Prototype · illustrative data · fictional companies Not investment research · not for distribution
The AI Signal Gauge as a panel inside a host platform. The host’s own rating card stays where it is; ours sits beneath it in the same right rail, and the ticker rail and the strip under the price chart carry our rating alongside the host’s data. Click a ticker.
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Signal Symbol Price % chg
MRDN Meridian Workflow Software 41.18 -1.4% QTRL Quantrell Analytics 214.77 +0.8% PLMR Palmera Health AI 18.63 -3.2% HLCX Helix Compute Partners 128.40 +2.1% NRTH Northline Data Centers 76.02 +0.3% VNTG Vantage Retail Group 52.90 +0.1% Quantrell Analytics (QTRL) Application cohort · AI Signal Gauge: Compounding $214.77 +0.8% Illustrative price path
3M 6M YTD 1Y 2Y
Q4 24 Q1 25 Q2 25 Q3 25 Q4 25 Q1 26 Q2 26 Q3 26 158 191 223 Strip: quarterly AI Signal Gauge
Host rating card Unchanged. The host’s own rating, checklist and rating history render here exactly as today.
AI Signal Gauge for QTRL Application Compounding
Application cohort · quarterly · as of 10-Q filed 30 Jul 2026
Claim–reality divergence · Low Claims are few, specific and quantified. Margin and disclosed inference efficiency moved the way the claims said they would.
Factor checklist next input: 10-K, Feb 2027 Gross margin vs cohort index-adjusted trajectory
71% · cohort 55% · 8q trend +6 pts vs cohort +6 ▲ improving What would change this: Two quarters of index-adjusted contraction.
✓ Supports
Inference Efficiency Ratio AI revenue ÷ inference cost
9.4 : 1 · disclosed · healthy above 10 : 1 for AI-infused ▲ improving What would change this: A fall below the 8 : 1 floor.
✓ Supports
Workflow position Item 1, published rubric
Decision path · underwriting and pricing decisions → flat What would change this: A repositioning of AI as assistive in Item 1.
✓ Supports
Claim–reality divergence claims vs. financial movement
Low · claims quantified and delivered → flat What would change this: Claim intensity rising faster than delivered margin.
✓ Supports
Propagation risk Item 1A, partial
Named error costs in underwriting · above-cohort specificity What would change this: Partial factor.
– Neutral
Hidden reasoning activity not observable from disclosure
Not measured
Ranked within the Application cohort only · greyed rows are unmeasurable by design Method →