Press kit
Press kit & media resources.
Everything a journalist, reviewer, or podcast host might need — factual descriptions, brand assets, screenshots, founder context, and a direct contact.
Direct contact: press@tapeline.io · response within one business day.
Fact sheet
| Company | Tapeline (tapeline.io) |
| Founder | Christian Piyatilaka (solo founder) |
| Founded | 2025 (engine), 2026 (public launch) |
| Headquarters | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Funding | Bootstrapped — no external investment |
| Pricing | Free; Pro, US$9.99 a month or US$99 a year; Premium, US$19.99 a month or US$199 a year. |
| Premium trial | 30-day Premium, one per person; card required, $0 charged today, first charge on day 30 |
| Universe scored | About 11,500 US-listed stocks and ETFs (an unfiltered scan returned 11,501 on 13 September 2026), plus more than 100 crypto pairs, scored in a separate list from daily closes |
| Update cadence | Prices are delayed about 15 minutes. Tapeline re-reads them for every covered stock and ETF about every 60 seconds during US market hours, and less often around deploys. Scores are recalculated on each pass, but their inputs (daily price bars and the macro regime, plus fundamentals and SEC Form 4 filings, which update less often) change at most about once a day, so a score usually changes about once a day. Most crypto prices are re-read from CoinGecko about once a minute; a few pairs still carry a daily close, which can be several days old. Crypto scores are rebuilt about once a day where the data allows, so a score can be older than its price: each crypto page shows when its score was last computed, and a pair whose score stops updating leaves the ranked lists. |
| Data categories | Market data (stock and ETF prices delayed about 15 minutes), crypto prices (most from CoinGecko), fundamentals, macro indicators, SEC filings, news |
| Integrations | Public MCP server for AI assistants (tapeline.io/mcp) · API (tapeline.io/developers) |
| Press contact | press@tapeline.io |
| Last updated | September 26, 2026 |
Pre-written descriptions
One sentence
Tapeline is a quantitative stock scanner that names the six factors behind its score and explains each score in one plain-English sentence.
One paragraph
Tapeline is a quantitative stock scanner for active retail traders, built on the principle that every score should show its reasons. Every ticker in the scored universe (about 11,500 US-listed stocks and ETFs) gets one 0-100 score that looks at things like the price trend, company numbers and insider buying, recalculated on each worker pass during US market hours over prices delayed about 15 minutes, though most inputs are daily readings, so a score usually changes about once a day. Tapeline is bootstrapped, launched in 2026, and competes with Finviz, Zacks, WallStreetZen, TradingView, Trade Ideas, and Koyfin, with a free plan, Pro at US$9.99 a month and Premium at US$19.99 a month.
Quotable lines
Pre-cleared for direct quotation in coverage. Attribute as shown or use “a Tapeline spokesperson”.
“Six descriptive labels, no buy-or-sell language. We tell you what the data says — you decide what to do with it.”
Brand assets
The Tapeline mark as vector SVG and PNG at three sizes, plus a gallery banner and the social card. The tile ground is #0a0a0a and reads correctly on light or dark backgrounds as-is.
Canonical mark; scales to any size
Transparent rounded corners
Transparent rounded corners
Directory / launch-listing tile
Logo + wordmark + descriptor, for review-site galleries
The sitewide OpenGraph card
Need a size or format not listed? press@tapeline.io — usually returned within an hour during business hours.
Screenshot kit
Direct links to the live screens — open, screenshot, credit Tapeline.io.
Founder bio
Christian Piyatilaka is the solo founder of Tapeline. Based in Melbourne, Australia. Software engineer + active retail trader; built the underlying scoring engine in 2025 as a personal trading bot before opening it up as a public SaaS in 2026.
The same 6-factor scoring engine that powers tapeline.io continues to run as a personal trading system in production — including paper-trading via Alpaca against the same scores shown on the site. Tapeline is the public version of that work, rebuilt for traders who want one number and one sentence per ticker rather than 60 raw filter fields and a blank stare.
Available for podcast and interview requests via press@tapeline.io — usually returns within one business day. Topics most comfortable speaking to: transparent quantitative scoring, building SaaS solo, retail trader workflows, and why the 'AI stock picker' category is mostly opaque ML black boxes.
Headshot and detailed prior-background CV available on request. Public profiles: X / tapeline_io · GitHub / cham-p24.
What Tapeline is NOT
For journalist due-diligence and to head off common misinterpretations:
- Not a registered investment adviser. Tapeline is a research tool that publishes descriptive analytics (“Above average”, “High”) — not prescriptive recommendations ("BUY NOW"). This is the publisher’s exemption posture from investment-adviser registration in the US, AU, and EU.
- Not a broker, custodian, or wallet. Tapeline does not hold client funds, execute trades, or accept custody of securities. Scores are displayed; users trade elsewhere.
- Not an AI black box. The score uses six named factors (see /how-it-works), with each factor's score shown on every ticker. No proprietary ML rerank step is applied between the composite and the displayed number.
- Not options. About 11,500 US-listed stocks and ETFs are scored. Crypto is scored in a separate list of more than 100 pairs, from daily closes and four of the six factors, and is never ranked against stocks. Most crypto prices are re-read from CoinGecko about once a minute; a few pairs still carry a daily close, which can be several days old. Crypto scores are rebuilt about once a day where the data allows, so a score can be older than its price: each crypto page shows when its score was last computed, and a pair whose score stops updating leaves the ranked lists.
Recent press
Coverage, interviews, and mentions. Tapeline launched publicly in 2026 — be the first to cover it.
First publication slot reserved. Email press@tapeline.io with your outlet, deadline, and angle — we’ll send a founder quote, custom data pull, or full embargo set depending on what your piece needs.
Working on a story? press@tapeline.io — happy to provide custom data pulls, founder availability for interviews, or early access to upcoming features.