and the incumbents are expensive.
For Journalists
- •Custom data pulls: I can extract specific cuts and deliver them within 24 hours. Examples: every defense contract above $100M this quarter alongside the bills that authorized the funding, or every STOCK Act disclosure that preceded a committee vote on directly related legislation.
- •Interviews: Available same-day for breaking legislative or markets stories.
- •Methodology: Full backtest methodology and its limitations are available on request, including the sectors where the signals do not work.
- •Attribution: All signal and trade detail pages are public, linkable, and free to read. Screenshots may be used with attribution to HillSignal.
- •RSS feeds: All three feeds are unauthenticated and update automatically. Drop any of the URLs into any newsroom RSS reader for a live alert stream from public government filings. No account or API key required.
Assets
Media Contact
Ryan
Founder, HillSignal
press@hillsignal.comTypical response time: same day. Available for same-day interviews on breaking legislative and markets stories.
HillSignal surfaces information sourced from public government filings (Congress.gov, USAspending.gov, SEC EDGAR) for informational purposes only. Nothing on this site constitutes financial advice, a recommendation, or a solicitation to buy or sell any security.