Read the supply story from its first local post, and act then.
For commodity, geopolitical and EM research teams at funds and trading houses.
FirstTide reads the growers, ports and local outlets your analysts pick and tells the desk in Slack when a story they post matches its rules, with every original, its time and a link.
FirstTide matched your rule: Brazil, coffee, any level
Fire reaches coffee fields in Caconde
Low. 1 channel so far. A growers cooperative posts it, but does not say who saw the fire.
From the alert to the market
Drought and fires damage coffee farms around Caconde. September 2024, in the order it was posted.
Day 1
Incêndio atinge cafezais em Caconde.
Fire reaches coffee fields in Caconde.
The desk is told
Day 1
Produtores de Caconde relatam perdas com a seca e o fogo.
Caconde growers report losses from the drought and the fire.
Growers report losses
Day 2
Seca prolongada ameaça a próxima safra de arábica.
Long drought threatens the next arabica harvest.
The harvest at risk
Day 3
Brazil drought and fires damage coffee farms.
The wire
November
In November 2024, arabica reached its highest price since 1977. The first local reports came in September.
The rule behind the alert
Your team writes it once, as a sentence: a place, a word, a level or an event type.
Why it fits a research desk
Sources compliance can follow
Public Telegram channels, RSS feeds and X accounts that your analysts pick. No private groups, and every post links to where it was published.
Next to the terminal
The terminal carries finished copy. FirstTide carries the local posts a story starts from, in their own language.
Timestamps you can test
Telegram channels and X accounts are read as they publish, RSS feeds every few minutes. Each post keeps the channel’s own timestamp, in UTC.
Proof on your own wire
In the pilot, your team adds its own channels and times each first post against the moment the story hit your wire.
Told when it starts
Your team writes the rules: a place, a word, a level or an event type. Alerts reach Slack, the app, email and browser push, so the desk acts on the first local post.
Your list in one file
Import the desk’s channel list from a CSV file, and export it the same way.
Bring a market you cover.
15 minutes on a demo list of public channels in a region you cover. If it fits, a 30-day pilot follows on your analysts’ own channels.