Asset linking

How Clarity connects an entity to the equity or token you can trade.

Asset linking connects an entity in the graph to a tradable instrument: an equity or a supported crypto token. It turns a news story about a company into something that reaches a position you hold. Without it, an article about Apple is a node. With it, that node resolves to AAPL.

Linking runs in the background, right after a document is recorded, so a document is queryable within seconds while the connective work fills in just behind it. Every link records why it was made, so you can audit the connection.

---

How a match is made

Clarity matches in widening passes, from the most certain to the most interpretive, and stops as soon as it has a confident link.

• Companies are matched on exact ticker or name first, then on the closest match by meaning against the ticker universe, then a model settles the genuinely ambiguous cases, then a business-tag match handles themes and commodities. A ticker-shaped alias can even bring a brand-new company into the graph.

• Crypto entities gather candidate tokens by meaning, then a model verifies each link and names the relationship. An article about Bitcoin links to BTC and to wrapped variants like cbBTC that the article never names, because they represent the same exposure.

---

Conservative matching

Wrongly linking two different companies is far more damaging than briefly leaving an entity unlinked, so a weak match is dropped, never guessed. Non-crypto entities surface no token candidates at all, and re-linking is safe to repeat: an already-linked entity is never duplicated.

Asset linking is gated by asset domains. Each organization controls which domains (equities, crypto tokens) Clarity may use, on the Settings → Clarity page. Turning a domain off removes its assets and links from every answer. It acts as an access gate, and does not work as a display filter.

For asset linking in the context of the full write path, see Pipeline → Enrich. The two asset domains and how they're enabled are covered in Clarity → Asset domains.