The Graph Changes What a Report Is — for Raul
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The entity graph changes what a report is

Monday's mandate — every project feeding one linked MARS graph — isn't just cleaner plumbing. For the report builder it's a step change: reports stop being a stack of lookups and become a walk through the connections. We prototyped it this week. It works.

The shift

Today — hub & spoke

A company report = ~8 independent lookups, each keyed to one ticker, stitched together. Every section blind to the others. You can only ever describe one company at a time.

What it unlocks

  1. Relationship intelligence. Signals that exist only in the connections — an activist who sits on two companies' boards; the funds quietly buying a whole sector; board interlocks between competitors. No single filing contains them.
  2. Reports on anything, not just tickers. People, funds, investors, deals are all nodes — so we can build a report on an activist and every company they touch, or a private company and its co-investor web. The old system can't address these at all.
  3. Compounding depth. Every team's extraction that feeds the graph makes every report deeper automatically — the graph is the shared substrate the whole company is already building.
Proof — built this week, live

Microsoft's #2 insider seller is Mason Morfit (ValueAct) — who is also a top insider at Salesforce. One activist, billions in trades, inside two $2-trillion companies. Bill Gates → Berkshire Hathaway.

Every one of those links is a live traversal across 42M relationships — and none of it appears in Microsoft's filings. From idea to working demo in one cycle.

→ See the live report: "The Microsoft Network"

Why it's defensible

Report depth = domain disclosure × deterministic extraction × linkage

Anyone can scrape a 10-K. Almost nobody has a resolved, de-duplicated entity graph underneath. Linkage is the hardest axis to copy — and the report builder is how a client sees it.

What's next

Prototype built on the MARS entity graph (5 entity types · 42M typed edges) via the live graph-traversal primitives. Internal — not for external distribution. Relationships are prototype-grade; research, not investment advice.