What you need before buying

VerdictCapital is not an app or a website. It is a set of files that run inside Claude Code, Anthropic's command-line tool. If that sentence meant nothing to you, this page is the whole story: what it is, what it really costs, and how to get from nothing to your first analysis.

What Claude Code is

Claude Code is a program from Anthropic that you install on your own computer and talk to in a terminal window. You type what you want in plain English; it reads files, runs commands and writes files on your machine. Anthropic also offers it as a desktop app and inside code editors; the steps on this page describe the terminal, which is what we test against.

VerdictCapital uses that: the fourteen agents are instruction files Claude Code reads, and three small Python scripts fetch a dated price, read SEC filings and check the finished report. The project files and your reports stay on your computer and run under your own Claude account, so we never see what you analyse. Claude Code itself is Anthropic's product: your prompts, the file contents it reads and its web searches go to Anthropic and are handled under your agreement with them, not with us.

What the whole thing costs

This is the part most product pages hide, so here it is plainly. You pay for two separate things:

There is a second, usage-based reality worth knowing. Claude Code draws on the same usage allowance as your Claude chats, and Anthropic's paid plans cap that allowance per five-hour window and per week. A full analysis runs fourteen agents that research the web, so it uses far more of that allowance than a normal chat: across our own small number of test runs, one /analyze took roughly 400,000 to 600,000 tokens and 5 to 15 minutes. Those are our measurements on a handful of companies, not a benchmark — your figures will differ with the company, your plan, your models and your setup, and we cannot promise that any particular plan is enough for the number of runs you have in mind. The lighter /quick screen, about a third of that, exists for exactly this reason.

Installing Claude Code

Before you start you need a computer running macOS, Linux or Windows, an internet connection, a paid Claude plan (or Console credits), and Python 3.9 or newer for VerdictCapital's three small tools — Python is already there on macOS and most Linux systems, and on Windows you can install it from python.org. Without Python the analysis still runs, with the analysts researching the figures on the web instead.

Claude Code itself installs with one command, taken from Anthropic's documentation. Open a terminal and paste the line for your system.

macOS and Linux

curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash

Windows (PowerShell)

irm https://claude.ai/install.ps1 | iex

Then open a new terminal window and check that it worked:

claude --version

A working install prints a version number. Anthropic's own quickstart covers the other install methods (Homebrew, WinGet, Windows CMD, Linux package managers) and what to do if something fails, and it has a terminal guide if you have never opened a terminal before. If a command on this page ever stops matching their documentation, theirs is the one to follow.

Signing in

Run claude in any folder. The first time, it asks you to log in and opens your browser. Sign in with the Claude account that has your paid plan, or with a Claude Console account if you are using API credits. You normally only do this once.

Then, your first analysis

After buying, we email you the project as a zip — normally within a few hours and at the latest within one working day, since it is sent by hand rather than by an instant download link. From there:

1. Unzip it anywhere on your computer.
2. In the folder, copy .env.example to .env and put your own email address in it. The SEC requires automated requests to identify who is making them, and one of the scripts reads company filings from them.
3. Open a terminal in that folder and run claude.
4. Type /quick AAPL for the five-analyst screen, or /analyze AAPL for the full committee. ETFs work too.

cd verdictcapital
claude
> /analyze MSFT

The report appears in the conversation and is saved as a Markdown file next to the reports of all fourteen agents — thirteen analysts and the devil's advocate — so you can audit every step of the reasoning. It states whether a fixed checklist was met, with a score out of 13; it never tells you what to buy or sell, and the figures in it are AI-generated and can be wrong, so check anything important against the original filings.

Is this for you?

You do not need to write code. You do need to be willing to open a terminal, paste one install command, and type commands that start with a slash. For most people that is something like fifteen minutes the first time, longer if an install hiccup sends you to Anthropic's troubleshooting page.

If the idea of a terminal window puts you off, this product will annoy you, and we would rather say so than sell you something you will not open twice.