What Zortix will never do

Zortix records what named finance podcasts say about stocks — attributed, dated, linked to the moment it was said. Some things would make that record more clickable and less trustworthy. We don’t do them, and each refusal below is enforced by a rule in the product, not by good intentions.

We never score a host

No accuracy rankings, no leaderboards, no track records, no “called it” badges. Zortix shows what was said and when — flattering, unflattering, or dull — and the judgement stays where it belongs: with you. The words that would let us editorialize are on a banned list our build fails on.

We never show live quotes, arrows, or buy/sell words

There are no price targets here, no green-up red-down, and no directives. Stance is a plain word (bullish, bearish, neutral) describing how a thesis was argued, never what you should do about it.

Signed-in surfaces may later show a delayed, monochrome percentage change since an episode aired (for example +2.1% · 30D), with a past-performance warning. That number is never a host score, never colored, never shown logged out, and never sign-flipped for a bearish stance. Until that feature is licensed and gated on, you will not see it.

We never answer the question two shows split on

When two shows argued the same question opposite ways, we may print that question above the quoted take, labelled THE QUESTION. It is the only line on that block a model words in our voice rather than a show’s: a yes/no question, screened against the directive and judgement words our agent and Callback copy are held to, and never an answer to it. When the wording fails that screen, the line is left out rather than rewritten.

We never hand-pick a Callback

The Callback pairs what a show said months ago with what it says now. Publishing only the pairs where someone looks foolish would be editorializing through curation, so the column runs off a deterministic queue — and the queue is public, so you can verify the next edition was never a choice.

We never run streak mechanics

One edition a day, quiet hours respected, and no push that exists to protect a number you’d be sad to lose. Nothing in Zortix counts your consecutive days, because nothing should.

We never put our words in a show’s mouth

Every take is credited to the show and episode that argued it, dated, and every one reaches its source in one tap. When we print THE QUESTION above a quoted disagreement, the wording is ours, set apart under its own label and credited to no show. If you cannot verify it, we do not publish it.

Your data stays yours

What we collect and why is in the privacy policy, and deleting your account — everything, not a soft-delete — is self-serve under account & privacy.

These lines are why hosts can be party to Zortix rather than subjects of it, and why you can cite it without wondering what was left out. When a rule and a growth idea conflict, the rule wins.