Satellite imagery, shipping records, transit systems, and energy grids — turned into economic intelligence that leads official releases by weeks.
GDP arrives quarterly, 30 days late. Manufacturing surveys take weeks. Employment numbers get revised for months. By the time you see it, the market has moved. Physical-world signals close that gap.
Each theme fuses multiple physical-world sources into a single interpretable signal. Not raw data — economic intelligence.
Real-time industrial activity from electricity consumption, rail freight, air quality sensors, and nighttime satellite imagery. Leads ISM Manufacturing PMI by 3–5 weeks.
End-to-end freight pressure from port vessel traffic through rail carloadings to last-mile trucking. Detects bottlenecks before they hit prices.
Retail health from satellite parking lot occupancy, subway turnstile counts, and foot traffic patterns. Leads official retail sales data by 2–4 weeks.
Construction velocity and real estate momentum from building permits, satellite soil disturbance detection, and lumber market signals.
Business travel recovery, tourism activity, and labor market momentum from flight tracking, transit data, and job posting velocity.
Agricultural commodities · Emerging markets · Political risk
Real-time economic signals, updated daily. Composite indices, divergence indicators, and full methodology — free to explore.
Real-time signals show you what's happening right now. But two harder questions remain: what will official economic numbers say before they're released? And when those numbers arrive — can you actually trust them?
Alternative data doesn't just describe the present — it can estimate official economic releases weeks before publication. Our discovery engine is systematically testing thousands of signal combinations against historical data to find composites that reliably lead NFP, CPI, PMI, and GDP.
Official economic data is revised, reweighted, and sometimes manipulated. Our divergence engine flags when alternative signals contradict official releases — then tracks whether the data gets quietly revised in our direction. A credibility score for every government statistic.
The same satellite, shipping, and energy data that costs $50k–$500k/yr from incumbents. We use open sources.
All signal themes with 6-month history. Weekly composite snapshots, methodology docs, community alerts.
Real-time composites, full history, Z-scores, divergence indicators, API access, backtested track record.
White-label API, bespoke signal development, weekly written intelligence, dedicated analyst support.
Alt Signal Intelligence is an open-source intelligence platform for the economy. Based in Hong Kong. Built for hedge funds, macro traders, corporate strategy teams, journalists, and researchers. We provide economic intelligence and divergence indicators sourced from open data. We are not a crypto project.
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