How Convicta works
Your insight sets the direction.
The numbers give you something to hold it up against.
You might know an industry from the inside, notice new customer needs, or hold a belief about the future. Convicta starts from your idea and combines a thematic match with classic financial metrics. You decide for yourself what the result means.
From an observation to a view
I believe steel and iron prices will rise. I want to investigate companies that could benefit from that.
That's a hypothesis, not a statement of fact. Investigate, for example, who sells the materials and who uses them as a cost. A relevant connection requires company data that actually describes it; the tool can't fill gaps in the data basis with your belief.
Three steps from your idea to a result
Write down what you see
Describe your idea in your own words: what do you expect to change, why, and which types of businesses could be affected? Industry knowledge and concrete observations are just as relevant as broad market views.
Set your financial criteria
Choose filters like P/E, debt/EBITDA, market cap, and revenue growth. The filters narrow down the companies in the available dataset. Words in your view don't automatically change your filters.
See match, figures, and reasoning
When you start the analysis, Convicta Core holds your view up against each company's business and assesses how well they match. Valuation, financial health, and growth are calculated separately from financial metrics. Read the reasoning, and also consider what might argue against your idea.
See why — not just what
Convicta Core assesses the match with a language model; the financial-metric scores are calculated with fixed rules. The overall score weights match at 50% and the average of the available financial sub-scores at 50%. If P/E is missing, valuation shows as N/A and is left out of the average. On the stock card you can open the exact breakdown.
A high match describes a thematic connection. It isn't proof that your view holds, or a promise of returns. The result only covers the available and assessed selection of companies.
What Convicta covers today: listed companies in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and the USA, a little over 900 in total, read from their latest annual report. All countries are selected by default; you can deselect countries under Criteria. A company outside this set cannot appear in a result, however well it fits your view.
A chatbot guesses at the obvious ones. Convicta maps everyone your view hits.
Testers often ask: what can Convicta do that an ordinary chatbot can't? Five concrete answers:
The company's own words
Every claim links to the exact quote in the annual report — not Convicta's memory.
Every company is read the same way
Even the ones no one is talking about right now. Peace in Ukraine, for instance, doesn't only hit defence — it also hits cement and cables.
It says no when nothing fits
In our test, 9 out of 10 views without real backing gave an empty result — no artificial matches just to fill the list.
Chains, not just the direct hit
Interest rates → construction → Rockwool: every link in the chain has its own backing.
Your view, your own filters
You set both your view and the financial filters yourself. The result is information, not investment advice.
Where this is heading: more countries and more sources than the annual report, updated every quarter, and a view that's kept alive instead of a one-off snapshot.