Settings & tuning
Signal quality & confidence
The confidence threshold slider, signal-type and category mutes, and advanced controls that set how strict your digest is.
Signal quality & confidence
TL;DR — One slider and a handful of toggles on Settings → Signals control how strict your digest is. If it feels noisy, raise your confidence filter before anything else.
Confidence bands
Every signal has a confidence level — how sure we are this event is real and about the right company — not how urgent it is. The level shows as a worded band:
- High confidence (75–100) — strong source, fresh event, well-matched company.
- Medium confidence (65–74) — plausible event but one of those factors is softer (slightly older, fuzzier match, or a weaker source).
- Low confidence (below 65) — still worth knowing about, but treat with more caution.
Your confidence filter
The confidence filter (Settings → Signals) sets the minimum band a signal must clear to reach your digest.
- Default: 75 — only High-confidence signals reach your digest. Higher = stricter and quieter; lower = more signals, more noise.
- Floor: 65 — the lowest you can set it. Below that the digest stops being useful.
As you move the slider, a live preview shows how many of your recent signals would have made the cut.
Impact-tier chips
Each signal also carries an impact chip that describes what kind of event it is — separate from the confidence band, which tells you how sure we are it's real:
- Composite heat (red) — two or more independent signals on the same company within 21 days. Strongest pattern, sorts to the top.
- Significant change (amber) — leadership, funding, or distress event with high confidence.
- Notable change (blue) — contracts or hiring at a meaningful level.
- Informational (grey) — everything else that cleared your filter.
The chip tells you the type of event. The confidence band (or ring in the feed) tells you how sure we are. They are two separate things.
Signal types and categories
- Signal types you receive — turn off whole types (e.g. hiring) you never act on.
- Muted impact categories — mute by tier: Significant change, Notable change, or Informational. Muting Informational is the cleanest way to thin the long tail.
- Relevant topics — the default topics new teammates inherit (leadership, funding, hiring, contracts, distress, general news). Distress is recommended off and starts off for new orgs. This is a hard visibility gate: topics not on the allow-list are excluded entirely, before the confidence filter even runs.
Advanced quality controls
A set of toggles handles edge cases — for example whether to surface commodity-tech contract wins, very-minor overdue Companies House filings, or ownership changes without corroboration. Each defaults to a sensible position for most teams; leave them unless a specific kind of noise is bothering you.
When to change it
Touch the filter first when the digest feels too busy or too quiet. Reach for the type/category controls only when one specific kind of signal is consistently irrelevant to you. You should not drop the filter to the floor to "see everything" — that's what the Signals feed is for; the digest is meant to be the curated cut.
Defaults
Filter 75 (floor 65), all signal types on, no muted categories, distress off. Settings are per-org and apply at the next digest read.