> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.valyu.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Research desks

> Earnings, filings, credit and news workflows for research desks, with the entity, period and source behind every figure.

Desk research turns on what a company said, when it said it and what changed since the last filing. These workflows build that evidence from filings, earnings materials and news, and keep the entity, period and source behind every figure or passage. Run them on a schedule inside your desk's own tools, or once before a decision.

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  <a className="vx-wf" href="/use-cases/finance/earnings-guidance"><span className="vx-label">After earnings</span><strong>Earnings and guidance changes</strong><span className="vx-wf-desc">Extract reported results and guidance revisions without mixing periods or measures.</span><span className="vx-wf-ex">Microsoft fiscal Q3 and Q4 2025</span></a>
  <a className="vx-wf" href="/use-cases/finance/risk-factor-changes"><span className="vx-label">Each annual report</span><strong>SEC risk-factor changes</strong><span className="vx-wf-desc">Compare successive Item 1A disclosures with cited passages, classified by change.</span><span className="vx-wf-ex">Microsoft FY2024 and FY2025 Item 1A</span></a>
  <a className="vx-wf" href="/use-cases/finance/debt-liquidity"><span className="vx-label">Credit review</span><strong>Debt maturities and liquidity</strong><span className="vx-wf-desc">Build a maturity schedule and liquidity review from filings, by reporting entity.</span><span className="vx-wf-ex">Ford automotive and Ford Credit, FY2024</span></a>
  <a className="vx-wf" href="/use-cases/news"><span className="vx-label">Monitoring</span><strong>News and monitoring</strong><span className="vx-wf-desc">Build a dated news feed or recurring brief with source links and explicit update logic.</span><span className="vx-wf-ex">US semiconductor manufacturing investment</span></a>
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## See a finished report

<Card title="Hyperscaler capex guidance, last three calls" icon="file-lines">
  A Heavy-mode desk note on how Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Oracle changed capex guidance, with a 15-row CSV quoting management on every call. [Open the report](https://platform.valyu.ai/share/e1e82397-9f10-41fd-a605-3430498ecf50), [download the CSV](/examples/hyperscaler-capex-guidance.csv) or [see the request](/examples/hyperscaler-capex-guidance-request.json.txt).
</Card>

## Run a workflow

Each workflow page has a runnable request and notes on checking the output. Use [Search](/search/quickstart) when your application owns retrieval and analysis, or [DeepResearch](/guides/deepresearch-quickstart) for a cited report and files. Check [data sources](/data-sources) for the evidence your task needs.

See how research desks use Valyu on [valyu.ai](https://www.valyu.ai/research-desks).


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