What people ask before signing up.
When do you launch?
Q3 2026. The first 50 signups are already locked in for the founder rate — we'll email you at launch with payment details.
How do founder seats actually work?
Just sign up — that's it. The first 50 signups automatically qualify for the founder rate (25% off year one, locked for the life of the subscription). No invites, no waiting in line. At launch we email you payment details. After the 50th signup the founder window closes and new signups join the standard waitlist at launch prices.
Is the founder rate really for life?
Yes — you pay the 25%-off price every month for the life of your subscription. Not just year one: month 13, month 60, the rate is the same. Same tier, same scope, no expiry, no year-two step-up to launch pricing. Cancel and the rate is forfeit; re-subscribing later puts you at launch prices.
What if I sign up after the 50th person?
You're on the standard waitlist for launch. Same data, same tiers — just at launch rates instead of the founder discount. If a founder cancels we may offer the seat to the next person on the list at our discretion. There are only 50 founder seats by design.
What do people actually use this data for?
Backtesting trading strategies against fully-resolved outcomes (you know who won), studying how a market repriced around a debate / poll / weather event / Fed print, training models on settled probabilities, building liquidity and microstructure features, replaying a book tick-by-tick to debug an execution algo, or just answering "what was the market doing the hour Trump tweeted X." Historical L2 + raw is rare for prediction markets — most third-party feeds only cache last-trade. That gap is the product.
How are you different from a free WS sniffer?
Four redundant collectors, multi-IP egress so Cloudflare rate-limits don't cap us, sequence-gap audit on every file, full backfill from day one, normalized columnar atoms, signed manifests, deterministic L2 replay. The plumbing is the product.
What's the difference between the tiers?
Basic = L1 top-of-book + trades + reference data. Pro adds L2 depth (top-N levels). Enterprise adds the raw .jsonl.zst feed, intraday snapshots, dedicated SFTP, and bespoke retention/scope/SLAs — priced 1:1, contact info@tickfoundry.com. All tiers deliver after midnight UTC.
Will my email be sold or spammed?
No. The waitlist gets one launch email plus one short build update per month at most. One-click unsubscribe on every send.
What's a "series"? Why is pricing per series instead of per market?
A series is a market line — e.g. "BTC Up/Down 15M" or "Fed rate decision." One series can resolve to one market (a single named question that runs once) or to many recurring instances ("BTC 15M" spawns a new 15-minute up/down market every quarter hour, ~96 markets/day). Pricing the per-window instance would punish recurring lines unfairly. Subscriptions and one-off purchases are both priced per series — you buy the whole line and get every recurrence, both sides of every market.
How is the data delivered?
SFTP at first — shared on Basic/Pro, dedicated on Enterprise. S3-presigned-URL download via a customer portal is coming alongside the storefront. Raw, L1, L2, and trades are separate files per (market, day), bundled into a tarball per (series, day) at delivery.
How much history do I get when I subscribe?
Every subscription ships with the most recent 7 days of history at signup, across whichever series and tier you pick — so you have something to query on day one, not "wait a week for the first nightly drop." Need older data (election day archives, last year's Fed meetings, anything pre-bundle)? Email info@tickfoundry.com with the series and date range — extended backfill is priced individually per series-day.
Do I have to subscribe? Can I just buy one series-day?
Yes — one-off purchases are available per (series × day). You get every recurrence of that series for that day, both sides of every market underneath, and all four datasets (raw, L1, L2, trades) in a single tarball. Useful for one-off research, backtests, or "I just want to see this one Fed day." Subscriptions make sense once you cross ~10 series-days/month. Rate cards email out at launch.
Why prediction markets — and what about other venues?
Prediction markets are the cleanest live laboratory for price discovery on real-world events — election odds, monetary policy, sports, weather, anything binary. We start with Polymarket today; Kalshi beta lands Q1 2027, Hyperliquid Q2 2027, PredictIt and Manifold to follow. Founders get free beta access during initial rollout.
Lock the founder rate.
48 of 50 founder seats still open · first-come first-served · 2 signups so far. 25% off, locked for the life of your subscription.