Editorial Policy

This page describes how ALFA Finder News finds, verifies, writes and publishes its reporting. It is written to be checkable: everything below is either visible on our article pages or verifiable against the exchange filings we link.

1. What we cover

We report material disclosures filed by NSE- and BSE-listed companies. In practice that means order wins, fund raises, capacity expansions, regulatory approvals, product launches, the start of commercial production, corporate actions and quarterly results.

We do not cover rumour, unattributed "sources say" reporting, broker notes, or social-media speculation. If a company has not filed it, we do not report it.

2. Sourcing and verification

Every article originates from a single primary document: the announcement the company itself filed with the exchange. That document is linked on the article, under Source, so any reader can check our reporting against the original.

• Primary source only. We do not write from another outlet's article. Where a filing is accompanied by a company press release or a management quote, we attribute it to the company by name.
• Figures are not paraphrased. Values such as order size, contract duration and counterparty are taken from the filing text.
• Reference financials are third-party data. Market capitalisation, revenue, profit, P/E and shareholding figures come from Trendlyne and are labelled as such. These numbers are stored and rendered exactly as received — they are never passed through a language model, specifically so that no financial figure on this site can be altered or invented by one.

3. Where automation is used — and where it is not

ALFA Finder News is an automation-assisted newsroom. We consider it dishonest to hide that, so here is precisely what our software does:

• Detection — automated. Our systems poll NSE and BSE continuously and pick up new filings within seconds.
• Classification — automated. Software reads the filing and classifies the event type (order win, fund raise, expansion, and so on).
• Materiality filtering — automated, against thresholds we set. Most filings are routine and are never published.
• Drafting — automated. The article text is drafted by a language model working from the text of the filing itself, not from the open web.
• Financial figures — not automated in the generative sense. As above, reference figures bypass the model entirely.
• Editorial accountability — human. The ALFA Finder News Desk sets the thresholds, the sourcing rules and the publication standards described on this page, monitors output, and is responsible for every correction.

We publish under a desk byline rather than under individual reporters' names because that is an accurate description of how these stories are produced. We would rather be accurate about it than attach a person's name to a process they did not personally perform.

4. Standards a story must meet before it publishes

• It must originate from a filing we can link.
• The headline must describe what happened, using the figures in the filing. We do not write headlines that predict share price movement.
• Where a number appears, it must be traceable to either the filing or the labelled third-party data set.
• Where the filing is ambiguous, the article says the filing is ambiguous rather than resolving it by guessing.

5. Separation of news and analysis

Reference financial data and any proprietary scoring appear below the reporting, under a clearly marked analysis section. Nothing in that section is a recommendation. Where we show a comparison — for example a company's price-to-earnings ratio against its sector's — we show both numbers and let readers draw their own conclusion. We do not label a security as cheap, expensive, undervalued or overvalued.

6. Advertising, sponsorship and commercial content

ALFA Finder News is published by the company that operates the ALFA Finder alerting product, and articles carry promotions for it. Those promotions are always visibly distinct from the reporting.

We do not accept payment to publish a story, to omit a story, or to change the wording of one. No company, promoter, broker or investor relations firm can buy coverage here. If we ever publish sponsored or paid-for content it will be labelled as such, unambiguously, at the top of the item. See also Ownership & Funding.

7. Conflicts of interest

Coverage decisions are made by the materiality rules described above, applied uniformly. A company's commercial relationship with ALFA Finder Private Limited — as a subscriber or otherwise — plays no part in whether it is covered.

8. Corrections

We publish corrections rather than quietly editing. When an article is changed after publication it carries a visible Updated timestamp alongside the original publication time. Our full Corrections Policy explains how to report an error and what happens next.

9. Not investment advice

ALFA Finder News is not registered with SEBI as a Research Analyst or Investment Adviser. Nothing published here is investment advice or a recommendation to transact in any security. Readers should make their own decisions or consult a SEBI-registered adviser.

10. Changes to this policy

This policy is maintained by the ALFA Finder News Desk. Questions or challenges to it can be sent to info@alfafinder.com.