Select up to 250 companies from your screening results and ask a single question — get one synthesised answer drawing on all of them, each claim traceable back to the specific company and filing it came from.
Individually reading forty companies' accounts to answer one comparative question — "which of these mention supply chain disruption?" — takes hours. Cross-Reference Synthesis answers it in one request, across the whole selection at once.
Use the Screener's filters, or select all matching results across the full dataset, not just one page.
A single natural-language question, applied across every selected company at once.
A combined response drawing on all selected companies, with per-company source citations.
A real, useful scale for sector-wide or portfolio-wide questions, bounded by what a single synthesis pass can reliably handle.
Cross-reference an entire filtered result set, not just the companies on your current screen page.
See how many of your selected companies actually contributed to the answer, not just how many you asked about.
Restrict selection to companies with indexed narrative data, so synthesis draws on genuine content, not gaps.
Every source is labelled with the specific company and section it came from, not an anonymous blend.
What would be dozens of individual chat questions becomes one synthesis request with one combined answer.
A portfolio manager screens their 40 holdings and asks: "Which of these companies mention exposure to rising input costs or inflation?" One request, one answer, naming which specific holdings are affected and why.
An analyst screens all companies in a specific SIC code and turnover band, then asks a comparative question about hiring trends or capital expenditure plans — getting one synthesised view of the sector instead of reading each filing individually.
A compliance team needs to know which of several hundred monitored entities disclose a specific type of related-party arrangement — using Select All Matching Results to cover the full book in one synthesis pass rather than sampling a subset.
| Capability | Populous Cross-Reference | Manual company-by-company review |
|---|---|---|
| One question, answered across up to 250 companies | Yes | One company at a time |
| Full filtered result set, not just visible page | Yes | Not applicable |
| Per-company source citations | Yes | Manual tracking required |
| Time for a 40-company comparative question | Minutes | Hours |
Up to 250 companies in a single synthesis request — a limit driven by prompt size for accurate synthesis, not an arbitrary restriction.
Yes — Select All Matching Results lets you cross-reference every company matching your current filters, not just the ones visible on the current page.
Yes — the response includes source citations per company and a coverage indicator showing how many of your selected companies were actually represented in the answer.
Selection can be restricted to companies with AI chat data available, so a synthesis request only draws on companies that actually have retrievable content.