Company Analysis Expert: Event Propagation

What you'll do

This is the equities strand of the same point-in-time forecasting project as Mercor's political listings, at the same $150–250 band. The subject is event propagation: given an upcoming catalyst, which companies are genuinely exposed to it, and how should the effect transmit to each?

The work, as the ad describes it:

• Map a company's economic network (suppliers, customers, competitors, distributors, substitutes, geographic exposure) from EDGAR filings, footnotes, exhibits, transcripts and industry data
• Identify related names ahead of the event and separate direct exposure from loose thematic correlation
• Estimate direction, magnitude, horizon and confidence for each, and name the mechanism: revenue, margin, earnings or valuation
• Review AI-generated analyses and grade them against your own

The distinction the ad keeps returning to is primary sources versus screens. A model can easily list "AI beneficiaries"; the task is showing, from a 10-K customer-concentration footnote, why one supplier moves 8% on the news and a thematically similar peer should not move at all.

All tasks run from a fixed evidence cutoff: no hindsight, no data leakage, and no confidential or material non-public information.

Who fits

• A senior sector PM, lead equity analyst or event-driven investor with deep knowledge of a specific industry
• Hands-on experience building a company's economic network from primary filings, not from screens or third-party tags
• Typically 8+ years of direct experience, or unusually strong equivalent evidence

Mercor looks first at multi-manager and event-driven funds, leading sector teams at major asset managers and banks, and elite specialist research firms, naming Citadel, Millennium, Point72, Balyasny, D. E. Shaw and top sell-side sector franchises. Brand names help at first pass; the work sample decides.

If you are currently at a fund, check your employer's outside-activity and compliance rules before applying. The MNPI prohibition protects the project, but your own firm may have its own view on paid analysis work.

What it pays

$150–250 per hour, Mercor's published band. Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise. Weekly hours are not stated.

Worth knowing

Good:

• Top-tier hourly rate
• No published residence restriction
• Work that uses real analyst craft: filings, footnotes and transmission mechanisms
• Weekly payment on Stripe or Wise; remote and flexible

Less good:

• A very high bar, heavily weighted toward top funds and sell-side franchises
• Compliance friction for anyone currently employed in investment management
• No stated hours or project length
• H-1B and STEM OPT holders are excluded
• Independent contractor: projects can be extended, shortened or ended early

Sister listings in the same project: Political Expert and Local Political Expert.

About this listing

Posted on Mercor as an hourly remote contract, confirmed open on 24 September 2026. Pay, scope and preferred backgrounds are the ad's own. See Mercor.