Prior Moves Investor brief JUL 2026 · priormoves.com/pitch

A research publication that predicts what the world’s best investors will buy next, about six weeks before their 13F makes it public.

Readers mirror 44 legendary investors (Buffett, Burry, Ackman, Klarman…) by exporting a copy sheet, target weights plus a dollar split, and placing the trades at their own broker. We never execute and never hold money: a publisher, not an adviser.

Investors modeled
44
26 validated
Stocks scored
1,200+
one PriorScore each
Backtest edge
+1.8 pts/q
95% CI includes zero
Raising
$750K
pre-seed · distribution
§1The gap

Millions of retail investors already copy famous portfolios, from 13F snapshots that are up to 45 days stale. Copy-trading apps polish that stale mirror. Nobody publishes the next filing.

§2The product

One model per investor, trained on their filing history plus ~250 public signals (insider buys, congressional trades, activist stakes, options flow, news tone), predicts their next new position, published as a probability with an as-of date, rolled into one 0–100 PriorScore across 1,200+ US stocks.

§3Proof, stated honestly

Top-15 basket vs S&P 500, 35 backtested quarters, net of costs: +2.2 pts/q, beat the index 23/35, t ≈ 1.31. The CI includes zero and we publish that sentence everywhere it appears.

A small, uncertain, honestly-drawn edge is the product; over-claiming would burn the only asset that matters here: trust.
§4Why now

Retail copy-investing is mainstream (Autopilot-class apps prove demand); disclosure data and alt-signals are cheap and machine-readable; and post-hype, an anti-hype research brand is the open position in the market.

§5Model & regulatory posture

Free general-circulation research (publisher under Lowe v. SEC, no adviser registration), monetized by a paid weekly digest and partner licensing of scores to brokers and research platforms. We never touch customer funds.

§6Moat

Per-investor models compound with every filing season (data moat), and a published, graded calibration record compounds with every quarter (honesty moat). Both are slow to build and hard to fake, which is the point.

The ask
$750K pre-seed to fund distribution.
Content, partnerships, SEO, and the paid-tier launch. The models are built; the work is earning readers.
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