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The Co-Analyst: A Complete Guide

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Kris Bennatti, CEO of Hudson Labs

The Hudson Labs Co-Analyst: AI built for institutional investors.

Consolidate insights from disparate data sources, generating answers faster and more reliably than interns or chatbots. The Co-Analyst always sources answers directly from original documents with clear citations, ensuring data integrity and trustworthiness.

Access the Co-Analyst (currently in beta) on Hudson Labs at platform.hudson-labs.com/coanalyst to turn unstructured data into actionable alpha. Just the facts – none of the fluff.

Company Research

The Co-Analyst answers questions that can be found in a document in our content library. We currently only support earnings transcripts. It does not give opinionated or subjective answers. 

Instructions

1. Select any U.S. public company, provided they have held an earnings call and published at least one 10-K. Use the ticker or name to find a company of interest. For peer comparison, select 2-3 tickers.

2. Indicate the relevant time period.

3. (Optional) Select the “Guidance” button next to the input boxes for queries about forward-looking information.

4. Input your search term and submit. Find a list of suggested searches in our guide below. Input search terms (or meta queries) rather than questions into the query box. 

✅“Gross margin drivers”

❌“Should I buy NVIDIA right now?”

Time series analysis of metrics, commentary, and drivers

Company: Costco $COST | Last eight quarters

Search term: Gross margin

Analyze Costco gross margin using the Hudson Labs Co-Analyst

Company: Mastercard $MA |  Last eight quarters

Search term: Volume

Analyze Mastercard volume growth using the Hudson Labs Co-Analyst

Other popular searches:

  • Gross margin and its drivers
  • Comp sales
  • Consumer behaviour

Earnings summarization: precise & flexible

Company: NVIDIA $NVDA | Most recent quarter

Search term: Summarize call highlights in bullet point with formatting

Summarize NVIDIA Q1 earnings call highlight from its latest quarter using the Co-Analyst

Company: Starbucks $SBUX | Most recent quarter

Search term: Summarize negatives and headwinds

Analyze Starbucks bear thesis and key headwindsusing the Hudson Labs Co-Analyst

Other popular searches: 

  • Summarize call highlights in a memo format
  • Summarize top Q&A

Guidance identification: complete & reliable 

Click the “Guidance” button to get a complete table with all quantitative and semi-quantitative guides.

Company: NVIDIA $NVDA | Most recent quarter

Search term: Guidance | Guidance selected

Summarize NVIDIA Q1 guidance using the Co-Analyst

*Notice that the Co-Analyst accurately calculates the lower and upper end of guidance from the source:

Company: Meta Platforms $META | Last eight quarters

Search term: CapEx guidance | Guidance selected

Meta capex guidance has doubled over the last two years

Other popular searches:

  • Verbatim revenue guidance
  • Organic growth guidance

Peer comparison

Company: Amazon.com $AMZN, Alphabet $GOOGL, Meta $META | Most recent quarter

Search term: Compare all aspects of artificial intelligence discussion

Artificial intelligence discussion at Amazon, Google, and Meta

Company: Autodesk $ADSK, Zscaler $ZS | Last eight quarters

Search term: RPO

Compare Autodesk and Zscaler RPO using the Hudson Labs Co-Analyst

Other popular searches: 

  • Compare competitive environment
  • Compare China exposure
  • Compare macroeconomic commentary

Web Search

Use the web mode the same way you would use a search engine. Include the company name(s), time period, and any other instructions (e.g. create a table) in your search term. 

In-text citations are also enabled to trace the sources directly in the output. Click on a number to open the corresponding source website. The entire list is also available on the right under the Sources section. 

Search term: What is the street saying about Broadcom?

Street estimate and analyst view of Broadcom

Search term: GLP-1 drugs and similar, table with drug, company name and short description

GLP-1 generics and brand names

Copying to Excel

Use the copy button on the top right of the output to copy your output directly to a spreadsheet. You can also copy each table individually.

Sourcing & factuality

During the beta testing period, we are unable to provide a direct connection between each cell of a table and each source sentence. However, all information will be factual, non-hallucinated and come straight from the call. 

You may see occasional reasoning errors i.e. not understanding whether a figure relates to the full annual period or the quarterly period. This is most often the case when the transcript does not make this distinction clear. However, you will never see fabricated information.

If you would like to view the verbatim statement from the earnings call, use the following instructions:

Company: Walmart $WMT | Most recent quarter

Search term: Top KPIs, add a column with verbatim quotes

The Co-Analyst continues to get great reviews. Users are increasingly using it for earnings call previews and reviews, with weekly queries doubling since the December launch.

To help us continue improving, you can now easily provide feedback on query outputs. Simply click the thumbs-up or down button to indicate whether the Co-Analyst provided the information you needed.

Apple guidance

Coming soon

  • Press release coverage
  • Conference and industry calls
  • Screening 
  • Direct source matching
  • And more…