Setting up Forecast watches

A watch is a saved filter over FedGrade Forecast that alerts you when a new prediction matches it. Watches turn Forecast from something you browse into something that tells you.

Two kinds of watch

• Watches (at /watches, also under Settings → Watches) — a filter by agency, signal type, keyword and vendor that fires on any new matching prediction. Free includes 1; Pro 5; Team 20; Enterprise 100; Government uncapped.
• Tracked predictions — click + Track on a prediction card in FedGrade Forecast (/radar/forecast) to follow that one prediction. Tracking individual predictions is Pro and above (5 on Pro, 20 on Team, 100 on Enterprise, uncapped on Government).

Creating a watch

Open /watches and click + New watch. Each watch carries:

• Label. A name you will recognise in alerts.
• Agency filter. One or more agencies; a prediction matches if its agency matches any of them.
• Signal type filter. Optional. Pick one or more signal types (for example Sources sought or Pre-RFP briefing) to be alerted only on predictions built from those types. A prediction can draw on signals of more than one type; it matches if any of its supporting signals is a type you picked. Leave every type unselected to be alerted on all signal types.
• Keywords. A list of keywords; a prediction matches if any of them appears in its title or rationale. Boolean expressions are not supported.
• Vendors. Optional; a prediction matches if any named vendor appears in its title or rationale.
• Send email when a matching signal lands. On by default.

Watching is also offered during onboarding ("Set up your first watch").

When alerts fire

FedGrade Forecast recomputes predictions once a day, around 12:00 UTC. When the recompute publishes a new prediction, every enabled watch it matches fires. A prediction must pass every filter the watch sets (agency, signal type, keywords and vendors); a filter left empty places no restriction. Each alert:

• appears as an in-app notification (subject to your preferences at /settings/notifications)
• is emailed, if the watch has email turned on
• on Enterprise and Government, is also sent to your configured webhooks as a watch.alert_fired event

Team and above also receive the Forecast digest on the 1st and 15th, summarising the predictions your watches matched.

Managing a watch

Each watch on /watches has Edit, Disable / Enable and Delete. A disabled watch keeps its filters but does not fire. If the Free cap was lowered after you created more watches, you keep them; you just cannot add another.