Research deskEdition #14707 AUG 2026 · ISTDaily Brief (PDF) published 12 min ago

Research, not signals.

Calibrated context, daily, for the Indian markets.

A research brief in your inbox before NSE opens, followed by a public audit of yesterday's calls.

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The record so far

The numbers we publish, and the numbers we don’t hide.

A share of the early figures is drawn from retrospective replay of historical sessions, marked as such in every audit. Live-collected numbers grow each session.

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Briefs published

since launch, across equity, options, index

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Predictions audited

every claim resolved, hit or miss, on the next session

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Mean calibration error

rolling 30 trading days, touch-watch head

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Audit transparency

no claim is published without an outcome the next day

Discipline 01

A brief, not a trade call.

The Daily Brief gives you market structure, sector pressure, touch watch, reaction context, and avoidance flags before the session begins. It is built for a trader who wants better preparation, not a command to follow.

Public samples redact exact levels and instruments where needed. Subscriber briefs carry the full view inside the portal, while public pages keep the product understandable without exposing the research machinery.

The decision to act on any of our research remains entirely with you, the reader. Read why this matters

Excerpt · watchlist + avoidance, redactedsubscriber-only · redacted
WATCHLIST - BANKING basket: ₹[subscriber-only] level cluster is near enough to monitor. Touch probability is 62%; reaction quality is below the paid-action threshold at ₹[subscriber-only]. - IT basket: directional read is mixed. Stand aside until the next update confirms whether the move is developing or fading. AVOIDANCE - METAL basket: regime is rotating; tip-of-spear names show drift. Avoid the entire bucket above ₹[subscriber-only] today.
We grade ourselves out loud, every morning before the bell.
Research desk principles · §3

Discipline 02

Every brief is followed by an audit.

Tomorrow’s brief opens by auditing today’s. Per-confidence-bucket hit rate. Calibration error per prediction type. Drift flags surfaced before they degrade.

When the audit is drawn from a retrospective replay of historical bundles rather than live-collected outcomes, we say so explicitly, and the brief carries a disclosure line so you never confuse the two.

No other research desk in this space audits itself publicly. See how the audit works

Yesterday ledger· 06 AUG
public view
predhead · bucketoutcomecal err
  • #4112touch-watch · HIGHhit1.66%
  • #4113touch-watch · V-HIGHhit+2.17%
  • #4114avoidance · MODhit+2.08%
  • #4115opt-strike · HIGHhit+3.22%
  • #4116avoidance · HIGHhit4.36%
  • #4117opt-strike · V-HIGHhit2.07%
Resolved · 6Hits · 6/6

Discipline 03

Calibration is the product.

A 70% probability we publish should resolve in our favour roughly 70 times out of 100. If it doesn’t, the gap shows up on the dashboard as calibration error, and we flag the head as drifting until it returns to within tolerance.

The whole engine is built around this contract. Every probability you read was calibrated against a hold-out window the engine never saw during fitting.

Live calibration dashboard

Touch watch calibration error

Daily mean predicted probability minus actual hit rate, last 90 trading days. Closer to zero is better.

Excerpt · per-bucket calibration, last 30d
Last 30 days, touch-watch head: very_high (n=68): hit_rate=78%, mean_p=84%, error +0.06 high (n=152): hit_rate=71%, mean_p=72%, error +0.01 moderate (n=204): hit_rate=58%, mean_p=57%, error −0.01 low (n=311): hit_rate=29%, mean_p=32%, error +0.03

From the desk

Of Garvit Katyal · founder · Crux Research

When I started building this, I wasn’t trying to invent another signal service. India already has thousands of those. I was trying to answer a smaller, more honest question: when a brief says “70% likely to touch,” does it actually happen 70 times out of 100?

Most desks never check. We do, every morning. The dashboard you just scrolled past is the same dashboard I look at before I write the next brief. When a head drifts, you see it before I do.

If that kind of accountability is what you want from your morning read, the sample brief is the place to start. If it isn’t, no hard feelings — close the tab.

Garvit

Bangalore · India
published before the bell

How a brief comes together

Five stages. Every morning. Before the bell.

We don’t hide the pipeline. We hide the technique. The stages below run in this order every NSE session — the same shape, the same gates, the same audit at the end. Subscribers see the output; the engine’s internals stay inside the moat.

  1. 01

    Ingest

    Overnight feeds and prior-session prints arrive.

  2. 02

    Weave

    Sector regime, structural levels, and reaction context are stitched.

  3. 03

    Calibrate

    Every probability is checked against a hold-out window.

  4. 04

    Audit

    Yesterday's brief is graded against actual outcomes.

  5. 05

    Publish

    Brief lands in the inbox before 08:30 IST.

Stage labels are the engine’s published pipeline names. Specific models, features, and tuning parameters stay inside the subscriber portal where they belong.

Built for

Three readers. One discipline.

We don’t segment by tier or asset class. We segment by how you use the brief. If you recognise yourself in one of these, the product is built for you.

01 · The independent trader

Running your own book, on your own thesis.

You're past the tipster phase. You want pre-market context that respects your judgement, not a buy call you have to second-guess. The brief tells you where the structural levels are, where the regime is leaning, and where to stand aside — then it gets out of the way.

02 · The desk analyst

On the morning huddle, defending a read.

You want a sober second opinion before you walk into the room. Calibrated probabilities, redacted sector regime, and an honest audit of yesterday's calls give you something to anchor or argue against — not a black-box signal you can't explain.

03 · The fund PM

Allocating capital across desks.

You don't need another data feed. You need a research partner whose calibration error you can verify in public, whose drift is flagged before the loss is taken, and whose discipline you can show to your IC.

The reader makes the trade. The brief makes the case.
Research desk principles · §1

How we publish

Four commitments, audited every session.

Read the full philosophy →
01

Research, not signals.

We sell context — sector regime, structural levels, reaction quality, avoidance flags. We don't sell instructions. The decision to act remains with the reader.

02

Probabilities, not certainties.

Every claim carries a number. A 62% touch probability is the system's calibrated estimate of how often historical analogues did, not a prediction it will.

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Calibration, not promises.

70% should resolve 70 times out of 100. When it doesn't, the gap shows up as calibration error and the head is flagged drifting until it returns to tolerance.

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Audit, in public.

Every brief opens by auditing yesterday's. Hit rate per confidence bucket, calibration error per prediction type, drift flags before they degrade the next read.

Pricing

Pricing for a research product, not a tip sheet.

Google sign-in starts a five-day preview automatically. Paid plans run through Razorpay and keep the exact research archive inside the subscriber portal.

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Common questions

Direct answers to the questions we get most.

If your question isn’t here, the contact page reaches the founder directly.

Is this a tip service or a signal service?

Neither. The Daily Brief is a research artifact — sector regime, structural levels in play, reaction quality, avoidance flags. Every claim carries a calibrated probability. The decision to act remains with the reader.

Are you SEBI-registered investment advisors?

No. We are a research publisher, not a registered investment advisor. The brief is research context only, not investment advice. The disclosures page is explicit about this and every page footer carries the short form.

What does "calibrated" actually mean here?

When the brief publishes a 70% probability, that estimate is checked against the actual outcome rate on a holdout window the model never saw during fitting. The dashboard publishes the gap (calibration error) per confidence bucket. If a head drifts out of tolerance, we flag it until it recovers.

What's the delivery time?

Briefs are published by 08:30 IST on NSE trading days. Email plus the subscriber portal. The portal carries the full archive.

Can I see a real brief before paying?

Yes — the sample brief is a real published artifact, redacted for public view. Subscriber-only levels are masked but the shape, sections, and language are intact. Google sign-in also starts an automatic five-day preview.

What if my preview expires and I don't subscribe?

Nothing. Your account stays. The preview is a single five-day window — when it expires, the portal goes back to the public marketing surface. No card charged, no follow-up sequence.

Do you ever recommend specific entry/exit levels?

Subscriber briefs publish exact structural levels and reaction context. They are not entry/exit instructions — they are the context against which the reader's own decision is made. The brief never tells the reader what size, when to enter, or when to exit.

Can I cancel anytime?

Monthly subscriptions cancel any time from the portal. Annual subscriptions are refundable pro rata within the first fourteen days after billing.

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