About Threshold Signal
Why it was built
The modern information ecosystem is designed to keep you anxious and engaged — a constant stream of news, alerts, and notifications, most of which don't actually matter to you right now.
Threshold Signal was built around a simple idea: most of the time, nothing important is happening. And when it is, you should hear about it clearly and immediately — not buried in noise.
The goal is to let you get on with your life. Set a threshold for what actually matters — a price level, a geopolitical event, a local planning decision — and only get notified when that threshold is genuinely crossed. Silence is the default. Signal is the exception.
It's also built for people who follow niche topics that mainstream alert tools handle poorly. Whether you're tracking a specific legislation, a company, an obscure market, or a musician's tour dates — Threshold Signal understands context, not just keywords.
How it works
You define your alerts in plain English — no syntax, no Boolean operators, just describe what you care about and under what conditions you want to know.
Twice a day, the system scans news sources and any custom websites you've added. An AI layer reads each article and extracts meaning — prices, locations, entities, event types — then checks whether your actual threshold has been crossed. Not whether the topic came up. Whether the condition you care about is true.
There are two kinds of alerts:
- CHANGE — fires once when something happens (e.g. "notify me when a ceasefire is announced")
- IS — fires continuously while a condition holds (e.g. "notify me whenever oil is above $100/barrel")
You only get an email when something real matches. No daily digests of near-misses. No alerts because a vaguely related article was published.