What Buteon does today, what recently shipped, and what is being explored next. Recorded the way Buteon records everything — with the limits stated.
Anyone can create a free account and open the product; no invite is required. The focus is unchanged: signal clarity, reliability, outcome memory, and feedback from the people using it — not growth for its own sake. Features keep improving, and some remain developing.
buteon.ai remains the public content and research hub. Start with the Intelligence Library, then see the method applied in Case Files and Research Notes. The product itself lives at app.buteon.ai, with a Free plan available to everyone and Plus and Pro for more depth.
Everything under The system today is live in the product or on the public site now, and each module states where its coverage ends. The release log records what was added or fixed. Roadmap items are directions being worked on, evaluated, or held — planned directions, not commitments, and not all features are available on every plan.
Buteon is built as a sequence of reads, not a feature list. Each layer answers one question, and each module below states its own limit.
The feed is deliberately quiet: across the names Buteon tracks, most filings never reach a card, and most cards carry no chip at all.
Ranked feed of insider and ownership signals, each carrying a verdict, confidence and freshness read.
Coverage is partial and scoped to the names Buteon currently tracks — an absent ticker is a coverage limit, not a read. Free accounts see the stream on a roughly fifteen-minute delay.
Filter the stream by verdict, cluster activity, freshness, priority, notable moves, watching or non-actionable.
Eight built-in lenses; custom saved views are kept separately.
Track tickers you care about and follow new signal activity on them.
Capacity is plan-limited: three tickers on Free, ten on Plus, twenty-five on Pro.
A compact list of recent activity on the tickers you watch.
Covers the last seven days and shows at most five items. Watched tickers do not float to the top of the stream: relevance is only a tiebreaker after verdict, alert priority and freshness.
At most one chip per card, and only these five: High Signal Tension, Read capped, Evidence mixed, Big-player confluence, Notable activity.
A chip marks where to look inside the signal; it is never the explanation and never a recommendation. Risk Gate does not appear on stream cards.
Discovery grid over tracked tickers: fresh reads, measured history and actor activity.
Not a market-movers board, scanner or opportunity finder: everything shown is drawn from filed evidence. Free sees a preview limited to All and Fresh reads; the Watching, measured-history, actor-activity, no-fresh-read and watchlist filters require Plus or Pro.
In-app inbox of events that qualify under your alert preferences and watchlist.
In-app only — alerts are not delivered by email. Daily in-app caps are three on Free, twenty on Plus, forty on Pro. Alerts reflect current signal coverage, which is partial.
Set in-app sensitivity (the evidence threshold), direction and cluster scope, watchlist-only scope and digest cadence in Settings.
Email and digest toggles save but do not send: alerts arrive in the in-app inbox. The email digest is a Plus and Pro feature and is not active.
On-demand in-app brief on the week’s reads — selected by evidence quality, not performance — and watchlist activity.
Plus and Pro only. Nothing is emailed and no schedule exists. Historical context, not a recommendation.
Open any signal and the reasoning is laid out — including what argues against it, what caps it, and where the evidence runs out.
One-screen read at the top of every signal: verdict, confidence, horizon, reasoning.
A verdict is a read on disclosed activity, never a recommendation to buy or sell. Verdict, confidence and freshness are categorical labels, and horizon names the window the read is scoped to — not a price forecast and not a holding period.
Counts the references behind a verdict: supporting, weakening, contradicting, context, forward.
Counts only — the five groups are never blended into a single number. Some signals show no structured evidence items at all.
What runs counter to the verdict: evidence conflict, market non-confirmation, or a stale move.
Categorical only — the meter prints no number. When coverage is insufficient the panel says so instead of showing a level; when it is partial the level appears with the coverage limit stated beside it. It reads conflict; it does not forecast.
Names the ceiling holding a bullish-leaning read below a stronger grade.
Appears only on bullish-leaning reads — bearish verdicts are out of scope. It explains a ceiling the engine already recorded and never promises the read will upgrade. On stream cards it appears as the chip “Read capped”.
Structural tags — role, transaction type, isolation, size, freshness — characterizing the filing.
Descriptive tags, not a score or a ranking. Dimensions are omitted when the underlying data is unknown, so the tag set varies between signals.
Flags what could weaken or cap a read, within available Form 4 and engine signals.
Coverage is partial by design: Form 4 filings plus existing engine signals only. Broader regulatory filings are outside its scope. “None detected” is limited scope, never an all-clear. Display-only — it does not change verdicts, scoring or alerts, and it is not a sell or short read. It appears only inside the signal dossier, not on stream cards or the company page.
Recent market context around a signal: trend, backdrop, volume, short-window moves.
Informational only, never a direction claim. Market data loads only when you click “Load market context”, and it may be delayed, partial or unavailable — the panel says which. It contains no beta, no sector-relative measure and no volume multiple.
Categorical read on the acting insider: reliability band, provenance, same-company outcome history.
No numeric actor score and no standalone alignment percentage. Outcome history is same-company scope and shown as counts rather than rates, with sample size stated: historical context, not a performance claim. Identity matching is conservative and carries an explicit caveat when verified history is thin.
Public reference for how to read a card: verdict, confidence, freshness, and what Buteon will not claim.
Readable without an account.
Context is aggregated only as far as the filings support it, and never presented as complete. Each company page states which coverage tier it is showing.
Ticker-level command page: current read, active signals, actor activity, market context, outcome history, audit.
You reach it by clicking any ticker; the page is titled with the ticker itself. Depth varies by coverage tier: actor activity, big-player context, outcome memory and historical analogs appear only for companies marked Monitored, while limited-coverage and directory-only companies show a reduced page. Free accounts see the newest read on a roughly fifteen-minute delay.
Click a marker on the price chart to open the read behind it, across selectable timeframes.
It plots signal markers on a price series and measures no statistical relationship between reads and price movement. It sits on the company page inside Ticker Pulse and appears only after you click “Load market context”; nothing loads before then. Unavailable for directory-only companies, and price history can be delayed or missing for smaller and non-US symbols. Informational context, not a forecast.
Same-company view of one actor on one ticker: read, pattern, filings, connected signals.
Same-company scope: every row is one actor on one ticker, never a cross-company identity. No numeric actor score, no ranking, no leaderboard. Cross-company and market-regime views are shown as locked, and identity carries a CIK reference and a caveat on how firmly it is established. It is drawn from the signals already loaded and shows at most two hundred rows — not a complete actor directory.
Categorical reliability read for this actor on this ticker, with its reasons.
Never a numeric score. It requires a signal where this actor is the primary insider among those loaded; otherwise it states that the read is not available rather than inventing one. The source may be inferred from role or profile rather than aggregated history.
Filing structure: open-market versus routine, planned share, cluster participation and direction.
Same-company scope, read from a fixed history summary attached to the signal. Direction appears as raw counts, never as a ratio or percentage. It shows an empty card when no history summary is attached, and it describes past filing structure only — not future filings.
Signals where this actor appears on this ticker; each row opens the signal.
Same-company scope, marked with a ticker-only chip. Drawn from the signals already loaded, capped at twelve rows, and empty when nothing matches. Not a cross-company signal history.
Form 4 references, accession numbers, identity resolution and read provenance, collapsed by default.
On the company page the same panel is called “Audit & Transactions”. Contents are Form 4 filing references and identity and provenance details only — not a broader regulatory filing archive.
What Buteon flagged, and what unfolded after, at the T+5 and T+30 horizons.
Historical context — not a forecast, not a performance claim, not a track record. Counts are measured cases, never a rate. T+30 cohorts are developing and coverage is partial; tickers with no matured outcomes show an empty state. On the company page it appears only under Monitored coverage.
Past signals with the same structural shape, and what followed them.
Structural matches, distinct from the Outcome Engine’s measured cases. Matching is strict, so “no identical analogs” is a common result. Analog outcomes appear only after you ask for them and are raw T+30 price moves, not benchmark-adjusted. Samples are typically small, and analogs are not available for older signals. Historical context, not a prediction.
Disclosed Section 16 insider and ten-percent-owner activity, with per-ticker ownership dossiers.
Ranked by transaction materiality only — never by reliability or outcome, and never a buy list. The ten-percent-owner and beneficial lane is Section 16 only and its coverage there is thin; Schedule 13D and 13G large-holder disclosures are not covered. Confluence is ticker-level, not cross-company actor linkage. Free sees a preview; the insider lane, the ten-percent-owner and beneficial lane, confluence and watchlist all require Plus or Pro.
Which managers disclosed holdings in selected names at quarter-end, from 13F filings.
A static register compiled by hand, covering fifteen tickers as of the quarter-end it was last compiled for. It changes only when it is compiled again; there is no refresh schedule. 13F is quarterly disclosed posture filed up to forty-five days late — stale context, not recent movement. No deltas, no ownership percentages, no rankings. Absence from the register is a coverage statement, not a read on a company.
These tools let you stress a read and set it beside others. Where the sample is too thin to read anything into, they say so.
Re-run a signal under stricter assumptions and watch verdict, confidence and constraints move.
Plus and Pro only — on Free the tab is visible but locked. Scenario output is exploratory and never revises the recorded verdict. Not a recommendation.
Put two signals side by side and see where their reads diverge.
Exactly two signals at a time. The card shortcut is hidden on narrow phones; the button inside a signal works on any screen size. Findings are exploratory research context, not a recommendation.
Build and track theses on companies, linking signals as evidence over time.
Theses, their status labels and notes are authored by you — Buteon does not score, rank or evaluate them. Pinning a signal also adds the ticker to your watchlist, and watchlist size is plan-limited.
What unfolded after past reads: measured cases and developing signals.
Historical context only — not a prediction, not a track record, not a performance claim and not financial advice. T+30 windows are maturing, and no measured outcome is fed back into scoring. Free sees a capped measured-case preview without filters, Plus opens filtering, and Cohort Memory is a Pro-only tab.
The public side of Buteon is method, not marketing. It grows as work is published; this page does not keep count.
Open, source-led guides on reading insider activity and Form 4 mechanics — from how to read a purchase to why one can mislead.
Educational reference, never investment advice and never a recommendation. Each guide carries its primary SEC sources and a review date, and is revised as filing forms and SEC rules change. It covers insider and ownership reporting, not the full range of SEC filings.
Worked examples: one real filing set at a time, separating the filing facts, the read recorded at the time, and later qualitative follow-up.
Cases are chosen for what they teach, not sampled — the collection is illustrative, never representative, and never a track record. Qualitative follow-up is context, not a performance claim.
Evidence synthesis on questions the filings alone do not settle, with every figure labeled as survey, actual, estimate, forecast or projection.
Evidence synthesis, not reads Buteon produced at the time, and not a recommendation. Each note is dated to the evidence available when it was written and is not maintained as live coverage.
Free transaction-code lookup, with a dedicated page for each code it covers.
Covers the codes it publishes pages for, not the full Form 4 code table. A code describes how a transaction happened; it never says whether the transaction matters.
Newest first, product changes leading. An entry earns a place here only if it changed what Buteon reads, claims, or measures — or what it admits it cannot see. Plan changes, account mechanics and routine polish are deliberately absent, and so is every individual guide, case and note published on the public site.
Conviction gave way to evidence, confidence, case and read across the product: the ceiling chip now reads Read capped, and notability is stated as notability rather than as a strong read. A missing outcome says it is missing instead of promising it will mature, and threshold-based selections state that they are neither ranked nor a complete view of the period.
The stream now explains the threshold and points you to Signal Radar, your Watchlist and the Field Guide. Signal detail opens on the transaction facts, and the company page and the signal agree on the current read.
Alerts are on for new accounts and respect per-plan daily and per-ticker limits, grouping anything above the limit rather than dropping it. Your saved preferences stay as you set them.
The What Is Buteon page now sets out where AI is and is not used: an optional, on-demand brief narrates a read Buteon has already produced. It never collects filings, sets verdicts or offers investment recommendations.
After independent review, the number of sale transactions in one case file was restated against the source filing, gift-recipient wording was narrowed to what the filing names, and an ownership claim in a research note was narrowed to the coverage the filings actually support. Corrections are made against the source document, not around it.
Award and grant transaction codes stopped counting as bullish directional evidence: forty-two reads were corrected, all landing on Watching or Non-actionable, and none introduced a new bearish read. Separately, the cluster definition used in scoring was corrected and applied forward only, so historical reads reflect what the engine believed at the time they were produced.
The Outcome Engine now shows how many signals are eligible for measurement, how many have been measured at each horizon and when the next ones mature — labeled developing, and carrying no performance claim.
Signal cards, top reads, brief rows and analog rows open on the distinctive fact, so a read scans as ticker, verdict, what happened, what weakens it. A quiet section and an opt-in lens show the events where notability differs from the strength of the read, with the engine verdict unchanged beside the notability label. An execution-type chip appears only when the underlying fact is unambiguous, verdict, confidence and freshness chips explain themselves on hover, and a bearish current read no longer appears in green with an approving check mark.
A ticker-level discovery grid shipped with a Daily Hunt of names to investigate — never buy ideas — plus a coverage map and a ticker inspector. It reads from data Buteon already holds; market context loads only when you ask for it.
Power Actors added an activity board of case-file cards, a context panel and a per-ticker ownership dossier, all drawn from data Buteon already holds. The Institutional Register shipped inside it: a quarter-end 13F register compiled by hand, with filing-verified rows and copy stating that it is not a coverage claim.
Outcomes are measured against a market benchmark rather than raw price, answering what happened after comparable signals as historical context, and stating when a sample is insufficient.
A single intelligence layer drives the feed, signal detail, alerts, watchlist, compare and chart markers, carrying verdict, confidence and freshness with the labels Watching and Non-actionable.
A signal reads in one order: Verdict Brief, Evidence Stack, Why Not Green, Signal Tension, Signal Signature, Outcome Memory and Risk Gate. Audit & Source links to the source filings with a coverage caveat.
The company page shipped as a ticker-level command page with a Ticker Pulse sparkline drawn from live price history, short-window tiles and a categorical actor reliability ring. Buteon publishes no company score. The Actor Dossier shipped with Actor Read, Behavior Pattern, Connected Signals and a collapsible Audit & Source section.
Scenario re-runs in Signal Lab, two-signal comparison, theses tracked in the Research Workspace and a price chart with clickable signal markers shipped together.
Three lanes: in progress, being evaluated, and held for later. Order within a lane is not a promise of sequence — and none of this is a delivery guarantee.
Buteon’s sharpest cut: one unusual move, investigated in full — the evidence behind the read, the context around it, and where that evidence stops. Selected deliberately and published selectively, never on a cadence that would force a pick.
A separate lane for large ownership disclosures: Schedule 13D and 13G filings and their amendments, carried as filed — ticker, filer, form, the stake disclosed, the accepted date, and the source. No verdict and no inferred intent; a 13D is not read as activism because it was filed. Every event is reviewed before it is published.
Sending alerts and the weekly digest beyond the in-app inbox.
Extending what-happened-after context to more of the product as measured history matures.
A research direction for framing how long a read stays timely, and stating plainly when it no longer is.
Roadmap items describe research lanes and planned directions under evaluation. Scope and timing change as the evidence model matures, and nothing here should be read as a commitment or as a claim about results.
Every read starts from public filings and measured facts, with provenance kept visible.
Where available, an optional AI brief narrates an existing structured read. It does not change the evidence, score, or verdict, and it does not pick stocks.
Thin samples are called thin. Developing reads are called developing. Nothing is dressed up.
Buteon describes evidence. It does not tell anyone what to buy, sell, or hold.
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