The terminal is command-driven and issuer-scoped: you pick a company once and move between screens with two or three keystrokes. Four steps and you are productive.
The dashboard at /app loads your watchlist, the next dated events, the filing feed for your active issuer, headlines and alert state. It is the only screen that fetches several sources at once; everything else is one screen, one question.
The terminal is command-driven. Type a screen code in the command bar — FA for financial accounting, RV for comparables, ECAL for the calendar — and press Enter. Add a ticker after the code (FA MSFT) to switch issuer and screen in one move.
The ticker field is global. Set it once and every issuer-scoped screen follows it, so you can move across valuation, filings and estimates without retyping.
Every panel carries a provenance line naming the upstream that produced its figures and when they were fetched. If a figure has no source line, treat it as a bug and report it — that is the contract this product is built on.
Click any key to rebind it, then press the combination you want; Escape cancels. Changes are stored in this browser and take effect in the terminal on its next load. Keys marked “app shell” are owned by another module and cannot be reassigned.
That is the designed behaviour, not a crash. Free endpoints rate-limit: SEC EDGAR enforces fair access, OpenSky throttles anonymous polling, GitHub caps unauthenticated calls. The message names the upstream. Waiting a minute and reloading usually clears it.
The live fetch failed and the server replayed the last response that succeeded, with its age shown. It is real data that is simply older than you asked for — it is never a substituted or synthetic value.
Its upstream needs a credential that is not set, or has no free tier. The screen names what it requires. Settings lists every optional credential and what each one unlocks.
Timestamps are transported as UTC with an explicit offset and rendered in your browser's zone, which is named next to the panel. If it looks shifted, check the zone label first.
Static assets are served immutable for a year, so a hard reload (Ctrl+Shift+R) is the fix. The server bumps a version token on every asset change, so this should be rare.
Read this once. It applies to every figure in the product and is the reason the terminal itself no longer interrupts you with a banner about it.
Every figure on every screen is fetched from a named public source — SEC EDGAR, USAspending.gov, the Federal Register, the US Treasury, Yahoo Finance and the others listed on the Sources page. Nothing is modelled, estimated, sampled or filled in. When a source does not answer, the screen says so and shows nothing in its place.
Responses are cached so a screen does not re-request the same filing on every visit, and a cached figure can be minutes or hours old. Market prices are delayed by whatever the upstream delays them by — for most free quote sources that is fifteen minutes or more. Hover any figure to see the source it came from and the time it was fetched.
Singularity Terminal is a research tool. Nothing it displays is a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any security, and no figure here has been reviewed by a licensed adviser. Do your own work and check the primary document — every screen links to it.
The data is provided as-is. Primary sources revise, restate and withdraw filings; upstream APIs change shape and go down. Errors in a source become errors on this screen, and the operator of this install accepts no liability for decisions taken on the strength of anything shown here.