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Ten honest signals, one page. Editorial independence, open methodology, published track record, peer-reviewable working papers, EU-hosted infrastructure, a named founder with a public ORCID, and a corrections policy you can actually email.
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Every framework's pillar weights, deal-breakers, and scoring rules are published on /methodology/. Visitors can see exactly which fundamentals are weighted, where the framework calls a stock disqualified, and how the consensus signal is computed across the seven philosophies. No black box.
The cohort number on the homepage (currently +73.8% median above the S&P 500 over rolling 5-year windows) is reproduced and broken down at /track-record/. Per-grade tables, the live 30-stock model portfolio with locked entry timestamps, and the survivorship-bias caveats are all on the same surface.
Two working papers underpin the methodology and the halal screen. Both are archived on Zenodo with permanent DOIs and on SSRN with abstract IDs. Cite the DOI directly. PDFs are also self-hosted at /papers/ for AI citation continuity.
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Fundamentals from Financial Modeling Prep and Yahoo Finance fallback. Filings from SEC EDGAR. AAOIFI Sharia Standard 21 implementation follows the published standard text. Refreshed daily. When a data point looks wrong, we trace it back to the upstream source and link the original filing where applicable.
invest-like is built by Zaid Ghazal, indie software engineer in Kiel, Germany. The author identifier (ORCID 0009-0006-5151-6439) is attached to both working papers on Zenodo and SSRN, and to the Wikidata Person entity (Q139901534). The platform's Wikidata entity is Q139901465. Public name, public location, public contact.
Daily fundamentals refresh. Model-version pinning per scoring prompt so changes to the AI reasoning layer are versioned and disclosed. Major product changes ship to /changelog/ on the same day they go live.
invest-like is an editorial and educational tool. Nothing on the site, in the AI verdicts, in the boardroom debates, or in the working papers constitutes investment advice or a personalised recommendation. Past performance does not predict future results. Consult a qualified financial professional before acting on any signal.
If you spot a data error, a methodology gap, a misquoted competitor feature, or anything else worth correcting, email hello@invest-like.com. Material corrections to verdicts or backtest numbers are logged in /changelog/ within 24 hours. Material corrections to working-paper claims land in the next quarterly paper revision with a dated erratum on /papers/.
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invest-like is an editorial / educational tool. Nothing on this page or elsewhere on the site constitutes investment advice. All verdicts, framework scores, and backtest numbers are framework-grounded interpretations of public data, not personalised recommendations.