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HillSignal

Congressional activity intelligence for retail investors.

About

HillSignal monitors Congress.gov, USAspending.gov, SEC EDGAR, and congressional stock-trade disclosures in real time, then uses AI to translate raw government activity into market signals: affected tickers, sector impact, sentiment, and a 1–10 impact score. Every signal page is public and free — no paywall, no credit card.

One-line boilerplate: “HillSignal is a free platform that tracks Congressional bills, federal contracts, and lawmaker stock trades, and translates them into actionable market intelligence for retail investors.”

Fact Sheet

  • • 4,500 signals published to date — 144 in the last 24 hours
  • • Tracks bills and resolutions from Congress.gov and federal contract awards above $10M from USAspending.gov, plus SEC filings (8-K, S-1, Form 4, 13F) and congressional trade disclosures
  • • 12 tracked sectors: Defense, Healthcare, Technology, Energy, Finance, Agriculture, Manufacturing, Infrastructure, Telecom, Transportation, Consumer, Real Estate
  • • Backtested edge dataset: 4,800+ observations across 600+ signals and 500+ tickers over 30/60/90-day windows
  • • Free for all users; built and run by a solo founder
  • • RSS feed of all published signals for newsroom monitoring

Story Angles

Congress moves markets — now anyone can watch it happen in real time

Bills, federal contracts over $10M, and congressional stock trades, cross-referenced and scored by AI within hours of publication. The transparency tooling that used to require a Bloomberg terminal and a K Street subscription, free.

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 actually become market events.

Backtested: which sectors actually move when Congress acts

A dataset of 4,800+ observations across 600+ signals shows Infrastructure (78%), Telecom (66%), and Manufacturing (60%) signals hit at well above coin-flip rates, while Finance and Agriculture signals don't. Happy to share the full methodology and dataset.

Solo founder takes on political-intelligence incumbents with AI

Built by one person on public data (Congress.gov, USAspending.gov, SEC EDGAR) and modern AI tooling — a David-vs-Goliath story about what small teams can ship now.

For Journalists

  • • Data requests: we can pull custom cuts — e.g. every defense contract over $100M this quarter with the bills that funded them, or every lawmaker trade that preceded a committee action.
  • • Founder interviews: available same-day for breaking legislative/markets stories.
  • • Methodology: full backtest methodology and limitations shared on request — including the sectors where signals don’t work.
  • • Embedding: all signal pages are public and linkable; screenshots may be used with attribution to HillSignal.

Assets

Media Contact

Ryan — Founder, HillSignal

press@hillsignal.com

Typical response time: same day.

HillSignal provides information, not investment advice. Nothing on this site is a recommendation to buy or sell any security.