Contours synthesises your entire research universe into structured analysis – so you catch what others miss, go deeper across any asset class, and move to conviction faster.
Not a search tool. Not a chatbot. Contours is an online workspace that is used to make investment decisions with AI safely.
Contours doesn’t just retrieve documents – it builds analytical frameworks across your evidence set, with every claim cited to its source.
Contours connects research data, AI reasoning, and institutional workflows into a single environment designed for professional investors.
Generic AI
Research Platforms
Contours
Data
Open Web
Documents only
Public + Licensed + internal
Output
Answers
Search Results
Structured Analysis
Citations
Weak
Document-level
Paragraph-level
Compliance
None
Partial
Entitlement-aware
Search tools find documents. Contours reasons with them.
From day one, access institutional economic and issuer-led research, and search/communicate with the Marketplace to discover insight
from additional providers on demand.
Bring macro signals into your analysis with instant-access to trusted datasets and thematic research. Start straight away. Work across your subscriptions, filings, and structured company data in a single analysis.
Incorporate your own knowledge alongside existing licensed content and use directly within your research workflow.
Discover insights beyond your current coverage. Trial leading research providers and compare, validate, and challenge ideas within the wider research universe.
Discover and screen company reports across the full market, uncover in-depth narrative insights, and purchase access on demand to validate your ideas.
Explore additional independent research providers without committing to new licenses.
Contours is built for investors who need to move faster than the market – and produce analysis that’s defensible, licensed, and audit-ready.
Select licensed providers, internal data, and date ranges to define your scope. Ensure every output is grounded in approved sources from the start.
Contours helps teams move quickly from query to insight with responses shaped by the selected research universe, not generic web-scale generation.
Extract structured financial data, generate comparative tables, and build investment visuals directly from research.
Upload any existing report or choose from built in templates templates. Use the report feature to generate and schedule full investment briefs saving hours on your existing workflows.
Every claim links back to the exact paragraph in the original source, with direct access to the document viewer for rapid verification and deeper review.
Deployed on Azure with full permissioning, auditable decision trails, and persistent institutional memory. Govern how data is accessed, used, and retained across your organisation.
Contours selects the most appropriate AI models across agents and workflows, helping you balance reasoning quality, speed, and cost without locking into a single provider.
From day one, unlock institutional economic and issuer-led research to uncover deeper insights, with additional providers available on demand through the Marketplace.
Individual
Professional
Teams
Individual
Professional
Teams
Individual
Professional
Teams
Research & Content
Marketplace
Issuer sponsored research
Institutional Economic Research
Licensed Research Integrations
2
10
10
Internal Research Integration
Productivity & Reporting
Deep Research Suite
Hypothesis Testing
Automated Report Generation
Collaboration
Team Research Workspace
Dedicated Relationship Manager
Licensing Administration
If you are a larger fund or multi-team organisation, talk to us about our Enterprise Plan.
Understanding how AI can fit into your workflow can be challenging. Below are some questions we are regularly asked. Feel free to reach out for a demo or deeper conversation about how Contours can fit your firm’s needs.
Contours combines a retrieval layer over your licensed and internal sources with an LLM reasoning layer that synthesises only what the evidence supports. Every claim is backed by paragraph-level citations.
Contours is evidence-bounded by design: it answers only when there is sufficient supporting material in your permitted evidence set. When evidence is insufficient, it refuses.
No — Contours answers are only from licensed or user-provided sources that exist within your evidence boundary
Yes. Contours is designed to sit alongside your current tools and content sources. You can start with Marketplace content and add internal documents as compliance allows.
No. Contours does not train public models on your content, and your documents remain within controlled boundaries defined by your deployment and governance settings.
Contours can run in your environment (e.g., your cloud tenant). Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and access is controlled through enterprise-grade identity and permissions.
Yes. Entitlements are enforced before retrieval – content a user is not entitled to see never enters the reasoning context. Access is auditable.
Yes. Contours can retain an audit trail of queries, evidence sets used, and generated outputs, so decisions can be reviewed and defended later.
Contours ingests licensed research and your internal documents, indexing them into a structured evidence layer with traceable provenance.
Yes — provided you have the rights. Contours is designed to respect licensing and entitlement rules so only authorised users can access a given provider, service, or publish-date range.
Yes. Internal content can be added with the same access controls and auditability as licensed sources.
Yes. Contours is built to reason over research that includes tables and charts (not just plain text), while still citing back to the source.
Common workflows include: “what changed since last quarter”, thesis pressure-testing, earnings and updates tracking, and building IC-ready briefs with citations.
Yes. You can define an evidence set (sources + date ranges), generate an IC-ready output, and re-run it after updates to track what changed.
Yes. Reports are structured outputs grounded in the selected evidence set, with citations and provenance. They can be saved and re-run as new documents arrive. Uniquely, our reports include original charts and tables.
Yes – the constraint is evidence availability. If the relevant licensed/internal sources exist in your evidence boundary, Contours can reason across equities, credit, macro, and alternatives.
Our trial includes access to institutional economic and issuer-led research to help you get value straight away.
Starter is for individual evaluation with limited usage. Professional adds higher limits, collaboration, and the core governance features needed for team use.
Enterprise deployments include your preferred hosting model, advanced identity/permission controls, auditability, and integrations with internal systems and licensed providers.
Contours is evidence-bounded and entitlement-aware: it reasons only over permitted licensed/internal content and cites every claim. Many tools focus on discovery or open-web answers; Contours focuses on defensible conclusions and auditability.
Search returns documents. Contours produces a defensible synthesis – with citations – within an explicit evidence boundary you control.
Generic tools don’t reliably enforce entitlements, evidence sufficiency, or paragraph-level provenance. Contours is designed so what is allowed to be true is constrained by licensing, access rights, and the evidence set you choose.
Yes. You can standardise report formats, define reusable evidence boundaries, and tailor outputs to your workflow (e.g., earnings, thesis tracking, IC packs).
Yes. We work with customers and partners to prioritise formats and workflows that matter (especially “what changed” and re-runnable reports).
Yes. We support onboarding, content integration, and connectors to common research stacks so teams can get value quickly without replacing existing systems.
The first AI decision platform for capital markets built on KiteEdge infrastructure. Contours synthesises your entire research universe into structured analysis – so you catch what others miss, go deeper across any asset class, and move to conviction faster.
