Question 1

What does Collar AI do?

Accepted Answer

Collar is AI-native investor relations and equity research for undercovered public companies. It writes institutional-grade research coverage on your company, drafts the press release, call script and Q&A bank every quarter, finds the institutions that should own your stock, and keeps a record of every investor interaction — every output cited to a source document. It is built for CFOs of US-listed companies under roughly $1 billion in market cap.

Question 2

How is Collar different from hiring an IR agency?

Accepted Answer

An agency gives you a retainer, a contact list and a monthly call. Collar gives you the actual work product: research coverage on your name, a complete earnings pack drafted from your close package, a scored investor target list, and a live record of every interaction — at a fraction of a typical retainer. Your team keeps the relationships and the judgement; Collar does the reading, drafting and remembering.

Question 3

Can research my company pays for be credible?

Accepted Answer

Issuer-commissioned research is an established practice — what makes it credible is discipline. Collar reports are written with no editorial input from the company, the paid engagement is disclosed in every report, valuations are shown as ranges with assumptions on the page, and every figure is cited to the filing it came from. Investors can check any claim in one click, which is more than most sell-side notes offer.

Question 4

How does Collar handle Reg FD and material nonpublic information?

Accepted Answer

Collar drafts investor communications against your public record, so selective disclosure doesn't slip out in an email. Pre-announcement material lives behind access walls separate from anything investor-facing, every read and write is logged, and your content — including MNPI — never trains Collar's models or anyone else's. For the strictest setups, Collar runs in your own cloud or fully air-gapped.

Question 5

What happens on earnings day?

Accepted Answer

By earnings day the work is already done. Collar drafts the press release, the call script and the Q&A bank from your close package as the quarter closes, anticipating questions from your holder history and your peers' calls. Your team reviews and edits; nothing is published without you. After the call, the transcript, the questions asked and the follow-ups flow back into your investor record.

Question 6

Where does Collar run?

Accepted Answer

Collar deploys on your existing cloud infrastructure, your private cloud, or on-premise servers — wherever your data lives. There is no requirement to move data to a third-party vendor. Companies with the strictest requirements run Collar fully air-gapped, with local models on their own hardware: no vendor API in the loop, no telemetry, no training on customer data.

Question 7

How long until my company is covered?

Accepted Answer

The initiation report on your company typically ships within the first weeks of an engagement, and the first earnings cycle on Collar usually runs in your first quarter. Maintenance notes follow every filing and material release from then on, so coverage stays live instead of going stale.

Question 8

How much does Collar AI cost?

Accepted Answer

Meaningfully less than an IR agency retainer, and priced to your situation: market cap, filing cadence and how much of the IR calendar you want Collar to run. Request a demo and we'll scope it on the call — 30 minutes, running on your own last earnings cycle.

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