Kscope · deep dive · 2026-10-22
Truvalue sells a daily ESG score computed from the news. Pulse and Momentum are models on that text. The score they publish stays their brand.
The row stays fast. Pulse, Insight, and Momentum are models on news and filings we hold. Their SASB score brand stays theirs. The pages do not agree on how many sources or how many companies, and both disagreements are quoted. No seat price is printed.
| Feature | Truvalue | Kscope | |
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| What the file is | FactSet sells Truvalue as a daily ESG score computed from external text, mapped to 26 SASB categories. The marketplace page, added 23 September 2024, says the four scores cover short-term performance, long-term performance, and volume, and that the file also carries spotlights: the AI summary of the most significant positive and negative events, with the day's headlines. Delivery named on that page is the workstation, a data feed, an API, and cloud platforms. The button is Try For Free. No dollar price is printed. FactSet agreed to acquire Truvalue Labs on 20 October 2020. The product pages read now are FactSet's. | The articles are the news archive. A daily score on that text, mapped to a published category list, is a model. An ESG score is not in the graph. The ESG note of 2026-09-19 found no emissions, sustainability, or controversy score. | Partial |
| Pulse, Insight, Momentum, Volume | The published FactSet score-type schema, page date 10 October 2026, sets neutral at 50. Above 50 is positive and below 50 is negative. Pulse is the day's events. Insight is the longer track record, an exponentially weighted moving average of Pulse, with a 6-month half-life. Momentum is the trend of Insight relative to peers. The schema also names Article Volume, Category Volume, Adjusted Insight, Dynamic Materiality, and Industry Percentile. The at-a-glance sheet of 25 October 2019 says Volume is the article count over the past 12 months. A 2024 scorecard of the same feed says Adjusted Insight fills a lower-volume or zero-volume company by blending the company score with an industry median. | A one-day count, a 6-month memory, a peer-relative trend, and a 12-month article count are models on text we hold. Their published number, under their name, stays their brand. | Partial |
| Spotlights, the SDGs, and Activity Signal | The 2024 brochure says the history covers 26 SASB categories and 16 UN SDGs, and more than 15 years. The AWS SDG page sells Insight, Pulse, Volume, and Momentum for the goals, daily, and says 26,000-plus companies. The 8 March 2021 SDG release said more than 21,000 companies, from more than 100,000 sources in 13 languages. A separate FactSet webcast page markets Truvalue Activity Signal as a newer signal on corporate behavior. That page prints no field list and no price. | Lawsuits, breaches, bankruptcies, and regulatory events are already structured on the archive. A spotlight that summarizes them is a model. A score against the 16 SDGs is the same kind of model. Activity Signal, with no public field list, stays their series until the definition is printed. | Partial |
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| Sources | The pages do not agree, and the dates matter. The 20 October 2020 acquisition release says over 100,000 sources in 13 languages. The 25 October 2019 at-a-glance says more than 150,000 sources in over 30 languages, and millions of documents a month. The 2024 brochure prints more than 150,000 sources in one block and 200,000-plus sources in another. The AWS SASB page says more than 100,000 sources. The PSP Investments case study, page date 26 February 2026, says more than 100,000 sources in over 13 languages, and names news, trade journals, NGOs, watchdog groups, trade blogs, and industry reports. An Environmental Finance guide entry says 250,000-plus sources and about 40 million pieces a month. All of those figures are left as printed. | The news note of 2026-09-19 counts 30,176,943 stored documents. 23,388,726 are RSS. GDELT is 139,355. A live newswire supplies the rest. The corpus holds articles in about 40 languages. Their source counts and our document count are different objects. A social post that never hits a public feed is the slice a crawl does not replace. | Partial |
| Companies | The company totals disagree in the same way. The 2020 release says over 19,000 companies. The 2019 at-a-glance says 260,000-plus, with history to 2007. A 2020 spotlight sheet says 230,000-plus, with history to 2016. The marketplace page says 337,000-plus, and prints a regional entity table that includes North America 120,400 and Europe 107,400, each starting in 2007. The AWS page prints a different object, regional security counts, each starting in 2007, including North America 9,188, Developed Europe 3,920, Emerging Asia 5,648, Developed Asia ex-Japan 2,698, Japan 4,084, Emerging EMEA 780, and Latin America 555. | The score attaches to a company id we already mint for a public filer, and for a private company that appears in the news. Coverage of a private firm that never hits the archive is their crawl. The security-count table is their universe, not a number to copy. | Partial |
| Feature | Truvalue | Kscope | |
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| The events under the score | The score is a tag on external articles, rolled into a SASB category. The spotlight is the summary of the strongest positive and negative events in that category. | The structured layer on the same archive, counted 2026-09-19, includes 362,515 lawsuits, 37,492 data breaches, 37,198 bankruptcies, and 259,290 regulatory and government events, inside about 4.02 million events joined to the company graph. The board roster from the proxy is 38,548 rows, ESG note of 2026-09-19. That roster is who sits on the board. It is the governance extract. It is not a SASB category score. | Partial |
| The brand | Every current page sells the score under the Truvalue name, inside FactSet. No seat price survived on the marketplace page, the AWS page, the brochure, or the webcast page. The commercial doors are Try For Free and a sales conversation. | A model we train on the news and the filings is our number. Their SASB mapping, their industry median, and the score they publish under their name stay theirs. | Beside |
Ahead The feature is data we already hold, in a form an investor can use.
Match Both products do this.
Partial We hold the filing or the extract, and not their finished screen.
Gap They ship it. We do not.
Beside Their SASB mapping, their industry median, and the score published under their name stay theirs. A score computed from the news and the filings we hold is a model.