Use tools for document analysis

Last updated: June 9, 2025

These tools help you analyze, summarize, compare, and generate insights from written content like earnings reports, news articles, or market commentaries.

1. Write commentary

What it is: The Write commentary tool generates in-depth written analysis or commentary on market topics.

What it’s for: When you want a structured article, summary, or report on trends, sectors, or portfolios.

Example: “Write a commentary on how AI is affecting the tech sector.”

Key features:

• Must be paired with Get commentary inputs

• Supports both technical and simple styles

• Offers long-form, short-form, or bullet output

• Ideal for articles, client reports, or market memos

2. Get commentary inputs

What it is: The Get commentary inputs tool prepares data for commentary writing.

What it’s for: When you need to gather relevant stats, themes, and context before drafting commentary.

Example: “Prepare to write a commentary on recent tech sector performance.”

Key features:

• Collects themes, stock highlights, and macro trends

• Can focus on sectors, indices, companies, or portfolios

• Supports flexible time ranges

• Required before using Write Commentary

3. Idea brainstorm

What it is: The Idea brainstorm tool identifies themes or patterns from text data.

What it’s for: When you want to extract insights, trends, or recurring topics.

Example: “What are the key themes in recent quarterly reports for tech companies?”

Key features:

• Outputs trends, events, or policy ideas

• Supports evidence-backed insights

• Great for idea generation and thematic research

4. Get date range

What it is: The Get date range tool converts natural language into a formatted date range.

What it’s for: When you need a properly structured time period for analysis tools.

Example: “Look at performance over the last six months.”

Key features:

• Handles phrases like “last quarter” or “past year”

• Used with tools that need time-specific data

5. Get date range start

What it is: The Get date range start tool generates a date range that captures only the beginning of another range.

What it’s for: When you need the opening date for historical comparisons.

Example: “Find the value at the beginning of this quarter.”

Key features:

• Returns a single-date range

• Useful for snapshots and starting-point values

6. Summarize text

What it is: The Summarize text tool creates a concise summary from large volumes of text.

What it’s for: When you need to simplify complex documents like earnings calls or filings.

Example: “Summarize the key points from these earnings calls.”

Key features:

• Can focus on specific topics or stocks

• Handles long text inputs

• Useful for condensing news, transcripts, or articles

7. Summarize text per stock

What it is: The Summarize text per stock tool produces summaries of information for each stock in a list.

What it’s for: When you want individual summaries by stock.

Example: “Summarize recent news for each stock in my portfolio.”

Key features:

• One summary per stock

• Helps compare across companies

• Outputs as a column in a stock table

8. Summarize text per idea

What it is: The Summarize text per idea tool generates summaries for each idea or theme in a list.

What it’s for: When you want insights tied to individual themes.

Example: “For each macroeconomic trend, summarize how it affects tech stocks.”

Key features:

• Summarizes each brainstormed idea

• Uses templates with the word “IDEA” as a placeholder

• Great for idea validation or explanation

9. Summarize text per stock group

What it is: The Summarize text per stock group tool summarizes text by stock groupings like sectors or industries.

What it’s for: When you want high-level summaries by category.

Example: “Summarize recent performance for each sector in the S&P 500.”

Key features:

• Uses "STOCK_TYPE" as a placeholder in the topic template

• Outputs summaries per group in a table column

• Ideal for sector- or industry-level analysis

10. Compare texts

What it is: The Compare texts tool analyzes similarities and differences between two sets of documents.

What it’s for: When you want to compare time periods, companies, or report versions.

Example: “Compare this quarter's earnings call with last quarter's for Microsoft.”

Key features:

• Highlights differences and shared content

• Can include extra context for deeper analysis

• Useful for before-and-after or side-by-side evaluations

11. Answer question with text data

What it is: The Answer question with text data tool finds specific answers from a body of text.

What it’s for: When you need to extract factual, targeted information from documents.

Example: “What countries does Coca-Cola operate in according to their latest annual report?”

Key features:

• Pinpoints precise answers, not just summaries

• Ideal for fact-based questions

• Uses relevance filtering to locate answers

• More accurate for detail-focused queries than summarization