Brief Quantesta the way you’d brief a human analyst: a concrete question, a defined universe, a timeframe — and the method, when you care about it. And when you want a file rather than a reply, name the deliverable: “as a memo,” “as a downloadable sheet.” Each pattern below shows the same ask done weakly and done well.
Is Apple doing well?
AAPL: revenue growth, gross margin, and free cash flow over the last 8 quarters — what’s inflecting?
Vague questions get summaries. Specific ones get analysis — the analyst fetches exactly what you scope.
What are the best dividend stocks?
Among S&P 500 consumer staples, which names yield over 3% with a payout ratio under 60% and five years of dividend growth?
A screen without a universe is a headline generator.
Is the market overvalued?
Compare the S&P 500’s current forward P/E to its 10-year distribution — which percentile are we in, and how did returns look from similar percentiles?
When you name the method, the statistical work runs as real code in the sandbox — and you can check every step.
Follow-ups are cheap and inherit everything fetched so far. “Same for AMD.” “Now on a log scale.” “Put that table in a sheet.” Disagree with a step? Say “rerun that excluding 2008” — and it reruns.
Upload a filing, a broker note, or your own spreadsheet and ask against it:
From this 10-K, what changed in the risk factors versus what you know of last year’s?
See Documents & uploads.
Quantesta is a research tool, not an advisor. “Should I buy this?” gets you a worse version of the question it’s built for:
What would have to be true for this thesis to work — and what does the data say about each condition?