FAQ
What Solon does,
and what it will never do.
What is Solon?
Solon is thesis-monitoring software for investors who pick their own stocks. You record why you own each position, typed or spoken, and Solon writes that reasoning down as named claims, each carrying a number a filing can settle. Agents then read filings, headlines, earnings and rival moves against those claims and tell you when the case you bought has changed.
Who is Solon for?
Solon is for self-directed investors who hold individual stocks on conviction rather than on a model, who had a reason when they bought, and who have not systematically re-examined that reason since. It is built for a portfolio of roughly ten to fifty names held across ordinary retail brokerage accounts.
Does Solon trade for me or touch my money?
No. Solon never executes a trade, never moves funds, and never holds your brokerage password. It is a decision-support tool: it reads, grades and tells you. You place every order, in your own brokerage account, at a moment you choose.
Is Solon investment advice?
No. Solon is not an investment adviser, broker-dealer, or financial planner, and it makes no recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any security. It does not rate stocks. Every verdict it shows is computed mechanically from the claims and exit levels you wrote yourself, so it is a reading of your own stated reasoning rather than an opinion about the company.
How is Solon different from a price alert?
A price alert fires on a number and tells you nothing about why. Solon fires when new information presses a specific claim you committed to in writing: a competitor shipping a product that undercuts your pricing-power argument, or a filing showing that the growth rate you said mattered has broken. It answers "is my reason still true", which a price cannot.
How is Solon different from a stock screener?
A screener helps you find candidates by financial characteristics; Solon watches names you have already decided about and deliberately does not rank the universe. It monitors the small set of convictions you wrote down, which is the part no screener knows anything about.
Which brokerages does Solon connect to?
Solon connects directly to major brokerages including Charles Schwab, Fidelity, Robinhood and Vanguard. The connection is read-only: it reads positions and cost basis and cannot place an order or move money, and your brokerage login is entered with the connection provider, never with Solon. A positions file can be uploaded instead, but it is a snapshot and will not stay current.
What do the agents actually do overnight?
Agents read while you sleep, and one rules on what they find. A filings agent reads the 10-Qs, insider sales and institutional holdings. A news grader scores headlines against your claims rather than ticker sentiment. An ecosystem agent finds rivals you never listed and grades what they ship. An earnings agent drafts what the coming print tests. The verdict engine recomputes every thesis from your own rules.
How does Solon decide what is worth telling me?
Solon computes it rather than asking a model for it. The model reads and reports facts; rules in code calculate the grade from those facts, so the same finding always scores the same way and you can argue with the reasoning. Solon also learns what each company is judged on from that company's own earnings release rather than from a fixed list of metrics.
Does Solon watch competitors I have not listed?
Yes, and the ones you have not listed are the point. The ecosystem agent reads competitor releases, pricing pages and launches, and when a company ships something that presses a claim you wrote, it joins your watch roster with the reason stated. Solon draws that map from what investors hold rather than from a sector file, which is how an AI lab shipping agents reaches a workflow-software thesis.
Can Solon watch a stock I do not own yet?
Yes. A watchlist name gets the same machinery as an owned one: you say what you would have to believe to buy it, Solon turns that into claims and grades the news against them, and you set the entry zone where the price would interest you. When the zone hits, Solon asks whether you are acting, and records either answer, because a pass is a decision too.
Does Solon remember what I said I would do?
Yes, and that is the point of writing it down. A thesis records the action you commit to if it breaks: exit fully, trim, or hold and rewrite. When the condition you named happens, Solon reads your own instruction back at the moment it applies: you said you would exit half if this printed under twelve percent twice, and that is what just happened.
Does Solon score my decisions?
Yes, three ways, kept apart. What the market did after your call is direction-aware: a hold is helped by a rise, an exit by the same fall. Whether you kept the rule you set is answered separately, against the floor you wrote before the price moved. Your reasoning is kept verbatim. A well-reasoned call that lost and a lucky call that broke your rule must never read the same.
What can Solon tell me that a research tool cannot?
Investment products overwhelmingly model securities. Solon models the investor. Because every thesis, precommitted action, override and outcome is dated and kept, it becomes the system of record for your own judgment: which breaks you trade through, whether you sell too early after a guidance miss, whether your entry zones are priced well. No market-data product holds that. The history is yours, and Solon never shows it to anyone else.
What is a claim in Solon?
A claim is one testable sentence your investment case depends on, carrying a number a filing or a market feed can settle. For example, that current remaining performance obligations keep growing above 12%. Each claim also records the line that would prove you wrong. Verdicts exist only because claims are specific: a thesis written as a feeling cannot be graded.
Can I ask Solon questions about my portfolio?
Yes. Solon has an AI chat on every page, and what separates it from a general chatbot is that it has read your portfolio: it answers from your own positions, claims, record and rivals, across every name at once rather than one ticker at a time. Ask for a change and it proposes one, showing the before and the after, and nothing is written until you press apply.
Can I dictate my thesis instead of typing it?
Yes. Solon accepts a spoken thesis and transcribes it, because people say far more of their real reasoning than they will ever type. The more of that reasoning Solon hears, the sharper the claims it can write. You can type it instead.
Do I have to write a thesis for every position I own?
No. Solon drafts the first pass for you. Import your positions and it writes a starting case for each name from its filings, with claims, levels and an exit plan, in a color that marks it as a draft. Say a sentence about a name and the claims come from your words instead. You correct or accept each one; nothing is graded as yours until you do.
Can I tell what Solon wrote versus what I wrote?
Yes, always, and it is a design rule rather than a setting. Text drafted by Solon renders in a different color from your own words, and figures pulled from a filing or a market feed render differently again. So you can always see that a verdict is judging your conviction rather than the software's.
How do I get access to Solon?
Solon is live and members are using it now, with the overnight agents running against their positions every night. Access is by referral from existing members: a member's link signs you in directly. Without one, leave an email on the home page and we will write to you when a place opens.
Does Solon support MCP connections?
Not yet. MCP is how an assistant reaches an outside service, and it is the difference between reading your thesis in another tab and asking about it wherever you already work: what did I say would break this, and has it. An MCP connection for Solon is in development and will be read-only, since Solon never trades. Write to help@solon.run for early access.
Which kinds of holdings can Solon monitor?
Solon monitors shares, funds and crypto. Options, short positions and futures are not supported: when a connected account holds one, Solon leaves it out and tells you which position it skipped, rather than recording it as something it is not. A holding in a currency other than US dollars arrives without its cost basis.
What data does Solon collect?
Solon stores your email address, the positions and cost bases you enter or import, and everything you write or dictate about them. It never asks for brokerage credentials, bank details, government identifiers or payment card numbers. Thesis text is sent to a model provider so it can be drafted and graded, and is not used to train models.
The category these questions sit inside is set out on investment thesis monitoring, and the comparison against the account you already have is on thesis monitoring vs. your brokerage.
Still holding something you have not re-read since you bought it?
That is the position Solon was built for. Tell it why you own the name once, and your agents read every night after.
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