Event data for markets and research

See the event before the headline.

PriorWire watches local news, public filings, port and weather feeds, social posts and on-the-ground reports in dozens of languages. We score every report, group the ones about the same event, and send it to you by API, dashboard, map or bulk download. Often long before the first wire story.

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Sample feed for illustration. Events shown are not real.

The number we answer to

Lead time, on every event.

Lead time is the gap between PriorWire's first report of an event and the first story from a major wire or outlet. Every event in the feed carries it, so you can judge us on it, by region and by event type.

Example event · port fire

06:33Z PriorWirelocal fire dept. post 07:14Z First headlinemajor wire

lead_time +41m

How it works

Collect. Check. Deliver.

Collection runs on a decentralized network of independent collectors around the world. They earn rewards for finding real events early and lose them for noise, so the network keeps getting faster and cleaner.

1 · Collect

Thousands of eyes, one feed

Collectors pull from sources the big services skip: county notices, regional papers, ship trackers, local radio transcripts, community channels. Raw reports land in seconds.

2 · Check

Every report gets a status

We merge reports about the same event, trace each one to its source and give it a confidence score. Nothing hides its status.

UNCONFIRMEDCORROBORATEDCONFIRMED

3 · Deliver

Where your team works

Stream events into your models, watch them on a map, set alerts by place, sector or ticker, or take the full history for research.

The network

A decentralized network that gets paid to be first.

News services rely on their own reporters and a fixed list of feeds. PriorWire spreads collection across hundreds of independent operators, each running their own collection software against different regions, languages and sources. They compete on speed and accuracy, and the best ones earn the most.

SourcesOpen webLocal news, filings, notices, trackers, social and radio in dozens of languages

CollectorsIndependent operatorsFind reports, timestamp them and submit them to the network

ValidatorsIndependent checkersRe-check each submission and score it for speed, accuracy and originality

PriorWireEvent engineMerges reports into events, assigns status and lead time, delivers to you

Rewarded for being early

Collectors are scored on how soon their reports arrive compared with every other collector and with the major wires.

Penalized for noise

False, duplicated or recycled reports cost collectors their rewards. Operators who keep sending them drop out.

No single gatekeeper

Independent validators score every submission, so no one collector, and no one editor, decides what counts.

Hard to knock offline

Collection keeps running when a source, a region or an operator goes dark. There is no central newsroom to block.

Coverage that fills its own gaps

Rewards can be weighted toward regions and languages that are thinly covered, so collectors move to where the blind spots are.

A record you can audit

Every submission is timestamped when it enters the network, so lead times are measured, not claimed.

Products

One wire, four ways in.

Same events, same scores, same source trail. Pick the format that fits the team.

Wire API

REST · WebSocket · JSON

A real-time event stream with filters for region, sector, entity and confidence. Built for trading systems and models.

{
  "event_id": "pw_7Hq2kX9",
  "first_seen": "2026-11-11T06:33:12Z",
  "lead_time_s": 2460,
  "status": "corroborated",
  "confidence": 0.82,
  "geo": { "lat": 35.10, "lon": 129.04 },
  "sectors": ["shipping", "logistics"],
  "sources": 6
}

Map

Geo layers · alerts

Every event pinned where it happened. Draw a box around your plants, ports or portfolio and get alerted the moment something lands inside it. Try the console.

Desk

Web app · teams

A live dashboard for analysts. Filter the wire, open any event to see its source trail, and share it with your team.

Watchlists by ticker, company, place or keyword
Source trail and status history on every event
Alerts to email, Slack or Teams

Vault

Parquet · CSV · private delivery

The full event history with lead times, for backtests and model training. Delivered to your cloud bucket or on drives, for labs that keep their work off the open internet.

Point-in-time history, nothing rewritten after the fact
Delivery to your own bucket or on physical media
Private terms, no public customer list

Who uses it

For teams that can't wait for the wire.

If an hour of warning changes your decision, PriorWire is built for you.

Markets

Trading and investment teams

Commodity, macro and event-driven desks that need to know about the fire, the strike or the closure before the price moves.

Research

Research labs

Point-in-time event data for training and testing models, delivered privately with nothing shared about who you are.

Operations

Risk and supply chain

Early warning on ports, plants, suppliers and routes, with alerts drawn around the places you depend on.

Coverage

Insurers and analysts

Faster loss estimates and better context on events as they unfold, with a full record of what was known and when.

Compliance

Fast, and clean enough for your compliance team.

Public sources only: PriorWire collects information that anyone could find. We do not buy leaks or handle material nonpublic information, and collectors who submit it are removed.
Source trail: Every event links back to the reports behind it, with the time each one was first seen.
Honest status: Unconfirmed reports are labeled unconfirmed. Status changes are logged and never rewritten.
Audit log: See exactly what your team received and when, for your own records and regulators.

Get on the wire.

We're opening access to a small group of funds, labs and risk teams first. Tell us what you'd watch and we'll set up a trial feed for it.